Friday Night NCAA Football Open Thread

Submitted by LSAClassOf2000 on

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%

 

LSAClassOf2000

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?

JHendo

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.

Rabbit21

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.

JHendo

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.

gwkrlghl

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

Rabbit21

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.

GoBlueInNYC

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.

LSAClassOf2000

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. 

LSAClassOf2000

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. 

Wee-Bey Brice

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? 

Dubs

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.

LSAClassOf2000

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

 

LSAClassOf2000

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.