2013 College Football Thread (Realer than Real Deal Holyfield -->S/O Craftsy)

Nako XL said:
Some people in here seem to think usc = two automatic Ws for oregon. Hmmm...
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Yeah I think I predicted the ducks would beat the brake off em last year at autzen. I was sadly mistaken as you so kindly brought back up :tongue: But anyways it's a new year and although SC isn't blowing teams out, they are still one of the most dangerous opponents in the nation and cannot be taken lightly. Ducks better come to play when they go to LA. And if we can get to the pac-12 ship, we better do the same.

On a side note, thank god the Pac-12 has a championship game now. KState can suck it if them and the Ducks both run the table :smokin
 
Florida impressed me defensively against South Carolina, but South Carolina doomed themselves within multiple turnovers in their own redzone…They’re offense is still meh @ best especially if Driskel is forced to pass…the only thing I see positive for them on offense is that the run game has somewhat improved, and Pease’s playcalling in the redzone was effective and creative…they still have 0 playmakers on the outside, but still a dominating defense
and even though they won less than 3 yards per play before garbage time on offense is still a great cause for concern
 
KState didn't beat the breaks off Oklahoma but winning that game one the road will go a long way as long as OU continues to win.

It would also help Oregon if USC continues to win (minus playing them of course).
 
i think Jay's right .. Bama, Oregon, and CK-State will all finish undefeated and pandemonium will ensue . (Louisville will also be unbeaten)

Chris Thompson.. :smh: true seminole

We should be okay at RB , the fall-off aint too bad from 4 to 32 & 8

oh and by the way ... f*** the gators :smokin :smokin
 
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Statis22 said:
KState didn't beat the breaks off Oklahoma but winning that game one the road will go a long way as long as OU continues to win.
It would also help Oregon if USC continues to win (minus playing them of course).
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we handed them the win....

k-state just plays SOLID football, very coached and don't turn it over, that kind of team is trouble for anyone
 
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may be going with this sign at the game on Saturday, should i be going.

The Pope may be Catholic but Jesus is a Sooner

and I'm Jewish too...
 
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Bigmike23 said:
i dont see how LSU wins at all
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Rivalry game, always is close between those squads, even with LSU being anemic on offense last year, they found a way to win in Tuscaloosa. Night games are always tricky in Tiger stadium.
 
Cant see how LSU's OL holds up against Bama... Too much mixing and matching with injuries to make me trust them... I also do not see how Mettenberger is going to be able to complete many passes against that secondary and LB corps...
 
I can't believe I thought Mettenberger would come in and make that LSU offense pretty good :smh:

I think Alabama is the best team, but you can really make a case for having Bama, Florida, Kansas State, or Oregon as your number 1 right now.
 
renegade34474 said:
i think Jay's right .. Bama, Oregon, and CK-State will all finish undefeated and pandemonium will ensue . (Louisville will also be unbeaten)
Chris Thompson..
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true seminole
We should be okay at RB , the fall-off aint too bad from 4 to 32 & 8
oh and by the way ... f*** the gators
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Don't think Louisville ends up undefeated, nor will it matter.
 
Louisville coach Charlie Strong a hot commodity, but QB Bridgewater believes he's staying put
Sporting News By Sporting News
on October 23, 2012 at 9:45 AM, updated October 23, 2012 at 9:55 AM
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This report is from Sporting News writer Steve Greenberg.

LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Two Decembers ago, on a recruiting visit to Louisville, five-star quarterback Teddy Bridgewater looked Charlie Strong in the eye and asked him the one question he’d brought with him from Miami.

“Are you going to be here in four years?”

Strong’s answer was one of the main things that brought Bridgewater to Louisville. The results have been dramatic: a third-year coach and a second-year quarterback who together are redefining Cardinals football.

Only now, specific rumors are flying—most notably, Strong to Arkansas. It’s the 52-year-old’s home state, by the way, and it’s all but a given John L. Smith won’t hang on to the job.

There surely will be other prominent openings—in the SEC alone, perhaps at both Auburn and Tennessee—and Strong’s name already is being attached to those, particularly on Twitter.

The coach has been very quiet on the subject of Arkansas, though he was asked by radio host Jim Rome three weeks ago how he’d feel about an opportunity there. Strong gave a firm answer about his commitment to Louisville and his players.

Since then, Strong told Sporting News here on Monday, he’s been concerned that players will begin to ask him that same question Bridgewater did in 2010.

“What I don’t want to happen is that all of the sudden there’s so much job talk that you’ve got Teddy sitting here, and all these other players I brought here, and they start saying, ‘Coach, are you leaving?’

“So far, they have not asked—not even said one word about it, actually. And it’s strange because a guy will usually say, ‘Hey, Coach, we saw this.’ ”

Bridgewater is aware of the rumors, but he hasn’t asked Strong about them because of what the coach told him on that recruiting visit.

“He said he’ll be here my whole four years,” Bridgewater said, “and so far he’s been true to his word. He hasn’t let me down thus far, and I still will continue to believe him that he will not take any job.”

Strong has been down this road of rumors before—during his years with Lou Holtz at South Carolina and, more intensely, throughout much of his eight years at Florida from 2002-09.

“Before I ever got a (head) job, everybody used to say, ‘Oh, he’s leaving, he’s leaving, he’s leaving,’ and then you don’t ever go anywhere,” Strong said. “Then you get a job, and now ‘he’s leaving, he’s leaving, he’s leaving.’

“Can I just do my job and enjoy my work?”
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Syracuse football has to be wary of frustrated Bulls
Nolan Weidner, The Post-Standard By Nolan Weidner, The Post-Standard
on October 23, 2012 at 2:00 AM, updated October 23, 2012 at 3:48 AM
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bj.jpg South Florida's B.J. Daniels scrambles to keep a play alive during the Bulls' 37-17 victory over Syracuse University last November in the Carrier Dome. Frank Ordoñez/The Post-Standard
Syracuse, NY – The Syracuse University Orange, coming off of a solid 40-10 victory over Connecticut, travels to Tampa, Fla., this week to take on a South Florida football team that has lost five straight.

The Bulls are 2-5 overall and 0-3 in the Big East, including last weekend’s 27-25 heart-breaker at Louisville on a last-minute touchdown. Saturday’s date with the Orange (3-4, 2-1 Big East) will be South Florida’s homecoming and the Bull’s first game this month on their home field at Tampa’s Raymond James Stadium.

That’s exactly what has Orange coach Doug Marrone worried about this game (7 p.m., ESPN3).

“They have the ability to have beaten every team they’ve played this year,” Marrone told reporters on the weekly Big East coaches’ conference call. “I know they want to get this ship righted and get back on track. And I’m sure they’re going to try and do it against us.”

The Bulls, picked to finish second in the Big East this season in a media vote, haven’t lived up to expectations so far this season.

The USF defense has held only two opponents (Chattanooga and Rutgers) below 25 points, and the Bulls are giving up an average of 389.7 yards per game of total offense.

Still, the USF offense has averaged nearly 400 yards of total offense (399.1) and features a fifth-year senior at quarterback in B.J. Daniels, who put on a show at the Carrier Dome last season – passing for 254 yards and running for 117 yards and a touchdown in a 37-17 thrashing of the Orange.

In fact, save for a 13-9 SU win at Tampa in the 2010 season, the Bulls have dominated its series against the Orange, winning six of seven.

“They’ve always beaten us pretty soundly,” Marrone said.

While the Bulls have dropped five straight, the Orange have seemingly been up one week and down the next. Marrone said SU, which played its best game of the season on Friday, must show consistency and continue to win the turnover battle at USF.

“We wound up getting a good win on Friday night,” he said. “Now we have to come back strong against a team that’s very talented, a team that’s had some tough breaks during the year.”

USF coach Skip Holtz said the Bulls will have to overcome the disappointment of losing at Louisville, a game that his team had come back in to take the lead in until Cardinals' quarterback Teddy Bridgewater tossed the winning TD pass with 1 minute, 35 seconds left to play.

“The game at Louisville was a great college football game,” Holtz said. “Unfortunately it was also a gut-wrenching loss for a team that has been so close in so many games. That one hurt.”

Holtz laid most of the blame for his team’s struggles on its pass defense.

“I don’t think our pass defense is what it needs to be, and we’re walking into a team that’s throwing for over 300 yards a game,” he said of the Orange and quarterback Ryan Nassib.

And it's not just the secondary, Holtz said. The Bulls front seven has done okay against the run, but the defensive line isn’t getting enough pressure on the quarterback, he said.

The late score surrendered by the Bulls at Louisville negated a big second half for Daniels, whose three TD passes brought USF back from 15 points down and into the lead with three minutes left to play.

“Well, he’s been here as long as I’ve been here,” Marrone, who's in his fourth year, said of Daniels. “He’s a very, very talented quarterback.

“The problem is that when you try to contain him it really opens up things for other players in their offense,” he said. “You’ve got to try to do the best job you can and contain him, not let him make the big plays … but that’s what he does. And when he’s making those types of plays it’s very hard to stop their offense.”

While the Orange defense held Daniels to 124 yards passing two years ago to earn its only win against USF, Marrone knows the losing streak and the Bulls' talent, is going to offer a test this week.

"He’ll be ready," Marrone said. "We’ll get the best of South Florida."
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Mamba MVP said:
Rivalry game, always is close between those squads, even with LSU being anemic on offense last year, they found a way to win in Tuscaloosa. Night games are always tricky in Tiger stadium.
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Moreover, the biggest reason LSU has a shot is because the Tigers will be coming off a bye week. Les Miles, after a bye week, is like Saban, nearly unbeatable. History shows home teams play extremely well after a bye week. LSU gets basically 10 or so days to prepare for Bama's vanilla offense. (not saying LSU offense isn't vanilla, too).
 
bama a 24-point favorite over miss state this weekend... yikes!

not to mention we're their homecoming game lol....
 
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