Saturday Night Game thread

Growler..full of fresh Ballast Point Sculpin. That, plus the game makes everything tonight beautiful.

I am in Illinois about to watch the night games - any regional beers I should take a look at?  (Live in California)

I cannot stand listening to NBC announcers. You couldn't get any more bias.

I know this isn't a night game, but since its still going....COME ON PITT!!! They just recovered a ND fumble in the endzone in OT

LOLZ at Notre Dame. This might make up for Sparty's chokejob a little bit.

Holy fuck Pitt you guys are fucking unbelievable. Nice missed fg for the win. 

Founders Breakfast Stout. Ducks win by +40. 

He makes a harder kick when he just missed the easier kick less than 10 minutes ago. Makes sense.

More and more pissed by the week that M lost to those irish clowns. If they don't drop like 5 spots this week it's a travesty.

I hate kiffin,, hes such a cheater

Really Barkley, really?

If LSU can beat Bama, we can end on a high note after a day of horrible non-Michigan games.

Not that it will matter. Even with a loss, Bama will go to the title game just like last year.

Rose: Indiana vs. Oregon

Orange:  Duke vs. Oklahoma

Sugar: Georgia vs. Rutgers

Fiesta: Kansas State vs. Boise State

MNC: Notre Dame vs. Alabama

I can't wait.

ND needs to drop substantially after this one.

USC blocks the extra point to keep their deficit to a manageable (assuming Oregon finds a way to not be Oregon for a few drives) 16 points in the 2nd quarter. Barkley had his, "Well, I suppose that's something..." look on the sideline when they had the camera aimed at him...

Oregon looks unreal.  Even after a huge negative play, they don't even seem to mind.  They're absolutely certain they'll pick up 20 the next play and it won't even matter.  And they do.

If LSU pulls this out, to hell with the bcs Oregon is no.1 in my mind. They straight shred.



Honestly, I sort of want ND to win out and play Oregon. Glup hehe

If Penn Sate still had Redd, they might actually be able to beat Nebraska.

LSU crossed midfield....good for them.

It took some doing, but USC managed to cut the lead to 27-17 thanks to some good reads from Barkley. That being said, Marcus Mariota just set up Oregon inside the USC 15, and the Ducks scored on the next play. I assume Monte Kiffin is in the booth trying to devise some play wherein the Oregon offense is abducted by aliens on and end around at this point. 

no wonder Chip scores TD's instead of settling for 3

So he'd be sure of picking up a point on each exchange of possessions.

Love how excited the fox announcers get.

My lord Milliner is good at football

Is anyone actually watching Ok State and K-State? 

It seems like whenever I root for a team I normally don't like, they crap the bed. MSU, Pitt, and now Alabama looks vulnerable tonight. And of course Oregon is doing their annual collapse against USC.

USC is driving again, and it seems clear that Kiffin is just going to try to soften up Oregon with some good "f*ck you" run plays meant to gut the middle of the Ducks' defense, if you will, and Oregon has politely obliged. USC is about 10 yards from making this a 34-31 game. 

That was he worst fake FG ever in LSU-Bama

How come no one talks about how awful monte kiffin calls a game against spread teams. I mean it's literally like he refuses to adapt, play nickel and dime every down. Alignments are off quite a bit too. Just curious. Lane might actually have something if he could get a competent d- coordinator.

Wow - KSU returns a kickoff for a TD and then OKSU does the same!  

Going for it on 4th and 1 on the 50 and throwing it...  that's ballsy.

I don't know what's better (or worse), the low-scoring game with Bama and LSU or the game without defense in USC/Oregon. I'm rooting for a Bama/Oregon championship game just to see what the hell will happen. 

I can't watch the USC Oregon game...are these defenses trying? ~1000 yards thru 3 quarters?

After the Oregon  TD, USC returns the kick to the Ducks' 16-yard line. There are now over 1,000 yards of offense in this game between two teams. Actually, you would never know that you were looking at the 4th and 6th best teams in total defense in the Pac-12. No, looking at the stats, you  would guess they were both middling...

USC now inside the 5, going to what is more or less their jumbo set on offense for a TD, and they succeed. 41-38 if the PAT is good. 

My hopes for BCS games:

Bama-Wildcats in the MNC game. Love to see Colin Kline against that D.

Oregon-ND in the...Fiesta? I know, I know, Oregon would be in the Rose. But I want to see if ND could stop that offense and I also want to see ND get crushed without getting a sniff at the title.

This Oregon/USC game is embarrassing. Literally no defense is being played. They aren't even trying. 

This is getting patently ridiculous...

USC completely botches pass coverage and gives up another big  play for a Ducks TD. 

Barkley looks upset on the sideline, and I suppose I don't blame him - you're asking this guy to keep the Trojans within a FG of tying, not in the lead. Enviable position, to be sure. 

I turn the channel to watch a few minutes of the Bama/LSU game and Oregon/USC score a combined 20pts...   KSU/OKST are also testing the scoreboards at 31-17 heading into half...

I will say watching the Oregon and KSU games is like watching a college game, but Bama/LSU looks like a Sunday game.

Two Loss Les' squad is

Hang on, is no one watching UConn and South Florida on ESPNU? South Florida just got a huge interception with less than a minute left to preserve a home win and now the two teams are a combined 1-8 in the Big East. South Florida got its first two interceptions of the year tonight!

Oregon/USC - 14:23 4th quarter - first punt of the game for either team.

Playing the same sport?

the 0-16 lions team?

Oh man . . . USC had a perfect onside kick but couldn't recover it in time (apparently) before it went out.

If Oregon can put up 55 points on USC, I am very curious to see what they'd do against Bama.  That would be the ultimate speed/uptempo versus power/run it down your throat game.  Not that I like either team, it would be nice to see K-state in the championship game, but Oregon/Bama would probably be the best game.  I haven't really watched Oregon much and am surprised by how physical they are on defense and surprised how big their corners are and how tall their DEs are.  I guess I always assumed they were smaller, but they aren't.

Looks like the ball moves when it hits the ground.

Christ, even Michigan-Illinois 2010 didn't score this many points in regulation.

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.

Wow. I'm sure this has already been said, but how bad is USC's defense?!

This LSU/Bama game is quickly turning around. 

I always feel bad when Bama players make mistakes. I picture Saban sending them to the medical hardship scholarship office right after the game.

If Bama loses than I think the SEC is unseated as national champs with 3 undefeateds still left.

Geaux Tigers!

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.

LSU takes the lead!

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.

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.

'Bama is starting to come apart. I'm interested to see where this goes.

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.

Saban is being too conservative.

Alabama if you lose this game please don't stumble again right at the end and wind up in the Capital One Bowl.

I do hope this game puts the "AJ McCarron for Heisman" story to rest right as it gets started.

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. 

Total meltdown by Bama. Good lord.

.eliminates SEC from BCS championship if 2 of Oregon, ND & K-State go undefeated

Les Miles is crazy. 

I'm rooting for Alabama, but giving risk-adverse anouncers ammunition for their non-understanding of expected value is never fun.

I think Bama is done. This game could be the end of the SEC championship run. My biggest fear is that it puts ND in the title game. They have the easiest path to the end by far and you know the humans will want them in. I also could see Oregon stumbling in the Civil War. And in a one game playoff I don't trust any team over the huge horseshoe that ND is carrying.

Good idea going on 4th but absolute shit playcall. Wow.

Am I the only one who thinks the qb sneak is the dumbest play in football?

Neither LSU or Alabama would be in the Capital One bowl.  If we weren't going to the Rose Bowl we would most likely be facing one of Florida, South Carolina, or Georgia because I believe they would put both LSU and Alabama in the BCS.

Wrong play call

Can they win at 'SC?  The Kiffykinders don't look so good...

But is it possible to have a rematch against bama in a bowl game if they lose?

Bama, don't you DARE lose this game.

Even with the SEC love-fest, I don't think the voters/BCS could justify jumping a 1-loss SEC team over an undefeated non-Big East team. If two of Kansas State, Oregon, and Notre Dame finish undefeated and 'Bama falls tonight or later in the season, the SEC champ will be left out of the title game.

I need to go to a night game in Baton Rouge before I die, it looks so rowdy.

"oregon wins by 1 against SC"??

god dammit.  

This went from being back in the drivers seat for the big ten title game and notre dame being out of national title picture at 7 PM to our chances being blown and ND being an Oregon or Kstate loss away from making it.

Best false start that guy will ever have.

Arizona not looking good early.

The false start rule needs examined. It cost Michigan a possible defensive touchdown today, it hurt us last week, and it just most likely cost Bama the game.

Alabama is going to win.  You just know it's going to happen.

Shit. Well...time for the lsu defense and crowd to step up.

So many choke jobs today. Why stop now?

LSU will shit the bed bigtime

It would be pretty darn funny if Bama marches right down the field here. 

Where was this Alabama offense all second half?

Im actually pulling for Bama. I think they are the best team in the country by far and would dominate anyone on a neutral field. They have their hands full tonight, but some crappy NFL teams may have some trouble in Death Valley at night. 

Bend don't break defense always works with a 3 point lead. ALWAYS.

Hey you know that defense that's been super effective all game? Yeah, let's mix it up and go into a shell.