Travel this weekend has the usual recapping behind schedule. I'll have some thoughts on the weekend up for Monday Morning Coffee, EDSBS Live will air Monday evening, and this week's Big 12 report will be delayed until Tuesday evening.
Sunday evening open thread/comment starter: Which Saturday flop was the most pathetic?
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I'm making the call now
December 6, 2008
UCLA 31
USC 24
run Bevo run - September 14, 2008
Based on......
I get it about rivalry games but come on. I won’t be a blow out but SC is going to win.
Paragon SC - September 14, 2008
based on...
I don’t have to have a reason, this is what the end result will be and I will be appointed special counsel to the King of California.
run Bevo run - September 14, 2008
Because Rick Neiuheisel is a smelly pirate hooker
that’s why.
Serious question: Any worries about facing a team coached by Norm Chow? By the end of the season, I would think they will have absorbed his offense, and should be effective running it.
Beergut - September 14, 2008
Absorb it or not...
… I’m not convinced that they have the pieces to make it effective. They’ve got a 56th string QB, a good back in Markey, and a decent, but not special, receiving corps. I hope that they can make it work because it’s fun to watch Chow’s offense when it works, but I don’t think this team is talented enough.
Sweed4Heisman - September 14, 2008
Subtract Chow
and you have Wake Forest’s 2006 team. Admittedly, that team had good defense and special teams play.
bamfor - September 14, 2008
None what so ever
I love Chow but he has no talent on offense right now. They have simplified the playbook in Westwood but as Sweed4Heisman said below if you don’t have the players it doesn’t really matter.
Paragon SC - September 19, 2008
On the contrary Paragon
The game will be a blow out. I have seen nothing from UCLA thus far that makes me believe they will be passably competitive when faced with elite talent. Elite talent that is defensively capable against the pass, like USC, stands good odds of shutting them out.
learned hand - September 14, 2008
Of course, you are logically correct.
However, SC’s PAC-10 losses have basically defied logic.
So, that’s why run Bevo run makes his stake in existential territory.
whills - September 14, 2008
you know me from the inside out
I don’t mean that in the kinky way either.
run Bevo run - September 14, 2008
the usc hate on this site is ridiculous
It’s hard to take anyone seriously who predicts that UCLA will beat USC.
andy_wooster - September 14, 2008
I win against you...
I laugh at your lack of gamesmanship.
run Bevo run - September 14, 2008
not a great week for the SEC either
Auburn only scored three points, Bama struggled with Tulane, UGA struggled on the road (something that will be a recurring theme of their season, I think), and Tennessee’s loss to UCLA looks absolutely terrible right now.
I think the Big 12 is the clear number 2 conference right now, and it’s not that far back.
andy_wooster - September 14, 2008
I laughed when I saw the final Auburn-Miss. St. score
Super Saiyan Patrick - September 14, 2008
ahem...
1. ECU, with the best resume of all the ranked teams, also struggled with a surprisingly game Tulane squad (note: they can actually play defense this year). But if a two TD win is a “struggle”, I’ll take it
2., Alabama beat Patsy State 41-7 this Saturday.
3. The UGA-USCe game is traditionally a low-scoring affair (admittedly, this time it was because neither team wanted to win)
4. Auburn-MSU….ummm…ok, I give you that one!
5. UT…ummm….damn…that loss to UCLA looks horrific now, dunnit?
Stuck in the Plains - September 15, 2008
UGA
I don’t care that it was low scoring. What matters is that is was so closely played. UGA was outgained and arguably outplayed by a bad USCe team.
andy_wooster - September 15, 2008
Its Tennessee
We are the real UT they are Tennessee, simple as that. No one outside of Tennessee calls Tennessee UT, just like nobody outside of South Carolina calls South Carolina USC. Tennessee is UT light.
longhornboy - September 15, 2008
They actually do invert the terms throughout SEC country
It’s a different world, where up is down, black is white, and everything tastes battered and fried.
learned hand - September 15, 2008
is that Auburn-Mississippi State game the shortest offensive highlight reel ever?
Sly Croom and Tommy Tuberville’s respective coaching shows are going to include A LOT of defensive highlights during their postgame review. In slow motion. With lots of music and flashing lights.
Mississippi State should’ve gone for the suicide squeeze in the 9th inning when they had the chance.
Beergut - September 14, 2008
Miss. St.
I figured they would have pulled the goalie in the last 3 minutes of the 3rd period.
afaeguy - September 14, 2008
a little off-topic..
PB,
I was looking at the USC site, and they had the rankings of the top 25 underneath their schedule. Is there a way we could add that to BON?
vy til i die - September 14, 2008
Yeah I'll work on that
Thanks
Peter Bean - September 15, 2008
Arizona: suprising after they had blown out there first 2 opponents.
UCLA: knew this was gonna happen, K. Craft is HORRIBLE
Arizona St: Shocking, how embarrasing for rudy
Oh St: Knew that was gonna happen OVER-FCKIN RATED, im glad they moved back 8 spots in the AP poll
MJY6087 - September 14, 2008
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