General 2013 NCAA Football Season Thread

[hermes]

alright mark, i know we're running you into the ground but lets close this out

[hermes]

held on a got the win, cy-hawk trophy is back home

[hermes]

also, michigan barely won

akron was this close to pulling that off

[LAKESHOW]

for some of you surprised by the point total with A&M, don't be. That is the wave of college football. Its what weve had to put up with here in the left coast. We could play a regular huddle type team, and then get hit with tons of no huddle teams. Your preparation is always off, but no way you can prepare consistently every week. There is an element of defense, but its pretty much you have to outscore those type teams week in week out. Arizona state. Arizona. Washington. Washington state. Oregon etc... all are runnin this fast paced spread crap. Our pro style offense is almost becoming extinct.

[bondom34]

Well, Wiscy got screwed...

[LAKESHOW]

Lol. That ending was nuts. Dude looked like he did not down the ball. Clock still rolling. ASU payers all fall on ball. Time runs out. Folks wanna fight. refs run off field. Lol

[Da Schwab]

Lol. That ending was nuts. Dude looked like he did not down the ball. Clock still rolling. ASU payers all fall on ball. Time runs out. Folks wanna fight. refs run off field. Lol

Even as a Badger fan, I'm not sure Stave had his knee down, either, but the refs had to do something. Blow the whistle, call it down. Don't just stand there with your thumbs up your asses.

[craig01]

Ejecting a guy for making a great defensive play and then overturning the ejection but keeping the penalty is the the dumbest thing I have ever seen. I think the NCAA is being run by the same people writing Dexter this season.

That was total stupidity and BS. Not for the call being wrong, but for the assessment of yards when the decision to eject Clinton-Dix was overturned. The NCAA rules committee once again proves to lack foresight. Of course, that is always expected.

[craig01]

Notre Dame looks **** terrible. Jesus.

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Maybe there is a reason for that. (Overrated)

[craig01]

UCF is up 10 in the fourth on Penn State in Happy Valley right now. Blake Bortles (great name) and Storm Johnson have been pretty great so far.

Did anyone catch the end of Fordham/Temple? Crazy stuff. So many FBS upsets this season.

Bortles is our little secret that just got out. When Jeff Driskel was being heavily recruited as a 5-star QB, Bortles, attending another HS nearby, was virtually ignored as a 3-star QB. Some schools were looking at him for TE, but he wanted to play QB.

I cover HS football for the newspaper and Driskel never put up big passing numbers at hagerty HS, meanwhile, Bortles did at Oviedo. Now, 3 years later......it's still the same. LOL

Bortles will play on Sundays. He's 6'5 230, and pretty nimble on his feet.

Nice win for UCF

[Jake0890]

Just saw the ending for the Wisconsin game. That's some BS. He definitely had his knee down, but even IF he didn't, the refs just cant **** stand there with only 9 seconds left in the game. Blow the whistle, do something, I don't care. Just don't throw away the game for Wisconsin.

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[hermes]

looks like his knee was barely down (can only tell from the angle behind the play - all the ones from the side look like he just put the ball on the ground)


anyway not a great weekend for the big ten

[High 5]

The refs messed up, but Wisconsin was dumb for even trying that. You don't run a play to position the ball with no timeouts and only 18 seconds left. It's unfortunate the center bumped into the QB, because that's what stopped him from taking a knee. Placing the ball on the ground is legit (as far as I know), but it's obviously much more unusual and it caused the confusion.

[Celtics_Champs]

I can't blame the refs all the way, I've never seen that before. I blame them for letting the clock run and causing this whole mess instead of awarding asu the ball. There are correct ways to give yourself up, and that IMO isn't one of them. That's a fumble. That coulda been a fumblerooski or some silly trick play. Christ what's next, a QB runs 10 yards and instead of sliding or going out of bounds he calls timeout as the players about hit him. Or better yet just drops the ball.

[Celtics_Champs]

Placing the ball on the ground is legit (as far as I know), but it's obviously much more unusual and it caused the confusion.

Is it really?

Ugh that's so pathetic. Contradicts my last post then that the refs weren't at fault, but my opinion still stands. That needs to be changed. Especially in college where you don't even need to be touched.

[High 5]

Placing the ball on the ground is legit (as far as I know), but it's obviously much more unusual and it caused the confusion.

Is it really?

Ugh that's so pathetic. Contradicts my last post then that the refs weren't at fault, but my opinion still stands. That needs to be changed. Especially in college where you don't even need to be touched.

I'm not certain, but I think if you make a move to clearly give yourself up you don't actually have to take a knee. Doing a half knee and putting the ball down like that would seem to qualify. Either way, you never wanna leave it up to interpretation. He should have just taken a dive once he got bumped.

[trwi7]

LOL CC, not only was his knee down, he placed the ball down where he went down. All you have to do is give yourself up, which Stave obviously did and the ground can't cause a fumble either way.

[Celtics_Champs]

LOL CC, not only was his knee down, he placed the ball down where he went down. All you have to do is give yourself up, which Stave obviously did and the ground can't cause a fumble either way.

I didn't see his knee down from the side replay, but apparently it looked down in different views. As High 5 explained, and schwabby mentioned the refs should have known the rules/not stood around with their thumbs up their butts. I just think they need to change that rule, too much grey area if you're just going to place the ball on the ground.

The real shame was the ASU's uniforms.

[hermes]

i can't imagine just setting the ball on the ground would end the play, how would that be different from a fumble?

but i think he got the knee down anyway, oh well

[Da Schwab]

A little late with this, but I've been working the last two days...

1 Alabama (59) 2-0 1499
2 Oregon (1) 3-0 1413
3 Clemson 2-0 1347
4 Ohio State 3-0 1330
5 Stanford 2-0 1241
6 LSU 3-0 1134
7 Louisville 3-0 1092
8 Florida State 2-0 1058
9 Georgia 1-1 1051
10 Texas A&M 2-1 1001
11 Oklahoma State 3-0 848
12 South Carolina 2-1 821
13 UCLA 2-0 757
14 Oklahoma 3-0 692
15 Michigan 3-0 672
16 Miami (FL) 2-0 641
17 Washington 2-0 496
18 Northwestern 3-0 487
19 Florida 1-1 412
20 Baylor 2-0 355
21 Ole Miss 3-0 300
22 Notre Dame 2-1 277
23 Arizona State 2-0 229
24 Wisconsin 2-1 87
25 Texas Tech 3-0 60

Dropped from rankings: Nebraska 23, TCU 24

Others receiving votes: Michigan State 59, Fresno State 27, UCF 25, Northern Illinois 24, Georgia Tech 17, Nebraska 15, Arizona 11, Auburn 9, Boise State 4, TCU 3, Virginia Tech 3, Arkansas 2, Navy 1

Nothing really surprising here. Bama and Oregon are the clear cut #1 and #2. I think maybe, just maybe, the Ducks should have a few more first place votes after absolutely destroying the Vols. Top 5 stays the same, A&M falls to #10 after the close loss to Bama. Michigan falls four spots after barely getting past Akron. Baylor and Ole Miss continue to rise.

My Badgers nearly fall out of the rankings, but I imagine voters had a little pity on them due to the controversial finish. Yet, ASU jumps into the Top 25.