OT: Case Keenum (U Houston) throws 9 TDs in win
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/boxscore?gid=201110270080
24/37, 534 yards, 9 TDs. Incredible. Can Houston make it to a BCS bowl if they stay undefeated?
October 28th, 2011 at 1:53 AM ^
I was hoping to see this guy in the game. He stands 4 ft 9 in and 130 lbs.
October 28th, 2011 at 6:29 AM ^
I saw that this morning, too: http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/blog/dr_saturday/post/Rice-walk-o…
Cue up the dorky "What perfect recruit for RichRod!" jokes.
October 28th, 2011 at 9:29 AM ^
He's too small for Rich Rod. Rich Rod liked electrons. This guy is a quark.
October 28th, 2011 at 10:58 AM ^
I wish I was friends with this guy so I wouldnt be the shortest one in the group anymore. Lol
October 28th, 2011 at 3:03 PM ^
This guy has a scholarship to play.... wow
Edit: He's a walk-on, scared me for a sec.
October 28th, 2011 at 12:04 AM ^
I guarantee Denard could run for 9 TDs against Rice. Not impressed. I look at these types of games/stats in the same respect as High School games/stats.
October 28th, 2011 at 12:11 AM ^
this is the same rice team that beat purdue at the start of the season...
October 28th, 2011 at 12:23 AM ^
I think its safe to say that Purdue had to figure a lot of things out... and they still only went from horrible to bad.
October 28th, 2011 at 12:31 AM ^
its best not to tempt fate imo
October 28th, 2011 at 12:06 AM ^
Tecmo-Stupid
October 28th, 2011 at 12:06 AM ^
The fact that he threw one while up 67-34 in the fourth quarter is a little obnoxious. And it sort of illustrates why all the all-time TD leaders at quarterback are from mid-major conferences.
October 28th, 2011 at 12:20 AM ^
I haven't seen a video of that TD, but it was a 47 yd TD. It could have been a short throw that happened to go the distance.
October 28th, 2011 at 12:37 AM ^
Just watched the highlights, 9th TD was a 12-14 yard slant that went for 47 yards... Rice couldn't defend the pass, or tackle afterwards.
October 28th, 2011 at 10:27 AM ^
I haven't seen a video of that TD, but it was a 47 yd TD. It could have been a short throw that happened to go the distance.
Even having the guy in at all is pushing the bounds of decorum. Rice did have a bunch of points so it's not completely outside reason that they could've managed to make it interesting. But still: 33-point lead, that's more than four scores.
October 28th, 2011 at 12:26 PM ^
Not just decorum, but if Keenum had gotten hurt the coach never would have heard the end of it. If I'm up 30 with 11 minutes left against a running team, I have my backup in, period.
October 28th, 2011 at 1:48 PM ^
That is one thing that impresses me about Boise State and Kellen Moore. Moore's stats are largely accumulated in the first half of most games. He often sits for the entire fourth quarter, and sometimes much of the second half. Despite sitting for significant periods of time, he has racked up impressive stats, and when all is said and done he will probably only be exceeded by Keenum because they keep Keenum in and keep him throwing for the entire game.
It is also impressive that BSU could probably hang 100 on some of the teams that they play if they kept their foot on the accelerator for the entire game. Even though they know that their strength of schedule is not as strong as an SEC or Big 12 team, they begin to take out their starters once the game is clearly in hand. Even though it might help with some of the voters, Petersen doesn't believe that BSU should demolish lesser teams just to score some cheap points with voters that probably wouldn't change their mind about BSU even if they beat LSU or Alabama.
October 28th, 2011 at 1:07 AM ^
Graham Harrell was the previous all-time career TD holder and he was the QB at Texas Tech. I will give you the others though, Colt Brennan, Kellen Moore, and Ty Detmer.
Also, completely OT by I found this:
http://espn.go.com/ncf/boxscore?gameId=293652005
6 interceptions in one game for Keenum...
October 28th, 2011 at 9:26 AM ^
...I think Kellen Moore will be different.
Also, Kennum plays in the same offense that Kevin Kolb, the started QB for the Arizona Cardinals played in.
October 28th, 2011 at 2:06 PM ^
I agree about KM, and not just because I live in Boise. He could be a Drew Brees kind of player. He is smart, makes quick decisions, has outstanding pocket presence, and is very accurate. Also, BSU doesn't run a Texas Tech kind of passing spread. They run a lot of pro-style plays, and work the ball down the field as well as working shorter routes.
October 28th, 2011 at 12:06 AM ^
The craziest part about that stat line is that his QB rating was actually higher in his last game. Dude's good.
October 28th, 2011 at 12:06 AM ^
Remember when we had this discussion about Colt Brennan and Hawaii?
October 28th, 2011 at 12:09 AM ^
And Chang (Hawaii) ... and every Texas Tech QB
October 28th, 2011 at 12:32 AM ^
and Tony Romo?
October 28th, 2011 at 12:40 AM ^
Lets leave Romo out of this :) Keenum 9td against weak competition but i like the guy, hes a winner
October 28th, 2011 at 1:23 AM ^
Tebow factor? "He's a winner"
October 28th, 2011 at 9:28 AM ^
I believe that's referred to as "Denarding"
October 28th, 2011 at 11:20 AM ^
Chang made the Lion's practice squad, don'tchaknow!
October 28th, 2011 at 7:48 AM ^
He was even drafted in the 2nd round. Oops.
October 28th, 2011 at 9:42 AM ^
And later traded for a Pro Bowl cornerback and a second-round pick. Some people can't lose that aura of overratedness no matter what they do.
October 28th, 2011 at 11:29 AM ^
And just look at him now! With a lot of practice, hard work and dedication, maybe one day he will be better than Tavaris Jackson.
Kolb QB rating - 78.8. Tavaris Jackson QB - 81.
In ESPN's new Total QBR: Kolb - 38. TJax -40.2.
Also factor in that the running game of the Cardinals is better than that of the Seahawks. Yikes!
Dude's in his 5th year and not even Larry Fitzgerald can make him look better than Tavarvis Jackson, let alone good. He's awful.
October 28th, 2011 at 12:09 AM ^
And while Keenum is pretty accurate, Rice's defense makes our 2010 defense look like LSU. Receivers often open by 15+ yards and absolutely nothing even remotely close to resembling pressure on the QB.
October 28th, 2011 at 1:47 AM ^
Rice's defense looked bad. On some of the TDs the defenders weren't even in the screen.
October 28th, 2011 at 2:12 AM ^
Coming into this game:
2010 Michigan defense | 2011 Rice defense | |
---|---|---|
opposition ppg | 35.2 | 32.6 |
opposition ypp | 6.1 | 6.2 |
opposition passer rating | 144.79 | 142.01 |
October 28th, 2011 at 9:01 AM ^
Can you really compare a conference USA schedule to a B1G schedule though? Rice played one top 25 team last year. Michigan played 5. If we had played the likes of Tulane and Central Florida every game, we might have had ten wins last year.
I suppose though a lot of those ten wins might have been 42-37 games anyway, so maybe you do have a valid point afterall.
October 28th, 2011 at 11:44 AM ^
42-37 that score looks familiar... is that what we managed against our FCS opponent last year or Indiana?
Edit: The answer is Massachussetts. (Indiana was 42-35)
October 28th, 2011 at 12:14 AM ^
This is a very poor Rice football team that is now 2-6 (victories vs Purdue and Memphis). Rice has the 100th ranked scoring defense, and is giving up an average of more than 36 points a game.
October 28th, 2011 at 12:27 AM ^
Sumlin runs the Air Raid but damn! Impressive.
October 28th, 2011 at 12:36 AM ^
Their one receiver caught 7 passes 5 for TDs and over 300 yrds.
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<br>Also, Rice scored 34(!) points on Houston, which is why they should not be in the BCS conversation. They would be destroyed by almost everyone in the top 10.
October 28th, 2011 at 12:38 AM ^
Might want to edit your post, the bigger story is not the 9 TD's but he set the all-time FBS Touchdown record (previous was 134 TD's) Kennum now has 139.
October 28th, 2011 at 12:42 AM ^
Pretty impressive, he's only been playing at Houston for about 12 years now
October 28th, 2011 at 12:45 AM ^
Is he hurt or just warming the bench?
October 28th, 2011 at 7:52 AM ^
The announcers said that he was hurt. I don't think they elaborated on it.
October 28th, 2011 at 10:08 AM ^
I mostly watched Miami vs Virginia and wanted to see Miami win. Everytime Miami wins it kills PSU homers just a little bit because he really wanted to be the coach there and would have turned down the Miami job for it.
October 28th, 2011 at 1:00 AM ^
If BSU goes undefeated then UH couldn't make a BCS bowl unless they received an at-large bid, which I sincerely doubt. I'm from Houston and hear about the Cougars all the time. Keenum is a legit QB despite the poor competition he plays against. The thing to remember is UH surrendered 34 points and nearly 500 yards to 2-6 Rice. Of course when the offense has 30 second scoring drives its hard on a defense, but still, they'd get wrecked by a legit BCS team.
October 28th, 2011 at 10:48 AM ^
Case Keenum is a good QB who plays bad competition. However, look at their record when he was injured, he is a game changer.
October 28th, 2011 at 1:22 AM ^
houston vs michigan in the rose bowl
October 28th, 2011 at 2:54 AM ^
yea keenum is a good qb, but why exactly was he in up by 33 in the 4th and still passing?
thats a good time to give your qb of the near future some game reps