Saturday Early Games Open Thread

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Noon Big Ten Games:

Nebraska: Arkansas State (ESPN/2/U)

Ohio: vs Cal (ABC)

Illinois: vs Charleston Southern (BTN) Please Illinois, do NOT lose this game

Purdue: vs EMU (BTN)

Minnesota: vs WMU (BTN)

 

Just saw a tremendous sign on ESPN Gameday:

 

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JT4104

September 15th, 2012 at 12:46 PM ^

Heck...this ULM/Auburn game might be the funnest to watch for the noon games.

 

EDIT: Also the Auburn DC has a sweet 70's porn stache working today.

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B-Nut-GoBlue

September 15th, 2012 at 12:53 PM ^

WTF is going on in this Pitt.-Va. Tech game?!?  Late start to the day and to football watching.  I've been watching the other games for the last half hour and flip over to see this game on, and now it is now about to be 21-0 Pitt (who has looked God awful thus far in the season).

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LSAClassOf2000

September 15th, 2012 at 1:03 PM ^

Braxton Miller is basically shredding the Cal defense in the air and on the ground at this point - 124 yards passing, 66 yards rushing so far in the game. 

RE: Pitt-Virginia Tech. - did Tony Dorsett still have some eligibility left? Is that it?

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MichiganManOf1961

September 15th, 2012 at 1:19 PM ^

Ohio playing like a bunch of goons.  On one play they just had a terrible facemask and a late hit on the quarterback, with two other personal fouls on the same drive.  Looks like Urban Meyer's family values haven't been able to correct the thuggery of Columbus.

~Herm

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LSAClassOf2000

September 15th, 2012 at 1:26 PM ^

On this latest Cal drive, what looks like a clean TD run gets called back for offensive holding, and on the next play, Cal makes a first down plus half the distance to the goal on a facemask call on Ohio (roughing the passer, also called, was declined). 

Cal gets another holding call on them at the 12 now, so we might very well get back to where all this began in another play or two. 

...and unnecessary roughness (which was arguably incidental contact) against Cal creates a long field goal, which is no good, and then more holding on Cal...wow, this is sh*t officiating...can we have a play where there isn't a torrent of yellow flags at the end of it? 

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MichiganManOf1961

September 15th, 2012 at 1:23 PM ^

More mystery calls for the Buckeyes.  Cal player gets hit with a personal foul when it was a mutual hit, the Ohio player just got the worst of it.  Home field advantage.

~Herm

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tomer

September 15th, 2012 at 1:27 PM ^

As much as I hate Ohio and always want to blame them for everything...to me it looked like the Buckeye player saw the Cal guy coming at the last second and lowered his shoulder instinctually so as not to get blown up.

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brose

September 15th, 2012 at 1:25 PM ^

All calls go against Cal except the especially egregious ones...I rarely complain about officials, but this is bad and greatly impacting the game.

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WolverineHistorian

September 15th, 2012 at 1:49 PM ^

The never ending national championship talk about Florida State is driving me crazy. They haven't beat a top ten team in 12 years, they play just 2 teams this year that had winning records last year and one of their 2 tough opponents this year is currently getting killed by 0-2 Pitt. Respect and hype should be earned. Not because you have the 90th ranked strength of schedule.

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MAZandBLUE

September 15th, 2012 at 2:04 PM ^

I've seen more bad spots so far this year than all of last year combined. I don't think the Cal receiver had enough for the first down, but even so, the ref sold him short by at least a full yard.

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