Thursday Night NCAA Football Open Thread
I shall get this one started a little early tonight...
We have some potentially good football tonight, folks.
7:30 PM - Oklahoma at Baylor on Fox Sports 1
7:30 PM - Troy at Louisiana-Lafayette on ESPNU
9:00 PM - Oregon at Stanford on ESPN
More specifically for the last game listed, here are the matchup stats:
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Offense
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Oregon | Stanford |
| Yards/Play | 7.6 | 6.1 |
| Points/Play | 0.673 | 0.513 |
| Rush Play % | 59.86% | 62.08% |
| Pass Play % | 40.14% | 37.92% |
| Completion % | 64.81% | 60.33% |
| 3D Conv % | 44.44% | 48.62% |
| RZ Scoring % | 76.92% | 85.19% |
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Defense
|
Oregon | Stanford |
| Opp Yards/Play | 4.3 | 4.5 |
| Opp Points/Play | 0.227 | 0.246 |
| Opp Completion % | 57.48% | 63.74% |
| Opp 3D Conv % | 33.06% | 34.43% |
| Opp RZ Scoring % | 75.00% | 76.00% |
November 7th, 2013 at 11:35 PM ^
November 7th, 2013 at 11:36 PM ^
November 7th, 2013 at 11:37 PM ^
I would be absolutely shocked if undefeated OSU gets in over undefeated FSU.
November 7th, 2013 at 11:37 PM ^
November 7th, 2013 at 11:39 PM ^
If a Big Ten team goes to the national title game, the Rose is no longer obligated to choose a conference school.
November 7th, 2013 at 11:35 PM ^
Mariota doesn't look anything like a Heisman candidate, much less the front-runner. I'm not sure you can ever really know how good Oregon skill players are because the system is going to get them a ton of yards/TDs.
(Except against Stanford, obviously.)
November 7th, 2013 at 11:36 PM ^
November 7th, 2013 at 11:46 PM ^
November 7th, 2013 at 11:37 PM ^
Mariotta can kiss the Heisman goodbye
November 7th, 2013 at 11:39 PM ^
-Racks up yardage between the 20's but garbage red zone offense
-Fumbles a lot
-Defense gets manhandled by power running teams
Fun to watch but ultimately not National Championship quality.
November 7th, 2013 at 11:42 PM ^
November 7th, 2013 at 11:42 PM ^
November 7th, 2013 at 11:46 PM ^
November 7th, 2013 at 11:43 PM ^
Oregon wasn't scoring even when they had it most of the game
November 7th, 2013 at 11:45 PM ^
November 7th, 2013 at 11:47 PM ^
God's probably busy, but Michigan can have a say about it.
November 8th, 2013 at 9:42 AM ^
Not to laugh at us apparently. Between Appy State and last year (undefeated OSU and ND in national title game- both winning a bunch of ridiculously close games along the way) I don't think the big guy is too busy, we're just getting the wrong karma flow these days. And now we may have to root between undefeated OSU going to a title game or Sparty to a Rose Bowl as the Big Ten Championship. Thankfully Satan, I mean Saban, is around to to take care of earthly matters and not let ND last year or OSU this year.
November 7th, 2013 at 11:49 PM ^
November 8th, 2013 at 8:04 AM ^
Why, because one Rose Bowl in thirty years gives them a reason to talk trash on us?
November 8th, 2013 at 8:18 AM ^
November 7th, 2013 at 11:47 PM ^
This is a 2003 MSU-like performance from Gaffney.
November 7th, 2013 at 11:50 PM ^
November 7th, 2013 at 11:52 PM ^
November 7th, 2013 at 11:52 PM ^
Duhks!
November 7th, 2013 at 11:54 PM ^
Aw man, right when I was going to bed...
November 7th, 2013 at 11:57 PM ^
too little too late maybe
November 7th, 2013 at 11:58 PM ^
Oregon professionally shoots themselves in the foot repeatedly.
Unreal.
November 7th, 2013 at 11:58 PM ^
November 7th, 2013 at 11:58 PM ^
Oh, wait.
November 8th, 2013 at 12:00 AM ^
Nonetheless, I fear too little too late.
November 8th, 2013 at 12:00 AM ^
November 8th, 2013 at 12:00 AM ^
Its a good thing oregon scored all these late points or they would have to fire somebody!
Bradley Roby 
November 8th, 2013 at 12:01 AM ^
November 8th, 2013 at 12:01 AM ^
Brooding hot Stanford girl is hot.
November 8th, 2013 at 12:02 AM ^
The Oregon coach just doesn't look like a head coach.
November 8th, 2013 at 12:05 AM ^
Well, how things work out for Jake Fisher and Pharoah Brown?
/B1G'd
November 8th, 2013 at 12:05 AM ^
a narrow win after utter domination probably hurts both Oregon and Stanford. May also benefit OSU. That makes Buckeye tears even sweeter when we win The Game, right? Right? Hey, guys....
November 8th, 2013 at 12:08 AM ^
jump over OSU when all is said and done.
November 8th, 2013 at 12:07 AM ^
If nothing else, this game at least proves that Manball is worth waiting for . . . if we can ever get there.
November 8th, 2013 at 12:08 AM ^
That was some of the worst clock management I've ever seen. What was Oregon doing?
November 8th, 2013 at 12:12 AM ^
Fire Borges.
November 8th, 2013 at 12:13 AM ^
Man...this is not setting up well. Alabama drops a game and OSU is all but guaranteed a title game spot. I hate that we suck.
November 8th, 2013 at 12:22 AM ^
Baylor looked the more impressive team than OSU this season.
November 8th, 2013 at 6:38 AM ^
November 8th, 2013 at 12:13 AM ^
It really worries me that Hoke is essentially modeling their program essentailly after Stanford. Hoke is no where near Harbaugh, I mean by 2015 we are Stanford lite.
November 8th, 2013 at 12:18 AM ^
November 8th, 2013 at 12:31 AM ^
1) Most of the Upperclassman are Harbaugh, also they are running the same system as he ran. Also current HC is Harbaugh Cordinator, which speaks to quality of his staff. I dont see anyone on this staff that we could see as taking over for Hoke. Remember we are still blaming Rich Rod, so Harbaugh still has a major impact on this team.
2) Actually better I believe, but that can be negated by 1,2.
3) I think Hoke has made it pretty clear they want to run the same thing as Stanford. As far as headed in right direction, Stanford is smart enough not to consistently run tackel over crap over and over, we arn't. Also our run game, game plan and stategy is awful, Stanfords is dam good.