Noon Game Football Thread

...he's kinda awesome. His passion/intensity comes across as real, not manufactured...and he's a X's and O's analyst first unlike most others that work for the WWL.

Craig James, whose calling our game, is a little arrogant and SEC loving for my taste. (but he just defended RR this morning, so I'll tolerate him for today)

Tressel getting cocky

Syracuse stuffs 3rd and 1 and 4th and 1 at the Syracuse 40. Big turn over.

Minnesota's O is sputtering after first few drives. Dunno why Decker hasn't gotten more looks; Minnesota is running the ball more than Mason did.

Is Boren playing?

Why is Pryor on the bench?

For all those who joked about Paulus being a horrible option for Michigan QB, this game is proving otherwise. Granted, Michigan also beat Minnesota last year, fwiw.

Holtz says Weis is the most underrated college football coach in the nation!!! Mark it down!

EDIT: He's being ripped a new one. Fun to watch.

Did Holtz really say Weis is underrated? Or did I imagine that?

My God the Big Ten is looking very bad so far. Syracuse up on Minnesota by 1 and Iowa losing to Northern Iowa by 7. The Big Ten may be worse than the ACC this year.

at Wendi Nix's nerd glasses

Anybody else see that "ORE suspsneds LaGarrette Blount"?

Yes, suspsneds.

ESPN never fails to bring the lolz.

Is anyone able to see that game? Geez, I thought Iowa might be a dark horse to win the Big Ten... Is there an injury to Stanzi or something?

nice pass by navy. at least its still an interesting game.

Coaching mistake by Tressel: Goes for it on 4th down instead of taking easy FG to make it 3 score game.

Navy gets long TD pass to close the game down.

dumb mistake by Tressel, out of character for him because he is usually conservative

gave OSU a great game. If it wasn't for the bad decision on the 2-pt conversion, this game could've been tied with 2:23 left! Pryor looked good passing early on. OSU's running game doesn't look very good. Their best running play was the option pitch to the outside. There wasn't much up the middle, which was odd because OSU's OL outweighed Navy's D line by about 45 pounds. Boren looks way too big, almost out of shape big.

Navy coach must be regretting that pass call on the 2-pt extra point try. Not because of the pick-two return. That had no impact on the outcome as Navy never got the ball back. But rather, going with a play that's not Navy's strength. There were four Buckeyes covering or in the passing lane on that play. It had no chance.

Minnesota and Syracuse in a close one on ESPN2. Apparently Scott Shafer is the Defensive Coordinator at Syracuse, and granted they're playing Minnesota, but the D looks pretty good. Gave up 2 TDs early, but since has only surrendered a field goal. Minnesota is driving though, with under 2 minutes to play.