Week 11 College Football Gamethread: The Glorious Return of #MACtion

[McBride11]

That's Melissa Joan Hart with Anthony Anderson in these Wal-Mart commercials?? Clarissa got chunky

 

[PaulinMyrBch]

I guess Texas got tired off ripping off 20 yard runs. Them passing has let WVU hang around.

 

[Infield Infidel]

Does that say more about UT or the Big 12?

 
A little from column A, a little from column B. They are the only big 12 team giving up fewer than 5 yards/play in conference games. 

 

[canderson]

WVU missed the FG, late in the 3rd still 24-3 good guys.

 

[SoxJox]

Penn State stays alive for a bowl...cough, cough, wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez.
 
Next up: Hooty Hoot.  Temple.

 

[Old Fart Tree]

nm

 

[Senator Donut]

nm

 

[Infield Infidel]

Auburn is unreal. 

 

[Traut]

Can Auburn come back? 38-31 with 15:00 to go.

 

[Al Zarilla]

Can Auburn come back? 38-31 with 15:00 to go.

Pinball machine college ball? Sure. Anybody's game.

 

[BigMike]

ASU choking huge now
 
Little bitty balls right there.    You have to go for the 4th and inches there

 

[canderson]

What a horrible throw by Stoops. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

 

[Dan to Theo to Ben]

nice pass D, sun devils

 

[BigMike]

Good thing you punted and played field position there ASU.   You forced ND to spend at least an extra 17 seconds on that TD drive

 

[Luis Taint]

ASU has shit all over itself.

 

[Dan to Theo to Ben]

the $64,000 question is what is Hambone drinking right now

 

[BigMike]

Notre Dame can't win this.  They don't dare wipe the great joe Montana off the history books

 

[Old Fart Tree]

Such a Northwestern ending.

 

[Infield Infidel]

ASU seriously need that TD

 

[BigMike]

Now ASU has to at least slow ND down on this drive,  can't let thrm score in 30 seconds

 

[Luis Taint]

Just wow

 

[Al Zarilla]

TA&M guy has a 3.61 GPA in pre-med and is a Rhodes Scholar nominee, why would he want Red Lobster linked to his name?

 

[Dan to Theo to Ben]

Count em!

 

[Traut]

Impressive drive by Auburn. Going to be a wild finish.

 

[Greg29fan]

Nick Marshall is even better than Eli Manning at the deep heave into double coverage that is inexplicably horribly covered and caught.

 

[E5 Yaz]

ASU has shit all over itself.

 
And now?

 

[Vinho Tinto]

 
And now?

Yes, they bravely held on to their 31 point lead.

 

[Al Zarilla]

Remember when college scores averaged like 13 - 10, so they opened it up? I think they need to tweak it back.

 

[WayBackVazquez]

Uh, not even going to question the sportsmanship of that, Sean?

 

[SumnerH]

How do you propose they do that?

Two feet inbounds for a catch.

 

[BigMike]

Remember when college scores averaged like 13 - 10, so they opened it up? I think they need to tweak it back.

 
Part of the problem is the WR are so freaking good now, and that doesn't seem to be changing.

 

[Traut]

Marshall is going to win this thing for Auburn.

 

[BigMike]

Wow, Jesus turned against the Domers, and rooted for the Devils?
 
Told ya, ND cant erase Montana's Cotton Bowl from the record book

 

[WayBackVazquez]

Holy shit, turns out Jesus Christ was on Todd Graham's side against Notre Dame.

 

[Al Zarilla]

How do you propose they do that?

something like let the defense hold up receivers coming off the line more. Get rid of the clock stop on first down rule.

 

[Traut]

Holy shit - A&M ball. Marshall fugged up. 

 

[Luis Taint]

Oopsie

 

[Dollar]

Man, I hate when the play-by-play guy is SO sure that the ball is recovered by one team, when it's clearly a 50/50 ball.

 

[BigMike]

Well that is going to be reviewed.   Huge fumble.  Not quite sure how Auburn didn't recover.   TAMU might just have a chance

 

[Senator Donut]

Get rid of the clock stop on first down rule.

Shortening the game in order to reduce scoring seems like a terrible idea.

 

[Dan to Theo to Ben]

No words on the selfishness by Marshall there.

 

[SumnerH]

Well that is going to be reviewed.   Huge fumble.  Not quite sure how Auburn didn't recover.   TAMU might just have a chance

Amazing.

 

[Oppo]

That shoulda been auburn ball

 

[Al Zarilla]

Shortening the game in order to reduce scoring seems like a terrible idea.

NFL does that (no clock stoppage on first downs). NFL scoring isn't so out of control.

 

[BigMike]

something like let the defense hold up receivers coming off the line more. Get rid of the clock stop on first down rule.

 
Defense might give up more if they try to play more press coverage.
 
Getting rid of clock stop on first?  I don't know,  seems like you don't want to eliminate last minute drives.   That makes no sense to me.
 
The 2 feet on out of bounds might help a bit,  but not sure it is for the best.
 
You could do something like limit the number of eligible receivers to 4.  That is about the only thing that I can imagine that would help significantly.   You could also make some rule changes relative to balancing the field.  ie,  no 3 or 4 WR's on one side of the field. 

 

[Infield Infidel]

Why on earth would you ever call a shotgun pitch in the endzone?

 

[Dan to Theo to Ben]

A asafety wouldnt' be the worst thing in the world for TAMU though

 

[BigMike]

Honestly, I think TAMU should just take the safety here

 

[McBride11]

wow 27 blew that play up for Auburn even as being held. Is that reviewable for a safety?
 
edit: yes, yes it is. thank you ref

 

[WayBackVazquez]

Shortening the game in order to reduce scoring seems like a terrible idea.

 
Really? CFB attendance is down, it's probably largely due to the increased length of games.