The Troy Aikman Memorial Week 8 NCAA Football Running Thread

Correct, it can be argued. Just not very successfully IMO.

 

40-16 yesterday.

No real big surprises; Probably Clemson-Miami was the biggest one. The way TT got dumptrucked in their own yard is up there too.

 

Heisman voters have a difficult enough time deciding the question "best quarterback and/or running back whose games I saw on TV more than once." Asking them to evaluate line play is asking the impossible.
That's only partially snark. At least today's Heisman voters HAVE television to watch. Back in the 1930s and '40s, they were going on AP agate making their decisions.
Point is, who cares about the Heisman? A football award that's never gone to an interior lineman is, IMO, essentially fraudulent.

 

Apparently, a lot of people care about who does and doesn't win the Heisman.

You know the theory that "no one will vote for a guy to win a second Heisman, just because"? Tebow is at the top of a lot of people's Heisman lists. Granted, it's still super early, but could voters give him the stupid "career achievement" Heisman this year, which, at the same time, would squash the first theory?

I'd imagine McCoy did a lot to gain some ground last night. Haven't seen Clausen's numbers yet, but he's gotta be up there, still. Ingram didn't do much yesterday.

Back to Cody...no one had him in the discussion yesterday morning, but two blocked kicks and he's all of a sudden a viable candidate? I don't buy it.

 

I find it absolutely hysterical that Nebraska loses at home to Iowa St.

 

Nope. I think the Big 12 is only getting one BCS bid... Texas. That bumps the Sooners to the Cotton Bowl

 

Yeah, seems like the Cyclones have recovered from the Gene Chizik debacle faster than the Huskers have rebounded from Bill Callahan.

 

Dear Ryan: I misspoke. Instead of saying "who cares?" I should have said "I don't care."

AS of today, and this will of course all change in the next few weeks, the 10 BCS teams appear to be
Florida, Alabama, Texas, Iowa, Cincinnati, ACC winner (Georgia Tech?), winner of USC-Oregon, and, well that leaves two spots for TCU, Boise, Penn St. and MAYBE Pitt or LSU to fuss over.

There'd be some good games out of that bunch.

 

If you have Alabama and Florida, you can't have LSU.

 

My mistake. Make that, the two SEC teams in conference title game. Not that LSU will beat Alabama.

 

But does the fact that a half can't end on a defensive penalty still apply, even if it's a dead ball? Guess not. That's why I wondered about a possible flag on that play, because Tennessee could have had an untimed down there.

Problem is, logic and facts haven't always applied to the SEC and referees this season. It was a perfectly rational discussion based on what we saw, especially after Danielson -- who calls an SEC game every week for CBS -- questioned whether Tennessee might have deserved a second chance there.

 

Let's say you're the field judge on that side; In Alabama; On Alabama's sideline; With Nick Saban and all his little minions right there; And Cody comes flying by you with his helmet off; And you throw your flag right at his feet.

The chances of you making out of the stadium alive are slim and none, and slim is leaving town.

But the flag should have been thrown. It was a penalty. Period.