Friday Night NCAA Football Open Thread
Well, unless I am missing something, ESPN has your only college football tonight, and it is in the form of Air Force at Boise State.
Courtesy of TeamRankings:
Offense
|
Air Force | Boise State |
Yards/Play | 4.0 | 3.9 |
Points/Play | 0.294 | 0.068 |
Rush Play % | 72.06% | 47.73% |
Pass Play % | 27.94% | 52.27% |
Completion % | 33.33% | 63.04% |
3D Conv % | 13.33% | 42.11% |
RZ Scoring % | 100.00% | 66.67% |
Defense
|
Air Force | Boise State |
Opp Yards/Play | 6.7 | 6.9 |
Opp Points/Play | 0.605 | 0.442 |
Opp Completion % | 80.00% | 74.19% |
Opp 3D Conv % | 73.33% | 73.33% |
Opp RZ Scoring % | 100.00% | 83.33% |
September 13th, 2013 at 8:02 PM ^
All blue unis against white and blue unis on the blue turf!
September 13th, 2013 at 8:06 PM ^
Talk about an eye-sore.
September 13th, 2013 at 8:05 PM ^
The googles, they do nothing!
September 13th, 2013 at 9:44 PM ^
for that matter...
September 13th, 2013 at 10:14 PM ^
One of my favorite Simpson's episodes.
"Up and attem!"
"Up and AT THEM!"
September 14th, 2013 at 1:23 AM ^
It's, "Up and atom!" since he's radioactiveman and all.
September 14th, 2013 at 4:56 AM ^
Good call sir. Not sure how that didn't click when I was typing it. I blame these overnight 12 hour shifts.
September 13th, 2013 at 8:07 PM ^
2015 top prospect Jashon Cornell & Cretin-Derham Hall are playing on ESPN2 as well. Minnesota high school football action for those who can't stand that blue turf in Boise
September 13th, 2013 at 10:20 PM ^
Is it bad that I thought Cretin-Derham Hall was a recruit and googled it?
September 13th, 2013 at 8:12 PM ^
Air Force punches one in on the opening drive - that certainly didn't take long. By my calculations, 54 yards on nine plays.
Boise State's field is hurting my eyes, but alas, marketing. Who would notice BSU if it wasn't blue turf?
September 13th, 2013 at 8:15 PM ^
Is Air Force so small because of the size of cockpits, basically?
September 13th, 2013 at 8:19 PM ^
I would think that all service academies have size (in particular, weight) restrictions. I don't think it has to do with cockpits, specifically. Navy might be undersized so that they don't sink the boats, though.
September 14th, 2013 at 1:10 AM ^
Yeah, when David Robinson signed with the Naval Academy, he was already 6" 8" and two inches over their height limit, but he received a waiver.
September 13th, 2013 at 8:27 PM ^
My sister was highly recruited in women's basketball in the mid 90's, and was also obsessed with becoming a pilot. Naturally, Air Force was a frontrunner until they told her that she was too tall (6'3") to be a pilot because she would very possibly lose everything below the kneecaps if she ever had to eject. AF's loss was unfortunately Notre Dame's gain.
September 13th, 2013 at 8:33 PM ^
Our nation's tall women are being driven away from serving our country into the waiting arms of Notre Dame?! The grand experiment known as "America" is over. The terrorists have won.
September 13th, 2013 at 9:21 PM ^
She got bad info. While, not a female, I'm 6'3" and I did just fine. I had one buddy who was 6'6" who went on to fly fighters and the only plane he was told he couldn't fly was an A-10, due to the ejection seat issue. Too bad your sister got recruited by an apparent idiot.
September 13th, 2013 at 10:50 PM ^
The info she got was from the Air Force themselves who really wanted her to come there (how often does AF have a chance against UConn, ND and U of M for a women's basketball recruit?), so I'd hope they would do everything in their power to not give her bad info. As I was a preteen at the time and it was almost 20 years ago, I'm sure there's more to it that I'm forgetting/missing. Maybe like her thigh length was too long or maybe it was that (or another) specific aircraft she had set her sights on and was too tall for.
September 13th, 2013 at 8:39 PM ^
I think it's mainly because Boeing engineers haven't figured out how to generate the proper lift in their fighter jets to support pilots over 150 lbs. You often can't tell from photographs, but most Air Force pilots are horse jockeys in their spare time
September 13th, 2013 at 9:13 PM ^
I'm 5'11/170 and graduated from the Academy qualified to fly fighters. You can be 6' plus and fit in a fighter.
September 13th, 2013 at 10:13 PM ^
That's really untrue. There are mild height restrictions for fighters, but not anywhere near that level. I'm over 6' and could have been a fighter pilot if I wanted it. Besides, a Hornet can carry several thousand pounds worth of bombs. There's plenty of lift.
September 13th, 2013 at 9:24 PM ^
There are certain physical fitness tests you have to be able to pass as a cadet that get more difficult to pass If you're too big and you also have to maintain a certain BMI/body fat %. I am sure that waivers are available for intercollegiate athletes(they certainly were when I was a cadet), but there's only so far you can stretch it.
That said it would be awfully nice if there was even a hint of aggression in the defensive gameplan.
September 13th, 2013 at 8:18 PM ^
I thought there was some rule that BSU couldn't wear their all blue uniforms at home? That it was sort of like having an unfair camoflague, hiding amongst all the hideous field coloring.
September 13th, 2013 at 8:24 PM ^
That rule didn't follow them out of their conference when they left.
EDIT: Looks like the rule never got ratified.
September 13th, 2013 at 8:25 PM ^
They went from WAC to MWC...
September 13th, 2013 at 8:23 PM ^
I think it was a WAC rule.
September 13th, 2013 at 8:26 PM ^
Their field is whack!
(That works better spoken aloud than in writing.)
September 13th, 2013 at 9:20 PM ^
Does anyone know if Oxford High School ever payed off their blue field?
September 13th, 2013 at 8:25 PM ^
Of no shock to anyone should be the fact that there have been all of 20 yards of passing in this game so far and all of it has been done by Boise State. Both teams are within the neighborhood of 6 yards per rush at this early juncture.
September 13th, 2013 at 8:26 PM ^
Air Force went for it 43 times last year?
New second favorite team.
September 13th, 2013 at 8:26 PM ^
It always surprises me what the blue turf looks like on TV. It actually isn't that hard on the eyes in person. It comes out much darker on TV.
September 13th, 2013 at 10:30 PM ^
...whatever it may look like in person. Can't watch. My eyes are bleeding
September 13th, 2013 at 8:53 PM ^
Jesus Christ, I fucking hate Boise State.
September 13th, 2013 at 8:55 PM ^
That pass from AF was reminiscent of the one they tried against UM last year; this time the receiver didn't fall down for no good reason.
September 13th, 2013 at 8:55 PM ^
Just when everyone may have been wondering if Air Force would every try to challenge BSU in the air, they do - for 53 yards. After a few more rushes, it's first and goal at the 1 for Air Force.
September 13th, 2013 at 9:01 PM ^
Before the Hoke hire, Chris Peterson from Boise was at the top of my wish list. I was amazed at his ability to have those strong Boise teams play above their talent level. Seems like they have since fell from grace though. I wonder what gives. Did they lose key assistants?
September 13th, 2013 at 10:10 PM ^
I have to suspect it is partially a result of Washington and Washington State being on the upswing. Similar offensive philosophy, better schools/conferences.
September 13th, 2013 at 9:03 PM ^
Watching the Stillwater/Cretin-Derham (Jashon Cornell) game on espn2...
ESPN recruiting "analyst" Craig Haubert seemed to have very positive things to say about Michigan's chances for Cornell, as well as Dashawn Hand, from UTL2.
Obviously nothing groundbreaking, but it's always good to get some positive airtime about the top recruits, especially when Michigan seemed to be the only school that was highlighted as potential destinations for both.
September 13th, 2013 at 9:16 PM ^
Jashon looks very uninspired. He's twice the size of the OT and looks like he isn't even trying...in a bad way.
September 13th, 2013 at 9:23 PM ^
Here's the halftime snapshot courtesy of ESPN:
Air Force |
BSU | |
1st Downs | 11 | 14 |
3rd down efficiency
|
4 of 7 | 6 of 6 |
4th down efficiency
|
2 of 2 | 0 of 0 |
Total Yards | 192 | 235 |
Passing | 53 | 152 |
Comp-Att
|
1 of 1 | 15 of 16 |
Yards per pass
|
53 | 9.5 |
Rushing | 139 | 83 |
Rushing Attempts
|
34 | 15 |
Yards per rush
|
4.1 | 5.5 |
Penalties | 2 for 18 yds | 4 for 47 yds |
Turnovers | 0 | 0 |
Fumbles lost
|
0 | 0 |
Interceptions thrown
|
0 | 0 |
Possession | 17:41 | 12:19 |
September 14th, 2013 at 1:15 AM ^
Yards per pass: 53. I love it!
September 13th, 2013 at 9:34 PM ^
You can watch the Irish get beat again!
September 13th, 2013 at 9:59 PM ^
The look on the ND coaches faces!
September 13th, 2013 at 9:48 PM ^
Dude's got some serious fumbleitis going
September 13th, 2013 at 10:14 PM ^
A streaker in a high school football game!? Nice
September 13th, 2013 at 10:16 PM ^
Air Force needed to keep itself in the game and has given itself a nice opportunity to do so. Nice INT there.
In case it was not obvious, BSU has almost 400 yards of offense (about twice what Air Force has) now as well as almost twice as many first downs as Air Force, but Air Force is only down 11.
September 13th, 2013 at 10:24 PM ^
Isn't that what the targeting rule is meant for? Total cheap shot.
September 13th, 2013 at 10:25 PM ^
Cornell has showed a non-existent motor in this game.
September 13th, 2013 at 10:43 PM ^
Dude from Boise is drinking pickle juice out of the jar.