The Ole Miss offense must not be all that good. Florida was within a dropped pass in the endzone of scoring 34 points and beating LSU only three weeks ago and Florida is almost certainly one of the bottom 5 offenses in the country. Ole Miss looks to be out of playoff contention to me.
I don't understand why Hoke is still playing Devin Gardner at QB? He's terrible, good kid, but he's not accurate, throws picks, etc. Why have they not benched him for Shane Morris? Is Morris still sidelined with a head injury?
Watching Gardner and Michigan struggle on offense was painful to a Gator fan..... because they looked like a mirror image of UF and Driskel. I have seen enough of that crap this season and yet had to watch it all over again yesterday. :roll: Speaking of Michigan..... I wonder how much money they might throw at Les Miles to come home to roost: "The last came in the final minute of play, a dagger in the hearts of the Spartans' rival that prompted complaints of running up the score by Michigan fans, according to Dan Wetzel of Yahoo Sports: "Michigan fans upset that State didn't show mercy and take a knee may be the program's lowest moment," Wetzel tweeted." Michigan right now does mirror Florida..... both programs at a very very low point in need of a coaching change.
1. Dantonio said post game that they went for that last TD because of the incident before the game where UM put a spike or something in the MSU turf. 2. Don't kid yourself coaches are going to run up the score if they can to impress the committee. I have no doubt Dantonio felt that he had to score at least as many points against UM as Notre Dame did and that was the real reason.
I recall thinking - and maybe saying - several years ago that success and failure both were cyclical for established college programs. Although I have no allegiance to Michigan or Florida, I have friends here (Yes, Dave, that includes you) who are going through what we NDers went through for too many years. In both cases, I'm confident that they will come back. They'll find a coach - maybe the next one, maybe the one after the next one - who will return them to prominence. They're out there somewhere, whoever they may be.
Sid, I agree. I don't know why, but there are a few programs that rise back to the top levels repeatedly. If you look back to say WWII the same names keep rising back to the top of the polls. I'm not sure what the reason is but it seems that Ohio State, Notre Dame, Alabama, Oklahoma, USC, Mich St., Mich, and a few others were there in the 40's and 50's, and they are still there. It actually goes back farther than that, but the polls before that vary more. Anyway, what that means is look out for Michigan, they will be back. :wink:
Since TOK is having too much fun trolling my dumb **** stake planting, dumpster-fire Wolvies, might as well let him join the misery loves company section of the SB.
Re "Stakegate", I am surprised the Michigan player was able to smuggle a sharp metal object past Spartan security. If he tried to pull that crap in Columbus, the vaunted Buckeye security canine corp would have turned his ass into a maize and blue chew toy:
LOL...My Longhorns are in tough shape. I thought we might at least give KState a battle, but our offense didn't even get 200 yards and our defense just gave out from lack of support. Besides....like they say at Chik-fil-A....Eat mor Chikin!! I could see the Longhorns losing out, ok maybe we win 1...but it looks pretty bleak right now.
B1G explains officiating errors in OSU/PSU game. http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/writer/jon-solomon/24770134/big-ten-explains-officiating-mistake-in-ohio-state-penn-state-game
What a bag of errors and officiating. Definitely in our favor this time. I questioned in my mind what I thought I saw on ABC TV? The ball definitely hit the ground first on the interception call.
I think it's important for the integrity of the game that the officials no longer be affiliated with the conference. I'm not saying that's what happened here, so please don't take it that way Buckeyes. I think humans are shitty in general. However, having NCAA refs would do away with the perception of regional bias and nepotism.. Also, it would increase the chance of me seeing Don Cherry doing more big games.
One of the lead writers for Inside Texas said that B12 refs are completely incompetent, and worse than ever this year. I guess my question is how will a national organization esp if under the NCAA change this? If the thought is that at least they'll get the bias out by assigning refs from the Midwest to SEC games and refs from the South to B1G games and East coast refs sent to West Coast and vice versa. ...maybe but they'll still be incompetent.
Every time a call gets missed (most of the time only found by multiple slow motion camera angles) we get all these complaints of incompetent and biased refs. I, for one (maybe the only one) don't buy it. I get as frustrated as anyone at a bad call against my team, but other than the occasional bad apple, I believe these guys are well trained, competent, and as unbiased and fair as is humanly possible. If we wanted to practice victimhood we could all become Democrats. I'm sure that now I'll be bombarded by "you're forgetting about this call" and "what about this incompetent boob"...oh well...flame on.