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I don't know what kind of ratings US Open tennis is pulling down these days, but I bet CBS wishes they could air this game instead.

And now he throws a garbage interception down at the goalline to kill OSU's drive.

Yep, just then he didn't even see the RB wide open in the flat for a 1st until it was too late and OSU has to punt it right back to Navy.

That Navy TD couldn't have been any closer to going either way. I told you guys Navy would put this new OSU quarterback to the test.

If this doesn't end with Stunners for everybody, something has gone terribly wrong.

HOLY SHIT STONE COLD STONE COLD STONE COLD.

Paul Finebaum is sitting in his chair and his feet are dangling in the air about three feet off the ground.

Yeah, apparently that volcano chilled out and the game in Ireland went off as planned. I still have no idea why they're playing over there. It made sense for Notre Dame.

Whoa, Dee Hart is going off. Happy for him. Had the worst luck possible at Bama.

Is that Dave Wannstedt or Dennis Farina?

Even Tarantino has tacitly acknowledged that DEATH PROOF isn't that good. While he was doing press for Django, I remember one interview where he didn't outright say it stunk, but he pointed to it and said, "I don't want to ever make a movie worse than that."

I wish everyone hadn't read so much Dan Brown.

Connor Cook was looking awesome for Michigan State...and then suffered a gruesome hit on his knee that knocked him out of the game. Could be ANOTHER Big 10 playoff contender down.

I'm a bit concerned about it. I think WVU will be a bit better than last year. And Dana's offense is so wacky. He gives defenses a lot to look at, and Bama's veteran MLB, the guy who would be responsible for making sure everybody knows what they're doing, is out due to an NCAA violation. It's not inconceivable they could score 20 or so points. And I have literally no idea what to expect out of the offense. Last year, I'd be like, "Yeah, Bama will score 50 if they have to and win," but I'm not sure this team will score that much on anybody. There are 2, maybe 3, starters on the OL that I don't think will be starters by the end of the season. The tight ends are still pussies. And lord only knows what to expect out of Blake. Could be a lot closer than the experts think, as the saying goes.

Saban basically confirmed last night that Blake Sims would start vs. WVU. Hopefully that leads to more of this... and less of this...

While it's true he hasn't molded a superstar QB at South Carolina, I'd say he got the absolute most out of Connor Shaw over the past four years. Last year, Shaw accounted for 3,000 total yards and an astounding 24-1 TD:int ratio. Those numbers might not have the wow factor you get in the video game numbers of these spread QBs, but I think most teams who didn't have JFF or Jameis at QB last year would've been thrilled with those numbers. The difference between Spurrier's offense at Florida and at South Carolina isn't the QB (pretty much all of his QBs at Florida were just "some guys" who went on to be professional insurance salesmen and sports talk hosts, not successful pro players), it's the talent at wide receiver. He's had a few great receivers (Alshon, Sidney Rice) at SC, but he hasn't had the stockpile of elite guys that could burn up every secondary in the country like he had at Florida. There's also the issue that while the Fun 'n Gun was the spread offense of the 90's, blowing the minds of unprepared defensive coordinators on a weekly basis, it's fairly passé by today's standards, and there are, literally, decades' worth of tape on how to defend it.

There is literally nothing else to talk about. It's hard to poopoo 500 yards passing, but, damn, A&M receivers were running wide open all night. Not much threading of the proverbial needle required to get all those yards.

LOL Bo Wallace gonna Bo Wallace. You don't see to many guys throw three interceptions in the first HALF of the first game.

I'm thinking we're not going to be hearing so much smack out of Spurrier the rest of the season.

But not as pitiful as South Carolina's defense! I knew they were going to struggle a bit due to all their losses on that side of the ball, but they look totally clueless out there. Some of the worst defense I've seen.

Crowd at the Ole Miss/Boise game is pitiful.

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This game is a classic example of Spurrier being his own worst enemy. Comes into the game set up to have one of the top rushing attacks in the league...and all he wants to do is throw bombs. He's good to do that one or two games every year.

Apparently A&M now has the exact opposite problem: can't cover anybody more than 10 yards downfield.

That was the original rumor. Another report came after that saying that Palpatine was the villain, but that Ian McDiarmid wasn't being brought back to play the part. This led to the speculation that the cloaked cyborg-looking figure from the leaked production art was rebuilt Mecha Palpatine.