November 5th, 2011 at 9:39 PM ^
The WRIF used to spoof Saban on Monday morning ... Drew would do Saban's voice, Mike would ask him questions about the MSU game, and invariably it would go back to Saban's hair and it's god-like status.
November 5th, 2011 at 9:35 PM ^
Nice to see you Mr. Defensive Holding.
Apparentlyy you needed to take off the 1st and 4th Qtr of Mich-Iowa.
November 5th, 2011 at 9:35 PM ^
Notre Dame being their Domer selves. Give up the TD to make it 17-10 Wake, then Reese gets picked once again.
November 5th, 2011 at 9:36 PM ^
Did...did Les Miles just use proper clock management?
November 5th, 2011 at 10:16 PM ^
up to his tricks
November 5th, 2011 at 9:37 PM ^
I like how in that AT&T commerical they talked about that stupid ranking thing on the phone and every single team was an SEC team in the ranking.
November 5th, 2011 at 10:07 PM ^
ROBERT SMITH
You are a lazy ESPIN analyst - the Hemingway 4th qtr 2nd and goal ball did not, as you wrongly stated, "Hit the ground first so it was the right call by the official"
The ball did NOT hit the ground first, Hemingway made a heckuva catch. Moron.
Take your "oh, i want to be a dr so i don't have time for football at osu" crap somewhere else... Your facade of being an "educated football player" is a bunch of BS to everyone who hears your inch thin analysis.
One of John Cooper's finest. Jackass.
November 5th, 2011 at 10:14 PM ^
Verne Lundquist is . . . a . . . . little . . . . slow . . . . on some of these calls.
November 5th, 2011 at 10:29 PM ^
Naah...it's just all that SEC speed that makes him seem slow.
November 5th, 2011 at 10:19 PM ^
Teams so close, it would be a shame if a bad call ruined this game.
Am tired of the nonsense that "ref's don't decide games". That's BS.
Some teams are so even that a bad call will swing the game. To say "well Team X should have done A, B or C" is BS because Team Y will counter them with another play or similar. So, when teams or even, and the refs blow it, yeah, that's an issue.
So, we got homered today, pure and simple. Congrats Kirk, Jim Delany misses Denard's head twist and sends the 3 blind mice to officiate our game. Jokers.
November 5th, 2011 at 10:23 PM ^
This is really not a particularly well played game.
November 5th, 2011 at 10:33 PM ^
Being big-time means being able to make plays on both sides of the ball, not just defensively.
November 5th, 2011 at 10:49 PM ^
Reminds me a lot of UM/OSU 1971-1974.
Which is to say I don't agree.
November 5th, 2011 at 11:23 PM ^
Have you watched these teams play in any other games?
November 5th, 2011 at 10:25 PM ^
Pitt QB is sacked in the closing minute but hurls the ball forward just before he hits the ground. Ruling on the field is a fumble and a Cincinnati recovery, but replay correctly overturns it and calls it an incomplete pass.
But replay can't call a penalty, nor can the officials after the review, so the obvious intentional grounding that the official would certainly have called if he'd correctly ruled incomplete on the field isn't called. It's 2nd and 10 instead of 2nd and 30.
The 20 yards keeps the drive alive and turns out to be just enough to get Pitt into field goal range...
...which they miss, so I guess justice is served.
Still something for the rules committee to look at in the offseason. It ought to be possible for the field officials to tell the replay official what they would have called if the call on the field is reversed, so the reversal is into the proper result.
November 5th, 2011 at 10:47 PM ^
I am not a fan of using replays to review penalties, but all of these helmet to helmet calls that have become the norm lately are starting to drive me crazy. There was a leading with the head call in the OSU/ Stanfod game, that in both real time and replay did not look bad at all. The officials called the pentalty which cost OSU the ball on the Stanford fumble and a OSU TD.
I wish in penalties of this sort, there would be some sort of check on the officials. I know they are trying to protect the plays but it is getting ridiculous.
November 5th, 2011 at 10:27 PM ^
Wait, we play this Alabama team next year?
November 5th, 2011 at 10:46 PM ^
Mostly, but Richardson is gone for sure. I would have much rather player them 2013 or 2014.-
November 5th, 2011 at 11:04 PM ^
By 2013-2014, Hoke will have his program in shape to outplayer Alabama ;)
November 5th, 2011 at 10:42 PM ^
but at a wedding in cleveland, they just played "hang on sloopy" and the only scotch here is JB. Shoot me.
November 5th, 2011 at 10:47 PM ^
Single is always better.
November 5th, 2011 at 10:42 PM ^
but at a wedding in cleveland, they just played "hang on sloopy" and the only scotch here is JB. Shoot me.
November 5th, 2011 at 10:49 PM ^
Oregon gets a pick and scores on the first play from scrimage. 7-0 Oregon over Washington
November 5th, 2011 at 10:59 PM ^
Trick play fail. What a pick.
Edit: NVM. No way that's a pick.
Edit edit: Unless it is?
November 5th, 2011 at 10:59 PM ^
I thought I heard one of the announcers awkwardly try to refer to Wake Forest as the "Demon Deeks". Maybe it was just me.
November 5th, 2011 at 11:05 PM ^
Demon Decs but yeah, that's a shortened nickname for them.
November 5th, 2011 at 11:01 PM ^
Posted elsewhere...
November 5th, 2011 at 11:02 PM ^
In the old days, I think Alabama gets the reception at the one.
But under recent rules, I think the INT call was correct.
Just like the Donovan Warren / Bill Lynch gum-throwing call.
November 5th, 2011 at 11:02 PM ^
We're getting dangerously close to "WTF WAS THAT?/MAD HATTER TIME."
November 5th, 2011 at 11:03 PM ^
...no way a 6-6 game calls for a rematch for Ntl Chmpshp, right? Right? RIGHT? Aw, c'mon! That's worse than koolaid crazy!
November 5th, 2011 at 11:12 PM ^
Wow... Mattieu had a fucking dirty cheap shot on Dre Kirkpatrick. That was just messed up. Hit him right in the throat...
November 5th, 2011 at 11:12 PM ^
How do the stud Wolverine defenses of old stack up against these monsters?
November 5th, 2011 at 11:19 PM ^
It's hard to compare, because back then you could stockpile talent by giving 125 scholarships over 4 years...
Oh. Wait.
November 5th, 2011 at 11:25 PM ^
At 3:10 in the 4th quarter. He sees an opening about 2 seconds into a designed run play and takes it for 20 yards. Sadly I couldn't even fathom Denard ever having the presence of mind to do that. Forget about his terrible passing, his best gift is running and he can't even use that talent to capacity unless told explicitly when to use it. How are we suddenly going to beat any other team we play with Borges and denard doing what they do?
<br>I never thought I'd say this... But I'd rather have John Navarre.
November 5th, 2011 at 11:26 PM ^
I meant designed pass play
November 5th, 2011 at 11:36 PM ^
That d-line was amazing in '97. Linebackers would wreck Richardson all day. Safeties / corners were all honey badgers.
Oh yeah, and Saban's hair just went limp.
November 5th, 2011 at 11:21 PM ^
18 yd QB scramble.
I'm must be forgetting a couple, but I can't think of a single scramble by Denard on a pass play where he hurt the defense with a significant gain.
I'd think that Borges would have a play or two up his sleeve to take advantage of that situation.
November 5th, 2011 at 11:26 PM ^
Nobody runs a straight man against denard where every lb has their back turned.
November 5th, 2011 at 11:21 PM ^
The last time Michigan played in a defensive struggle this ugly, it was 1950 and they were playing in a blizzard (Snow Bowl).
November 5th, 2011 at 11:23 PM ^
I remember that game. I was like, -40 years old.
November 5th, 2011 at 11:23 PM ^
What about '95 Purdue?
November 5th, 2011 at 11:29 PM ^
I sat behind the south end zone. Holy shit, that was brutal weather. My cap froze to my hair.
November 5th, 2011 at 11:22 PM ^
Meanwhile, Alabama dance team......lots of 8's and 9's in that section.
November 5th, 2011 at 11:29 PM ^
The make up is way too much for me though. Tennessee girls are prettier btw.
November 5th, 2011 at 11:31 PM ^
Ahem. Billy Bob disagrees.
November 5th, 2011 at 11:25 PM ^
so is it just first team to miss a fg loses? I can't see either team scoring a td
November 5th, 2011 at 11:25 PM ^
10 mgopoints says bama wins in OT, their offense seems to be more consistent. If you say that about a 6-6 tie.