2009 College Football

[Abagadro]

We should put our resident Buckeyes on suicide watch.

[Nebu]

We should put our resident Buckeyes on suicide watch.

Watching the Buckeyes lose fills me with joy.  This is especially true on weeks where the Hawkeyes win.  Notre Dame is about the only team I hate more than THE Ohio State University. 

[Montague]

We should put our resident Buckeyes on suicide watch.

Nah, this was just a matter of time with that putrid offense. It's been this way for 9 years - 2006 was an aberration because of a Heisman Trophy winner backed up by 1st round draft picks at every skill position. The natives are getting tired of his act though. This native included.

"The primary duty of the offense is to not put the defense in a bad position." - Can you imagine hearing that from an SEC coach?

[Hoax]

Honestly that would all work fine if Pryor wasn't having a terrible terrible year.  He's just not Troy Smith.  Not even close.  He can't even manage a game and create one drive versus USC to give them that win.  Today he looked fucking terrible and the defense played its one bad game of the year.

[Nevermore]

Even when it's not playing well (which is pretty much all the time) you can tell he's a good athlete.  He's just a really, really bad fit with the Ohio State offense.  If he'd have gone to an offense like say, West Virginia I bet he'd have been a lot more successful.

Of course, I'm not sad at all about how things ended up because I love to see Ohio State lose.  They're one of only 5 teams I really can't stand, so it's always fun to see them lose.

[Paelos]

Ohio State covers the last two games when I don't see it even close to happening, then they lose when I pick against them.

I'm seriously about to call shenanigans on these assholes.

[Merusk]

THE Ohio State University. 

To be fair, the "THE" is to avoid confusion with Ohio University.  Yes, people make that mistake all the time. No, I have no fucking idea why.

It's amusing to me as an alum to see UC ranked above OSU. Tee hee.

[Abagadro]

THE Ohio State University. 

To be fair, the "THE" is to avoid confusion with Ohio University.  Yes, people make that mistake all the time. No, I have no fucking idea why.

It's amusing to me as an alum to see UC ranked above OSU. Tee hee.

We have Utah and Utah State universities (like oh, probably 20 other states have two schools like that) and no one seems to have a problem distinguishing between the two without a pretentious "the"  mainly because one has the word "state" in its title.

[Abagadro]

Florida had no business winning that game.

[Paelos]

The Florida game is sickening on many levels. Arkansas can't put a Florida team away who gives up 4 fumbles. The refs giftwrap a TD for Florida, and then on top of that, the Arkansas kicker sucks ass.

Oh and the refs haven't called a damn thing against Florida in their last drive. Not offensive pass interference, not movement on the line, both of which happened. Ten penalties v. three called against UF.

Whatever, this season is total nonsense at this point. Everybody looks like shit from top to bottom. If Texas and Florida are the best we have to sport this year, fuck that noise.

[SnakeCharmer]

Oh, Texas and Florida aren't the best. 

Bama is 

That said, our offense has gone into the tank the last two games.  Not so much the offense as a whole, as IngramRichardsonUpchurchGrant are still running over everything in their path, but McElroy has gone into a bit of a funk.  Should work itself out though.  But with the defense we've got?  Not worried about it.  They're big, fast, smart, and will knock the snot out of you.  And deep at every position.

But yeah, Arkansas and the refs gift wrapped that game to UF.

[Paelos]

Bama looked the least shitty yesterday. That's not saying a lot though when Florida needs missed FGs and penalties on the other team to squeak out a win, and Texas couldn't find any offense against a team who lost their starting QB on the first drive. Oh and Ohio State dropping a game to a 1-5 team. I mean holy crap the Big 10 is worthless outside of Iowa.

Out of teams that are going to move up, I think Bama, Texas, Florida, Iowa, and Miami should be the top 5 in the nation. USC will be top 5 because of media whoring, but they lost to WASHINGTON for god's sake. Boise is undefeated, but by god they play in the biggest lame duck conference in the land. Did we all forget what happened when they put Hawaii in the big bowls? I guess we did.

The real shitter is that Cincy can almost stroll to being undefeated in the Big East, since they already beat USF now. That will totally cock up national title talk if either Florida or Bama takes a loss. The way Florida played against Arkansas, they could lose to a mildly competent offense if they don't fix it quick. The good news is they don't play any. Miss St couldn't put up more than 3 on Vandy, Georgia has a shitty QB and a freshman back, and Vandy's well, Vandy. The only trap game left is South Carolina because of the Old Ball Coach.

[Nevermore]

Cincy still has to play both West Virginia and Pitt, both of whom are now ranked.

[Paelos]

Cincy still has to play both West Virginia and Pitt, both of whom are now ranked.

Not that it matters, because they can't realistically put that team or Boise into the championship game.

[Merusk]

Worry not about Cincy.   We're too small to keep this up and one of the bigger schools that cares more about sports than education will be scooping up Coach Kelly soon enough with far more money than we can ever hope to throw at him and with the promise of a much much bigger budget, too.   Hopefully BEFORE the silly e-mails I keep getting about Logues and Skyboxes at UC stadium can ever begin to come to fruition.   (If you'd ever been to the stadium and the school you'd understand WHY this is such a ridiculous notion.)

[Paelos]

You could always pull a Georgia Tech and be one of the few teams that actually had to reduce the size of their stadium due to suckass play.

[SnakeCharmer]

So another Saturday...

Picks anyone?

LSU 20, Auburn 10
BC 27, ND 24
UF 31, Miss St 3
UA 17, UT 14
Minn 20, OSU 17
Oregon State 24, USC 17
Michigan 20, Penn State 13

[Rasix]

Arizona is now ranked. Kiss of death.

[SnakeCharmer]

Minn 20, OSU 17

Wow.  Totally missed that one.

[Montague]

Minn 20, OSU 17

Wow.  Totally missed that one.

It's the Big 10, nobody knows what the hell is going on. Stat of the day: OSU's longest run from scrimmage this season now belongs to the 5th string tailback on his 3rd career carry.

[01101010]

Alabama - wtf?

[SnakeCharmer]

End of an 8 game grind, and UT has gotten better.  But we've regressed in some ways.  McElroy has a bit of happy feet after getting tattooed a couple times in the Ole Miss game.  But his receivers aren't helping him, with some really glaring drops. 

That said, the offensive playcalling in this game was atrocious.  It's actually been pretty bad the last couple of games.

[SnakeCharmer]

Am I the only one that thinks that this call the play, get to the line of scrimmage, look back at the sideline to get the go ahead or audible out bullshit that UF, Auburn, and several other school does should be outlawed?

[Abagadro]

It's really stupid.  Utah has started doing it too and it drives me nuts. Doesn't seem all that effective and half the time the linemen end up jumping because they've been down in their stances for 20 seconds.

[SnakeCharmer]

Reminds me of a bunch of prarrie dogs popping their heads up.  With the elaborate handsignals that are used and everyone on the sideline having headsets, they can (and do signal) what to do to everyone (QB, WRs, RBs).  May as put receivers in their helmets and let them talk directly.

[Abagadro]

My 5-year old is now saying "BYU sucks!"  The beauty of it is that I didn't teach it to him, his cousin did so I have total deniability with the wife.

[Paelos]

End of an 8 game grind, and UT has gotten better.  But we've regressed in some ways.  McElroy has a bit of happy feet after getting tattooed a couple times in the Ole Miss game.  But his receivers aren't helping him, with some really glaring drops.  

That said, the offensive playcalling in this game was atrocious.  It's actually been pretty bad the last couple of games.

Face facts, your offense all-around played like ass. The playcalling wasn't great, but you should still be able to make passes if you want to be #1 in the nation. You got beat on first downs, you got beat on yardage, you got beat on time of possession. What you didn't do was get beat on points. In the end, that's what matters, but damn if all three top teams haven't had MAJOR games where they struggled offensively.

On the plus side, your team isn't taking penalties, they aren't making many turnovers, and they are standing strong on 3rd down defense. If the offense can get back on track, you have a major rock to hold onto there with good discipline.

[SnakeCharmer]

Oh, no doubt, the offense has definately been playing like ass.  McElroy isn't playing with any confidence, his receivers are dropping the ball, and the playcalling has been questionable at best.  With our defense and special teams, all the offense has to do is halfway show up and they aren't even doing that.  Our QB is going through his reads way too fast.  Perfect time for a bye week though.

[Rasix]

UCLA may have the worst offense I've seen in quite a long time. Even though Arizona only won by a couple TDs, it never felt close.  They scored 13 points (no offensive TD) and we turned the ball over 5 times.  Their lone TD came on a audibled quick out that everyone knew in the stands was coming, along with the UCLA linebacker that jumped the route (seriously, he used the same hand signal twice). 

Brutal game to watch.  Hopefully we put up 50 on WSU like we should have on UCLA. 

Last 4 games of the season will be a nightmare.  Cal, Oregon, USC and ASU. 

[Ingmar]

Re: Cal/UofA, if you can stop our offense you're golden, since our defense really kind of sucks outside of a couple guys.

[WayAbvPar]

UCLA may have the worst offense I've seen in quite a long time.

So glad to see Neuheisel fall on his smarmy fucking face.

[Montague]

 

[Abagadro]

I definitely feel better about the Ute's 7 point loss at Oregon earlier this season after that dismantling.

[SnakeCharmer]

That.  Is.  Awesome.

[Paelos]

Nice game Oregon. That defense is solid.  

Also, good lord Alabama. Do you really need the starting QB and corner to go down, have the officials overturn an interception, and have the other team's defense self-destruct in order to win? I'm not loving anything I'm seeing here from the best teams in the SEC in the second half of the season at all. If Texas wasn't so inept on offense as well, I'd think they'd have a cakewalk ahead of themselves.

This season is literally the worst I've seen in a decade. Nobody can name an obvious Heisman, nobody is stepping up as a decent balanced force on offense and defense, and we've got suck-ass teams like Boise State and TCU in the mix because everyone else can't get their shit together.

I feel bad for Iowa because they got bent over by an injury, and that will screw them now. Congrats again on taking the back door to the title in your pathetic conference, Ohio State.