Evening Games Open Thread

Did...did Les Miles just use proper clock management?

I like how in that AT&T commerical they talked about that stupid ranking thing on the phone and every single team was an SEC team in the ranking.

ROBERT SMITH

You are a lazy ESPIN analyst - the Hemingway 4th qtr 2nd and goal ball did not, as you wrongly stated, "Hit the ground first so it was the right call by the official"

The ball did NOT hit the ground first, Hemingway made a heckuva catch. Moron.

Take your "oh, i want to be a dr so i don't have time for football at osu" crap somewhere else... Your facade of being an "educated football player" is a bunch of BS to everyone who hears your inch thin analysis.

One of John Cooper's finest. Jackass.

Verne Lundquist is . . . a . . . . little . . . . slow . . . . on some of these calls.

Teams so close, it would be a shame if a bad call ruined this game.

Am tired of the nonsense that "ref's don't decide games". That's BS.

Some teams are so even that a bad call will swing the game. To say "well Team X should have done A, B or C" is BS because Team Y will counter them with another play or similar. So, when teams or even, and the refs blow it, yeah, that's an issue.

So, we got homered today, pure and simple. Congrats Kirk, Jim Delany misses Denard's head twist and sends the 3 blind mice to officiate our game. Jokers.

This is really not a particularly well played game.

Pitt QB is sacked in the closing minute but hurls the ball forward just before he hits the ground. Ruling on the field is a fumble and a Cincinnati recovery, but replay correctly overturns it and calls it an incomplete pass.

But replay can't call a penalty, nor can the officials after the review, so the obvious intentional grounding that the official would certainly have called if he'd correctly ruled incomplete on the field isn't called. It's 2nd and 10 instead of 2nd and 30.

The 20 yards keeps the drive alive and turns out to be just enough to get Pitt into field goal range...

...which they miss, so I guess justice is served.

Still something for the rules committee to look at in the offseason. It ought to be possible for the field officials to tell the replay official what they would have called if the call on the field is reversed, so the reversal is into the proper result.

Wait, we play this Alabama team next year? 

but at a wedding in cleveland, they just played "hang on sloopy" and the only scotch here is JB. Shoot me.

but at a wedding in cleveland, they just played "hang on sloopy" and the only scotch here is JB. Shoot me.

Oregon gets a pick and scores on the first play from scrimage.  7-0 Oregon over Washington

Trick play fail. What a pick.

Edit: NVM. No way that's a pick.

Edit edit: Unless it is?

I thought I heard one of the announcers awkwardly try to refer to Wake Forest as the "Demon Deeks".  Maybe it was just me.

Posted elsewhere...

In the old days, I think Alabama gets the reception at the one. 

But under recent rules, I think the INT call was correct.

Just like the Donovan Warren / Bill Lynch gum-throwing call.

We're getting dangerously close to "WTF WAS THAT?/MAD HATTER TIME."

...no way a 6-6 game calls for a rematch for Ntl Chmpshp, right? Right? RIGHT? Aw, c'mon! That's worse than koolaid crazy!

Wow... Mattieu had a fucking dirty cheap shot on Dre Kirkpatrick.  That was just messed up.  Hit him right in the throat...

How do the stud Wolverine defenses of old stack up against these monsters?

18 yd QB scramble.

I'm must be forgetting a couple, but I can't think of a single scramble by Denard on a pass play where he hurt the defense with a significant gain.

I'd think that Borges would have a play or two up his sleeve to take advantage of that situation.

The last time Michigan played in a defensive struggle this ugly, it was 1950 and they were playing in a blizzard (Snow Bowl).

Meanwhile, Alabama dance team......lots of 8's and 9's in that section. 

so is it just first team to miss a fg loses? I can't see either team scoring a td

10 mgopoints says bama wins in OT, their offense seems to be more consistent. If you say that about a 6-6 tie.

dick move by tyrann  Are he and Tom Gholston friends?