All props to Rosen and the comeback of the ages, etc. But seriously, where were they for the first 3 quarters? Maybe they wouldn’t have needed a miracle if they had played even a fraction as good in the earlier part of the game? Just sayin’
UCLA has an all new offensive coaching staff. It took time to break em in. And Mora hasn’t recruited well on the OL since Klemm left.
Wasn’t able to catch the game, but from what I read, my alma mater LSU looked very good against BYU.
They did. And new coach Ed Orgeron was very good. He is lucky to be alive after all the knives USC put in his back after saving their bacon.
I’m counting it as two wins, because we won once when the clock ran out, and then after they added another second, we won again when that ran out. 
Saw that game. Nice win for Cal on the road. The Pac 12 is very deep this year.
I checked Google after I woke up to see how badly A&M laid it on UCLA. :eek: I know Sumlin has a large contract buy out, but if things get bad enough, that will not matter at all. There are just some games that coaches don’t ever recover from, and I have a feeling that this will be one of those for Sumlin. It reminds me of Denny Green the year after losing 38-0 (41-0?) to the Giants in the NFC Championship game in 2000 or so. Or like Grady Little managing the Red Sox in their collapse against the Yankees. Some losses are just so bad that either you get fired on the spot or it’s inevitable at some point. And I say this as someone who likes Sumlin and think he’s a good coach in a lot of ways.
I miss PAC 12 football. I grew up in SEC country and the other major conferences get more exposure in the Gulf States as well, but living out West for 7 years I had a chance to take in some games that normally play late elsewhere. Lots of good rivalries that you don’t hear much about.
USC’s long snapper is blind.
Does Nevada law actually allow bookies to do lines on in-state schools?
USC had a long-snapper who was invited by the team to snap a football as the guy was a big USC fan who spent his last day of sight (when he was 12, before an operation to remove his eye) watching the team practice. He then spent years practicing how to long snap while blind and asked if he could do this. USC said “yes”, and the USC coach had an arrangement with the other teams coach to not rush the snapper on that play.
Their regular long snapper can see just fine.
Tennessee over Georgia Tech. Double overtime.
An exciting end to an exciting opening weekend to College Football.
(It helps to be a Vols fan)
Klemm left this year, three weeks before signing day. The OL recruits from this cycle shouldn’t matter.
The real problem is that UCLA under Mora has done a great job of recruiting and a really crummy job of actually developing a lot of those guys. Klemm seemed like a guy who could talk the recruits into committing (probably helped that he committed violations while doing so!) but couldn’t actually coach that well.
I’m as big a fan of a “feel-good” story as the next guy, but I really can’t get behind this kind of dramatic theater. Let the guy dress out, put him in the half-time program, but this kind of shit should never happen during regulation play. I really hope that was the one and only time I see this guy on the field.
As for that second question, I should know the answer, but don’t. I don’t *think *you can bet on UNR or UNLV.
That used to be the law in Nevada, but it changed in early 2001.
I am pretty sure the change had something to do with being able to bet on UNLV basketball, especially in regards to the NCAA tournament. At first, the law was that you could not bet on who would win the NCAA men’s basketball tournament as long as either UNLV or Nevada-Reno were in it, which was Not A Good Thing when UNLV made it to the championship game; later, it was changed so you could bet on “which non-Nevada team would finish highest” (i.e. who would win, or, if UNLV won, who they would beat in the final), and now, they let you bet on the Nevada teams.
I can’t answer the question about betting on Nevada schools in Nevada casinos, but as far as the Howard-UNLV betting line goes: that was from offshore betting sites. The sports books in Vegas aren’t typically going to put a line on an FCS-FBS game, or a game between Howard and a Mountain West team. So that “record” upset versus the spread is based on a spread that wasn’t set in Vegas.
It’s quite odd to see the University of Miami traveling to Arkansas State for a game. Usually the tiny schools travel to the big school to get slaughtered and collect a massive paycheck which keeps the athletic department afloat. I’ve never even heard of Arkansas State
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Preface: I KNOW that lives are more important than football. I KNOW this is a serious storm. I KNOW that all resources need to be dedicated to the storm. It was the right decision to cancel the game
Getting to the football aspect of the cancelled FSU game, this sucks for them. They really needed this game to right the ship after that embarrassing slop fest last week. Miami is the next game on the schedule and I have no idea what to expect. Miami cancelled their away game at Arkansas State, so at least both teams will be equally ill prepared. Still, I always like to see a good game between FSU and Miami and I’m not sure we will get one next week.
I’m not sure you will get a FSU-Miami game at all next week.
Word is that Miami has already notified their players that the game might be moved, and is in the planning stages of moving it to 10/07, if necessary. This would leave Miami sort of screwed in their following game, which is currently scheduled for the next Thursday night against Georgia Tech. I haven’t heard if they have asked Georgia Tech or (more importantly) the mouse about moving that one to Saturday.
Iowa State hosts Iowa tomorrow. I have no delusions that the Cyclones are going to win, though there’s always the faint spark of hope.
That hasn’t stopped me from agreeing to some dumb shit around the office. If State wins, THIS guy is going to be almost as happy on Monday as he will be tomorrow.
That looks like the best of the early games, so I’m watching it. You’re an Iowa fan, I assume.