College Football 2012 Week 7

[NatureBoy]

why?

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http://www.gamecocksonline.com/blog/...ng-vs-lsu.html

[bdoughty]

Yay! We're gonna get beat by a less shitty Texas Tech defense. AWESOME!

Edited for accuracy and for all the couches that will be burned tonight in effigy.

[morsdraconis]

Edited for accuracy and for all the couches that will be burned tonight in effigy.

Incorrect. It's WVU's normal "We think we're awesome when, in actuality, we only win when we play with emotion" game. Zero emotion means we try to hard and don't take what defenses give us. Geno has missed 4 passes, at least that he'd normally NAIL, on the money.

[bdoughty]

Texas Tech 28 - West Virginia 7

This could have been the 2012 Heisman winner.

[bdoughty]

Texas Tech 35 - West Virginia 7




Stanford 10 - Notre Dame 3

[bdoughty]

Stanford got screwed on that last call. See you in two weeks Irish.

[steelerfan]

Very proud of this Irish team. They'll falter at some point, but it's been a great season nonetheless.

Go Irish!

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[morsdraconis]

I swear to god I don't know why I watch this fuckin' team. They're so god damn predictable it makes me sick. EVERY YEAR, they implode against a shitty team (and Texas Tech is a shitty team - they'll be lucky to win two more Big 12 games all season).

[bdoughty]

I swear to god I don't know why I watch this fuckin' team. They're so god damn predictable it makes me sick. EVERY YEAR, they implode against a shitty team (and Texas Tech is a shitty team - they'll be lucky to win two more Big 12 games all season).

They have Texas at home, Baylor at home and Kansas at home, not to mention a game against TCU w/o aquality QB. Pretty sure you are going to miss the mark on that prediction but since you are in mourning, I will let it slide. Obviously your judgement is clouded by the smoke coming off the couches burning on your street.

[souljahbill]

is AWFUL

[JeffHCross]

is shitty

Fixed for mors

[souljahbill]

Fixed for mors

It's now also more accurate as well.

[baseballplyrmvp]

i was on the video board!!!

[bdoughty]

A couple parting thoughts from the late games. Is it really a win if you give up 49 points to Indiana? I also imagine our resident A&M fan spent the last 2 hours of the game tonight tearing chunks of hair out. That was not SEC defense on display tonight.

Also speaking of not playing defense, this would be my pick for failure of the week. When the best tackle on the video is the referee running over a Longhorn player on the sideline, it is time to go back to the fundamentals in both tackling and where to stand on a sideline (Longhorn player that got knocked on his ass was flagged for a sideline penalty, to add even more shame).

[SmoothPancakes]

A couple parting thoughts from the late games. Is it really a win if you give up 49 points to Indiana? I also imagine our resident A&M fan spent the last 2 hours of the game tonight tearing chunks of hair out. That was not SEC defense on display tonight.

Entered the game averaging 32.8 points per game, had the Big Ten's #1 passing offense with 305.2 yards per game, and were playing on their own home field. I'd say that all helped Indiana play a great game. Plus Indiana isn't exactly the conference whipping boys of years past. Scared the piss out of Michigan State (had leads of 17-0 and 27-14 and made Sparty have to score 17 points in the second half to escape with a win). In this case, it was Indiana making the furious comeback, but still, they're a talented team. Just like Iowa State, no longer just bending over and giving teams 40+ point wins. The MAC and Sun Belt are either beating or scaring the living shit out of teams from the power conferences. Shit's changing all over the college football landscape.

[bdoughty]

Entered the game averaging 32.8 points per game, had the Big Ten's #1 passing offense with 305.2 yards per game, and were playing on their own home field. I'd say that all helped Indiana play a great game. Plus Indiana isn't exactly the conference whipping boys of years past.

They are still 0-3 in conference, lost to Ball State at home and their non-conference schedule could have been a contestant on Cupcake Wars. No conference wins since 2010 and only 3 conference wins since 2008. When they win 2 conference games in a year you can PM me about their prowess on the gridiron in the 4th best conference in the nation.

[SmoothPancakes]

They are still 0-3 in conference, lost to Ball State at home and their non-conference schedule could have been a contestant on Cupcake Wars. No conference wins since 2010 and only 3 conference wins since 2008. When they win 2 conference games in a year you can PM me about their prowess on the gridiron in the 4th best conference in the nation.

I was just saying, this isn't the same old inept Indiana of previous years. Took Michigan State and Ohio State (two of the best teams in the conference) right down to the final minutes.

[NatureBoy]

South Carolina was outplayed on both sides of the ball last night by LSU. Hopefully they can put the loss behind them because the Gators are up next.

[JeffHCross]

Is it really a win if you give up 49 points to Indiana?

Our defense is thin. Our leading tackler was also our starting fullback. And they haven't been playing good defense all season. So yeah, I'll take it. A win is a win.

Not like it really matters anyway We could go 12-0 this year or 0-12 and relatively the same effect.

I also imagine our resident A&M fan spent the last 2 hours of the game tonight tearing chunks of hair out. That was not SEC defense on display tonight.

Considering how many times A&M gave up double-digit leads last season, I'll take giving up a double-digit lead and winning. They may not be a Bama-esque defense (who is -- nobody), but there have been plenty of poor defensive performances in the SEC this year.

you can PM me about their prowess on the gridiron in the 4th best conference in the nation.

Yeah, 'cause Oklahoma's never had poor performances because of injuries, right? Or down years in the Big 12?

[JeffHCross]

This isn't a shot at bdoughty's Sooners, but instead a shot at ESPN's hype machine (and, indirectly, how fans around the nation think about their teams). Oklahoma just happens to be an example (so don't get all riled up ):

Oklahoma looked like the national title team (and then some) many expected them to be before the season. Texas looked like a disappointment.

Team that played bad: Not who we thought they were! Team that dominated them: Clearly who we thought they were!

I know football (and all sports) is not even close to a science, and there are tons of books and ideas on how to effectively rate teams. But it's humorous, at best, that Oklahoma is getting credit for dominating Texas (as we thought they were), while Texas is being taken down a peg or two (or twelve) in everyone's mind. A few paragraphs later the writer even mentions that Texas's defense was "overrated".

Case in point ... Oklahoma is now playing like a "national title team". Where were the statements about them being a "national title team" after they whooped Texas Tech? Texas Tech may have the better defense (and offense), after all.

Branding. Is. Everything.

(FWIW, after last week's victory, Oklahoma was a "Big 12 title contender" and Texas Tech's defense was "good".)