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I Got Your College Football Open Thread Right Here

by John Cole|  October 13, 20123:05 pm| 87 Comments

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Man, are we slipping on the football open threads.

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  1. 1.

    Amir Khalid

    October 13, 2012 at 3:07 pm

    Yes, we are slipping on the football open threads. Where has Randinho disappeared to?

  2. 2.

    raven

    October 13, 2012 at 3:09 pm

    No shit. The Hokies have roared back from 20-0 in the first to up 20-34 in the 4th.

  3. 3.

    J. Michael Neal

    October 13, 2012 at 3:09 pm

    Screw football. (Easy to say when you’re a Gopher fan. Nice job losing the homecoming game, Goophs.) I decided that it was a good day for a drive so I’m up in Duluth to watch the Badgers and the Bulldogs square off. It would probably be better for Minnesota if UMD wins, but I just can’t root for a team coached by Shannon Miller.

  4. 4.

    Corner Stone

    October 13, 2012 at 3:10 pm

    Sigh.

  5. 5.

    jwb

    October 13, 2012 at 3:13 pm

    Texas looks as bad as Ryan did in the debate against Biden. I had to turn it off before I made it to halftime.

  6. 6.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    October 13, 2012 at 3:16 pm

    I hope Stanford stomps Notre Dame into a mudhole, I am hardly sick of this worshiping of this tired old program, though they may be good this year. National Championship contender? Mike Golic maybe you need to ease back on your meds!

  7. 7.

    The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik

    October 13, 2012 at 3:17 pm

    Geez. OU is stomping a mudhole into Texas. I hope that doesn’t make WVU’s win look bad in the computer standings.

  8. 8.

    Joey Maloney

    October 13, 2012 at 3:30 pm

    Auburnt.

  9. 9.

    Hill Dweller

    October 13, 2012 at 3:31 pm

    @jwb:

    Texas looks as bad as Ryan did in the debate against Biden.

    PPP’s initial post-debate swing state polling shows voters see the debate as a draw, just like the media was telling them to believe.

  10. 10.

    Spaghetti Lee

    October 13, 2012 at 3:37 pm

    @efgoldman:

    When Northwestern and Mizzou played each other a few years back, they called it the Prose Bowl (journalism schools).

  11. 11.

    MikeJ

    October 13, 2012 at 3:38 pm

    @Amir Khalid: There was a California-Arizona women’s game on this morning, but I couldn’t keep watching since they ran the clock backwards. It just annoyed me too much.

  12. 12.

    The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik

    October 13, 2012 at 3:40 pm

    Ugh. WVU’s secondary is still desperately crap.

  13. 13.

    Schlemizel

    October 13, 2012 at 3:42 pm

    @J. Michael Neal:

    Yaaaa J. Mike!!! No way I could ever hope any team Miller coached win anything but OTOH the badger? yuk – the only thing I’d root for is a meteor but since your there thats no good either. BTW – has she whined to the refs for 10 minutes between periods yet? She does that once a game

    On the up side the Gophers are handing St. Lawrence another whoopin’ (3-0 end of one) so thats great

  14. 14.

    Amir Khalid

    October 13, 2012 at 3:43 pm

    @MikeJ:
    You mean, countdown style? Yeah, that would annoy me too. Nobody does that in any sport.

  15. 15.

    The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik

    October 13, 2012 at 3:47 pm

    I’m getting awful feelings about this game now….

    Texas Tech’s defense is already getting through badly, and we can’t play defense…

  16. 16.

    Loneoak

    October 13, 2012 at 3:49 pm

    “Man, are we slipping on the football open threads.”

    The service around here is terrible, and the threads are too small.

  17. 17.

    Schlemizel

    October 13, 2012 at 3:50 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    You see it in hockey in Europe all the time. Its weird but you get used to it. Somehow though watching the clock get to 0:00 has a stronger visceral feeling then having it reach 20:00.

  18. 18.

    Arm The Homeless

    October 13, 2012 at 3:51 pm

    Racists at a Rmoney rally? Nevah!

    Also, Too: GO NOLES!

  19. 19.

    The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik

    October 13, 2012 at 4:00 pm

    Jesus christ. 14-0 Texas Tech. They’re murdering us.

  20. 20.

    Schlemizel

    October 13, 2012 at 4:01 pm

    Gophers just scored again to go up 4-0 on St. Lawrence. It is going to be a most entertaining winter

  21. 21.

    Hill Dweller

    October 13, 2012 at 4:02 pm

    @efgoldman: How about Willard’s family calling Obama a boy/child? Is that reprehensible?

  22. 22.

    Arm The Homeless

    October 13, 2012 at 4:04 pm

    @efgoldman: There is a persistent Gooper on BF claiming it’s a false flag, parsing the guys wrinkles in the back of his head trying to prove the photographer and the racist were in cahoots. It’s simultaneously sad and funny.

  23. 23.

    sb

    October 13, 2012 at 4:04 pm

    The University of Texas football team… sucks.

  24. 24.

    MikeJ

    October 13, 2012 at 4:06 pm

    @The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik:

    Jesus christ. 14-0 Texas Tech.

    I would expect Jesus Christ to be winning by more than that.

  25. 25.

    Schlemizel

    October 13, 2012 at 4:06 pm

    @Hill Dweller:

    Oh he would never say anything like that

    its just you being a racist & hearing that in the completely reasonable thing he said

  26. 26.

    Geoduck

    October 13, 2012 at 4:07 pm

    @efgoldman:

    But that’s the Rmoney/Ryan logo on the back of the shirt, right above the “reprehensible” slogan.

    Even the Romney campaign wouldn’t hand out shirts like that. Looks to me like the wearer added a sticker above the message.

  27. 27.

    Schlemizel

    October 13, 2012 at 4:08 pm

    @MikeJ:

    problem is he doesn’t have great hands any more – previous injury!

  28. 28.

    Scout211

    October 13, 2012 at 4:10 pm

    Went outside to do yard work because Michigan State was about to win the game against my Hawkeyes. I came back in and OMG! Iowa won in 2 OTs!

    I missed it.

    Sheesh.

  29. 29.

    The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik

    October 13, 2012 at 4:11 pm

    @efgoldman:

    WVU -4.

    We finally got a touchdown back, but we still have no appreciable defense in the secondary.

  30. 30.

    Soonergrunt

    October 13, 2012 at 4:12 pm

    @The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik: No. 14-0 isn’t murdering you. That’s beating you.
    Murder would be what the Sooners are doing to the Longhorns.
    Other appropriate metaphorical language include:
    Destroy
    Annihilate
    Butcher
    Crush
    Ravage
    Mutilate
    Eradicate
    Shatter
    Snuff out
    Slaughter

    Hope this helps.

  31. 31.

    burnspbesq

    October 13, 2012 at 4:12 pm

    @efgoldman:

    There was actually one pundit earlier this week projecting that Duke would play Vandy.

    The first order of business for Duke is for Renfree to get healthy. They’re neither as good as the first quarter of today’s game suggested nor as bad as they looked in the second half.

    Would be awfully cool to become bowl-eligible by beating the fookin’ Tarholes next week.

  32. 32.

    Amir Khalid

    October 13, 2012 at 4:13 pm

    @efgoldman:
    By hockey you mean the kind played on ice, right? We don’t follow that very much here in the tropics. American football, either.

  33. 33.

    Yutsano

    October 13, 2012 at 4:15 pm

    @Soonergrunt: Yeah. That was a shellacking.

  34. 34.

    burnspbesq

    October 13, 2012 at 4:18 pm

    Tuesday night’s going to be interesting.

    A draw between the US and Guatemala means that both advance, no matter what Jamaica does. OTOH, a Guatemala win knocks out the US if Jamaica beats A&B by two, and a US win knocks out Guatemala if Jamaica beats A&B by two.

    If you’re Guatemala, do you risk everything by going for the win?

  35. 35.

    raven

    October 13, 2012 at 4:26 pm

    @burnspbesq: Order was restored, Go Hokies!

  36. 36.

    Spaghetti Lee

    October 13, 2012 at 4:27 pm

    Man, it is storming in Columbia right now. The players are basically running through a swamp. And Bama’s up 21-0.

    I’ll admit I’m glad I sat it out-I’m not that big a fan.

  37. 37.

    Mister Papercut

    October 13, 2012 at 4:28 pm

    @raven:

    No shit. The Hokies have roared back from 20-0 in the first to up 20-34 in the 4th.

    Down 20 against Duke in the first quarter at Lane, tho.

    I definitely picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines.

  38. 38.

    Gator90

    October 13, 2012 at 4:46 pm

    An announcer for the game I’m watching just faulted some college football players for not doing “what they’re paid to do.”

  39. 39.

    Schlemizel

    October 13, 2012 at 4:47 pm

    @Gator90: That should be summery execution for the guy – send the family a bill for the bullet

  40. 40.

    Dee Loralei

    October 13, 2012 at 4:48 pm

    My beloved Sooners kicked TexASS! WooHoo!

    Now West Virginia is looking poorly against TT.

  41. 41.

    Schlemizel

    October 13, 2012 at 4:55 pm

    Gophers just went up 5-0, had a player draw a game misconduct for pulling the face mask off a Saint – wish I had video so I knew what happened!

  42. 42.

    The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik

    October 13, 2012 at 4:56 pm

    @Dee Loralei:

    Yep. There goes our national respect, once more.

  43. 43.

    The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik

    October 13, 2012 at 5:00 pm

    Yep….28-7 with just over 2 minutes in the half.

    A shitting of the bed of epic proportions, unless WVU can charge out of the gate at the start of the second half. But the way the defense is going, I give up.

    Figures.

  44. 44.

    Schlemizel

    October 13, 2012 at 5:03 pm

    Game over – 6-0 UoM
    #1 team in the nation – running total for their first 6 games: 40 – 1

  45. 45.

    Evolving Deep Southerner

    October 13, 2012 at 5:19 pm

    @Spaghetti Lee: Damn right. If you’re under a roof – and I assume you are, since you’re posting here – you’re in a better place than any of the fans who went to that one. It’s raining like a whole herd of cows pissing on flat rocks. Alabama needs to put in second/third stringers and just ride this one out. Mizzou … shit, I don’t know what they need to do. Hope lightning curtails the whole thing, I guess.

  46. 46.

    Evolving Deep Southerner

    October 13, 2012 at 5:20 pm

    @Spaghetti Lee: Damn right. If you’re under a roof – and I assume you are, since you’re posting here – you’re in a better place than any of the fans who went to that one. It’s raining like a whole herd of cows pissing on flat rocks. Alabama needs to put in second/third stringers and just ride this one out. Mizzou … shit, I don’t know what they need to do. Hope lightning curtails the whole thing, I guess.

  47. 47.

    raven

    October 13, 2012 at 5:33 pm

    @Evolving Deep Southerner: Looks clear in Red Stick.

  48. 48.

    Mark B.

    October 13, 2012 at 5:49 pm

    Oklahoma beat Texas like Biden beat Ryan. Mack Brown was complaining that it was rather rude.

  49. 49.

    JWL

    October 13, 2012 at 5:56 pm

    I’d have slid on posting football comments, too, had the Niners, like the Steelers, just been whipped by the Tennessee “On Any Given Sunday” Titans.

  50. 50.

    ira-NY

    October 13, 2012 at 6:06 pm

    How about those Hawks. Double OT over Sparty.

  51. 51.

    jomike

    October 13, 2012 at 6:09 pm

    What a beatdown. Worst performance by a Texas defensive unit in the Mack Brown era. D coordinator Manny Diaz is on the hot seat now, for sure.

    Nice three-touchdown comeback by Illinois State at home against a solid Youngstown State team.

  52. 52.

    DesertFriar

    October 13, 2012 at 6:14 pm

    @Hill Dweller: I wish someone in the Obama family would respond to those remarks with “Because we’re Christian, we are supposed to turn the other cheek.”

  53. 53.

    jomike

    October 13, 2012 at 6:16 pm

    Lubbock: Where BCS Bowl Hopes Go To Die

  54. 54.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    October 13, 2012 at 6:24 pm

    Michigan is just whooping up on Alabama Notre Dame Illinois. 45-0. Ugly.

  55. 55.

    raven

    October 13, 2012 at 6:34 pm

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): What a fucking shocker.

  56. 56.

    Haydnseek

    October 13, 2012 at 6:38 pm

    @Amir Khalid: Win!

  57. 57.

    burnspbesq

    October 13, 2012 at 6:58 pm

    Time for SC-UDub.

  58. 58.

    raven

    October 13, 2012 at 7:06 pm

    Ack, ND holds. Bring on the SEC games!

  59. 59.

    Comrade Luke

    October 13, 2012 at 7:09 pm

    That was a fucking touchdown. Fucking ND.

  60. 60.

    Gator90

    October 13, 2012 at 7:12 pm

    The Gators have me worried…

  61. 61.

    Yutsano

    October 13, 2012 at 7:14 pm

    @burnspbesq: Ugh. Yer gonna make me say it aren’t you?

  62. 62.

    Thlayli

    October 13, 2012 at 7:16 pm

    @burnspbesq:

    If you’re Guatemala, do you risk everything by going for the win?

    Personally, I think they’ll bunker and go for the 0-0.

  63. 63.

    raven

    October 13, 2012 at 7:22 pm

    Fak da gators

  64. 64.

    burnspbesq

    October 13, 2012 at 7:25 pm

    Strange to see UDub with white pants and white helmets. Not helping them any so far.

  65. 65.

    burnspbesq

    October 13, 2012 at 7:29 pm

    @Thlayli:

    That’s the smart play, but emotionally, the chance to deliver the knockout punch to El Yanqui has to be alluring. I wouldn’t be surprised to see them come out flying, and reassess if it’s tied at halftime.

  66. 66.

    Evolving Deep Southerner

    October 13, 2012 at 7:34 pm

    @raven: I really want South Carolina to win that one. Just to make me feel better about last week. And because I’ve heard so much SEC-East-Can’t-Carry-SEC-West’s-Jock-Strap talk.

    And Mrs. Deep Southerner is not happy with where her Gators are at right now.

  67. 67.

    raven

    October 13, 2012 at 7:36 pm

    @Evolving Deep Southerner: I want Spurrier to strangle on us getting a bid the the SEC championship because of our weak ass schedule. I gave my tech tickets away yesterday, I’ll watch it at the beach.

  68. 68.

    Evolving Deep Southerner

    October 13, 2012 at 7:38 pm

    @raven: Al Groh will be watching it from the beach, too.

  69. 69.

    raven

    October 13, 2012 at 7:40 pm

    @Evolving Deep Southerner: Yes! The house we rent is right around the corner from Bowden’s. Nothing LIKE it but right around the corner.

  70. 70.

    raven

    October 13, 2012 at 8:17 pm

    Oh Corner Stone, come heah boy!

  71. 71.

    Tokyokie

    October 13, 2012 at 9:03 pm

    @Soonergrunt: I hope today’s game helped make up for an otherwise crappy week for you . I know that walloping the snot out of those emasculated bovine always brightens my whole week. The whorns can never lose often or badly enough to satisfy me (I’m still pissed off about letting up 2 on a botched XP, Jones’ bonehead pick-6 and two scores allowed by the second team), but today came awfully close.

  72. 72.

    Loneoak

    October 13, 2012 at 9:05 pm

    I’m watching the Michigan-Illionois game on time delay. No spoilers people. No spoilers!

  73. 73.

    raven

    October 13, 2012 at 9:09 pm

    @Loneoak: Don’t read this thread then.

  74. 74.

    Evolving Deep Southerner

    October 13, 2012 at 9:58 pm

    Mr. Cole, what happened to your ‘Eers? Hell, that was getting into Georgia-vs.-South Carolina territory.

  75. 75.

    Evolving Deep Southerner

    October 13, 2012 at 10:00 pm

    And I’d sure never have picked Steve Spurrier to be one for uniform gimmickry. The Old Ball Sack should have thought about that and then laid down until the idea passed.

  76. 76.

    raven

    October 13, 2012 at 10:09 pm

    @Evolving Deep Southerner: $$$$, plus they are “Wounded Warrior Project” uni’s so I bet the organization is getting something.

    Not that I thing the WW’s should have to have fucking bake sales. We sent em, we damn sure should be taking care of them.

  77. 77.

    Evolving Deep Southerner

    October 13, 2012 at 10:17 pm

    @raven: Didn’t realize that. Thought it was a Richt-style fake-juice “blackout” move.

  78. 78.

    raven

    October 13, 2012 at 10:24 pm

    @Evolving Deep Southerner: Nah, they were talking it up in the pre-game.

  79. 79.

    raven

    October 13, 2012 at 10:25 pm

    @Evolving Deep Southerner:

    http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/post/_/id/68296/south-carolina-goes-camo

  80. 80.

    spen

    October 13, 2012 at 10:32 pm

    WTF is a Green Wave? I went to Tulane and still don’t know. Is it s real term, like red tide?

  81. 81.

    raven

    October 13, 2012 at 10:50 pm

    @spen: It’s a nickname. Stanford is The Cardinal, the color not the bird.

  82. 82.

    raven

    October 13, 2012 at 11:09 pm

    Oh Corner, where are you boy?

  83. 83.

    Thatgaljill

    October 13, 2012 at 11:22 pm

    What in the living hell are the Gamecocks wearing?

  84. 84.

    raven

    October 13, 2012 at 11:31 pm

    @Thatgaljill: Wounded Warrior uni’s to help that cause.

  85. 85.

    Frank in midtown

    October 13, 2012 at 11:47 pm

    I think I enjoyed the first annual thrashing of Mizzou as much as my ole favorite the annual thrashing of Ole Miss. Next week, the annual thrashing of TN. Roll Tide Roll.

  86. 86.

    Kilkee

    October 14, 2012 at 1:19 pm

    The degree of loathing for Notre Dame on here always surprises me. Somehow I would think that a team that at least aspires to blend actual academics with football (and yes, check out the graduation rates) would cause the sort of folks who gather here to give it at least some grudging respect.

  87. 87.

    Kilkee

    October 14, 2012 at 1:21 pm

    @Comrade Luke: Of course, the Reggie Bush push of some years back should not have been, and they should therefore have beaten USC, so it all works out.

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