2013-14 Bowl Schedule & Discussion

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Originally Posted by souljahbill

What exactly did this dude do that has everyone going bananas?

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An elbow to the head of a Navy player after tackling him out of bounds, later shoving a Navy player in the back, after a play was over, long enough to drive the Navy player right into the back of an MTSU player a good 5-10 yards down the field, and got flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct for that one.

Came diving in at the end of a run by Reynolds, after Reynolds was already down and the play was being whistled over, and jumped right on top of Reynolds' head and started reaching into his facemask with his hands. He at least got a couple fingers into Reynolds' eyes as he was sideline for most of the rest of the drive by Navy, both waiting for the equipment managers to put a shield on his helmet and trying to get his eyes cleared up and be able to see normally again.

And then after a play early in the fourth quarter, a Navy ball carrier was laying on his back (had fumbled out of bounds) and Blunt, who was laying on the ground a couple yards away, basically crawled the distance over to the Navy player, plopped down right on top of him and just laid there running his dumbass mouth right in the face of the Navy player for at least a good couple seconds (could have been a good 5+ seconds, not sure), which the refs flagged him for unsportsmanlike conduct a second time and ejected him. Add in other minor things the entire game, getting in Navy players faces, pushing Navy players around after plays, making remarks or gestures to the Navy sideline, either Blunt or another MTSU defender was making throat cutting gestures after one or two plays (somehow didn't get flagged for them).

Essentially, if there was some dirty action that has been made before in football (sorry Jaymo, but I can't help but think back to the old days of the NFL and the Oakland Raiders), Blunt did it yesterday in the game against Navy.

Duke 7 A&M 0

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Originally Posted by bdoughty

Duke 7 A&M 0

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How long will it last though? :D

Seriously, I am hoping Duke wins just because I'm tired of all the Johnny Football crap for the last two years straight. If this indeed is going to be his last game, please Duke, send him out with a loss!

:Duke: 14 to 3 now... GO :Duke: Gonna be fun seeing the Aggies lose.

:Duke: just made a nice block punk .... Aggies are getting pounded. So nice to see a sec team lose ....

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Originally Posted by GatorfanStovy

:Duke: just made a nice block punk .... Aggies are getting pounded. So nice to see a sec team lose ....

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Hold your grits! There's still three whole quarters to go. Losing, yes. Lose? Not even close to being over.

:Duke: = Football School. Gotta be a final sign of the Apocalypse

Duke 28-10. That Aggie defense might get kicked out of the SEC.

Ah shit, I have Texas A&M picked with 33 point confidence in my TGT Bowl Mania entry. I'm screwed. :D

With a win the Duke football team will have has many victories as the basketball team at the end of the year. That would have to be a first, right?

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Originally Posted by bdoughty

With a win the Duke football team will have has many victories as the basketball team at the end of the year. That would have to be a first, right?

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I would believe so. Most years the football team would be lucky to have as many wins as the basketball team at the end of November.

Oh snap, onside kick successful. Johnny Benchwarmer.

Well, that was just a completely blown opportunity.

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Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes

Well, that was just a completely blown opportunity.

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Not at all... Keep A&M from having a chance to score, add 3 and get the ball at the start of the 2nd half. Almost consider it a 10 point swing by kicking onside.

Looks like Johnny douchebag sis is just like her brother


http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/12/john...on-a-duke-fan/

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Originally Posted by gschwendt

Not at all... Keep A&M from having a chance to score, add 3 and get the ball at the start of the 2nd half. Almost consider it a 10 point swing by kicking onside.

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Well yeah, it kept A&M from getting the ball and three points is three points, but they easily could have had a touchdown right there. Call the timeout right away after that run, leave yourself a good chuck of seconds on the clock, and take a SAFE shot into the end zone through the air. If no one gets open, throw it out the back of the end zone and line up for a field goal. They could have and should have had a touchdown there, but pissed away the time needed for one more final play before settling for a field goal with poor clock management there in the final seconds.

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Originally Posted by CLW

Looks like Johnny douchebag sis is just like her brother


http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/12/john...on-a-duke-fan/

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You know what they say about a whole slew of different things, "it often runs in the family". He didn't turn into a douchebag on his own. And if he's a douchebag, his douchebagishness no doubt rubbed off on his siblings.

And Duke has started shitting the bed. That is god awful defense by Duke right there.

Duke is just choking this away now.

And Duke has officially pissed this game away. :fp:

And there we go. The game blowing ending. Duke came, they saw, they shit the bed. Way to go Duke. Now I have to hear about Johnny Fucking Shitstain Douchebag and his performance in this game endlessly for at least the next 4 fucking months.

yep all-time choke job right there. just awful in the 2nd half.

I'm still trying to figure out exactly what the hell happened during halftime. Duke was just dominating during the first half. I think they caught A&M a little off-guard and taking Duke lightly, but Duke still came out swinging on offense and shut A&M down on defense. Then the second half starts and Duke just rolls over and plays dead, getting outscored 35-10 in the half. Just pathetic. :smh:

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Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes

I'm still trying to figure out exactly what the hell happened during halftime. Duke was just dominating during the first half. I think they caught A&M a little off-guard and taking Duke lightly, but Duke still came out swinging on offense and shut A&M down on defense. Then the second half starts and Duke just rolls over and plays dead, getting outscored 35-10 in the half. Just pathetic. :smh:

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Duke just doesn't have the depth and so the starters get gassed towards the end. Same thing happened against FSU. Held with the Noles for awhile but the starters get no rest and they fall apart. What they should have done was ran the ball and the clock all the way down from the beginning of the start of the 2nd half. Had they done that and managed to not turn the ball over it would have been difficult for TAMU to come back. But some bs playaction rollout on 4th and short = turnover and then the 2 INTs late sealed the deal.

Wrong team won but it was a fun game to watch,

- Huskers up 10-9 at half, but may want to start covering UGA's TE.

- Glad to see UNLV & UNT in a bowl. Too bad one has to lose.

- LSU looking like they want to run through Iowa, up 7-0 so far.

UNLV and North Texas had a humorous end to their first half. UNLV lined up for a long 50+ yard field goal. North Texas ended up blocking the field goal and a North Texas player had the ball and was running unopposed to the end zone. However, the refs whistled the play dead and said that North Texas had called a timeout right before the snap. :D

UNLV ultimately ended up missing the field goal short (the kid's career long was 50 yards, this was a 52 yard kick), but it was still funny to watch at the time, North Texas running a blocked field goal back and celebrating, only to have it not count because their coach called a quick timeout before the snap.

Duke didn't try to run and eat clock in second half, at least not as much as they maybe should have. That was dumb. But I picked a n m so I don't care lol

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Damn. What an ending in the Nebraska-Georgia game. It all comes down to a dropped pass on fourth down, that's rough.

I'll be damned... Michigan State is gonna beat Stanford.

And that screws me in Bowl Mania. I picked Stanford with 19 points of confidence. :fp:

If Baylor (picked up 35 point confidence) blows it tonight against UCF... :fp:

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Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes

And that screws me in Bowl Mania. I picked Stanford with 19 points of confidence. :fp:

If Baylor (picked up 35 point confidence) blows it tonight against UCF... :fp:

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I didn't play any pick 'em games but had I played, I would've picked MSU over Stanford.

And while I'd still pick Baylor over UCF, I don't think it'll be the blowout everyone predicts.

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Originally Posted by souljahbill

I didn't play any pick 'em games but had I played, I would've picked MSU over Stanford.

And while I'd still pick Baylor over UCF, I don't think it'll be the blowout everyone predicts.

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I was sort of going back and forth, but ultimately decided on Stanford. They're a tough ass team, but just couldn't do anything on multiple fourth down conversion tries, even with Michigan State giving them the ball a couple times (be it punt, fumble or turnover on downs) in the fourth quarter. It was a damn good game though.

As for the Fiesta Bowl, I agree, it's not going to be a blowout. Baylor may be able to light up a bunch of Big 12 defenses, but UCF has one hell of a high powered offense as well, so it'll at worst be a shootout. And thus far, UCF has a pretty good defense too, shutting Baylor down while jumping out to a 14 point lead. This should be a good game. I was thinking about playing my next game in my dynasty against Michigan, but with the way this game is going so far, I may end up watching it for the rest of tonight.

Even though it would screw me, I wouldn't mind UCF winning. It'd shut all of those dumbasses up who were going on about how UCF and the American didn't belong in a BCS game. You'd think they had learned something after all those years of Utah, Boise State, TCU, etc. But nope, anyone not from the SEC, Big 12, Pac-12, ACC or Big Ten apparently doesn't belong there, ever.

Someone has got to teach these Baylor DBs how to properly defend the pass. My god, just hanging all over the UCF receivers. That PI penalty just now, damn near ripping the UCF's player's jersey off and had his shoulder pads exposed. Like the announcers said, Baylor fans can boo all they want, that was a truly legitimate PI call. The UCF receiver was getting mugged the entire way down the field.

Now Baylor is just shooting themselves in the foot. Stupid, stupid penalties. Left tackle, gets flagged for illegal formation because he didn't line up on the line of scrimmage, negating a first down rush and making it second and 15. Then on third down, gets flagged for false start and pretty much screws Baylor's drive. Then on the punt, an illegal shift on the offense. My god man, how many penalties are they trying for tonight? They're already up to, I think now, 15 penalties.

Edit: And in fact, going back on the DVR and looking at that third down false start, both of the left guard and left tackle went right back to lining up way of the line of scrimmage. Both the guard and tackle are lining up practically a full yard off the line of scrimmage. He's going to be lucky if he doesn't get keep getting flagged for illegal formation the rest of this fourth quarter.

Add in a personal foul now on the left tackle for Baylor, making that 16 penalties now tonight on Baylor for 120 yards. I don't think I have seen a more undisciplined and fundamentally absent team than Baylor all season. Other than having a high-powered offense that can chuck the ball to hell and back against over-matched defenses, how the hell did Baylor win 11 games all year?

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Just for good measure, lets throw in an unsportsmanlike like conduct penalty on another Baylor lineman. 17 penalties now for 135 yards, according to the announcers, one shy of the Fiesta Bowl record, set by Oregon if I heard them correctly.

:clap: Well done UCF. Bravo! Screwed the hell out of me in the TGT Bowl Mania, but to hell with it, well done! That should shut up all the dumbasses who have been parroting each other for weeks saying that UCF and the American had no business playing in a BCS bowl. Looks like they just proved those bitches wrong!

Basketball on grass :fp:

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Originally Posted by skipwondah33

Basketball on grass :fp:

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Yep. That is where the sport is heading.

I lose interest in American Football by the day and the elimination of the physicality, by rules and by offensive design, are the main culprits.

I have pretty much lost all interest in watching any game that doesn't include the Steelers or the Irish. It's sad, but I can see a day when I only watch my teams and only watch because of tradition. The game is so far removed from what I grew up loving and playing that it can't keep my attention (12 minutes of action in 3-3.5 hours combined with a BILLION commercials doesn't help either) like it used to.