Watching Northwestern vs Western Michigan as a nightcap, Northwestern looks good beating up on W. Michigan, 24-10
Well, they are 28 point favorites… I can’t watch the game, but from what I’m seeing on the live updates, it seems like they’re being a bit sloppy.
Ole Miss beat Texas on the road. That ought to move them up in the polls a bit.
Can someone explain to me what happened at the end of the Wisconsin Arizona state game. I cannot watch and I am reading Facebook comments it seems something strange happened.
Wisconsin had the ball around the 10 or 15, had no timeouts, tried one last play before trying a field goal. Quarterback snapped the ball and then set it down on the ground but didn’t down his knee.
Arizona jumped on the ball thinking it was still live, officials eventually (a few seconds) gave the ball to Wisconsin to hike but time had run out.
After looking at a replay, it looks like his knee did touch the ground.
Ole Miss, By Damn!
This is my dark horse pick for SEC West. It’ll take the best game they have in them (and some luck/bad play by 'Bama), but if they beat the Tide. Not to mention the schedule - at Alabama, at Auburn, v Texas A&M, v LSU - in four straight weeks. Get through that 4-0 and you are a FOOTBALL team.
Could be a lot of fun! Looks like it’s Georgia/Florida for the SEC East (unless SC beats Florida and just fucks everything up).
ACC Atlantic is coming down to the winner of the FSU/Clemson game unless one of them does something stupid (which is certainly not out of the realm of possibility).
ACC Coastal - Dunno, your guess is as good as mine. If you put a gun to my head, I’d pick The U, but GT might be good enough to win it.
So, the QB took a knee? Wouldn’t that keep the clock going?
What I don’t understand is what he was trying to do. If he kneels, the clock doesn’t stop and he’s only got 10 seconds to get to the line, snap the ball, spike it and call out the FG unit. Seems like a lot to get done just to move off the hash on a sub-20 yd field goal. Poor coaching there.
The Spartan QB controversy appears to be over and now offense and defense are clicking on all cylinders and ready to take it to ND this weekend.
Whoa, Michigan. They nearly got unzipped yesterday. If Akron hadn’t missed two short FGs and choked twice in the red zone, the Wolverines would have served up a second helping of Appalachian State.
Didn’t watch Alabama. There were Big Ten games on at the same time.
Yep poor execution. Even though his knee did touch, and even though you don’t technically need to touch your knee to the ground, when I was watching live I wondered what the hell he was doing by just setting the ball on the ground.
At least one official knew what was going on because I heard the whistle blow to end the play, but if I was AzSt, I would have jumped on the ball also, looked to be live.
One thing I didn’t understand but now I do is why the official held his hand up and wouldn’t let Wisconsin start the spike play right away - there is a new 3 second rule in college for spiking the ball at the end of the half - if there are only 2 seconds left then you aren’t allowed to spike it and get off another play.
Ignore my point about the new rule, still doesn’t explain why the official was holding up Wisconsin at the end.
Go 'Noles!
Not much of a challenge this week and prolly not much of one next week with Bethune-Cookman, but I think 3 games (and 4 weeks) of warm up before conference play is smart scheduling.
BTW, so far, in points, FSU is ahead 103-20 (after just 2 games!).
There are few times where I am willing to blame the officials for a loss, but this is clearly one of them. The QB kneed the ball with 15 seconds left. The ref didn’t get the ball spotted until 5 seconds, and then stopped Wisconsin from lining up and snapping the ball.
Why would he kneel?
Apology accepted…thank you.
I blame it on Tebow.
The idea was to move the ball off the right hash to the center to make the field goal they wanted to set up easier. It’s not an uncommon tactic, especially in the college game where the hashes are wider than the pros.
None that were anything like as significant or exciting, though.
The ball was snapped with 18 seconds left. Eighteen seconds should be plenty of time to take three steps to the center of the field, down the ball, and line up and spike.
Having said that, I’m puzzled by the lack of urgency that Wisconsin displayed after Arizona State dove on the ball. I would expect the linemen to be lining up and the center to have been hovering over the downed ball, trying to get ready to snap, which might well have motivated the officials to stop the clock and order ASU to get out of the way. Instead they just stood there watching, like they had all the time in the world.
I think the question is “Why kneel?”* Why not spike the ball to stop the clock?
- From the video that I saw online it looked more like he set the football down without taking a knee, but I’m willing to defer to people who have watched many different angles.
To BobLibDem: You were one of the (relatively) few: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/alabama-m-best-cbs-afternoon-164448530--ncaaf.html