SC - Stanford

[Mikey]

Stanford takes a 3 point lead going into halftime. I'm amazed considering how easily SC has scored.
Hogan has looked great so far and the play calling has actually been good.

[Mikey]

13 - 17, 221 yds, 2 TD, 0 int
3 rushes for 23

Somebody gave Hogan an Andrew Luck injection.

[Mikey]

Stanford football is back!!

SC can eat it. No NC. No pac championship. No Heisman.

[Mikey]

Actually Kessler played a really good game. The team made some crucial mistakes; and Stanford played their game plan to perfection. Almost 40 min possession keeping an undermanned defense off the field.

[Dinsdale]

Kessler is really good. USC's problem is shitty coaching.

[Atomic Punk]

USC came out flat... like the Earth.

- Poptart

[Mikey]

Gotta thank the Ducks for not covering, BTW. If BYU and Utah cover I'll be 10-0 today. Got lucky with Texas and Nebraska.

[Atomic Punk]

Fuck Cal and The U. Trust me, Utah will cover. Fresno doesn't have Derek Carr and his NFL receivers anymore. Plus they are starting a true freshman at QB tonight. Now that I said it, Utah won't cover. :)

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

My biggest takeaway from this game was...



...MAN, how good is Northwestern?!?

[Mikey]

My hope is that NW will finish the regular season unbeaten, setting up a rematch with Stanford (after running the PAC 12 schedule) in the championship game.

Well...one can always hope, at least until Nov 14 when Oregon comes to town.

As far as I'm concerned, the main priorities, in order, are:

1. Beat Cal
2. Beat SC
3. Win the PAC 12

Anything else is gravy.

[Left Seater]

My biggest takeaway from this game was...



...MAN, how good is Northwestern?!?

My takeaway from the Northwestern vs Duke game was...

...how in the hell did Northwestern beat Stanford?

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

With this thing called "defense." Northwestern has allowed just one TD on the season so far.

[Mikey]

Obviously I can't prove it, but it seems like the Stanford offense was holding something back during the OOC games.

Either they weren't ready to show their offense or they wanted an element of surprise opening the conference schedule against SC. The Northwestern game was so reminiscent of the first eight games last year I was ready to dump both Shaw and Bloomgren. Totally unimaginative and predictable play-calling. They have some real speed at WR and a lot of talent at TE but almost never attempted to throw downfield. Punted on 4th and 5 from the NW 37 when down by 10 in the third quarter. They really opened things up (at least compared to the NW game) against SC. Yes they played at a slow pace, intentionally milking the clock to keep the defense off the field, but did take some shots and used some creative play calling.

One example:
I'm sure the SC defense had seen film multiple times of freshman Bryce Love burning UCF for a 93 yard TD on a WR screen. I'm also sure they were determined that would not happen to them. So when Love, who averages maybe four plays per game, came in you know they were ready for it. Only this time they faked it to Love and threw to the opposite side to McCaffrey, who was pretty much ignored and went for 15 yards or so. It was such an obvious deke, I had to laugh.

Of course, maybe the Northwestern defense is just a lot better than USC's.

[Left Seater]

They should have been hitting Hogan in that ankle on every play possible til he couldnt get up

Prolly because they understand that hitting the QB low is a foul. 15 yards per snap is difficult to overcome.

[Left Seater]

You don't understand the rules, which is no surprise.

If he were running outside of the pocket then you can tackle him low. If he is in the pocket you can't.

[buckeye_in_sc]

So you wanted him to SWEEP THE LEG?

Ok Kreese glad you are posting here...I am sure Johnny will be along any minute now...COBRA KAI!!

[Left Seater]

The play that he was hurt on wasnt a shot at his ankle, he just got it caught up under the guy tackling him. They should have smelt blood in th ewater and blitzed him up the middle so he had to cut on that bad ankle and they should have hit him on every play. Thats just smart football,something Wilcox knows nothing about

The thing is though if roles were reversed and Stanford was going after an SC player with an injury you would be all up in arms and calling for retaliation against said player(s). You would call the Stanford coach gutless and question his leadership.

Face it, you have two sets of rules.

[Killian]

Of course he does. He's the same guy that still bitches about Desmond Reed tearing up his knee against ND in 2005 and thought that the school and/or reed should consider litigation against ND for unsafe playing conditions.

He also neglects to mention that starting DE for ND Chris Frome also tore his knee up that game.

[Left Seater]

The hit in Cincy v Memphis game was just football too huh?

[Killian]

Of course he does. He's the same guy that still bitches about Desmond Reed tearing up his knee against ND in 2005 and thought that the school and/or reed should consider litigation against ND for unsafe playing conditions.

He also neglects to mention that starting DE for ND Chris Frome also tore his knee up that game.

Chris Frome should also sue the school then. Cheesesteak Charlie grew that grass out to ridiculous lengths for that game, Reeds injury was non contact and he was never the same after getting his cleat caught up in the grass.

Ridiculous lengths.



Ridiculous lengths.



Ridiculous lengths.

As per usual, you're wrong and a fucking idiot. I guess Reed and Frome were just two more California pussy's.

[Left Seater]

Care to link us up to the complaint SC filed with the NCAA prior to that game?

Further if the grass was dangerously long, shouldn't SC player be suing SC as well? They shouldn't have subjected their players to such a dangerous situation.

[Bucmonkey]

Schmuck is bitching about grass length now ?

[Killian]

Schmuck is bitching about grass length now ?

Has been for 10 years.