Best thing you saw: Week 3

Submitted by mi93 on

I don't know about you, but I was fortunate to watch some incredible games and their respective finishes.

Non-Michigan discussion:

Fla-UT was a classic.  The other UT got jobbed in the Coliseum in their loss to a box of condoms.  Best catch of the day goes to 80 from Okla St. with a one-had juggler on a sideline go route.  I loved the fight in the Longhorns, and on the live watching, it sure looked to me that they were on the screwed side of every call in the last 5 minutes of the game.  Regardless, Fla-UT is the best thing I saw.  A meh game turned into a barn burner with a 0:00 prayer answered, and the best play of the day - a UT defender making up 5 yards and a bad angle to save a Fla TD at the .5 yard line.  What a finish.

Michigan division:

Win and advance?  Always great.  Maturing O? I thought Speight looked his best in the 4th quarter with some great throws to move chains late (though one was dropped).  Clutch kicks? We haz kicker. All that aside, I'm goin' with the other guys.  A team of young men, who within the next 4 years will all sign up to protect the freedoms we all enjoy, gave all they had on the field of play - against a team supposed to pummel them, a number of whom will play the game for a living someday.  God bless the Air Force Academy, and all service academies, for who they are, what they represent, and what they protect.  And dear Warde, may we never play one of them again.

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mrkid

September 17th, 2017 at 7:34 AM ^

Winning was the best thing I saw. We can be upset about the play but I guarantee teams like LSU, Stanford, UCLA would love a 29-13 win right now. Win the games.

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LSAClassOf2000

September 17th, 2017 at 8:07 AM ^

Fla-UT was a classic.

I watched much of the second half of this one, turning on the TV as soon as I got home from our game. The last play was classic, but a lot of that half was the sort of cringeworthy and underwhelming stuff that seems to permeate certain SEC matchups. 

USC-Texas had some great pass catches, especially the one that ended the first half. I swore they were going to just run the clock out, but no, USC runs one more play....and a pretty one at that. 

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SD Larry

September 17th, 2017 at 8:56 AM ^

followed by Felipe Franks 66 yd throw on a dime for td to end Florida game, followed by Sam Darnold's engineered drive at the end of the Texas game with 45 seconds and no timeouts to setup a field goal by a walk on kicker to send game to OT.   College football. 

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DCGrad

September 17th, 2017 at 9:23 AM ^

Standford to SDSU Ole Miss to Cal Nebraska to NIU Should make us all feel a little better about yesterday. Best thing I saw personally was going to Winston-Salem to see Wake Forest pour it on Utah State (girlfriend is a WF alum). Wake is much more of a tailgate school than football school though.

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1VaBlue1

September 17th, 2017 at 9:36 AM ^

I didn't get to see much yesterday, since I took the wife and kid to see the Blue Angels at the NAS Oceana air show.  But here's what I did see...

Best non-Michigan: USC-UT going to OT.  I feel dirty for having wanted UT to win, but what a fun game to watch!  Ole Miss losing to Cal...

Michigan division:  A good, safe win over a tough out.  I really think AF is going to win a lot of games this year.  They look like a 9 win team, to me, with a good bowl game coming up.  DPJ handling punts.  Nordin...  Defense - both UM and AF were keeping everything in front of them.  Winovich!!  What an improvement from that Colorado game last year!  Kid is a beast...

 

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1VaBlue1

September 17th, 2017 at 9:43 AM ^

BTW...  Ty Issac.

Where the hell was he the last two years?  He's out Evans-ing Evans!!  Did he just start playing this way all of a sudden, or did Wheatly have him buried so far because of personal differences?  I get fumbles, but those are worked through practice, not getting buried behind lesser runners.

I'm almost at the point where I say F-you, Ty Wheat, for burying the best runner on the team because you didn't like him.  But that's a hard thing to do without real proof because of Wheat's history with the program.  But jeez, man...

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Couzen Rick's

September 17th, 2017 at 9:57 AM ^

1. Defense and special teams are good enough to carry the team vs lower and mid tier teams, and should support vs the better teams in the B1G. 2. There are no more option teams left on UM's schedule.

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whidbeywolverine

September 17th, 2017 at 10:59 AM ^

Remember the shade thrown at JH for the Nordin sleepover? We are going to watch this kid win a game at the end every year for 4 years! Yes, we need to get red zone efficiency up to at least 3 of 9 by October 7, but A Quinn is still a Quinn!

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AMazinBlue

September 17th, 2017 at 12:57 PM ^

even though it was not in the fashion any of us would have wanted.  We just don't know how tough it was to scheme against their all-out relentless defense.

Having said that, watching the USC texas game was great because Texas actually showed up.  Can't tell if either team is that good, but it was entertaining.  I think it was because Gus Johnson could make watching the grass grow entertaining.  Nobody gets more excited than he does.

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Zeke21

September 17th, 2017 at 6:27 PM ^

Stepping up in pocket and jump pass with touch to halfback out of backfield with no timeouts on drive to tie game in regulation.  That was better than a pro play.  If tackled time runs out, if not a first down time runs out.  This kid can play. So can USC.

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