- Let's start with Thursday night's Texas Tech-TCU game. Holy shit the officiating was all over the place here. A TCU punt return TD was overturned due to an invalid fair catch, Texas Tech was awarded the ball at the 1 yard line after a player dropped the ball shy of the goal line (should have been a touchback) and a fumble review was completely botched. I don't think I've ever seen a game with as many head scratching decisions from the officials. Rules were seemingly being made up on the spot. TCU is really missing Pachall on offense, Boykin can't beat teams with his arm and their running back stable is just ok.
- Texas A&M-Bama lived up to the hype, but the late score by the Aggies kind of masked what really was a dominant win by the Tide. They were up by 21 for a large portion of the 2nd half and had a comfortable lead until late in the 4th. This one reminds me a bit of the 2006 Ohio State-Michigan game that is so often hailed as a classic. Like that game, this one featured neither team playing much defense, and a late score and failed onside kick attempt to end it. If both of these teams gets past LSU in November we could hear some rematch talk, like we saw after that '06 Ohio State win. The network execs certainly wouldn't mind.
- Holy shit, Texas got streamrolled by Ole Miss. Mack Brown is dunnzo. Feel free to throw out candidates to replace him below.
- The Big Ten is crappy. Maybe more so than usual. True, Wisconsin got screwed out of a late second win at Arizona State, but the fact is they were played to a standstill by a middle of the road Pac 12 club. For one of the B1G's marquee programs, they never should have been in that position. And fucking Michigan needed two goal line stops as time expired to stave off AKRON ... Had they lost, it'd probably be an even worse loss than the infamous defeat to Appy State. Akron is fucking awful.
We also had Penn State dropping a game to UCF and Nebraska jumping out to a 21-3 lead on UCLA only to give up 37 unanswered points. Yikes. At least The Purdue put a scare into Notre Dame. Anyway, there doesn't seem to be a whole lot standing in the way of Ohio State, who looked solid in a defeat of Cal without Braxton Miller.
- I know we say this every year, but looks like LSU finally has a balanced offense. Currently ranked in the top 40 in passing, rushing and scoring offense. Zach Mettenberger is 2nd in the nation in passing efficiency and is averaging 17.7 yards per completion. Jarvis Landry and Odell Beckham, Jr. might be the best receiver duo in the conference, if not the nation.
- Texas A&M-Bama lived up to the hype, but the late score by the Aggies kind of masked what really was a dominant win by the Tide. They were up by 21 for a large portion of the 2nd half and had a comfortable lead until late in the 4th. This one reminds me a bit of the 2006 Ohio State-Michigan game that is so often hailed as a classic. Like that game, this one featured neither team playing much defense, and a late score and failed onside kick attempt to end it. If both of these teams gets past LSU in November we could hear some rematch talk, like we saw after that '06 Ohio State win. The network execs certainly wouldn't mind.
- Holy shit, Texas got streamrolled by Ole Miss. Mack Brown is dunnzo. Feel free to throw out candidates to replace him below.
- The Big Ten is crappy. Maybe more so than usual. True, Wisconsin got screwed out of a late second win at Arizona State, but the fact is they were played to a standstill by a middle of the road Pac 12 club. For one of the B1G's marquee programs, they never should have been in that position. And fucking Michigan needed two goal line stops as time expired to stave off AKRON ... Had they lost, it'd probably be an even worse loss than the infamous defeat to Appy State. Akron is fucking awful.
We also had Penn State dropping a game to UCF and Nebraska jumping out to a 21-3 lead on UCLA only to give up 37 unanswered points. Yikes. At least The Purdue put a scare into Notre Dame. Anyway, there doesn't seem to be a whole lot standing in the way of Ohio State, who looked solid in a defeat of Cal without Braxton Miller.
- I know we say this every year, but looks like LSU finally has a balanced offense. Currently ranked in the top 40 in passing, rushing and scoring offense. Zach Mettenberger is 2nd in the nation in passing efficiency and is averaging 17.7 yards per completion. Jarvis Landry and Odell Beckham, Jr. might be the best receiver duo in the conference, if not the nation.
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