The Official College Football Thread

[persianbruin]

Drew had a sick kick return and also he had a nice tackle on special teams which both cracked the ESPN top 10.
Dude I knew UCLA's season was over once they lost ot ND that was basically it right there.

This is part of an article in the LA's daily news that pretty much sums it up. Very true indeed!!

...Injuries are a big reason for it. I'm not sure how many teams in the nation could survive losing two quarterbacks (to a combined four injuries), injuries to five running backs, one of their top receivers, one of their top defensive tackles, a starting defensive end and, for a game, the middle linebacker.That said, I believe play-calling was the reason UCLA lost to Notre Dame. I think the game should have been put on the offensive line and the defense, and not on QB McLeod Bethel-Thompson. I have not been enamored with the play calling of offensive coordinator Jay Norvell, and it goes back before the Notre Dame game. I don't mind the conservative aspect of it, but the predictability is another matter.

[Sherwin]

This is part of an article in the LA's daily news that pretty much sums it up. Very true indeed!!
...Injuries are a big reason for it. I'm not sure how many teams in the nation could survive losing two quarterbacks (to a combined four injuries), injuries to five running backs, one of their top receivers, one of their top defensive tackles, a starting defensive end and, for a game, the middle linebacker.That said, I believe play-calling was the reason UCLA lost to Notre Dame. I think the game should have been put on the offensive line and the defense, and not on QB McLeod Bethel-Thompson. I have not been enamored with the play calling of offensive coordinator Jay Norvell, and it goes back before the Notre Dame game. I don't mind the conservative aspect of it, but the predictability is another matter.

There is no doubt that the injury bug hit UCLA hard but they were 100% whne they got shalacked by UTAH. That's why I think that Karl Dorell needs to go. He is a nice guy but the guy should be a coach at a MAC school like Bowling Green or a WAC school like San Jose St NOT UCLA.

[Vestvood Vizard]

Don't mean to gloat, but I told ya so way back in September.

Illinois has always done well in the ol' Horseshoe. With Zook their future is boundless.

GO ILLINI!

[persianbruin]

Don't mean to gloat, but I told ya so way back in September.

Illinois has always done well in the ol' Horseshoe. With Zook their future is boundless.

GO ILLINI!

I dont dislike OSU, but I really wanted oregon to play lsu in the champ. game so it ws a good result in my book

[ShahHouman]

so before people start gettin on me, i'll say it now, we're gonna be wack this yr lol, defense will carry us but i dont expect much, a new yr's day bowl will be cool w/ me, probably outback bowl, probably against auburn....

there, i said it in the first post, i didnt expect much from us this yr and everything we've done up to this point surpassed my expectations, so im not really down about today's loss, we simply got beat, 2 guys from illinois beat our defense lol, it was crazy! so like i said, im not entirely upset about the loss, disappointed but not upset

but nevertheless, it's officially michigan week, so mojo wut's the bet? btw, i'll let u kno if im makin it up there or not, w/ both of us losing the tickets should be way cheaper, soooooooo u never know!

and btw, a wise man once said:
You want to be happy for an hour, get drunk.

You want to be happy for three days, get married.
You want to be happy for 8 days, kill an animal and eat it.

You want to be happy for a year, BEAT Michigan!!

Go Bucks

[persianbruin]

there, i said it in the first post, i didnt expect much from us this yr and everything we've done up to this point surpassed my expectations, so im not really down about today's loss, we simply got beat, 2 guys from illinois beat our defense lol, it was crazy! so like i said, im not entirely upset about the loss, disappointed but not upset
but nevertheless, it's officially michigan week, so mojo wut's the bet? btw, i'll let u kno if im makin it up there or not, w/ both of us losing the tickets should be way cheaper, soooooooo u never know!
and btw, a wise man once said:
You want to be happy for an hour, get drunk.
You want to be happy for three days, get married.
You want to be happy for 8 days, kill an animal and eat it.
You want to be happy for a year, BEAT Michigan!!
Go Bucks

tressel was like coop today

[Saam]

mark my words...come November 10th neither will be number one.

Ooh, getting overconfident are we? I won't say anything as I think it can go both ways but I'll keep this post on record for november 10th to see what happens. Hopefully I can blow away ur overconfidence

BTW I entered lottery for cal tickets if ur goin maybe we can meet up and watch together. Then we can trash talk to each other's faces

Wat happened dude?

U were right about the number 1 thing though tomorrow LSU could be number 1

[ShahHouman]

tressel was like coop today

lol it wasnt that bad...illinois threw an offense at us that we've neer seen before, a hurry up offense, , and we didnt get to rotate our D line

but not taking anything away from illinois, great game, they stopped us and didnt let us do shit...but very classless of them to try to stomp on the O to spark that fight at the end of the game, very low class

[Sherwin]

lol it wasnt that bad...illinois threw an offense at us that we've neer seen before, a hurry up offense, , and we didnt get to rotate our D line
but not taking anything away from illinois, great game, they stopped us and didnt let us do shit...but very classless of them to try to stomp on the O to spark that fight at the end of the game, very low class

Juice Williams is one of the most UNDERRATED quarterbacks in the country. It's amazing that these big programs like Ohio State, USC, and Michigan, all have one thing in common. They can't stop a scrambling quarterback to save their life.

By the way I kind of was disappointed at Ohio State for the fight at the end of the game. I understand the whole "Protect the O" but do your job and you woudn't give Illinois an excuse to celebrate on your "O." I thought it wa a bit SORE LOSER ish on Ohio St's part.

Anyways I"m just glad MSU FINALLY POPS THE SHNIDE AND GET'S A WIN!!!!!!!! Ok it was not that much of an upset Purdue was only favored by 4 points home. One more win against Penn St @ East Lancing next week and we are bowl elligable!!! Sure it might be Motor City but at this point I will take it.

[ShahHouman]

nah man, they showed no class by tryin to jump on the O, we went to protect it and pushed em off,and that started a scuffle, any team wouldve done that, that's merely disrespectful....if anything it's a bit of a SORE WINNER on Illinois's part

both illinois and purdue hav shown no class this season (purdue calling timeout w/ a few seconds left to score at the end of the game to make it 20-7 when they were clearly beat)


anyways, i went to the motor city bowl a couple yrs ago and plan on going again, it's only a few hrs away so i'll probably go check it out again this yr

[MoJo23]

I'm not even going to talk about our game since it made absolutely no difference. Sure, maybe the rankings or our record, but neither Henne or Hart really played at all.

Juice Williams is one of the most UNDERRATED quarterbacks in the country.

The boy was a beast yesterday! The kid impressed me a lot!
And he is only a sophomore!

About the "O", i don't houman, but coming in as underdogs and defeating the #1 team in the country on the ROAD for the first time since 1956...??

If you were them, you would have done the same!

[MoJo23]

there, i said it in the first post, i didnt expect much from us this yr and everything we've done up to this point surpassed my expectations, so im not really down about today's loss, we simply got beat, 2 guys from illinois beat our defense lol, it was crazy! so like i said, im not entirely upset about the loss, disappointed but not upset
but nevertheless, it's officially michigan week, so mojo wut's the bet? btw, i'll let u kno if im makin it up there or not, w/ both of us losing the tickets should be way cheaper, soooooooo u never know!
and btw, a wise man once said:
You want to be happy for an hour, get drunk.
You want to be happy for three days, get married.
You want to be happy for 8 days, kill an animal and eat it.
You want to be happy for a year, BEAT Michigan!!
Go Bucks

Houman jan, looks like you have to wait at least a year to be anything close to happy!

But here is the bet:

Winner gets 4K gold + rep
And also 2 weeks of a customized avatar + signature!
No spread.

If you want to change anything to it, go ahead.

And the tickets, bro i had 1 guy who was selling em for about that price range, but the bastard F-ked me up and sold it for a better price that night when i called him.

All others i heard, the prices were extremely high!

GO BLUEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

[ShahHouman]

nah man, it's a respect thing...look at georgia this yr, their coach ran out and yelled at all of em to get off the logo and that "we dont do that here at this school", and dont bring the florida game into this cuz he meant for all 11 players on the field to celebrate, not the bench lol

and besides, the parents of those players dont even remember the game in 1956 so i kno they didnt care that much about it


but w/ 2 losses yesterday tix should be cheap for saturday so i'll let u kno, i just may be headin up saturday

[ShahHouman]

im down w/ the bet, sounds gooz to me!

and thanx for checkin on the tix, i appreciate it man

[ShahHouman]

im just gonna btch again for aminute, NOT CUZ OF OUR LOSS, but in general:

i have never been a fan of BCS and i have never understood, nor agreed w/ this sht of "if u're gonna lose, lose early", wtf is that? at the end of the season wut's the diff between, for example, OSU and LSU? both teams hav one loss, yet one plays in the championship and the other goes to a BCS bowl,y? cuz LSU lost to kentucky earlier and OSU loses in their 2nd to last game (assuming we beat mich....which we will)

i say fk the uni presidents and do the playoff system already! 8 teams! 6 major conferences(pac10, big 12, big 10, SEC, ACC, Big East)and 2 at large bids...and keep the rest of the bowls for the other schools

that way if u dont make it to the championship game u hav nobody to blame but urself!

ideal thinking, i kno, but it just sucks and is stupid