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I hate scrolling through long open threads. I'm expecting a bit busier thread for OU/Nebraska. We're starting a new one.
The final three automatic qualifiers are named tonight.
FSU vs VT (-4.5)
OU vs Nebraska (+4.5)
UCONN (+2) vs USF
My picks are above. Jamiemac has upsets across the board.
Discuss.
I had club tickets to the VT-FSU game tonight but passed on them. I hate passing up on free tickets to anything, especially a college football game, especially a conference championship game. But its 35 degrees and rain/sleet down here in Charlotte tonight. Good or bad decision?
Won't say it's a bad decision. My obsession would demand me to go out and watch the game. If I can get to the game with less than an 8 hour drive and someone gives me free tickets, I'm there.
Wow. That's legit. They were club seats too (outside, not box).
16 hr round trip?
I only do that for Michigan. That's hard core.
There are some awesome restaurants in the club where you can watch from behind the heated glass while chowing on a mound of nachos a foot high and chugging brews. I take my son and daughter to that stadium for the Meineke Bowl every year and we sit in the club. GREAT seats. Once you have club seats, it's almost impossible to go back to the lower/upper levels... The atmosphere in the stadium is incredible too. Great place to watch a game. Next time, go. You won't be disappointed.
I've been several time and am not a fan. But the club seats may have changed my tune. Dammit.
To me I've seen Nebraska as a pseudo member of the Big Ten all season this year. I'll be rooting for their victory tonight.
Cant say i feel the same. I live in Nebraska and everything about them just aggravates me.
I hate the Huskers just as much as I did at the end of 1997. I still cheer when they lose. Them joining the Big Ten doesn't change that hate for me.
And they still actually think they would have beat us in '97
The only reason I am rooting for them is because they are joining the Big Ten next year and having a conference champion join the conference can only make it stronger.
I never cheer for a team that has a former buckeye as their head coach
Bo says, "Hello!"
Besides him, i wasnt around when he was coaching
BO WAS NOT A MICHIGAN MAN!
Bo was no Buckeye. He was a Miami (Ohio) Redskin.
He immediately came from Miami, but before Miami he was an assistant at OSU. He was also an assistant at OSU in the early 50s. So... twice buckeye before once and forever Wolverine.
That's like saying that Corwin Brown is a Domer, just because he worked there for a time. Bo was a proud Miami Redskin. He just happened to work at OSU for a time.
I swear he was on the team back in 2005 for OU...dude seems like he has been there for about 6 yrs or so.
55 yards straight down the middle with length to spare.
I think a tear just fell down my cheek.
and it was still above the top of the goalpost.
When a player kicks the ball through the uprights? Huh. Who would have thought.
You mean those yellow things that we routinely miss by 10 yds to the left or right? I always wondered what those yellow things were.
I remember a couple years ago he kicked a 57 yarder to win against Colorado, it was sooooo loud there.....for a 86,000 seat stadium
It just seems unfair. That field goal by Nebraska looked like it would have been good from 65 yards. And we can't even make 20 yard field goals.
Also in the kicking game, both teams have kicked some really impressive punts. No 8 yarders for those guys. Must be nice.
I hope Michigan never plays Oklahoma again. That fight song is brutal.
I thought the USC fight song and the PSU roar were bad. This is just the same 14-note sequence on infinite loop.
Husker ball. No lie.
Only 6 points away from 100...can you guys help me out?
Thanks
gotta earn it, bud. sorry.
UConn is up against USF. It's amazing to think that despite the fact that we dominated them, they would get a BCS bid.
I find this trend of putting "Jr." or "II" on the back of a guy's jersey odd. It's not part of the guy's last name.
glad you mentioned that...what's up with "Hardaway Jr"? Is that necessary? Why would he even want to do it?
That throw was inadvisable. Thought he should have run for some yards just to get something.
That play was Forcieresque.
Neutral complaint... Man, OU gets away with some holding.
This Neb-OU game is unwatchable. Brent Musburger is the absolute worst. I'm going to go on a limb and proclaim him to be worse than Pat Ward.
Nothing is as unforgivable as Thom Brennaman and Charles Davis doing the MNC game with Florida-OU a few years ago.
just for old times' sake:
http://awfulannouncing.blogspot.com/2009/01/bcs-national-championship-ga...
A REALLY CLOSE CALL I JUST DON'T KNOW
Dude's knee is clearly down...
Torn on who to root for in OU/ Nebraska. My head tells me that it'd be cool for Nebraska to win as a huge FU to the Big 12 on their way out the door, but my heart has never forgiven them for splitting the polls in 1997.
On another note - sounds like there must have been some Sparty's in attendance at UCLA/ USC. Massive brawl outside the Rose Bowl with 2 people stabbed.
Looks like Michigan grads swept the hosting duties for the Tuition Toss today! Tracy Wolfson and Dana Jacobson!
With a Big East title on the line it is a little surprising that there is absolutely no one in the upper deck of the stadium in Tampa for the UConn vs USF game.
Remember, this is the big east of 2010, not the big east of 2008.
They showed an overhead shot and for a second I thought the place was packed. Then I quickly realized all that red I was seeing was just empty seats (that and the fact that neither team has red in their colors).
DId anybody else watch the Dr. Pepper halftime toss (OK/Neb)? I've Tivod it, and watched it multiple times... what the heck happened. The guy who "lost" made all 10 throws, just like the "winner". Am I missing something?
I didn't watch very closely, but he either missed one or didn't get the last one off, so he only made 9
They had a tie break held prior to the game. The winner hit 10 out of 10. The loser hit 9 of 10
My wife and I thought the exact same thing, so we re-watched it multiple times too. The last time we watched it we noticed that the official's hands didn't go up for the third throw. It sure looks like the ball goes in, but if you look just above the ball hopper after the third throw you will see the football bouncing off of the ground. Crazy.
Is it me or does Martinez have a weird throwing motion?
But nebraska fans still think hes so great, its kinda funny though how in the Independent they said hes not very close with anyone on the team.
It looks so awkward. It looks like he puts so much effort into it. It almost looks like a girls throwing motion.
Just saw some no-name UConn kicker stroll on and drill a 50 yard FG. I get the sense that some of these teams have 2-3 of these guys hanging around that can do that. Maybe we can just grab one of them.
I like your thinking but what would it accomplish if the MGoCommunity kidnaps a good field goal kicker? Either way it still sounds fun, so I'm all for it.
It isn't that our guys can't kick field goals. It's just they can't do it during an actual game.
There is no pass protection in this game. A blitz is a virtually guaranteed sack.
I just saw that Martinez has -11 yards rushing on 11 carries. WTF? I thought he was a Denard wanna be?
UConn is a Big East champion. At least Michigan beat a conference champion, albeit a bad Big East(this year that is) conference.
VT has bounced back in a big way after starting out 0-2 and is poised to finish strong at the BCS bowl. The defense aren't as good as they usually are but they have a lot of young players playing for them.
UConn and USF tied at 16 with 27 seconds left. Go UConn
GOOD!! FG from 52 yards! And West Virginia is crying. Love it.
UConn kicked 53 yarder with 17 secs left. Why can't we???
Indeed. I've watched alot of college football this year and it seems nearly every team in America has great field goal kickers. 50+ yard field goals all over the place. We can't even make 20 yard field goals. This is ridiculous.
Every other Divistion 1 team has a kicker that is pretty much automatic from 45 in. UCONN just became a BCS team 7 years ago and this guy strolls up and knocks a 53 yarder with plenty to spare. Edsall said he can make 60 yarders. Why don't we have a kicker!
Teggart just drilled a 53-yarder to put UCONN up by 3. It looks like we will have defeated the Big East champion.
So, there's that. Yeah.
P.S. I am so damn jealous of all these kickers just booting the shit out of the ball right down the pipe.
and said "What does “53 yard kick good” mean? Is that bad? Did I break it?"
no-name UConn kicker drills 53-yarder with 20 seconds left to win the game.
we should be able to get a dude that can do this - it turns losses into wins like a freaking magic potion
Apparently when dilithium is involed, a loss is still a loss even with a 50-yard FG kicker
not really my point, but okay, sure
Maybe that's our problem...our kickers have names.
I wonder what our kickers are thinking when they watch all the long and clutch field goals in all the games today.
How much of a kick in the face would it be for TCU to end up facing UConn somehow in the BCS? I know they're supposed to go to the Rose, but it wouldn't surprise me if the sneaky BCS tried to root out TCU once more.
Allow Michigan to say they beat the Big East Champions and knock West Virginia out of the BCS to a second tier bowl game. Cheers to you UConn.
Not sure who it was but he just said it perfectly on ESPN. Edsall's teams have an amazingly consistent habit of improving through the season. (witness last year's bowl pasting of South Carolina) . Tonight was a textbook lesson in how to finish off a game. The only question on Edsall would be recruiting at the highest level. If you could get satisfied on that you would take him in a second anywhere. Someone is probably going to.
OU just delivered Nebraska their fairwell.
is that Vince McMahon didn't have to come out and have the ref call the Nebraska QB down on that 4th down in order to prevent the Big 12 title from ending up being thrown into a trashcan on live tv when Nebraska joins the Big Ten
After seeing UConn win the Big East and get their automatic BCS bid I have a few questions to ask about both UCONN and Michigan:
1.) Were we a better team in the beginning of the season when we beat this UConn team substantially?
or
2.) Has UConn improved alot since we played them?
UCONN really put it together to finish out the season. They were 3-4, then reeled off five straight wins. They got some luck along the way, but that's part of the game.
So, to your question, Michigan played its best game of the year against UCONN. The defense got worse as the year went on, whereas the offense improved overall (though ran into some bumps as guys got injured/nicked up). Turnovers also became a problem again halfway through the season for Michigan after not being an issue in the early going.
I think Michigan would beat UCONN again if they played today.
Watching Auburn's defense tonight play pretty damn well in a total ass-kicking lead me to believe that Auburn is gonna shit-stomp Oregon. As much as I hate to say it because of the Cam Newton bullshit, Oregon chances don't look good to me.
