Noon NCAAFB Open Thread

Submitted by formerlyanonymous on
One hour til game time. The Schedule (sorted by my interest):
  • Iowa @ Iowa State (FSN)
  • Central Michigan @ Michigan State (ESPN2)
  • Syracuse @ Penn State (BTN)
  • Fresno State @ Wisconsin (ESPN)
  • North Carolina @ Connecticut (ESPNU)
  • Duke @ Army (CBS College Sports)
  • Stanford @ Wake Forest (Raycom)
  • Western Michigan @ Indiana (BTN)
  • Troy @ Florida (SEC Network)
  • Pittsburgh @ Buffalo (ESPN Plus)
  • Eastern Michigan @ Northwestern (BTN)
The top game may be for nothing more than schadenfreude. To quote BHGP's preview:
Running game? Um... yeah, about that. Here's a pretty quick list of all Iowa needs to establish the ground game tomorrow. 1. Open holes 2. A competent running back 3. Clever gameplanning to maximize mismatches In short: FUCK WE ARE FUCKED.
CMU@MSU should go easily to the Spartans, but I'm hoping Lefevour makes a better showing than he did against Arizona. Syracuse@Penn State may actually be more interesting than the CMU/MSU game, but I'm not sure I can handle another channel rehashing all of the "OMG Paulus" information. That and I don't get the BTN.
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MaizeAndBlueWahoo

September 12th, 2009 at 1:35 PM ^

It's starting to be painfully obvious why Nichol did not beat out Sam Bradford. Three absolutely horrible throws in a row: one with a receiver in his own area code that should have been a touchdown and two that bounce three feet shy of the target.

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bronxblue

September 12th, 2009 at 2:27 PM ^

I was at MSU when they were recruiting Nichols, and I remember the local radio absolutely killing him for choosing OU over MSU, completely ignoring the fact that the JLS era was terrifying for any decent high school player to step into. Now, they love him. He's a mediocre QB who played well against mediocre competition at Lowell, but struggled when he went to OU and has struggled at MSU. He's not a "bad" QB, but the same issues people had with him in HS - limited accuracy, more of a runner than a progression reader, etc. seem to have followed him.

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Topher

September 12th, 2009 at 3:11 PM ^

Wake Forest just beat Stanford thanks to some awful ref calls. Stanford was driving with minutes to go and got hit with a clipping call on a converted 3rd down...the replay showed the call to be total crap. Not even a clip, and probably not a block in the back at all. Then Wake was on the goal line, and the line false-started and they weren't penalized, so Wake QB-sneaked on the next play and scored to go up by 7.

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Clarence Beeks

September 12th, 2009 at 3:21 PM ^

Anyone else see that awesome on-side kick recovery in the CMU-State game? I suspect a lot of people turned it off after CMU missed the two-point conversion, but holy cow that was sweet.

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Clarence Beeks

September 12th, 2009 at 3:30 PM ^

That was awesome. That kicker deserves a ton of credit for how that game went down. The onside kick, the field goal, then the awesome squib kick where he drilled the up-man in the back to run out the clock. That was beautiful!

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