9/28 games

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

UCF dominated S. Carolina for three quarters and is on the verge of getting blown out. Weird game.

Northern Illinois went up 2-0 vs the Big Ten this season. Purdue is god awful.

[War Wagon]

Looking forward to OKA @ ND, best game of the day perhaps. I see a lot of folks picked this game and most took OU. I dunno why, I haven't seen much of them but what I have seen hasn't been impressive, so I took ND.

Because of that, the Irish probably get blown off their own field.

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

Speaking of pick'em, can't believe everyone didn't jump all over Texas A&M GETTING 3.5 points against Arkansas. I'm pretty sure A&M is supposed to be heavily favored in that game. That's about as big a freebie as you're ever going to get.

[The Seer]

Speaking of pick'em, can't believe everyone didn't jump all over Texas A&M GETTING 3.5 points against Arkansas. I'm pretty sure A&M is supposed to be heavily favored in that game. That's about as big a freebie as you're ever going to get.

Actually, more than 2/3 of participants took ATM......

[War Wagon]

...the Irish probably get blown off their own field.

of course, I can sure pick 'em.

[War Wagon]

Speaking of pick'em, can't believe everyone didn't jump all over Texas A&M GETTING 3.5 points against Arkansas. I'm pretty sure A&M is supposed to be heavily favored in that game. That's about as big a freebie as you're ever going to get.

Actually, more than 2/3 of participants took ATM......

he said "everyone"... which would include my dumbass.

[War Wagon]

LSU and Georgia in a shootout, maybe this is the best game of the day.

And no, I don't think my Tiggers can play with either of these teams but who knows after the cupcake "get me to a bowl, any bowl" non-con schedule Pinkel lined up.

[King Crimson]

Looking forward to OKA @ ND, best game of the day perhaps. I see a lot of folks picked this game and most took OU. I dunno why, I haven't seen much of them but what I have seen hasn't been impressive, so I took ND.

Because of that, the Irish probably get blown off their own field.

i don't know why OU was a road fave in this one. some kind of vegas reason i guess. ND has at least played BCS teams....

anyway, 14-7 Sooners without moving the ball much. ND announcers are classic sandbaggers plus arrogance formula.

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

ND moving to the ultra shiny helmets was a bad move. They just look kind of gaudy and over the top. Like your 50 year old Aunt who wears too much tacky gold jewelry.

[King Crimson]

ND moving to the ultra shiny helmets was a bad move. They just look kind of gaudy and over the top. Like your 50 year old Aunt who wears too much tacky gold jewelry.

minor concession to the general bullshit of today. they played in the national championship game the first year they did it.

Oklahoma won the national championship the year they went to some asshat bassboast candy chrome helmets and a thicker pant double stripe. 2000.

[Shoalzie]

Could've had a huge week (9 with the total dead on) but narrowly missed on Cal and Ohio State.

The A&M line stunk but I refused to think there was something to it. That's still the same Arkansas team that sucked the biggest sucked that ever sucked a suck last year. That ugly bastard that took over down there couldn't have turned them around that quickly.

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

Speaking of pick'em, can't believe everyone didn't jump all over Texas A&M GETTING 3.5 points against Arkansas. I'm pretty sure A&M is supposed to be heavily favored in that game. That's about as big a freebie as you're ever going to get.

Shhhhhhh. I think 88 likes to give us a gift or two each year. This was one of them.

Which is why I didn't mention it until after the deadline.

As if it really helped me much, I think I got 4 or 5 this week.

[Truman]

As if it really helped me much, I think I got 4 or 5 this week.

^^^

This. I thought Vegas was fucking with us until I saw the real line. Couldn't figure out what those shylocks saw in a 4 point loss last week to the Knights on the road that gave them the confidence to make the Hawgs a favorite at home this week against the Haggis.

[Screw_Michigan]

ND announcers are classic sandbaggers plus arrogance formula.

There are few things in sports more insufferable than listening to a ND game on NBC. ESPN and CBS try to keep up, but they just can't get their tounges flapping at such a high rate at Irish nutsacks like NBC, which I assume is to appease their high rate of fans who didn't graduate from ND.

[Mikey]

The Stanford coaches and team must have finally gotten tired of being criticized for letting up too soon and not winning big enough, because they completely brutalized Wazoo for pretty much the entire game last night. 55-17, it was 41-3 when they started letting up this time. The defense was outright nasty, knocking Halliday out of the game in the third quarter and almost doing the same to his backup in the next series. Two pick sixes,two sacks and a lot more hurries. Halliday threw for 184 yards (322 total for the team) but was held to a QBR of 23.7. It's easy to tee off on the QB when the offense is so one dimensional. Wazoo had fewer than 20 yards rushing before garbage time when the second string defense went in.

Offensively, Wazoo committed early to stopping the run, and that worked out well. Every time a Stanford sent receivers deep somebody was open. Receivers averaged 18.9 yards per catch and the score would have been even higher except for a couple of horribly thrown balls. Plus, they picked up 238 yards on the ground even though consensus All American guard David Yankey was back home on personal leave. And this was a team that supposedly had a much improved defense.

Added bonus...Barry Sanders finally go to touch the ball. He had 3 carries for 34 yards, including a 22 yard TD, and one 16 yard pass reception. The kid put on some moves that had everybody saying how much he looked like dad. The future of Stanford's running game is indeed bright.

Score for this game = A-. There's still some room for improvement - Hogan at times looks like a Sophomore QB with fewer than 10 starts under his belt. Not saying he's Andrew Luck but, in his first 10 starts he beats Luck statistically. Of course, he probably has a better team around him too.

BTW - At 55-17 it was as dominating a win (or more so) than Oregon's 55-16 dismantling of Kal.

Too bad you guys on the least coast had to miss this one.

[Goober McTuber]

Too bad you guys on the least coast had to miss this one.

Yes, because there's nothing more enjoyable than watching a blowout.

[Mikey]

Too bad you guys on the least coast had to miss this one.

Yes, because there's nothing more enjoyable than watching a blowout.

Exactly.

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

ND announcers are classic sandbaggers plus arrogance formula.

There are few things in sports more insufferable than listening to a ND game on NBC. ESPN and CBS try to keep up, but they just can't get their tounges flapping at such a high rate at Irish nutsacks like NBC, which I assume is to appease their high rate of fans who didn't graduate from ND.

I was satisfied they at least acknowledged all the bunk PI calls ND got during the MSU game.

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

The Stanford coaches and team must have finally gotten tired of being criticized for letting up too soon and not winning big enough, because they completely brutalized Wazoo for pretty much the entire game last night. 55-17, it was 41-3 when they started letting up this time. The defense was outright nasty, knocking Halliday out of the game in the third quarter and almost doing the same to his backup in the next series. Two pick sixes,two sacks and a lot more hurries. Halliday threw for 184 yards (322 total for the team) but was held to a QBR of 23.7. It's easy to tee off on the QB when the offense is so one dimensional. Wazoo had fewer than 20 yards rushing before garbage time when the second string defense went in.

Offensively, Wazoo committed early to stopping the run, and that worked out well. Every time a Stanford sent receivers deep somebody was open. Receivers averaged 18.9 yards per catch and the score would have been even higher except for a couple of horribly thrown balls. Plus, they picked up 238 yards on the ground even though consensus All American guard David Yankey was back home on personal leave. And this was a team that supposedly had a much improved defense.

Added bonus...Barry Sanders finally go to touch the ball. He had 3 carries for 34 yards, including a 22 yard TD, and one 16 yard pass reception. The kid put on some moves that had everybody saying how much he looked like dad. The future of Stanford's running game is indeed bright.

Score for this game = A-. There's still some room for improvement - Hogan at times looks like a Sophomore QB with fewer than 10 starts under his belt. Not saying he's Andrew Luck but, in his first 10 starts he beats Luck statistically. Of course, he probably has a better team around him too.

BTW - At 55-17 it was as dominating a win (or more so) than Oregon's 55-16 dismantling of Kal.

Too bad you guys on the least coast had to miss this one.

Easy to say after the fact, but Stanford -10 seemed like one of the "easier" picks this week. Just didn't see how Wash St was going to score on them. Even if Stanford didn't have a great day offensively, that still shoulda been a relatively easy cover. I was expecting more of a 24-7 kind of win.