<p>I believe I was the only person in the stands last week at Autzen who hated those pink helmets. They will be auctioning them off for charity, at least…!</p>
<p>Haha - The Gators survive another close call against a Southern “powerhouse” a la 1-5 North Carolina or 4-4 Wake F. </p>
<p>Reality should hit them hard in the next two weeks. And until then, those mediocre games will not impact their … ranking. :)</p>
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<p>Nice save, Razor. :)</p>
<p>The reality is that it takes a formidable team and an awesome gameplan to derail the Oregon juggernaut. Everyone knows how explosive they can be, but few realize that their defense is able to stop most teams. It is not a unidimensional team. </p>
<p>UCLA has been way underrated this season and few games in the PAC-12 are walks in the park. For the easy schedules loaded with glorified HS teams, one needs to look to the southeastern part of the US or whatever area is now covered by the ever expanding Big 10. Is that not from Maine to Montana now. /sarcasm</p>
<p>UCLA looked like an underrated team the first half, but an overrated team the second half. The Duck’s uniforms were still ugly but not as ugly as the prior week. As much money as they spent on their new facility, surely the Ducks could hire a uniform designer and get some new threads.</p>
<p>As many people love the uniforms every week as hate them. I thought they were cool.</p>
<p>Incredible comeback by South Carolina against Missouri. Kudos to SC’s qb Connor Shaw, coming off the bench with a sprained knee to lead them to 5 straight scoring drives.</p>
<p>I watched the SC/Missouri game and it clearly looked like Missouri was destroying SC but SC came back. Missouri looked like a much better team. And what happened to Clowney? I expected better but maybe I have fallen for the hype around that guy.</p>
<p>Sc had a big edge in TOP and outgained the Tigers by quite a bit, but they were killing themselves with turnovers.</p>
<p>And clearly SC is a different team when the 1st string QB is playing, even when limping around on a bum knee.</p>
<p>We were flicking around, and every time we passed through the UCLA-Oregon game in the 2nd half, it seemed like Oregon had scored another TD. Kudos to UCLA for keeping them under 45 though.</p>
<p>Just watched the Oakland QB run for 93 yards and a TD. That used to be called a “quarterback sneak” but he wasn’t doing much sneaking.</p>
<p>Just watched the Cowboys throw it away.</p>
<p>That was a quarterback draw play that caught Pittsburgh sleeping.</p>
<p>Nice comeback by the Pats, with a little assist from the refs. Some weeks you get the breaks, some weeks you don’t.</p>
<p>Calvin Johnson missed setting the all-time receiving yards in a game record by 7 yards, with 329 yards. The record is held by someone named Flipper Anderson… I do not remember him at all.</p>
<p>That Cowboys linebacker kept them in the game. Megatron was on fire. I wish he had broken the record but he got beat by Flipper. With a name like Flipper he should have played for the Dolphins but apparently he played for the Rams.</p>
<p>Sean Lee? Yeah, his INTs lifted the spirits until the offense could get going. I just don’t know what happened, time-mgmt-wise, on that next-to-last drive. We really blew it.</p>
<p>Penalty I’d love to see: complaining by receivers and DB’s after nearly every incompletion. “Acting like a baby! Five yard penalty.” would be the call.</p>
<p>DB fails to stop when receiver does, starts running around to officials complaining he was pushed - yeah, at full speed 5 yards downfield. Receiver falls down, immediately has both arms raised like one of those faking soccer players. </p>
<p>You know, unless the QB heaved it out of bounds, I was interfered with.</p>
<p>I’m ready for Alabama vs. FSU for national championship.</p>
<p>Flipper Anderson was a LA Ram. We Giant fans remember him</p>
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<p>Yep, you and those people who show their biases in the pre-season polls and make sure to rank enough average teams high enough to pretend teams a la Clemson and Miami deserve a high ranking. The reality is that the ACC is one heck of soft division. The downfall of Florida State will be the other side of the coin that allows to play glorified HS teams plus an overrated Clemson and Miami. All in all, nothing can undo that joke of a schedule even when they run the tables. </p>
<p>To put it mildly, all Oregon has to do is also win out (with an incredibly hard schedule) and it can claim the second (and probably the first spot in the BCS.)</p>
<p>Fwiw, while it would take a miracle for FSU to lose against the creampuffs it plays, it is feasible Alabama might hit a roadmine as they have games against LSU and Auburn. </p>
<p>All in all, one should be happy with the arrival of the playoff system that might bring an end to that ridiculously biased and rigged system that ensures that a team like FSU is a de facto favorite to be in the national championship discussion.</p>
<p>Oregon has one tough game left against Stanford. And any school that schedules Nicholls doesn’t really have a leg to stand on when it comes to playing “glorified HS teams”.</p>
<p>Anyway, Oregon is now ranked #2, so what are you complaining about?</p>
<p>In the Patriots/Dolphins game, Logan Mankins - Mr. Super Tough Guy All Pro - looked for the entire first half like he was being paid by the Dolphins to stand around and let them at Brady. He gave up 2 simple one-on-one sacks where he barely even moved as his guy ran right past him. On another play, his man simply shoved him back, back, back until he was knocking Brady over. He miss read a simple LB stunt, turning to block a guy already engaged by the center and then, realizing his mistake, whiffing on the LB as he came by. Remember the game where James Harrison embarrassed the rookie left tackle over and over on Monday Night Football? (And his team wouldn’t give him help, which meant it was as much a coaching problem.) This was as bad.</p>
<p>Haha did you just say Oregon has an incredibly hard schedule? West Coast Bias, I already disproved your statements on Strength of Schedule pages back</p>