Delay Of Game

by PB @ BON on Sep 14, 2008 4:54 PM CDT in Football

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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Saturday's biggest loser?

Ohio State

230 votes

UCLA

112 votes

Arizona State

11 votes

Arizona

2 votes

Pac 10, composite

181 votes

536 votes | Poll has closed

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I'm making the call now

December 6, 2008
UCLA 31
USC 24

Perhaps the most recognizable mascot in sports, and certainly the toughest looking, Bevo is a fixture

by run Bevo run on Sep 14, 2008 6:04 PM CDT 0 recs

Based on......

I get it about rivalry games but come on. I won’t be a blow out but SC is going to win.

Conquest Chronicles

by Paragon SC on Sep 14, 2008 6:07 PM CDT up 0 recs

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.

Perhaps the most recognizable mascot in sports, and certainly the toughest looking, Bevo is a fixture

by run Bevo run on Sep 14, 2008 6:14 PM CDT up 0 recs

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.

I Am The 12th Man.com

by Beergut on Sep 14, 2008 9:11 PM CDT up 0 recs

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.

by Sweed4Heisman on Sep 14, 2008 10:47 PM CDT up 0 recs

Subtract Chow

and you have Wake Forest’s 2006 team. Admittedly, that team had good defense and special teams play.

by bamfor on Sep 14, 2008 11:42 PM CDT up 0 recs

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.

Conquest Chronicles

by Paragon SC on Sep 19, 2008 5:32 AM CDT up 0 recs

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.

proud to swim home

by learned hand on Sep 14, 2008 9:36 PM CDT up 0 recs

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.

by whills on Sep 14, 2008 10:19 PM CDT up 0 recs

you know me from the inside out

I don’t mean that in the kinky way either.

Perhaps the most recognizable mascot in sports, and certainly the toughest looking, Bevo is a fixture

by run Bevo run on Sep 14, 2008 10:30 PM CDT up 1 recs

the usc hate on this site is ridiculous

It’s hard to take anyone seriously who predicts that UCLA will beat USC.

by andy_wooster on Sep 14, 2008 7:07 PM CDT 0 recs

I win against you...

I laugh at your lack of gamesmanship.

Perhaps the most recognizable mascot in sports, and certainly the toughest looking, Bevo is a fixture

by run Bevo run on Sep 14, 2008 10:29 PM CDT up 0 recs

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.

by andy_wooster on Sep 14, 2008 7:22 PM CDT 0 recs

I laughed when I saw the final Auburn-Miss. St. score

It doesn't matter if you win or lose, as long as you come in first.

by Super Saiyan Patrick on Sep 14, 2008 7:48 PM CDT up 0 recs

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?

by Stuck in the Plains on Sep 15, 2008 2:10 PM CDT up 0 recs

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.

by andy_wooster on Sep 15, 2008 2:51 PM CDT up 0 recs

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.

The jerk store called and they are running out of you!!!! - George Costanza

by longhornboy on Sep 15, 2008 3:31 PM CDT up 0 recs

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.

proud to swim home

by learned hand on Sep 15, 2008 3:34 PM CDT up 0 recs

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.

I Am The 12th Man.com

by Beergut on Sep 14, 2008 8:00 PM CDT 2 recs

Miss. St.

Mississippi State should’ve gone for the suicide squeeze in the 9th inning when they had the chance.

I figured they would have pulled the goalie in the last 3 minutes of the 3rd period.

by afaeguy on Sep 14, 2008 8:02 PM CDT up 1 recs

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?

by vy til i die on Sep 14, 2008 8:13 PM CDT 0 recs

Yeah I'll work on that

Thanks

--PB--

by PB @ BON on Sep 15, 2008 12:55 AM CDT up 0 recs

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

by MJY6087 on Sep 14, 2008 10:32 PM CDT 0 recs