Week 6 college football thread: Calgorithm is Gonna Get You

[justgladtobehere]

1 game between ranked teams. Is it apple picking season?

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

How many losses would it take for Mike Norvell to get fired? Or are his previous successes enough to guarantee him a job next year? Because after the SMU game 1-11 now seems to be a real possibility.

Sixty. Five. Million. Dollars.

Might as well give him some time.

 

[MileHigh]

Why isn't offside a reviewable play? Every play has a LOS view. Should be easy to determine if someone was offside.

I think maybe the Minnesota guy's helmet was partially over the 35-yard line on the onside kick, he was leaning forward, but his feet clearly were not. And I'm not sure what the offside rule is on a kickoff; is there a "neutral" zone, like a play from scrimmage, or is offside on kickoffs determined by the players feet, not his body parts?

Either way, if you're going to make a call like that, you have to be absolutely, positively sure there was a rule infraction, and from the replay there is no way that was possible.

Judgment calls aren't open to review. Replace the word "offside" in your question with holding, pash interference, etc.

 

[Batman]

This might be a dumb question, but is there a reason they seem to make a point of calling it the "two minute timeout" in college instead of the more established and colloquial "two minute warning"? Listening to the announcers, it's obvious a lot of them are making a point to say it that way, as if they get docked a paycheck if they slip up.
Does the NFL own a trademark on "two minute warning" or something like that?

 

[tapintoamerica]

Sixty. Five. Million. Dollars.

Might as well give him some time.

FSU likes to think of itself as a powerhouse, but it's really a nouveau riche outfit. Beverly Hillbillies Southeast. They don't have the kind of cash it takes to buy their way out of the ACC or get rid of a coach the way ATM did.

 

[BTExpress]

Two-minute 'timeout' or two-minute 'warning'? College football's hottest question, explained

Then in February, when The Athletic broke the news of the NCAA rules committee discussing the addition of a two-minute stoppage, NCAA coordinator of officials Steve Shaw told me they wouldn't call it a "two-minute warning." I replied in good humor that people would call it that anyway. When the rule and its official name were formally introduced in March, I got the first crack at asking questions to the rules committee. My second question was why they didn't call it a two-minute warning. I know, this is hard-hitting stuff.

Shaw's response, on behalf of the whole committee, was that it's not a warning because people can see the clock: "We're not warning anybody of anything, so we're going to adopt those words," he said of the "timeout" phrase.

 

[tapintoamerica]

This might be a dumb question, but is there a reason they seem to make a point of calling it the "two minute timeout" in college instead of the more established and colloquial "two minute warning"? Listening to the announcers, it's obvious a lot of them are making a point to say it that way, as if they get docked a paycheck if they slip up.
Does the NFL own a trademark on "two minute warning" or something like that?

Yes. The NFL has a trademark or similar protection on that phrase. Seems silly, but it's real.

 

[ChrisLong]

This might be a dumb question, but is there a reason they seem to make a point of calling it the "two minute timeout" in college instead of the more established and colloquial "two minute warning"? Listening to the announcers, it's obvious a lot of them are making a point to say it that way, as if they get docked a paycheck if they slip up.
Does the NFL own a trademark on "two minute warning" or something like that?

Let's ask the patrons at the Master's.

 

[Brooklyn Bridge]

Yes. The NFL has a trademark or similar protection on that phrase. Seems silly, but it's real.

A guy on my board works for ESPN and that was the reasoning he gave (trademark).

 

[micropolitan guy]

"Two-minute timeout."

It's as dumb as those evangelicals who call Halloween a Pagan holiday with ties to the devil and instead hold a "Harvest holiday" or some other bullship where kids dress up in costumes and go from car to car in the church parking lot on Oct. 31, getting candy and other treats.

Everybody calls it the "two-minute warning." Just like everybody in Oregon still calls the OSU-UO game the "Civil War," and how probably every OU-UT fan calls their game the Red River Shootout and how every UGa-Florida fan calls the Jacksonville game TWLCP, even though those games have been renamed.

 

[BTExpress]

Two-minute timeout sounds like what you give a misbehaving hockey player.

 

[swingline]

Two-minute timeout sounds like what you give a misbehaving hockey player.

Or a toddler.