Saturday Night Game thread
November 3rd, 2012 at 10:24 PM ^
Christ, even Michigan-Illinois 2010 didn't score this many points in regulation.
November 3rd, 2012 at 10:26 PM ^
It’s too bad it looks like this won’t reach overtime. The way it’s been so back-and-forth, they might each score 100 points.
November 3rd, 2012 at 10:28 PM ^
Meanwhile Kansas St is taking care of business and keeping a pretty good OSU offense to 10 points (7 were from a kick return). Barring an OSU-Iowa St debacle that team should be in the MNC game.
November 3rd, 2012 at 10:33 PM ^
If they all run the table....scoreboard watching is going to be at all-time high. Previous opponents, especially common oponents records are going to be very important when it comes to the computers! Oregon will stay #2 behind Bama in both human polls and they play 3 ranked teams in the final 4 plus a re-match with a ranked USC in the Pac-12 championship game so not sure how they would not be ranked #2 in the computers as well.
Should be fun....also please Penn State....can you show up and beat Nebraska next week?
November 3rd, 2012 at 10:41 PM ^
NDs best wins would be over Oklahoma (who K St also beat on the road) and USC (who Oregon just creamed on the road and would have beaten again in the Rose Bowl). Also, USC would be a 5 loss team. What do they have after that? OT win over Stanford with some questionable officiating at the end (Oregon would have also beaten them)? Michigan at home by one score when we practically handed it to them? BYU?? As tough as their schedule looked to start the year, if Oregon wins out ND won't have a win over a team in the top 15 most likely. Decent wins over Oklahoma, USC, and Stanford would be matched by the other two.
Personally, I think Kansas St. deserves the nod but would guess Oregon would get it due to playing 4 ranked teams in their last 5 games. Then Bama eats the lucky team.
November 3rd, 2012 at 10:35 PM ^
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November 3rd, 2012 at 10:42 PM ^
14-10 Bama with 3:35 to go in 3rd quarter!
November 3rd, 2012 at 10:44 PM ^
Has a Boo-Boo? Not playing!
November 3rd, 2012 at 10:55 PM ^
This LSU/Bama game is quickly turning around.
November 3rd, 2012 at 11:02 PM ^
GOING NUTS!!!!!!
November 3rd, 2012 at 10:56 PM ^
November 3rd, 2012 at 10:56 PM ^
If Bama loses than I think the SEC is unseated as national champs with 3 undefeateds still left.
November 3rd, 2012 at 11:13 PM ^
November 3rd, 2012 at 11:02 PM ^
November 3rd, 2012 at 11:05 PM ^
how are y'all pulling for LSU? You realize that may lead to an ND championship appearance?
November 3rd, 2012 at 11:07 PM ^
I would think it would be K-State and Oregon, given how the teams are playing right now. ND might be SOL, which would be delightful.
November 3rd, 2012 at 11:08 PM ^
K State and Oregon still have pretty tough schedules. We need all these teams to hold on.
November 3rd, 2012 at 11:14 PM ^
I have already pretty much accepted that if ND goes undefeated they are in. The only mildly plausible scenario where they wouldn't is if 'Bama and Oregon go undefeated, but still... they have the edge over the Ducks in the computer polls and I'm really convinced that the humans will boost them to at least number 3 in the human polls by the end of the year... meaning they'd pretty much be in...
November 3rd, 2012 at 11:02 PM ^
I'm a little confused by this. I didn't think LSU was that great this year, but maybe they are? Or maybe it really is that hard to play at night in Death Valley? Or is it just that Bama is having their first mediocre game of the season? A couple bad turnovers have really killed them. I can't see them winning this game at all.
November 3rd, 2012 at 11:17 PM ^
LSU is 36-1 in nighttime home games under Les Miles.
November 3rd, 2012 at 11:02 PM ^
LSU takes the lead!
November 3rd, 2012 at 11:05 PM ^
Oh my god, this LSU-Bama game is absolutely amazing entertainment. This is like watching a college all-star game, except where the teams have chemistry and people actually care. A lot. Cuz Death Valley is absolutely electric. The crowd is nuts.
November 3rd, 2012 at 11:05 PM ^
Alabama has had an easy schedule up to this point because they haven't played Florida, South Carolina, Georgia, and when they did play Mississippi State it was at home.
November 3rd, 2012 at 11:07 PM ^
Also, Mississippi St is not good at football, as A&M demonstrated today. MSU had a ridiculously easy schedule.
November 3rd, 2012 at 11:07 PM ^
'Bama is starting to come apart. I'm interested to see where this goes.
November 3rd, 2012 at 11:07 PM ^
ND will lose to USC and it increases the chance Oregon goes to the NC game and the Rose Bowl opponent is easier and last of all it could unseat the SEC with no teams being undefeated.
November 3rd, 2012 at 11:07 PM ^
November 3rd, 2012 at 11:10 PM ^
November 3rd, 2012 at 11:08 PM ^
November 3rd, 2012 at 11:10 PM ^
They've only got one more chance to stumble (Texas A&M). They're not losing to Western Carolina or Auburn.
We might get this LSU team in the Capital One bowl though...
November 3rd, 2012 at 11:28 PM ^
November 3rd, 2012 at 11:09 PM ^
I do hope this game puts the "AJ McCarron for Heisman" story to rest right as it gets started.
November 3rd, 2012 at 11:09 PM ^
They tell me that he knows this may not be their night!
November 3rd, 2012 at 11:10 PM ^
So does a loss here knock Bama out of the MNC game? It would most likely send LSU to the SEC championship game and I can't see them sending Bama to the title game two years in a row when they don't win their own division. And is there anyway a 1 loss LSU team gets in over 3 undefeated teams? Wow, this would screw a lot up.
November 3rd, 2012 at 11:11 PM ^
if you live in Manhattan, KS or Eugene, OR!
OR South Bend, IN
November 3rd, 2012 at 11:14 PM ^
November 3rd, 2012 at 11:19 PM ^
Can they, though? Who has Bama really beaten this year? LSU and A&M would be their only good wins until the SEC title game. The way that the SEC schedule works now, some of these teams never play most of the other contenders. It hurts their SOS argument.
November 3rd, 2012 at 11:20 PM ^
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November 3rd, 2012 at 11:17 PM ^
.eliminates SEC from BCS championship if 2 of Oregon, ND & K-State go undefeated
November 3rd, 2012 at 11:15 PM ^
November 3rd, 2012 at 11:19 PM ^
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November 3rd, 2012 at 11:24 PM ^
Not me. Fuck that noise. If ND has to go up against either KState or Oregon they'll be destroyed anyway.
November 3rd, 2012 at 11:16 PM ^
Les Miles is crazy.
November 3rd, 2012 at 11:17 PM ^
November 3rd, 2012 at 11:16 PM ^
November 3rd, 2012 at 11:17 PM ^
I'm rooting for Alabama, but giving risk-adverse anouncers ammunition for their non-understanding of expected value is never fun.