College Football Week Eight Game Thread

Feels like the first real weekend of the season, even without the Pac 12 joining in just yet. Gameday has a big slate to kick around.

cornwalls@6 said:

Feels like the first real weekend of the season, even without the Pac 12 joining in just yet. Gameday has a big slate to kick around.

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Yeah, over 40 games tomorrow. I think 42. There hasn't been over 28 games so far this year. There were 18 games played on Week 3. 8 games on Week 1.

I'll enjoy it while it lasts. Although somehow college seems to be pulling it off. Maybe the players are distancing?

Nebraska-Ohio St is competitive so far. 14-14.

Noles D is awful today

Talked myself into thinking Syracuse might hang around until late............ Not so much.

SemperFidelisSox said:

Nebraska-Ohio St is competitive so far. 14-14.

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Ohio State has dominated from that moment. Ultimately the talent was going to win out here. But respect for Nebraska for making it a game for a quarter and a half.

Rutgers beat Michigan State. Wow, Sparty has really fallen.

canderson said:

Rutgers beat Michigan State. Wow, Sparty has really fallen.

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View: https://twitter.com/PFTCommenter/status/1320047033848311819?s=20

Nebraska wanted football back so bad just to lose by 35 on national tv again?

Rough first half for Penn State with 3 turnovers

They used to write books about the ‘Third Saturday in October’ rivalry. Now Alabama-Tennessee is just hammer and nail.

cornwalls@6 said:

Talked myself into thinking Syracuse might hang around until late............ Not so much.

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Why would you do that to yourself?

nolasoxfan said:

Why would you do that to yourself?

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Ha, no real rooting interest. Just like an upset.

Indiana is a 2 point conversion away from sending this game to OT.

Edit: got it. Indiana - Penn State going to OT. PennState had HORRIFIC clock management - this game should have been over.

Wait IU just did a basically inside kick/failed squib what the actual fuck are they thinking. Penn State has the ball at the IU 49 with 20 seconds left.

Edit: just missed a 57 yard game winning FG. This game is a case study in terrible clock management. Andy Reid would be envious.

canderson said:

Indiana is a 2 point conversion away from sending this game to OT.

Edit: got it. Indiana - Penn State going to OT. PennState had HORRIFIC clock management - this game should have been over.

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Pretty nifty run for the 2pt conversion there. He was surrounded.

Now going for ye olde college 57 yarder. Odds of this? 8%. Probably less.

Man, he missed by inches.

IU scores at TD... go for 2?

MuzzyField said:

IU scores at TD... go for 2?

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I would.

Edit it’s not in but do they overturn kt?

Me too, at home.

They agree... LFG!

nope

So incredibly close

How do you overrule that?

I think, in this instance, you just give it to IU.

Tough loss here is you're an under bettor. Merely needed 32 points in the 4th quarter to lose. Got that and plenty more.

johnmd20 said:

I think, in this instance, you just give it to IU.

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I agree - it’s so borderline I don’t think you can definitely change the ruling.

Edit: upheld. Wow Indiana beats Penn State.

By a nose is my call...

Great win in Indiana history? Probably not but I'm not unhappy.

Yay!

agree with that. Think he was short but I don’t know he was short and the live call was that it was good

No video to prove the nose of the ball didn't crosstie plane of the GL before the ball hit OB. Correct call.

If it was called short on the field that call should have stood.

The ball hit out of bounds before it touched the pylon, and the pylon isn’t in bounds anyway. There’s no need to defer to a call on the field. That was ridiculous. Great game, though.

Lol Michigan

Penn State could have won the game if their RB doesn't score late in the game. That's on them. Ball don't lie.

Fred in Lynn said:

The ball hit out of bounds before it touched the pylon, and the pylon isn’t in bounds anyway. There’s no need to defer to a call on the field. That was ridiculous. Great game, though.

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It's not about the pylon... it's about the nose and breaking the plane before hitting the ground and the video was inconclusive... call stands.

If the camera truck stand is on the goal line instead of at the 2 or 3 we get the angle to overturn... or not.

Oh great... Smurf Turf!

Gophers!!

MuzzyField said:

It's not about the pylon... it's about the nose and breaking the plane before hitting the ground and the video was inconclusive... call stands.

If the camera truck stand is on the goal line instead of at the 2 or 3 we get the angle to overturn... or not.

Oh great... Smurf Turf!

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If the ball doesn’t get inside the pylon, which it didn’t, how does it break the plane if it’s touching the white out of bounds before it touches the pylon? You’ve described a scenario that didn’t exist on this play.

Fred in Lynn said:

If the ball doesn’t get inside the pylon, which it didn’t, how does it break the plane if it’s touching the white out of bounds before it touches the pylon? You’ve described a scenario that didn’t exist on this play.

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I disagree, it's not where the ball lands. The video didn't prove what your think exists. What angle is the ball at? It's not perpendicular to the line... where is the nose of the ball? Can't tell conclusively by the replays and the call on the field stands and replay works!

MuzzyField said:

I disagree, it's not where the ball lands. The video didn't prove what your think exists. What angle is the ball at? It's not perpendicular to the line... where is the nose of the ball? Can't tell conclusively by the replays and the call on the field stands and replay works!

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My impression is that you’re arguing that replay “works” because the officials made a ruling on the field, announced that the play “stands” (a subjective term of art), and nobody is throwing spears at each other for women and food stores. Conversely, they could have ruled the play was overturned and replay still would be considered to “work.” That argument doesn’t really get at whether he was over the line.

I’d say the long axis of the ball is at about a 10-15 degree angle from the sideline, and I think that’s a generous estimate. I don’t see how that really matters. The view from the sideline a few feet from the incident was more than adequate to show that the ball is touching out of bounds before it touches the pylon. Also, the view from high above the back of the end zone shows that the ball never made it inside the pylon. Both of those together make it impossible for the ball to have broken the plane.

It seems you’re arguing that replay “works” because the officials made a ruling on the field, announced that the play “stands” (a subjective term of art), and nobody is throwing spears at each other for women and food stores. Conversely, they could have ruled the play was overturned and replay still would be considered to “work.” That argument doesn’t really get at whether he was over the line.

Referees have to make calls on the field and then decisions on replay. I think they got this one wrong. Oh well. As someone pointed out earlier, when players don’t execute (28’s lack of situational awareness even though his and Franklin’s responses suggested he was told to get down), when you turn the ball over in your own territory, when you take a lot of stupid or untimely penalties, and when you miss a couple of pretty easy FGs, the answer can usually be found in a mirror.

mauf said:

Minnesota has looked like the better team for long stretches, but they’re down 21-10 on account of three terrible plays.

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This game is a great illustration of why time of possession is rarely a meaningful statistic.

Crazy missed FG: https://sports.yahoo.com/rice-kicker-misses-gamewinning-field-goal-attempt-after-it-bounces-four-times-off-the-uprights-234655151.html