College Football 2016 Week 1 running thread

1. How did Brian Kelly not know 14 was head and shoulders the better option at QB?

2. Why not go for two in OT if you're Notre Dane after the long touchdown?

 

No answer for you for 1.

For 2, unless they're coaching a team that had to play way the hell over its head just to get to overtime, coaches don't do that. Not saying they shouldn't, just saying they don't.

There's probably a framing issue there. For the "better" team, going for two gets framed cognitively with respect to potential loss (i.e., how I'll have to explain myself if it doesn't work out). For the lesser team, it gets framed as a potential gain (i.e., I'm one short play away from winning this thing!).

 

If you're the lesser team, I strongly believe you should go for 2 but coaches never do it because of accountability.

Last year I was outraged when McCarthy didn't do it for GB after Rodgers completed the Hail Mary. Bielema always played for OT at Wisconsin when scoring the tying TD against a better team... and always lost.

Yet ND was the more experienced team. You don't go for two there.

Texas simply had the Running QB that ND had no answer for in small yardage situations.

It's also why I hate college football OT. Like the California rules in youth baseball. One out and a runner at 2nd and 3rd. It's a different game.

 

Speaking of OT, that was apparently only Texas' third overtime game in its history.

They've had OT in FBS football since 1996. Three in 20 years seemly like an oddly low number.

 

Vols have been in the most and won the most.

NCAA Division I FBS overtime records - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Half a game, huh? Lovely.

USC linebacker Jabari Ruffin will miss the first half of the Trojans’ game against Utah State after being busted for stomping on Alabama cornerback Minkah Fitzpatrick’s balls.

http://deadspin.com/jabari-ruffin-s...ource=deadspin_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

 

And I think that's automatic based on being ejected in the first half. He is supposedly writing a letter of apology, however.

 

When did half a game become a thing? That's just very lame

 

Jameis, right?

 

Had a totally enjoyable time in Dallas and at JerryWorld except, obviously, the embarrassing on-field performance by the Trojans. If they played Alabama again this week, the result would probably be the same.
The Dallas Trojan Club organized a pub crawl for Friday night in Uptown and it was fantastic -- 5 bars, 5 hours. It started at Clutch Bar, and included BBC, Ginger Man, Renfield's Corner and Blackfriar. At midnight, Blackfriar had a couple of hundred people waiting in line to get in, so we blew that off and went to another place a block or two away that wasn't on the official tour -- can't remember the name. That's where a 20-something honey came up to my friend and said, "The whole bar is talking about how cool your guys are." Friend says, "Thank you, but why do you think we're cool?" She says, "Because you're old and you're still here hanging with us." There were thousands of people there in the area and Trojans fans outnumbered Bama fans about 50-1. That doesn't mean bunches of Bama fans weren't partying elsewhere. Somebody must have paid off the fire marshals.
We got to AT&T very early, about 2 and had a good tailgate that my friend arranged from another friend who owns a BBQ restaurant in Dallas. The stadium is fantastic. Two problems we noticed: Getting through the metal detector/security check is a mob scene akin to being a herd of cattle. Once though that, it was great with that wide-open beer garden and the giant TVs. The other problem is the acoustics inside the place, horrible. I was sitting 50 yards from the USC band and couldn't hear it. Couldn't hear or understand any of the PA announcements. I was told that big-name entertainers and bands are torn about playing there. They like that they can sell a ton of tickets, but they can't even hear their own music.
Fun weekend.

 

Pac-12 might get involved and lengthen the suspension. That's the same Pac-12 that ordered USC's next game vs. Utah State to start at 11 a.m.

 

The relevant question is whether ND has a better chance of gaining 3 yards in that situation, or winning in subsequent overtimes with a defense that was clearly finished. The answer seems obvious.

Brian Kelly was afraid to tell a clearly inferior quarterback that he was clearly inferior, and afraid to make the right decision in overtime because, well, it might open him up to criticism for going against convention.

Glad he's not making decisions that actually matter in the grand scheme.