Syracuse

Decommitted from Cal

Minnesota Verbal

Maybe if he signs at USC tomorrow the Bucks can get him later in the portal. Has a player ever signed during the early signing period with one school and then transferred to another school when the portal was open for them in January?

Texas

Random mostly frivolous thoughts after finally getting to watch the entire game:
1. Carnell might have gotten away with a bit of a hold on Bo's long run in Q1. But also, someone needs to gif that girl throwing up the first down signal after that run. Bo's pass blocking has gotten good too, stonewalled a few blitzers throughout the game.
2. Sayin played a really nice game, but there are still some minor areas for improvement (duh, first year starter as a RS Fr). Think it was last week where if he stayed on a read a little longer he would have had Inniss for a TD; there was a play early in Q2 (completed pass to TE) where if he had stayed on one side of the read a little longer, he probably had Bo open for a long gain, potentially a TD. The gravity Jeremiah Smith has is insane, BTW, the safety abandoned his side of the field to track 4 and the LB also tracked him for a triple team instead of taking the leaking out RB.
3. Usually respect Klatt, but his posturing for the Jeremiah Smith TD/fumble and his justification of the DPI on Jermaine Mathews on the ensuing drive were a bit grating.
4. Credit to TUN, they schemed up some good runs in the first half. Even more credit to the D for adjusting to the runs. Also questionable decision to throw Jordan Marshall back out there.
5. Did anyone see the flop/picked up flag? Would love to see what happened there.
6. Would have loved to have seen Bo get a TD, but it seemed fitting that the 3 WR leaders (4, 17, 1) got TDs in The Game.
7. Might be the best Brutus ever with the X in the endzone and the Script Ohio.
Think I've said this before, but I was born in the 80s and I survived Coop. All I have wanted was to see the all-time H2H record swing in our favor in my lifetime. I doubted Coach Day last year, but he's made good and made a rather emphatic statement. He's not Urban, but let's hope he's able to rattle off at least another 7 in a row. Breathing huge sighs of relief now; everything is still ahead of us.

Bama

Vandy it is...

Flipping back to Auburn??

Jaxbuck said:

They are gonna run the picket fence on us.

No way to stop it.

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Gotdamn that Jimmy Chitwood is good

BYU

I dont think I've ever scored more than 50 pts in this game. Aint gonna cut it

Allegedly

ND with a solid home win over 8-0 Mizzou.

Today’s question: What was your biggest takeaway from The Game?​

Brett’s answer: Officiating in college football keeps getting worse
I know it’s probably crazy to be crying about the officiating after Ohio State beat Michigan. That should tell you just how bad it was on Saturday in Ann Arbor. I’m still flabbergasted at how Michigan defender Jaishawn Barham wasn’t ejected in the first quarter after appearing to headbutt an official. While I know college football has a system where two unsportsmanlike conduct penalties lead to an ejection, I would think that making contact with an official would supersede the two unsportsmanlike foul system they have in place. I’ve seen players in the NFL ejected for lighter contact made with an official than what Barham did on Saturday.
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Matt’s answer: Michigan Men are a bunch of bums...
From throwing shoulders in the tunnel to head-butting refs, from trying to provoke fights to embellishing meaningless contact, from protecting the M to disrupting OSU’s wireless communication, we got a healthy dose of what being a Michigan Man really means on Saturday.

From even before the game started, it was clear that the Wolverines realized that the only way they could possibly win was to attempt to provoke outrage from the Buckeyes and take them emotionally out of their game. We saw wide receiver Andrew Marsh throw a shoulder in the tunnel pregame to Ohio State tight end coach Keenan Bailey, and we saw linebacker Jaishawn Barham doing the same to multiple Buckeye players. Even before the game started, TTUN was proving that their pompous, holier-than-thou act is nothing but a bullshit facade to mask their massive inferiority complexes.

We saw it during the game when Barham decided it was a good idea to literally headbutt an official in the first quarter, and somehow, that official decided to err on not having an oversized impact on the game, and declined to eject him, despite the fact that every officiating expert in the country said he should have.

We saw a personal foul penalty waved off because a Michigan player flopped after extremely minor contact from a Buckeye, and we saw Corn and Blue players pushing and getting extra mouthy after practically every play, despite the fact that they were getting embarrassed on nearly every snap for three straight quarters.

Then, in the second half, mysteriously, the Ohio State wireless communication system stopped working. I’m sure that was just a coincidence, and no one associated with the Michigan program would ever do anything untoward involving technology during a football game. Fortunately, Ryan Day had “an inkling” that something could go wrong with the team’s comms while at the Big House, so they prepared backup hand signals and wristband calls, just in case.

Then there was their faux display of machismo after the game, where they stood at the center of the field to defend their M, just in case OSU players wanted to plant a flag, as they did at The Horseshoe last year. I know it’s been said a lot, but they spent more effort defending midfield after the game than they did defending their end zone the whole game.

I find it absolutely comical that the players likely had a conversation before the game about what they would do if they lost. They assumed that everyone was as big of dicks as they were, so they spent time planning what they would do if/when the Buckeyes won the game. Just absolutely dimwit, douchebag behavior.

Fortunately for all involved, Day had been preaching to his team to win with humility — a hallmark of his program over the past year — and he reinforced it after the game by imploring Sherrone Moore to do the right thing and get his players off the field before the situation escalated into something more than it already was.

Ohio State and its players are far from perfect, but I thank Woody above every day that I wasn’t born into Michigan fandom. Hail to those, well, you know the rest………..

Jaxbuck said:

I like #7 throwing the half interested shoulder.

Very telling.

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By that time, their offense and coaching staff had already quit. They were in “limit the point spread” mode. Hard for the defense to give a shit.

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DZ83CK said:

I dont believe the idea that you lost to a good team has any merit. The point is you lost. The overall number of losses matters, but who they happened to (i.e., quality of opponent) doesn't really make much difference IMO. A team has to stand on their merits, that's who you beat, not who you lost to.

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When losses happen definitely matters IMO. And that's exactly why Miami is behind ND. You can't lose to unranked teams later in the season and expect not to get dinged for it. I'm not on the "good loss" bs train but BAD losses definitely should have a big effect. Louisville and SMU are very very mediocre football teams.

I don't think ND or Miami win more than the opening round game if even that if they get in so in the grand scheme this argument probably doesn't matter much.