Thinking the Eers lose this one 56-3. Going to be a bloodletting, I am afraid.
Reader Interactions
45Comments
Comments are closed.
by John Cole| 45 Comments
This post is in: Open Threads, Sports
Thinking the Eers lose this one 56-3. Going to be a bloodletting, I am afraid.
Comments are closed.
Yatsuno
Could be. Never know until the game is played however.
Wazzu – U$C is a night game. So I don’t have to be disappoint just yet.
Infamous Heel-Filcher
Clowney is getting completely neutralized in this game. The Cocks have a solid squad, but UGA is systematically taking them apart.
/Go Irish
JPL
@Infamous Heel-Filcher: It’s a pretty good game so far.
Infamous Heel-Filcher
Agreed. I meant that the scoreboard is a lot closer than the game has been, with UGA playing top-quality football pretty much every snap and SC having to scramble to save themselves from themselves too often.
I may be a bit biased, because all the commentariat this morning was pooh-poohing the notion that UGA was in the same league, and I love an underdog that comes out of the tunnel with all its fundamentals on display.
SmallAxe
Damn I picked WVU to cover… oops
Mr Stagger Lee
@Infamous Heel-Filcher: Well at least Mark Richt doesn’t have to hear the baying of Dawg Fans for a week, if they win, I hope Raven’s blood pressure comes down. Michigan-Notre Dame has two more series left, that is a shame, thanks to the creation of these super-conferences.
RobertDSC-iPhone 4
I took my dad to last year’s Trojans home opener vs. Hawaii. He’s been a Trojans fan for 50+ years. That was his first game.
Tonight’s opener brings back many of those memories. Good times, though technically I was in enemy territory since I roll with GoBlue. I didn’t sport my colors then, but I am today. I just hope the Wolverines can pull off a win tonight.
The Dangerman
@Yatsuno:
Only adds to the degree of difficulty in getting home safely from the Coliseum (read: it should be bulldozed, but that applies to most of the USC campus).
/bruin
Fuzzy
It is great that SOME teams are playing actual opposition this early. My hat is off to the Gamecocks for knocking heads with two local and worthy teams in the 1st two weeks. These BCS teams that play patsies should have to deduct these games from their record or count them as a loss.
Crusty Dem
Wow. That was a nice run..
The Dangerman
Nice 4th Down call, Steve. Idiot.
Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader
tHE BloOD IS oN YOUr HanDS, JOhN coLE!
SmallAxe
@efgoldman: Definitely heavy fave day. I’m all good check the earlier football thread, I was on Georgia heavy as play of the day. Mich/ND will be interesting, seems like everyone is on ND, I’ll take big blue thanks.
JPL
@The Dangerman: Since he needed two scores, you’re correct. I can understand why he went for it though. UGA defense has had problems holding on short yardage.
Linnaeus
@RobertDSC-iPhone 4:
Me too. ND’s strength right now is in its DL, and U-M’s OL is inexperienced, especially in the interior. But this year, we’ll get to see a U-M QB who is a better fit for Al Borges’ offense. He had two picks last week, but I’m hoping that was just rust. I don’t see 6 like Robinson gave up last year.
goblue72
Kickoff in 10 for my Wolverines. Hoping to crush the Irish. Tomorrow get to watch my Pats take on the Bills to start the season. And the Sox have crushed the Skankees 3 games straight now. Its a good weekend for sports.
Litlebritdifrnt
Broadchurch is getting damn fascinating. Filch committed suicide. Or was murdered. Who knows? Newspapers going after a guy who had a relationship with a student and then married her, WTF. What is going on with the woman in the Caravan with the dog?
Botsplainer
Really smart conference change for WVU.
Loneoak
Hail the Victors! Fail to the Papists!
JPL
@Litlebritdifrnt: BBC America let me stream the first episode and that’s it. I guess they want me to call my non existent cable company and say put me on your channel or something. Since I’m on an antenna, I’ll have to wait until Netflix picks it up.
Roger Moore
@The Dangerman:
Strictly speaking, the Colosseum is in Exposition Park, not on the USC campus proper. And it’s a National Historic Landmark, which makes knocking it down difficult. Might I suggest taking the Expo Line if you want to get out of there quickly?
Keith P
@Infamous Heel-Filcher: Again, I wonder what all the hype is with Clowney (other than him knocking a guy’s helmet off after going unblocked on a play last year). He may be a beast, etc, but there’s just no way he deserved the amount of features that ESPN and BleacherReport devoted to him (i.e. “Clowney flips a blocking sled”)
EDIT: Let me correct myself and say there is a way for him to deserve the amount of features – he gets a fake girlfriend who fake-dies of cancer.
Litlebritdifrnt
@JPL:
I have to admit that I am addicted to my on demand channels, I absolutely hate adverts and so on demand is ideal for me, I can fast forward through the ads and watch my favorite shows ad free. I have been looking for episode 6 on youtube and so far BBC has managed to keep it hidden. Dammnit.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Mr Stagger Lee:
What I think most people don’t know is that they’ve played less than 50 games against each other (this is #41 tonight). They didn’t play at all between 1943 and 1978. I’m a Michigan fan, and it’s been a big game for most of my life, but I have to acknowledge that ND has deeper rivalries with USC, Army, Navy, Purdue and Michigan State.
BTW, Devin Gardner wearing #98 is great.
tc
@Litlebritdifrnt:
Broadchurch was so fun. I streamed the whole series illegally after I read that the finale was the most tweeted drama show in British history. (Even more than Sherlock or Who!)
ps Geaux Tigers!
Infamous Heel-Filcher
Yeah, there’s a lot of history there. Some of it featuring the Klan. (Not kidding.)
jake the snake
At least the Mountaineers didn’t turn the ball over in 5 straight series and give Oklahoma 31 free points like my Hilltoppers did to Tennessee. Should have been a competitive game.
SmallAxe
WVU holding their own so far. Did Clowney even have a sack? The NCAA stats don’t show D.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Infamous Heel-Filcher:
I’m well aware. And before that post-WWI incarnation of the Klan, it was the WASPish attitude: It was not only Michigan blocking Notre Dame’s entrance into the conference, but also Michigan discouraging the other schools in the conference from including Notre Dame on their non-conference schedules.
raven
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOFFFFFFFF bitches! Beautiful day/night for a game and what a game.
raven
@SmallAxe: Yes, he had one. We did a great job neutralizing his rush and Murray made one spectacular move to juke him and throw a deep TD. Everyone knew they had problems at linebacker and d-backs and it showed up big time.
dollared
@Yatsuno: I had not known. It’s tough to be a Cougar football fan.
raven
Great snark!
Murray, Bobo beat .500 team, still looking for elusive big game win.
SmallAxe
@raven: Solid game Raven, glad I had action on your boys, must have been a great one to watch.
raven
@SmallAxe: God it was agonizing and elating. I’m wore out, can’t hear shit and wired!
Keith P
@SmallAxe: Yeah, Clowney had a sack against Murray early
MomSense
@Litlebritdifrnt:
And what is up between trailer lady and plumber partner and kid friend?
I also have this horrible feeling that Rory (he will always be Rory or the nose to me) is not necessarily a good guy.
Botsplainer
This is a real game! He’s going to regret burning those time outs, though.
mainmati
Well, it’s a lot closer than you seemed to predict. WV may lose but it will probably be close based on their defense which has been pretty good so far.
SmallAxe
Holy crap did anyone else see Eminem in the booth with Herbstreet and Brent, Like he’s completely out of it? I thought he was off the stuff. Herbstreet was laughing his ass off at him. Em came on looking completely catatonic WTF.
SmallAxe
They just did a second segment with Em (sorry Marshall Mathers) and he was a little more put together but boy that was a fail. Apparently he’s the new Saturday night football music, which is ok with me but I bet they don’t have him in the booth again.
Yatsuno
@dollared: I figure if there is one point Cougs and Dawgs can agree on, it is antipathy for the University of Spoiled Children. Been to that campus. Talk about the 1% exploiting their ostentatious behaviour.
/runs from Mnem and Burnsy
Keith P
@SmallAxe: I’m watching the full interview with Eminem, and he’s fully coherent. He was just joking around with the “live TV freaks me out” bit.
SmallAxe
@Keith P: Ya I figured he might be joking based on how much Herbstreit was laughing. Still I wouldn’t call it a “coherent” interview and I bet they don’t have him in the booth again.
Keith P
Ah, good, Auburn destroyed Arkansas State. BleacherReport was predicting Arkansas to win based on running through the Auburn defense, a prediction that frankly amazed me. Auburn was terrible last year, but they still have WAY better recruiting that AS. It showed this game. SEC still won’t be kind to them, though.