College Football

Agreed. He'd have reason to complain if he'd been tackled on the sidelines by Woody Hayes--which is still one of the funniest (and ultimately saddest) examples of a coach getting too much into the game.

Last Saturday, at the end of the Stanford-USC game, Stanford scored a late (and unnecessary) touchdown and then went for a two-point conversion. (They didn't get it) When the coaches met at the center of the field for the post-game handshake, Pete Carroll asked, "What was that all about?" and Harbaugh (Stanford's coach) retorted, "What are YOU all about?" (In probable reference to how often USC has run up the score on PAC-10 opponents over the past few years in quest of 'style' points in the BCS rankings) This, too, reminded me of Woody Hayes. During one of the epic Ohio State-Michigan battles, he went for an unnecessary two point conversion instead of the PAT. After the game, a reporter asked, "Why did you go for two points instead of kicking?" and Woody replied, "I went for two because I couldn't go for three."

heh.

Welcome to Ohio State-Michigan week. Haggis, I am now waiting for whatever feeble commentary you have to offer on the game.

*grin*

Celina, who is a Buckeye for the week in the interests of self-preservation.

I agree with you about Harbaugh. I was just pleased that someone had the balls to turn the tables on Carroll's modus operandi and not back down from it. USC will probably have a better team next year, certainly. But Stanford has been getting quietly and consistently better and I'm thinking they won't be a rollover for anyone the next few years.

As for Michigan--well, my disgust with how they treated Lloyd Carr coupled with how Rodriguez treated his Mountaineers when he left to coach at the Big House precludes me from weeping any tears for what's likely to happen at the end of this season. Do I think Michigan will fire him? Nope. They've got too much invested in him and it wouldn't be fair to axe him so soon into his tenure there. He doesn't yet have the type of team he needs to run the offense he wants to run--but Michigan's current run on mediocrity is unlikely to help in the recruiting department. Ohio State is more than capable of giving the game away after gift-wrapping it with a big scarlet and gray bow. But if the Suckeyes...erm...the Buckeyes are on their game, Saturday afternoon is going to be long and unpleasant for the Wolverines. Both teams usually get really up for this game, which is one of my favorite rivalry games and always has been, so I'm thinking it'll be close until about halfway through the third quarter when the Wolverine defense finally runs out of gas. It could be really ugly--but then again, Tressel is unlikely either to (a) change his game plan ("Yep, first down. Time to run it up the middle even though it didn't work the last fifteen times we tried it.") or (b) run up the score on any opponent intentionally.

And right after the game is done and Michigan's season is over, I expect there to be a lot of squalling and screaming out of Ann Arbor. It'll be interesting to see how it plays out.

When I tended bar, I used to HATE Ohio State-Michigan day. First off, every obnoxious drunk in the world starts early on that day. Second, the money you make isn't worth the hell you put up with. Third, if OSU lost which happened more than I care to remember when John Cooper was the coach, drunk obnoxious OSU fans didn't tip (too drunk in their sorrow) and always started fights--usually with the one poor schmuck who was stupid enough to wear his maize and blue gear out thinking it would be funny.

Now that I'm not tending bar anymore, I love it. I love the tradition, I love the rivalry, I love the build up to it and the atmosphere. But this year is going to be the first year I will have watched the game completely by myself and that's probably going to suck profuesly. All the fun will be gone. *sigh*

Yep--quite unlike Boise State-Utah State.

Oooooooooooooooooooooh...we don't give a damn for the whole state of Michigan, the whole state of Michigan, the whole state of Michigan! We don't give a damn for the whole state of Michigan, we're from O-HI-O!

We're from Ohio! O-H!
We're from Ohio! I-O!

Oh, we don't give a damn for the whole state of Michigan, we're from O-hi-o!

Welcome to Ohio State-Michigan day, home of the oldest and biggest rivalry in football (or so the Yankees tell me)!

Poor Rich. Gonna be a looooooooooooooooooooong afternoon.

*yawn*

The Game hasn't been relevant in well over half a century.

Kind of like Notre Dame this decade or Miami since 2002.

*laughs and runs away*

I could ruin your whole day by posting the halftime score, huh?

*grin*

robeiae said:

You have no sense of history...

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That's not true. I just have no interest in Ivy League sports. Forgive me if lacrosse doesn't float my boat.

robeiae said:

All of your taste is in your mouth.

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Hmmmm....

Nope. Not going to do it. There's just no challenge to it.

Is that smiley howling in misery?

Actually, you guys are on to something with Forcier, IMO. The kid will be good--given a couple of years and some pass protection.

robeiae said:

Btw, does anyone know if Tennessee played today? Can't find any updates, anywhere...

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Of course. Tennessee beat Vanderbilt.

But how about the Georgia-Kentucky game? Or Oregon-Arizona? Cal-Stanford (sans band)? UConn-Notre Dame?

There were some GREAT games today--the kind of games that make college football so much fun to watch! It's the first Saturday in a while that the husband and I were both at home at the same time, and it was a lot of fun.

Oh really? Well, Michigan lost. Just so you know. But the game was a lot closer than the score. Michigan's offense looked worlds better than Ohio State's--which isn't hard--but the combination of a young quarterback and the apparent conspiracy among Michigan receivers to do anything other than receive the ball. Forcier is going to be a good quarterback for Michigan and I've really got to like a kid who says "I lost the game" to the AP. He'll be back and better than ever next year. Ohio State's dominance over Michigan isn't going to last much longer.

In my opinion anyway.