Afternoon games open thread

i hate gary danielson

I wanna see some Boom Malletted today so badly.

is enjoyable.  All though apparently their FG kicking is about on par with ours.

Go Stanford.  I don't care about the strength of schedule shit today.  I just enjoy watching ND lose.

BOOM MALLETTED.

That was fast.

Is going to shock the world.

Dayne Crist is getting popped every play on NDs first drive

It's shitty that Mayock basically called that Stanford player dirty when the officials didn't call that offsides (and I think it might not have been).

edit: definitely wasn't offsides. i did frame-by-frame on dvr.  i hate nbc's coverage.

Temple scores a TD after a Penn State turnover. 

I just hate everything about Notre Dame and want them to crash and burn this season. 

Go Stanford. 

Is worse than ours.

It is painful to me that this is something that cannot be simply assumed this year.

These SEC Network announcers are fairly blatant with their homerism, so here's hoping UAB puts it home

Somebody queue up Yakety Sax for the EMU/OSU game.  It's going to get ugly.

The refs in the Stanford/ND game have been miserable so far. 

I'm pretty sure Stanford just got that first down. The NBC idiot commentators are incredulous.

Stanford goes up 7-3.  I really enjoy their offense for some reason, and I'm not sure why.

They've had no problems on offense so far against PSU. 

What's the opinion on Temple winning? I'm tempted to root for PSU just so the Big Ten doesn't look extremely weak, but Temple winning might shut up some of those "OMG MICHIGAN'S WIN OVER UCONN MEANS NOTHING SINCE UCONN LOST TO TEMPLE!" comments. Hoping for a good game.

Mallett needs to learn to throw a ball under 80 mph sometime.

UCLA about to go up on Texas

Holy cow, a holding call against Notre Dame?  No ways.

Tacopants clearly transferred to arkansas. 

I'm accustomed to seeing. 

Buckeyes rushing offense is bad. Wow. EMU has not won in 15 games and they can't run the ball.

If Stanford rolls it's kind of like Michigan's JV team winning too. We're so good we have one of the best coaches in the country as our backup plan; it's like having Denard and Tate together.

Ruh-Roh! Could it be, 'Bama and Texas on upset alert?

look at the historic programs who are down. Notre Dame, Alabama, Texas, and Penn State. I wonder when the last time all four of those lost in the same day before.

I'm typically very pro-Big 10, but I can't help being thrilled at how awful Purdue looked and how vulnerable Penn State looks.  Wins are wins, and Michigan needs lots of them.  Thoughts?

Brian Kelly is in shock, he didn't know you could kick a FG at the end of the half instead of throwing it out of the end zone.

Hopefully BSU Alabama and Texas all lose.

The more chaos the better.

The SEC's digital network rocks, but not as much as the five TV channels the Big 10 has on my cable system in SoCal.  HAHA!!

LMAO UCLA up 19-3pending XP

Lose Texas LOSE

I'm depressed watching this Stanford kicker dominate..

Mallet is looking good right now and Arkansas is playing tough, but this Alabama offense is just not that impressive.  I never thought of the SEC as a great offensive conference, though, so maybe this shouldn't come as a surprise.

near the end of the third quarter... 

sorry to all. Posted the Mallet question to another thread (even though I think it belongs there...).

Arkansas is the perfect team to expose the young defensive seconday of Alabama. The Crimson Tide will still excel, but it's a good matchup for the Razorbacks.

Now, for UCLA beating Texas...I can't explain that...

Stanford's got three turnovers and is still up 13 on the road.  They're a good team.

Damefan1 AND Lou Holthhz both told me ND was going to be hella good this year. What gives? 1-3? Kelly fucking sucks brah.

Still can't believe my eyes. UCLA is thwamped by 35 to Stanford yet has no problem going on the road and taking it to Texas? Stanford looks damn good. Also, NBC had a nice short on Jim Harbaugh's first phone call from Bo when he got the job at San Diego.

Mallett became a nightmare.

Too bad Tacopants let that go through his hands. Totally not Mallet's fault. Hope it doesn't hurt his Heisman chances.

Mallett still shows that tendency to force a throw or two....Looks like Mallett is gonna get one chance to drive them down for the win unless McElroy continues to stand in the pocket with no presence and get rocked and fumbles one.

Shit the bed Mallet....make a comeback now = Super Heisman talk.

taking them down for a winning td against one of the best defenses in the country.  I say 3:1.  Any takers?  Mgopoints on the line.

I was sad when Weis was fired, because he made it so much fun to hate Notre Dame. But, turns out it's still really fun to cheer against Kelly and Notre Dame. Good to learn. 

I guess I have to say something besides the subject line.  Ooops.

EDIT: That was referring to Mallett's late interception, not ND issue.

Jeez Mallett....that big of an arm and it's not 10 rows deep is unexcuseable for that.

Terrible Terrible decision by Ryan there, I feel bad for the kid.

I will take a mobile QB over a pocket passer every day of the week and twice on Sunday's. Hate to say it, but RR was right not to cater his offense to Mallett.  

IMO, the biggest shock of the day is that EMU somehow scored 20 points against OSU.  How is that possible?

I suppose I will root for S. Carolina on the theory that an Auburn loss helps us with Dee Hart.

By Cincinnati

Patrick Peterson (LSU CB) just struck the pose after a punt return for a touchdown. 

1. Isn't it way too early for that (Plus it was planned, which is far less awesome than Denard's natural pose)

2. Who does he think he is?

Every time you think Boise is going to shit down this game, OSU pulls out something to keep themselves alive. They are certainly being helped by the amount of penalties being called on Boise.

I missed the hit on James Rodgers, but from the sounds of it, he got rocked and is out for the game. 

So, Musberger was talking about how the blue field became blue. Then he had to ask what the field would look like if it was green like other fields. My first thought was; well, its pretty f-ing simple, Brent. It would look like every other freaking football field... THEN, they even had to have the guys in the "truck" manipulate the picture color to make the damned blue field green.

Anyone else seen the movie Idiocracy?

Les Miles vs. Bill Stewart.  Which team's crappy coach hurts them the least?

Oy Vey.

Now I see Minnesota is losing to NIU in the 4th, at home.

Yeah.  Minnesota is easily the worst team in the Big Ten.  Fight win bleh.

At least the B10 network's on field microphones are really good. Just heard a Minny player trashtalking a guy on NIU's O line, "Oh, hey man, how's your girlfriend..."

Not only that, but their B10 summary of the day also says both Denard and Tate left the game today with knee injuries. Guess noone else actually watched the game.

On FSN, there's a good one between Oregon and Arizona State.  Threet & Co. are ahead 24-21 late in the first half.