Auburn-Alabama is awfully interesting — Tigers just tied it up. The Dawgs just pulled within three after playing dead for a half. Go ‘Bama! Go Dawgs! Go ‘Cocks! Go Mizzou!
As for non-SEC teams, I guess I’m hoping UCLA and Stanford win, but I’m not very invested. I hope both TN and USC lose because both were stupid enough to hire Lane Kiffin.
PS: Looks like Coles’s team is winning. I’ll root for them for his sake. Go ‘Eers!
Yatsuno
WAR EAGLE!!
Just because I love BCS chaos.
Moonbatting Average
“Go ‘Bama”?
No thanks! I would like to haz an SEC-free championship, please, even if it’s FSU/OSU.
Betty Cracker
@Moonbatting Average: I’m an SEC homer all the way.
gwangung
Nerd Nation for the win!
(Well, it’s SLIGHTLY more dignified than Snodfart).
Yatsuno
@gwangung: GO TREES AND BROONZ!!!
@Betty Cracker:
No one is perfect Betty. No one is perfect.
KG
Many of the talking heads have been saying they really font think Auburn is the fourth best team in the country. If they happen to pull this out, I wonder if the song will change…
MomSense
Apparently B-J is doing request threads now so I would like to request some warm weather from Betty. It has been really cold here. Today it “warmed up” to 19.
The Dangerman
@Moonbatting Average:
You had me hooked and then tossed me back…
…but I’d love to see Saban lose and go to Texas for the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
schrodinger's cat
Open thread needs Caturday beach babe.
mclaren
By all means, let’s celebrate concussive brain damage. So many of the commenters appear to exhibit the symptoms, we might as well use it as a cause to par-tay.
Betty Cracker
@Yatsuno: Except the SEC in the last 7 national title games! Boo-yah! :-)
@MomSense: Yowza!
schrodinger's cat
Saw Gravity in 3D, I give it A-, mainly for the improbable hopping from one orbital object to another, even if they are not in the same orbit.
KG
@The Dangerman: how about FSU vs Clemson? Auburn win, Clemson win, Texas A&M win, then South Carolina and Michigan St win next weekend… I’m actually quite amazed at how many potential (though still likely improbable) combinations there are for the title game.
KG
Wow, just wow
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
99 YARDS!
BOOM.
Betty Cracker
And GA-GA Tech tied. Dayum!
James E. Powell
Although I only have two dogs to bear witness, I called both the play and the result before the ball was snapped.
NobodySpecial
I don’t much care, as long as I get to watch Herbstreit’s head explode Scanners-style if NIU takes out Bowling Green next week.
JPL
@Betty Cracker: my son is at the game and I’m texting him bama/auburn scores..
KG
@NobodySpecial: I usually root for the BCS busters, but NIU just hasn’t caught my imagination this year. Though I wouldn’t mind seeing what Lynch could do against an AQ defense
Mark S.
2 questionable 4th down plays.
Betty Cracker
Up the middle? Really? Jay. Zus.
The Dangerman
You have got to be shitting me.
ETA Alabama better win this game or Saban may learn about pitchforks; good grief.
JPL
@efgoldman: Personally I would have rather seen a safety to end the game but that’s just me.
JPL
uhoh.. i blame cole for the double post
KG
@Betty Cracker: here’s what we’re going to do, we are going to line up in a goal line formation, let them crowd the line of scrimmage, and then we are going to run it right at the obvious blitz!
I’m not a football tactician, but that still seems like a dumb play call in nearly every situation
Mr Stagger Lee
Personally I want a playoff and if what I hear how it is going to be set up, it will be F-up! With the new conference set ups, it is sad that all the great Thanksgiving rivalries are gone, Texas-Texas A&M(Texas-Texas Tech?) Pittsburgh-West Virginia, hell even Nebraska-Iowa have the sexiness of Nebraska-Oklahoma. I am thankful that UCLA-USC is going to be a game.
Thank you Jim Mora for turning that program around.
SiubhanDuinne
@Betty Cracker:
Groovy. Cool. Boss. Hip-hip hooray. Bee’s knees. Cat’s pajamas. 23-Skiddoo, also too.
KG
@Mr Stagger Lee: I have a feeling a few of those rivalry games will be back with the playoff if only because scheduling is supposed to matter again
SiubhanDuinne
I’m not even a football fan and have no idea what y’all are talking about most of the time, but I must admit there are a couple of very exciting games going on right now.
Yatsuno
@SiubhanDuinne: TIPPECANOE AND TYLER TOO!!!
KG
Well, looks like the Badgers of Wisconsin have played their way out of the BCS. And Baylor is doing their damnest to do the same
JPL
well that sucks
James E. Powell
Auburn is trying to do a two-minute drill without passing. Odd, very odd. Then the one pass scores a TD. Guess they fooled me and Alabama.
Betty Cracker
Ho. Lee. Shit!
The Dangerman
What Betty said upstairs. Wow.
ETA: What will Saban do in OT with his kicker?
KG
@The Dangerman: I’m pretty sure Saban has already revoked the kid’s scholarship
SiubhanDuinne
@Yatsuno: LOL, makes as much sense as most football talk :-)
Yatsuno
@KG: Assuming he’s on one. Kickers usually go on scholarship their senior year and are very rarely recruited. But to be fair the position isn’t developed on the high school level much.
Southern Beale
Televangelist Paul Crouch, grifter extraordinaire, has died. He’s the one whose wife has pink hair.
KG
Well, this is interesting…
gwangung
What. The. F??????
KG
Please stand by… The internet is about to burn down
? Martin
@Southern Beale: Uh, that’s not hair. Or, at least that’s not her hair.
MattR
So I just turned onto the Bama-Auburn game 30 seconds ago. If you are only gonna see one play …
Cheryl from Maryland
Auburn runback holy shit
JCJ
Holy shot!
Yatsuno
@MattR: Ahem.
WAR EAGLE BABY!!!
Oh and GO TREES AND BROONZ!!!
Mark S.
I’ve never seen a game end like that!
JPL
@Cheryl from Maryland: i said holy crap
James E. Powell
Auburn gives us a finish that is even more amazing than the finish against Georgia. I didn’t think that was possible.
The Dangerman
Unfuckingbelievable.
ETA: Saban should know better and there are pitchforks that are being polished as we type.
khead
Best. Ending. Ever.
SiubhanDuinne
Jeez. I could learn to love college football. That was amazing.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Yatsuno: Trees seem to be doing well. Go Bruins!
Wearing my Bearware, got blue on the tongue and nose.
Mr Stagger Lee
God said WAR EAGLE! Thank You Auburn! Oh BTW since I don’t have cable I am watching this on Serious Sports TV streaming if there is a better stream I am open. Now to South Carolina Clemson then UCLA-USC.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
You must be fucking kidding.
From the land of sanity, at one point in the middle of the first period the shots on goal were 5-4 in favor of Princeton. At the game’s end it was 48-11 the other way and the Gophers had all six goals. The second and third periods were as thorough a dismantling as I can remember.
BillinGlendaleCA
Domers moving in the wrong direction
MattR
I think the best replay was watching the face of #56 on Auburn go from complete disbelief to amazement and joy as he realized that it actually happened.
(EDIT: My joy is occassionally replaced by cynical thoughts of Alabama still ending up in the National Championship Game)
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
The angle I want to see on that play is what was happening while the ball was in the air. My guess is that Auburn was setting up a return in case the kick came up short while Bama was just watching the ball.
Keith P
I am total shock at that ending. The Georgia game was one thing, plus there was 25 seconds for Aaron Murray to work, but this is the friggin’ IRON BOWL. How improbable a win? The refs put a second back on the clock when the game had “ended”. Nick Saban decides to have a redshirt freshman attempt a 57 yd field goal instead of try a Hail Marshall. Auburn *catches* the miss and goes 105 yards for…the…win! Delirious is about how I feel after this one. What a season for Gus Malzahn, and I hope they get to leapfrog Ohio State.
PS, Auburn will break Twitter tonight.
The Dangerman
Watching live, I thought the kick had a chance; I never thought a return would work because, again, Saban should have been better prepared. 11 made one move and it was ballgame. Wow.
ETA: JMN may have called it a couple posts back; Bama maybe thought it had a chance too and got caught watching. Wow.
JPL
Congrats to Auburn and this is from someone who rooted for Bama the entire game. Just wow. Once second left and a field goal attempt gone awry and then at least 109 yard run back. Just wow..
also, too.. the bcs game is gonna suck
James E. Powell
@The Dangerman:
JMN may have called it a couple posts back; Bama maybe thought it had a chance too and got caught watching.
I agree with you & JMN – It was straight and they wouldn’t be able to see how short until the ball came down. Also, as Danielson pointed out, the Alabama players were linemen & blockers, not kick coverage guys.
But that ending came straight from the football gods – they loathe hubris. Should have let play end and go to overtime, but no. Saban had to have one more second. Football gods say, you really want another second? Okay, here it is!
MattR
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): Just caught a replay that showed it. Both teams were pretty much watching the ball. One Bama lineman was hustling downfield (#79 I think) and may have been behind the 2 other Auburn guys who started off behind the line and dropped back a bit but did not really sprint downfield. But he was on the kick returners right and was nowhere near fast enough to get across the field. What really worked out for Auburn was that they focused their kick rush to the left side and the kick ended up floating to the left a bit as well. So they ended up with three or four guys in position to wall off the rest of the Bama linemen.
Mr Stagger Lee
Hey isn’t this the 2nd time Auburn did this coming from dispair to win, a new version of the Cardiac Kids??
raven
GO DAWGS!!!!
Betty Cracker
@Keith P: What a game! If Mizzou wins tonight, whichever team then goes on to win the SEC ought to leapfrog OSU. Probably won’t. But SHOULD.
khead
Auburn is now rooting for Michigan State. And the State of Florida.
Betty Cracker
@raven: Helluva comeback!
Keith P
@The Dangerman: I thought the kick was good when it went in the air, but then I started seeing #11 getting ready to catch it, and it dawned on me why he was even in the endzone. Once he took off, though, it just seemed like he was going to go all the way given the kind of season Auburn’s had (going back to the Ole Miss game, where they won at the end). 2010 was incredible and all, but this season has just been something special. How on earth does one team have a Georgia ending AND an Iron Bowl ending in the same season (back to back, no less)? And I guess it goes without saying that Malzahn is coach of the year…doesn’t seem like it should even be close at this point.
BGinCHI
HOLY shit. That AL-Auburn game was crazy!!
Hey Saban, your kicking game needs improvement.
I was rooting for injuries, but at least I got entertainment.
What happened at the end of the UGA game?
SiubhanDuinne
@Southern Beale:
He always kind of fascinated me in a cobra-sparrow way. I never fell for his griftshit, but I can understand, in a way, the hypnotic effect he had on the marks at home, with their telephones and credit cards at the ready. Not sorry he’s gone but I don’t wish him any special ill other than the karmic.
The Dangerman
I still can’t believe, 4th and 2, a field goal basically seals it, and Bama went for it (and, yes, the prior 4th down call was wrong, too, on Auburn’s part). I see the SEC is already lobbying for a 1 loss SEC team to leapfrog either OSU or FSU; good luck with that unless it’s Alabama somehow doing the leapfrogging (and I don’t see how they can leapfrog the winner of Auburn/Missouri if that’s the game).
ETA: If only Michigan had won, we could have had chaos.
JPL
So who plays in the national championship game… Baylor??????????
FlipYrWhig
How many college kickers have a shot in hell of making a 57 yard FG anyway? That was one insane decision by Saban.
drkrick
@MattR: That really was amazing, wasn’t it?
Most improbable win since Auburn’s last game. Has anybody ever put more improbable game winning plays back to back?
tybee
i’ve been torturing my alabama friends all week, telling them that auburn was gonna win.
for some reason, i’ve not heard anything from them since the game ended. :)
Raven – how was the offshore trip?
Ed in NJ
@KG:
You could always watch the highlights of last year’s Orange Bowl for that.
Betty Cracker
@The Dangerman: Duke could beat FSU or Michigan State could beat OSU. Honestly, I would not be surprised.
indycat32
National dog show on NBC
ira-NY
Saban is lucky he is Saban. Anyone else would be tarred, feathered and run out of town on a rail for the decisions he made in the 4th quarter.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
So, Alabama’s national title hopes now hinge on Duke winning the ACC crown. In football.
Betty Cracker
@indycat32: Go Boxers!
@ira-NY: You got that right!
Keith P
Best part of this Iron Bowl is that it actually lived up to the hype. Was supposed to be the greatest Iron Bowl of all time, and a strong case could be made that it was. Contrast with the Bama-LSU game from a couple of years back (“Game of the Century”) that turned into a 9-6 snoozefest. Games like this rarely live up to the hype, but this one was hyped to all ends but was a fantastic game – the teams traded TDs all game long and literally came down to the last second.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
I think it’s safe to say that no unit on any sports team anywhere in the world has had a worse day than the Alabama field goal unit. Four attempts for -6 points.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
Auburn must be given their due.
And I hate it. And will for another 364 days or so.
Mr Stagger Lee
@The Dangerman: Call me a conspiracy kook but doesn’t ESPN own the SEC Channel? I bet the orders to the writers and producers are being given from Bristol. Besides we don’t want to see Lee Corso with a sad face, do we?
Mr Stagger Lee
@The Dangerman: Call me a conspiracy kook but doesn’t ESPN own the SEC Channel? I bet the orders to the writers and producers are being given from Bristol. Besides we don’t want to see Lee Corso with a sad face, do we?
Yatsuno
@ira-NY: He still might be. Saban was selling the ‘Bama boosters on perfect records forever. Now that he not only lost but lost the Iron Bowl he still might be okay but he still will have a lot more pressure on him now.
OT: the latest iteration of IE sucks. And blows.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@Keith P: There are a lot of times I like watching two defenses dominate a game.
Belafon
@Yatsuno: In 96-97 there was an Indiana Jones computer game. We could never get past the parrot that would say that.
Mr Stagger Lee
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): Oh God Lee Corso praying to God Dickie V’s team to win, I guess unless the Florida DA went to Duke, no it won’t happen.
PaulW
My mom is pure War Eagle Auburn alum.
She is orbiting Jupiter right about now.
This is why we watch football, despite the scandal, despite the concussion woes. We watch for the unbelievable moments.
This was not just another game. This was not just another team. This was a rivalry game with everything on the line.
I’m a Gators / USF Bulls alum, but I gotta tip my hat to mom’s team. Best of luck, Auburn. Let’s see if you can play for the big title.
PaulW
@indycat32:
The Auburn dog is gonna win it. #WarEagle
PaulW
@James E. Powell:
Saban: (ball incoming) I got it, I got it, I got it!
BOOM
Tombstone: He got it.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Betty Cracker:
I can picture both happening, especially MSU over OSU. The Buckeyes, throughout the length of this unbeaten streak, haven’t seen defense that’s close to as good as that which the Spartans have played this year- and I don’t think that OSU has the sort of defense that can hold the Spartans’ slightly-below-average offense under 20.
raven
@tybee: Nothing we could keep. We hit big runs of trigger and red snapper but had to throw them back. Our friends got here last night and my buddy and fished the beach for three hours before the game. Not much happenin but the weather turned nicer and, for his first time, he really liked it. Going to get a full day tomorrow and continue to be hopeful.
mainmata
The most amazing game ending I’ve seen in a long time with Auburn scoring a TD from their own end zone on a missed field goal from Alabama in the last seconds of the game. Shock and mayhem. Actually beat out the Penn State- WI game for sheer upset drama. All in all an interesting football game.
SiubhanDuinne
@Yatsuno:
Simultaneously? Neat trick :-)
JordanRules
Was that a loooong ass second or was that just me?
Jokes about Tomlin being needed on the Bama sideline are cracking me up, even though that’s my coach. Can’t wait for the photoshop.
Great game. On to the territorial bowl shortly; fork ’em Devils!
Yatsuno
@SiubhanDuinne: It’s awful. Crashes early and often. Takes forever to download ads with no option of blocking them. I had to dump that thing like the hot mess it is.
@efgoldman: We’re going to Office 2010 at my work sometime in the near future. That. Is. Going. To. Suck.
JPL
The last second of the /bama game made Matt Brown smile. Truth be know, Saban would go for the f.g. again.
JPL
The last second of the /bama game made Matt Brown smile. Truth be know, Saban would go for the f.g. again.
KG
@Mr Stagger Lee: ESPN has deals with all the conferences, there’s no benefit for them to fluff one over the other. Sports media (and particularly the opinion portion of the sports media) tends towards not accepting anything other than the status quo. The SEC has won 7 in a row, therefore they must still be good and a one loss SEC team must still be the best because that’s what we’ve seen for the last 7 years. Alabama was a two touchdown favorite and lost. I doubt they’ll be punished for that, and will probably not drop much further than 5, which gives them a shot to get into the title game.
KG
@efgoldman:
pretty sure that’s been Microsoft’s motto since 1998 or so.
JPL
@KG: There is no way they get in the title game!
SiubhanDuinne
@PaulW: My ex was a Gator, and I’m a USF alum myself (although it must be admitted, I was there so long ago they didn’t even have a football team in my day).
22over7
My kid is at the USC-UCLA game (did I tell you that she got accepted to grad school at USC? I know I must have, because I’ve been bragging about it for months now). Be on the lookout for her! She’ll be the gorgeous young woman in the stands…
SiubhanDuinne
@Yatsuno: My Big Foreign Gummint Department recently (within the last year) converted to Office 2010.
Another reason to be glad I’m retired.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@SiubhanDuinne:
I sometimes get the feeling that you remember the days before the Sumerians invented cuneiform.
SiubhanDuinne
@efgoldman:
Yes, the Ribbon. Jeezuss.
KG
@efgoldman: nope, non-champs will be able to get into the playoffs. I think preference will be given to champs, but you could have the equivalent to the UNC/Duke basketball scenario where two of the top teams end up among the best in the country.
@JPL: They’ll probably need Duke and/or Michigan State to win next week. Then depending on how things go tonight, they could get back in against either Clemson or the SEC champ. I doubt that Saban has that much left on his soulcreditcard, but it’s not entirely out of the realm of possibilities. It all comes down to how forgiving (or not) the polls and computers are.
Yatsuno
@efgoldman: We’ve already had some training on it. The Ribbon needs to die. With fire.
@22over7:
I must have missed that, but congrats! I will uphold their academic reputation, 10 foot high walls around the campus notwithstanding.
JPL
@22over7: I’ll be looking for her. My son and his s.o. went to the tech game today and I didn’t even try to look for them.. There were other games on TV at the same time. .
SiubhanDuinne
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):
What is this new-fangled cuneiform of which you speak?
KG
@22over7:
while I have many problems with USC (many, many problems), their quotient of gorgeous young women is not among them.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@SiubhanDuinne:
How about human speech?
SiubhanDuinne
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):
Runes, baby. Runes.
JPL
@KG: Ain’t gonna happen.
BillinGlendaleCA
@KG: If you like blonds, me have no use for them.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@SiubhanDuinne:
Aww, I lobbed ya a softball, dead center of the plate…The correct reply is *grunt*- which I’m sure raven remembers well.
KG
@JPL: I doubt it will, and honestly, I think they’ll drop a decent amount in the rankings that it won’t be an issue. Assuming a Mizzou win tonight, the SEC champ could get in with an FSU or OSU loss next weekend, but I am not so sure that’ll happen either.
@BillinGlendaleCA: lots of blonds, yes, but they’ve got some diversity.
BillinGlendaleCA
@KG: Asians with blond hair does work very well after their over 25.
Yatsuno
@BillinGlendaleCA: It unfortunately is much more common among da yootz in Japan and Korea. If you get around the Shinjuku area that can turn all kinds of neat colours of the rainbow.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Yatsuno: It can work if you’re under 25.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@efgoldman:
Hey, look over there! It’s someone trying to cut your Social Security benefits!
[exit, unnoticed, stage left]
BillinGlendaleCA
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): …and Medicare.
[Ducks]
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
C’mon, Trees.
Betty Cracker
Mizzou-A&M and Carolina-Clemson games are cliffhangers too. With the exception of my alma mater’s wretched showing, this has been a great day to watch NCAA football.
ET
Feck.
I hate Auburn. I hope they get their butts kicked at the SEC championship.
Yatsuno
@Betty Cracker: It’s looking like a decent day to be a Tigger. At least so far.
EDIT: THEY PUNTED??? WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT?????
Betty Cracker
@Yatsuno: Missouri or Auburn Tigers, yes. Clemson, not so much.
BruinKid
We’ll be singing “I came in like a wrecking Barr” tonight for #11 Anthony Barr, for his awesome play tonight against USC in our 35-14 victory!!! Oh, and about this creepy smack talk from USC coach Ed Orgeron?
So… I guess that means all those Trojan fans trying to escape in the 4th quarter before the game was over couldn’t leave. :-P
dmbeaster
If OSU beats MSU, they are in the title game with FSU. Please SEC fans, spare us the baloney about leapfrogging. A one loss team has no place over an unbeaten OSU, whether it is Alabama or Auburn.
OSU v. MSU is not a gimme.