NCAAF 2024 - WEEK ELEVEN

[EVA]

WHOA WTF was that clock management by Sherrone Moore? 

[hammerva]

Michigan's decision making in the last 2 minutes is some serious flinching.  4th and 10 and throw a 6 or 7 yard pass?  run off about 25 seconds before calling your 1st time out

[EVA]

Credit to Indiana. Got in their first real dogfight of the season against a more talented team and found a way to eek out the win.

[Brian Fowler]

Tons of credit to Indiana, but Michigan's coaches were flat awful today in a winnable game. Depressing.

[EVA]

Some poor coaching (again), for sure.

[EVA]

Meanwhile, Colorado has moves into 2nd place in the Big 12…

[Tabe]

2 hours ago, EVA said:

Credit to Indiana. Got in their first real dogfight of the season against a more talented team and found a way to eek out the win.

I dunno that Michigan is more talented. If they are, any talent advantage is offset by incredibly poor coaching. From the terrible playcalling anytime they bring in Orji to the poor time management to, well, everything else... Moore and his staff simply don't look they know what they're doing. 

This was a winnable game if Michigan did ANYTHING on offense and they couldn't manage it. 

[EVA]

The boo birds are out in the bayou. LSU didn’t show much life in that first half. Bama didn’t look great, but they were able to grind their way to a 15-point lead.

[Pete]

16 minutes ago, EVA said:

The boo birds are out in the bayou. LSU didn’t show much life in that first half. Bama didn’t look great, but they were able to grind their way to a 15-point lead.

Serves them right for running a fake Mike the Tiger gimmick tonight.

 

[hammerva]

I guess we can "thank" Texas because now every fucking week someone thinks throwing garbage on the field will reverse an official decision 

[BloodyChamp]

I don’t know if we need to fire our coach but he blew this game. We were going into the locker room down 3-14 having stopped them after the scored on the first 2 drives, and we were going to get the ball first in the second half. We didn’t even get a first down on what should have been the 2 minute drive and he tried to get cute with less than a minute left after we stopped them again and got the ball back, which gave them another touchdown. 3-21 game over. RIP Seminoles.

Edited November 10, 2024 by BloodyChamp

[EVA]

The story of Bama/LSU has been LSU stinking out the joint and Bama just not pissing down their own leg like they usually do on the road. Just letting LSU give them the game.

[EVA]

LSU had one calendar year to figure out how to defend Jalen Milroe.

 

Brian Kelly: No, I don’t think I will.

[BloodyChamp]

Are Brian Kelly and Mike Norvell the 2 most hated big name coaches right now, after their big time runs started against each other IIRC

EDIT: no they didn’t start against each other but it seems like it 

Edited November 10, 2024 by BloodyChamp

[EVA]

I’m not sure USC fans care enough to hate Lincoln Riley, but yeah. LSU and FSU fans are rightly very displeased with their fat contract coaches right now.

[EVA]

11 minutes left in the game, and the stands in Tiger Stadium looks like the COVID year.

[Brian Fowler]

You can literally hear Kelly's seat getting warmer by the minute.

[EVA]

LSU has gotten rid of coaches who’ve won more than him, that’s for sure.

[Brian Fowler]

LSU kinda reminds me on defense of the old Lloyd Carr Michigan teams. Tabe will probably remember that, no matter how good a defense they had in any given year (and they had some really really good ones) Michigan got touched by every option offense or running quarterback they played. (It's the real secret reason I'm not particularly confident they would've had a chance against Nebraska in 97. Statistically an all-time great defense, but didn't face one notable running QB all year.)

[Hail Sabin]

BYU somehow remains unbeaten after a 4th down defensive holding call gave them new life. 

[Tabe]

3 hours ago, Brian Fowler said:

LSU kinda reminds me on defense of the old Lloyd Carr Michigan teams. Tabe will probably remember that, no matter how good a defense they had in any given year (and they had some really really good ones) Michigan got touched by every option offense or running quarterback they played. (It's the real secret reason I'm not particularly confident they would've had a chance against Nebraska in 97. Statistically an all-time great defense, but didn't face one notable running QB all year.)

I do remember that. 

But they would've beaten Nebraska. Michigan beat their two common opponents (Baylor & Colorado) 65-6. Nebraska beat them 76-45, barely sneaking by Colorado. 

[Tabe]

Utah/BYU was a perfect example of why I always DVR a late night game. Games that start at 7 or 8 Pacific time seem to disproportionately end up being crazy. 4th down penalty on a game-ending sack for Utah gave new life to BYU and that was that. 

[Brian Fowler]

8 minutes ago, Tabe said:

I do remember that. 

But they would've beaten Nebraska. Michigan beat their two common opponents (Baylor & Colorado) 65-6. Nebraska beat them 76-45, barely sneaking by Colorado. 

I think Michigan was better than Nebraska. But Lloyd never stopped a good option attack in his like twenty years as DC or HC, and I'm not sure even that defense would've been the first against one as good as Nebraska.

[Tabe]

Also, lemme give a shoutout to Dave Fleming for mentioning the banned name for the BYU/Utah series ("Holy War"). 

[EVA]

WHAT DID YOU DO TO THAT TORTILLA, YOU SICK FREAK??? [/The Rock]