Pfft. That turned to #### in a hurry.

That kind of thing is exactly the reason why Franklin has a hard time getting respect. In his heart, he's always still coaching at Vandy, just trying to stay competitive against the bigger teams.

i don't know how anyone could watch that game and think the problem was anything other than...well, marvin harrison jr...but also: sean clifford turning the ball over 4 times on his own side of the field.

Am I the only one who was a little surprised Vince Dooley was still alive until this week? Certainly I can't be the only one surprised that he was only 90 ... he retired from coaching a lot earlier than I thought, he was still in his mid-50s.

And yet, they were in the game until Franklin waved the white flag with that FG.

i don't think that's an unreasonable plan.

You are truly addled if you thought PSU was likely to get a defensive stop by that point of the game.

That's because you're just making up numbers and you lack the fundamental understanding that kicking the FG was useless without the defensive stop, which was never going to happen, especially since OSU only needed a FG to basically end it.

FWIW:

PSU's win probability went up after franklin chose to kick the FG

fine, tell me how penn state could possibly win the game from that point if they can't stop tosu's offense?

From 91.0% OSU to 87.3%, according to ESPN.

Not good enough.

Well, they can't. But driving for a TD gives them at least a little margin for error.

Hotel in the middle of the city. It was a Rick Steves tour, so they handled that part of it. There was a metro station a block or two away, which makes it very easy to get around the city -- once you figure out the metro system you can get basically anywhere in Paris without too much stress.

if it was a bad decision, the win probability would go down. the decision he made gave penn state a better chance to win the game. how in the #### can someone turn that into a bad thing????

then why the #### are you shitting on james franklin??????

if it was a bad decision, the win probability would go down.

But driving for a TD gives them at least a little margin for error.

Yes. The "three scenarios" did not include "Score a touchdown and still have the chance to win with a second touchdown if you manage to hold Ohio State to a field goal."

That's the second drive of the game where Napier clearly intended to go for it on fourth down, only to have an uncreative third and long run get stopped for no gain, putting them into fourth and long and defaulting to a field goal.

You know, if they had the "receiver left uncovered 30 yards down the field" play in their bag this whole time they might have called it a little sooner.

                              Week 10             Week 11                 Week 12              Week 13

 1 Tennessee                  @ Georgia           Missouri                @ South Carolina     @ Vanderbilt
 2 Ohio State                 @ Northwestern      Indiana                 @ Maryland           Michigan
 3 Georgia                    Tennessee           @ Mississippi State     @ Kentucky           Georgia Tech
 4 Clemson                    @ Notre Dame        Louisville              Miami (FL)           South Carolina
 5 Michigan                   @ Rutgers           Nebraska                Illinois             @ Ohio State
 6 Alabama                    @ LSU               @ Mississippi           Austin Peay          Auburn
 7 TCU                        Texas Tech          @ Texas                 @ Baylor             Iowa State
 8 Oregon                     @ Colorado          Washington              Utah                 @ Oregon State
 9 USC                        California          Colorado                @ UCLA               Notre Dame
10 LSU                        Alabama             @ Arkansas              UAB                  @ Texas A&M
11 Mississippi                --                  Alabama                 @ Arkansas           Mississippi State
12 UCLA                       @ Arizona State     Arizona                 USC                  @ California
13 Kansas State               Texas               @ Baylor                @ West Virginia      Kansas
14 Utah                       Arizona             Stanford                @ Oregon             @ Colorado
15 Penn State                 @ Indiana           Maryland                @ Rutgers            Michigan State
16 Illinois                   Michigan State      Purdue                  @ Michigan           @ Northwestern
17 North Carolina             @ Virginia          @ Wake Forest           Georgia Tech         NC State
18 Oklahoma State             @ Kansas            Iowa State              @ Oklahoma           West Virginia
19 Tulane                     @ Tulsa             Central Florida         SMU                  @ Cincinnati
20 Syracuse                   @ Pittsburgh        Florida State           @ Wake Forest        @ Boston College syr
21 Wake Forest                @ NC State          North Carolina          Syracuse             @ Duke
22 NC State                   Wake Forest         Boston College          @ Louisville         @ North Carolina
23 Oregon State               @ Washington        California              @ Arizona State      Oregon
24 Texas                      @ Kansas State      TCU                     @ Kansas             Baylor
25 Central Florida            @ Memphis           @ Tulane                Navy                 @ South Florida

one of these things is not like the others....

Feels like a first-to-50 kind of game.

I don't object to Northwestern going for fourth down in its own territory, but I do object to trying to Manball it up the middle on consecutive plays.

Northwestern has 40 yards passing with multiple sacks on "Don't see anybody open on a sprintout and eat the ball rather than throwing it away" plays. It's verging on a service academy's lack of a passing threat.