College Football Night Two - Open Thread

Submitted by jcgold on

On TV Tonight:

Youngstown St. at little brother - 7:30 - BTN

TCU at Baylor - 8:00 - ESPN

Hopefully tonight's matchups are more like Wake-Cuse and less like Wisconsin-UNLV.

Franz Schubert

September 2nd, 2011 at 9:36 PM ^

MSU will probably still win big but it doesnt matter because YSU has controlled the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball. The MSU offensive line is beyond patchwork and will struggle all season long, you just cant replace 3 starters with converted D lineman and not suffer as a result. I have been expecting this and have been very surprised by how little attention its gotten in the media. The MSU defensive line really struggled to get pressure last year and the stellar play of the 2 four year starting linebackers masked some of the issues.

Bottom line is football games are won in the trenches and MSU is weak on the offensive line and average on the defensive line.

West Texas Blue

September 2nd, 2011 at 9:37 PM ^

Loving me some RG3.  Taking Baylor +4.5 looking like good move now.  Gary Patterson is going to metldown if his defense continues this play.  Getting no pressure, LBs looking lost, and DBs looking lost in coverage.

TG7782

September 2nd, 2011 at 9:52 PM ^

I know YSU is going max protect on a lot of their pass plays but I thought Sparty's D-line was supposedly the strength of this defense.  Not getting any pressure has to be troubling, hopefully they keep this up all year.

grand river fi…

September 2nd, 2011 at 10:00 PM ^

Sparty isn't playing well, but this drive looks very scripted.  Not showing a lot, playing pretty confidently.  That said, they didn't look very confident in the O-line and left blockers back on every pass play.  2 man routes tops

maizenblue92

September 2nd, 2011 at 10:05 PM ^

-Joe Tessitore still remains one of my favorite hidden gems as an announcer.

-The Big Ten Network crew cannot get off of MSU's dick. They have been making excuses for MSU all night.

-Samantha Steele for the Friday night coverage is a really good canidate for "Up and Coming Hot Sideline Reporter" of the year.

michfan6060

September 2nd, 2011 at 10:07 PM ^

Has anybody for MSU made a tackle before? They have a different celebration every single time.....Somebody needs to tell them they aren't really giving a stellar effort.

mgobleu

September 2nd, 2011 at 10:07 PM ^

Anyone having trouble with their directv tonight? I'm in GR and can't get signal on any of my higher channels. No BTN, VS, FSDet, etc. I've got clear skies and watched the Tigers vs KC yesterday on FsDet.

michfan6060

September 2nd, 2011 at 10:24 PM ^

Cunningham has three career 100 yard games and he is going to be the all time receptions leader for sparty.....clearly WR U!

 

 

dnak438

September 2nd, 2011 at 10:25 PM ^

in the TCU-Baylor game. One year too late for Mike Martin, but it's good to see them protecting the defensive players a bit too. On the other hand, I thought that the last call (negating a 1st and goal and bringing up a 3rd and 20 for TCU) was a bit excessive. Here's the rule as of 2008:

A chop block is now defined as a high-low or low-high combination block by any two players against an opponent (other than the runner) anywhere on the field, with or without a delay between contacts. The “low” component is at the opponent’s thigh or below. A dangerous action that can lead to serious injury, the chop block is a personal foul that carries a 15-yard penalty.

It seems a pretty expansive definition...