College Football Tough Calls Week 2 Sept 11, 2010

[Faceman]

Yes, we are gonna have to suffer through this again. They are so good, so strong fundamentally. Don't turn the ball over. Don't get flagged much (causes lots of complaining here in SEC country).

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UCLA stupid errors.

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UCLA qb threw a pick with Stanford guy pulling his facemask not called. I thought SoCal would blow out Va , 7-7 now.

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Winners S Carolina, Kansas, Cal, Michigan, Ohio St, Air Force,Oregon, Alabama, Stanford

faceman 7-2
JSO4 7-2 good rebound
Hungary Jack 6-3
Maclowery 6-3
StLDan 6-3
fanforever 6-3
AwvsCB3 6-3
PujolJunkie 6-3
TransmogrifiedTiger 6-3
cardslesson101 6-3
obucard 6-3
PujolsisaGod 5-4
cardsfansince82 5-4
TimeForGuiness 5-4
socnorb11 5-4
ICE 5-4
JL21 5-4
stlewis11 5-4
albertmvpujols 5-4
slideintofirst 4-5
phins 4-5
centreville 3-6
PurdueSTL 3-6
JoeMcKim 2-7

2 week total standings and week 3 games to be posted soon. Good week for a lot of people.

[phins]

What about it doesn't make sense? Miami throws Int, OSU can't put it in end zone. Miami throws Int despite getting field goals, or hitting wide open guys in the end zone.

That isn't OSU, that's Miami. It would have been 21-3 in the first quarter if the dang QB could just throw the football to open guys. Miami got the returns by making good plays, so that's on them. Same for OSU's solid plays.

That two play drive to score a TD was impressive. Most of the rest was just taking advantage of things given to you by Miami, which as I said, is a good thing, and something I wish Miami did, instead of being the one gift wrapping games.

They drop two TD passes and then get a field goal blocked. Catch one of those, and it's still a different game despite four turnovers and dropping three interceptions right in their arms, one of which would have been a pick 6, and another that would have halted a drive that scored 3 points. Mistake after mistake by Miami, and none of those players are plays that Ohio State "forced."

You said something to the effect of "Miami should be blowing out OSU". Which is only true from the most homerific view. Miami had about 100 yards of offense in the first half. Turnovers included, you aren't dominating anybody with 100 yards of offense in a half.

Ohio State also kicked 6 FG attempts. That is a ton. 4 of those FG makes were 24, 21, 24, and 24 yards. Which means all four of those were snapped from inside the 10 yard line.

Miami could have won, and they could have gotten killed. They were never going to dominate that game today. And no, tOSU isn't that great, but your Big 10 hate is showing.

When I wrote that, it should have been 21-3. That's blowing them out on their own field.

Ohio State had those field goals because of interceptions almost exclusively. Interceptions that only one of which were direct reflections of good plays on Ohio State, and which hadn't occurred yet when I made that post. To add to that, Taint was inside Miami's 10 that many times and couldn't get it in the end zone, normally after starting inside Miami's 35 yard line. That's a checkmark in the good for Miami, rather than showing dominance of Ohio State.

To say they were never going to dominate that game today means you didn't watch what actually happened on the field at the time of that post. To be clear, the mistakes for Miami that were game changers continued into the second half. Give Ohio Stae credit for being better coached, and for taking advantage of what Miami gave them. If that's not a compliment, I don't what is. As I've complimented them like three times already.

[phins]

Winners S Carolina, Kansas, Cal, Michigan, Ohio St, Air Force,Oregon, Alabama, Stanford

faceman 7-2
JSO4 7-2 good rebound
Hungary Jack 6-3
Maclowery 6-3
StLDan 6-3
fanforever 6-3
AwvsCB3 6-3
PujolJunkie 6-3
TransmogrifiedTiger 6-3
cardslesson101 6-3
obucard 6-3
PujolsisaGod 5-4
cardsfansince82 5-4
TimeForGuiness 5-4
socnorb11 5-4
ICE 5-4
JL21 5-4
stlewis11 5-4
albertmvpujols 5-4
slideintofirst 4-5
phins 4-5
centreville 3-6
PurdueSTL 3-6
JoeMcKim 2-7

2 week total standings and week 3 games to be posted soon. Good week for a lot of people.

Ouch, not a good weekend for Phins. Hopefully the actual Phins will help that out a little bit today.

[Faceman]

What about it doesn't make sense? Miami throws Int, OSU can't put it in end zone. Miami throws Int despite getting field goals, or hitting wide open guys in the end zone.

That isn't OSU, that's Miami. It would have been 21-3 in the first quarter if the dang QB could just throw the football to open guys. Miami got the returns by making good plays, so that's on them. Same for OSU's solid plays.

That two play drive to score a TD was impressive. Most of the rest was just taking advantage of things given to you by Miami, which as I said, is a good thing, and something I wish Miami did, instead of being the one gift wrapping games.

They drop two TD passes and then get a field goal blocked. Catch one of those, and it's still a different game despite four turnovers and dropping three interceptions right in their arms, one of which would have been a pick 6, and another that would have halted a drive that scored 3 points. Mistake after mistake by Miami, and none of those players are plays that Ohio State "forced."

You said something to the effect of "Miami should be blowing out OSU". Which is only true from the most homerific view. Miami had about 100 yards of offense in the first half. Turnovers included, you aren't dominating anybody with 100 yards of offense in a half.

Ohio State also kicked 6 FG attempts. That is a ton. 4 of those FG makes were 24, 21, 24, and 24 yards. Which means all four of those were snapped from inside the 10 yard line.

Miami could have won, and they could have gotten killed. They were never going to dominate that game today. And no, tOSU isn't that great, but your Big 10 hate is showing.

When I wrote that, it should have been 21-3. That's blowing them out on their own field.

Ohio State had those field goals because of interceptions almost exclusively. Interceptions that only one of which were direct reflections of good plays on Ohio State, and which hadn't occurred yet when I made that post. To add to that, Taint was inside Miami's 10 that many times and couldn't get it in the end zone, normally after starting inside Miami's 35 yard line. That's a checkmark in the good for Miami, rather than showing dominance of Ohio State.

To say they were never going to dominate that game today means you didn't watch what actually happened on the field at the time of that post. To be clear, the mistakes for Miami that were game changers continued into the second half. Give Ohio Stae credit for being better coached, and for taking advantage of what Miami gave them. If that's not a compliment, I don't what is. As I've complimented them like three times already.

Actually, I did watch the game, which is why I knew Miami shouldn't have been blowing out tOSU. Fine, you want to paint a picture that if everything went perfect, Miami would have been up 21-3 at some point. I concede on that. There was a way that could have happened I suppose. If this and if that. But had the score been 21-3, based on whatever set of circumstances you apply, the impartial observers would have seen that that score was not indicative of the game. Miami would have been lucky (hard to believe) to be up 21-3.

Penn State must be kicking themselves today too. I mean, they could have been blowing out Alabama.

[PurdueSTL]

Winners S Carolina, Kansas, Cal, Michigan, Ohio St, Air Force,Oregon, Alabama, Stanford

faceman 7-2
JSO4 7-2 good rebound
Hungary Jack 6-3
Maclowery 6-3
StLDan 6-3
fanforever 6-3
AwvsCB3 6-3
PujolJunkie 6-3
TransmogrifiedTiger 6-3
cardslesson101 6-3
obucard 6-3
PujolsisaGod 5-4
cardsfansince82 5-4
TimeForGuiness 5-4
socnorb11 5-4
ICE 5-4
JL21 5-4
stlewis11 5-4
albertmvpujols 5-4
slideintofirst 4-5
phins 4-5
centreville 3-6
PurdueSTL 3-6
JoeMcKim 2-7

2 week total standings and week 3 games to be posted soon. Good week for a lot of people.

good lord what a sucky week...the only thing worse than my picks this week is Purdue's offensive line

[PujolJunkie]

KU is leading Georgia Tech 28-25. If KU holds onto the lead and wins, PujolJunkie will be a genius.

Not to pick on PJ, but if you pick a gigantic upset and it comes to fruition, that doesn't make it a good pick.

Heh, really? What then does make a good pick?

When you have a reason for it, instead of "whoops, bolded the wrong one. Screw it, I'll stick with it anyway".

Yeah, it really was just a case of "[expletive], that wasn't what I meant to do. Ah well, dangerous isn't sending me anything anyway if I win this."

That being said, it's hilarious that KU actually won.