Anyone else looking forward to college football? (Page 3)

"Boise State getting decimated by only real team it plays all year."

Came true earlier than usual this year.

Seems like we're going to be seeing a lot more offense, and a bit less defense now with the shift to an up-tempo offense by so many teams.  Looking around the Pac-12, I see Oregon, Arizona, ASU, UCLA, UW and Colorado all running an up-tempo spread.  I think WSU runs a similar spread under Leach, and maybe Cal is doing it now, too, with their new coach.  Pretty sure Stanford is sticking with a power running game, and I think SC is more traditional still, also.  I'm not sure about Riley and OSU, just saw they racked up lots of points but not enough to beat out a good lower tier program.  I saw Utah play some against Utah State, but I forget what they were doing on offense.

A lot of these games follow a similar pattern, where the up-tempo approach doesn't really turn into lots of points until the second half unless the competition is heavily outmatched.  Now that so many are doing it, and the defenses are practicing against an up-tempo offense in the off-season, maybe the higher scoring aspect will get tempered a bit.

Yeah, it's getting stupid.  In the Nebraska Wyoming game a Husker player was flagged for roughing the passer when he sacked the QB.  He made a clean sack with his helmet on the left side and his arm reaching across his body grabbing his right shoulder pad.  The announcers were saying the only thing they thought it could be was that his arm was too close to his neck.  /facepalm

On a side not, I'm not looking forward to the UCLA game as much as I was a few days ago.  lol

yeah practicing by learning to fake injuries on the field... ahem UGA...

Matt, I was a little surprised to see Vegas has Nebraska with 4.5 points this week over UCLA.
It has the potential to be a great game and will be a good test for both programs.

I haven't looked at all the other games yet, anybody else have a good match up this weekend?

Yeah, I put the game at about even as well.

I haven't gone to a game yet, but with the new expansion at Memorial Stadium this year it's seating 91k+ people and from what I've heard it's a lot louder than it was before.

lol at Johnny.  I just can't stand that guy's attitude.  He's a great athlete, but his mouth pretty much spoils the whole thing for me.

For some reason, it doesn't bother me that much to see Texas struggle.   ;-)

From first hand experience, I would recommend against hiring former Oakland Raiders coaches.  lol

I've never seen a QB put the ball down like that to end a play.  There was very little time (18 seconds at the start of the play) to leave the ball inbounds on a running play and center it with no timeouts available.  If they wanted to preserve the clock and make a field goal attempt, they should have spiked the ball and brought the FG team out.  I think the ASU player thought it was a live ball / fumble situation, and that's why he got on the ball.  Yeah, there was a whistle, but at the same time who just sets the ball on the field and backs away without taking a knee?