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If Geno Smith is the best QB in the country, I wouldn't touch a QB in the first round with a ten foot pole.
All credit goes to West Virginia though, they made the stops when they had to. And that poor snap by Espinosa was absolutely killer.
I don't think so. Take three shots, end zone only, and then kick. You have a much better chance getting a TD here than off an onside kick.
I don't think Ash can throw the ball that far.
Spivey, it was a pleasure chatting with you tonight. Good luck the rest of the season. You got a tough ####### team there.
Andrew Buie is a hero and Dana Holgorsen is an awesome ####### head coach. I'm feeling pretty damn good right now. Hokie, I hope you aren't posting because you are celebrating somewhere.
I wish I could have participated in the game thread.
Now the bad news, just found out cueto left after 8 pitches. #### fuck #### fuck
Totally, those ends are exactly the kind of force that is going to give Jones happy feet. And that offense will take it to them.
edit: skill players that they've had. Broyles, RBs, etc.
That was seriously gangster. The line has improved so much over the last year and Buie started playing at a different speed on that drive. Just awesome to watch.
The defense allowed 3.5 yards per rush against a deep, talented and physical Texas backfield. Maybe people will recognize their ability to hang on the run now.
That safety, V-something, Vacarro? maybe, he looked pretty good. And your ends brought a good amount of pressure on three man rushes, took the ball away twice and scored a TD.
It's going to be hard for that to happen, but Florida might be able to do it. After tonight, their two toughest ACC games are, I don't know, Duke and Miami (who is getting rocked)? VA Tech is a joke of a team, as is BC. Maybe MD is better than Duke. Maybe.
Yeah, not having Brown was a big blow. That was why I was asking about Ash last week. I figured without Brown, WVU had a real shot of making some stops here and there.
I think Texas basically didn't show up in the 4th quarter.
I think that missed field goal killed them. That must have been seriously deflating. They basically won the game and then the offense went and put them back on the field immediately after blowing free points.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbSaXAEoYvQ
OU v UT '84
checks: ok, last week at Wazzu, then two weeks in Tempe and later at USC and close the year at Reser. Oregon has 3 real games left.
I'll assume this was about WVU...
To me, that's been an unexpected surprise with Holgerson. Yes we all knew he was an offensive genius, and WVU was going top up serious yards/points. Holgerson understands the value of a possession more than any other HC I've significantly watched in my 2+ decades of watching football. WVU punted 1 time, tried 3 FG, and went for it on 4th down at least 5 times. That's a nice distribution, and not uncommon for Holgerson.
BTW, My FB and texts have been blowing up the last hour or so. For all the success WVU has had over the last 10-20 years on the national stage, there still seems to be a chip on the collective shoulder of the fan base. I've seen posts like "OMG, I can't believe we beat Texas in Austin", from people who never talk about any games. Apparently this game was/is bigger than I gave it credit for.
Surprised by the South Carolina beat down on Georgia. Surprised by South Carolina in general, not a Connor Shaw fan but they are playing well and now they get a LSU team that has looked like crap the last 3 weeks...
I love everything about Holgerson. During the broadcast, they were talking about how he's just not intimidated by anything and that's absolutely right. But that's not it. His 4th down calls were amazing. IIRC, he also had a ballsy 4th down call in the USF game last year that got them into the Orange Bowl.
BTW, My FB and texts have been blowing up the last hour or so. For all the success WVU has had over the last 10-20 years on the national stage, there still seems to be a chip on the collective shoulder of the fan base. I've seen posts like "OMG, I can't believe we beat Texas in Austin", from people who never talk about any games. Apparently this game was/is bigger than I gave it credit for.
People still remember that ####### game in Colorado, a team that blew a big lead away against a mediocre Auburn team, and a team, that when they had a chance at LSU, called three run plays and punted on 4th and 8. Clemson was like 15th in the nation and they quit in second half. This was a complete game, tight win against ####### Texas! And they did it running the ball and stopping Texas on defense in big time spots. IMO, This is the biggest win since the Fiesta Bowl. I mean, Texas may go on to win 8 games, but I don't think that's likely. And it was in Austin. And it's with an extremely promising coach who has only been here for a year and a half and is unlikely to leave any time soon. With the Heisman frontrunner! This is just a whole new experience for me as a WVU fan and I would imagine it's a pretty big perception changer around the nation.
This is going to do wonders for recruiting too.
I figured FSU would lose somewhere along the line - Manuel is too inconsistent - but there is no way they should have lost this one. I'm just...stunned.
QFT
I'm calling a GTech win.
Oops. For $10 I promise to not predict a victory for your favorite team this week.
I know they are just a blog type site but collegefootballnews.com has Florida at #2 in their rankings and call their 3 victories (at Texas A&M, at Tennessee, and LSU) the best resume in the country. Of course they also still think the Georgia Bulldogs have a good defense...
Florida still has SCe, Georgia, and FSU left. We will know if they are that good by the end of the season.
I don't understand why anyone gives a #### about the AP poll. It's completely irrelevant.
Tradition? Or because they pay more attention than the Coaches poll and have more defensible rankings and that makes people care a bit more?
Funsies, I guess. I doubt ND, Oregon State or Ohio State will make it to the end of the season ranked in the top 10, but who knows.
Sagarin has A&M and LSU both in the top ten of his CPU rankings. ND has a collection of wins against good teams but nothing on that level.
--defensive line and linebackers pretty solid but the secondary is awful
--with a mediocre to poor offensive line number 20 needs to carry the ball more since he can jitter/juke to a gain that ball wouldn't get
--the receivers are really green and it shows as they regularly ran 4 yard routes on 3rd and 5
--jj watt's little brother is a truck
--groy has terrible footwork so if he is starting at guard the guys behind him must be horrible
--the whole atmosphere was tense.
--the defense tackled well
--coverage teams did a good job
On ESPN.com, in Gene Wojciechowski's weekly Pat Forde rip off column, he's had Florida in the top 5 for 3 weeks now, citing the road wins at A&M and Tennessee.
I guess it depends on how good you think the middle of the pack SEC teams are.
The not as small of a sample size of the rest of his coaching career in college suggests otherwise, particularly his tenure at Duke. Duke's a hard place to have any kind of success but his offenses were especially inept. And right now he's coaching with most of last year's team. The real test will be two, three years from now when the scholarship reductions and his own recruiting comes to the forefront.
Duke has a real (if long) shot to play in the ACC championship game this year. Miami is probably the best ream in the division, but they're not all that good and could easily lose to UNC or Va Tech. Duke ends with Miami at home and I think that the head to head matchup determines who goes on to the championship game in case of a tie (UNC is ineligible, and I think the division's #2 would go through if Carolina won the division). A Duke upset of Clemson or FSU in the league championship game followed by an Orange Bowl annihilation at the hands of the worst at large team would be the most fitting possible outcome of the 2012 ACC season.
Just being bowl eligible would be a crowning achievement for that program.
And you don't have to play WVU this year!
3 BE teams in the top 25.
Ah, Utah 35 Pitt 7 Fiesta Bowl all over again, this time with the other team I support.
Mother of all trap games this week for the Mountaineers. After an important and emotional game Saturday night against a top 10 team, WVU has to travel back to Texas to take on a wounded Tech team. Then the following week WVU comes home to play a night game against another top 10 team.
I went to grad school in Columbia, so have some suggestions:
Visit the Museum of Art and Archaeology on the MU campus. A small museum, but a real gem. (Yes, I studied art history there, so what?)
Across the street from the Museum is the Heidelberg, a campus hangout for many years, recently rebuilt after a fire. Up 9th Street is Shakespeare's Pizza, which I rank as tied for the best pizza in the country. [Hint: if it's overrun with tailgaters and you still want to try it, you can make the drive out west on Broadway to the other store, which serves exactly the same pies. That can get crowded too, but doesn't get the game day crowd).
Visit Booches, if you're not with family. Have a burger. If you are looking for a bit more class, good brew places are Flat Branch (good microbrews, but also likely to be crowded) and Boone Tavern.
I've been away for a number of years, so some of this might be out of date. Let me know if you're looking for something specific, though, and I'll do my best.
Yeah, no kidding. The travel is going to wear on the guys and Tech is just good enough to sneak up on them. I'm not sure what kind of defense Tuberville runs, but I expect them to blitz the snot out of Geno and crew.
I won't get to see the game, which is when the horrible upsets tend to happen, so I am nervous. I hope Buie's break out throws a wrench in Tuberville's game plan. I have faith in Geno, but I don't know what the defense will do against a team that only throws the ball. Probably not anything good. And lord knows that any time this team gets the kind of accolades they have been getting, they tend to get sluggish. Hopefully Holgersen can break that routine.
I am going to have a friend keep me posted frequently, but I am extremely nervous about this weekend. If they do win, Gameday might come to Morgantown for the K-State game, which would be pretty darn cool.
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