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I just don't understand how you leave Hutchinson all alone. Nobody was within a yard of him on any of his catches, usually not 3 or 4 yards. Secondary was REALLY dogging it today. On that one TD, Jordan was jogging after the receiver made his move before he realized he needed to cover the guy. And then he never dived for at least a chance to tackle the guy by the ankle. And all day a receiver would get hit and everybody stood around and waited for the one guy to make the tackle (3 or 4 yards later) instead of flying to the ball. Were they all hungover from the night before?

Cain dropped a wide open pass for us also.

Rick Neuheisel? He said a couple days ago Washington and Oregon is a done deal, just a question of when. Brett McMurphy has never reversed his frequently repeated position that the Big 10 people were telling him they were expanding more on the west coast. He expected UW, Oregon, Stanford and Cal. Big 10 commissioner Warren said the other day expansion wasn't his top priority, but he still expected 18-20 team conferences, but wasn't sure whether the timeline was within 1 year, 5 years or 7 years. Pretty clear he was referring to the Big 10 and SEC expanding to 18-20 team conferences.

The $55 million CBS contract still controls the 3:30 SEC time slot for one more year. CBS isn't giving that up. And without that change to the over $300 million ESPN contract, there's not much incentive to move in 2023.

It doesn't really screw us, just the R8. They will want OU and UT at home as much as possible the next two years. If we are here 2 more years, BU, TCU, TT, OSU, KU, KSU, ISU, WVU and the OU game are likely our 9 road games. OU will be the same.

Why would the conference do that? The R8 would want to get Texas and OU at home.

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-football/news/big-ten-commissioner-kevin-warren-expansion-not-something-we’re-doing/yhkdudzkguta6y6e4j5nqbsb Money quote: "...When people ask me right now: Do I think certain conferences may grow through a natural evolution to 18 or 20 schools? I do believe that. Now, over what time period is the critical question. I don’t know if that’s within a year, or five years, or seven years. I just think there’s been kind of like that … kind of like the Big Ten grew in the past. I just think there’s going to be some natural growth. But I made it very clear: Some of my can’t-miss priorities, the things that I have to make sure we execute flawlessly are:..."

https://www.ajc.com/sports/kennesaw-state-on-track-to-join-conference-usa-move-up-to-fbs/EGHB7WFBLZGWDPCQPQRBMCIM2Q/ "Kennesaw State received conditional approval from Georgia’s Board of Regents on Wednesday to move its athletic programs to Conference USA, launching its football program to the NCAA’s highest and more lucrative level of competition. The one condition the university must meet is a demonstration of support from student and faculty governing bodies and other community members. Then, University System of Georgia Chancellor Sonny Perdue can sign off on the move. Other details of Kennesaw State’s potential shift from the ASUN to Conference USA have not been disclosed, and there was little discussion of the move during this week’s Board of Regents meetings held at Dalton State College. ESPN reported that the school is expected to join its new conference in 2024...."

Right. Just like you aren't an asshole for failing to admit you specifically said "Atlanta Metropolitan Statistical Area" in your initial post I corrected. Right???🙂

Wrong. It is not in the Atlanta Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is a separate Athens MSA. The commuting patterns make it separate. It is in the Combined Statistical Area. That's where they throw in Athens, Rome (practically to Tennessee), LaGrange (practically to Alabama), Thomaston (halfway to Florida) and a bunch of other communities. With DFW, its when they throw in everything from Corsicana to Mineral Wells to Sherman to Durant, OK. With Houston, they include Huntsville, Brenham, El Campo and Bay City.

I'd settle for another Blake decade, not 2+. When your biggest rival is Rice level bad, however, it takes some of the fun out of it. Nobody really cared about aggy in the 70s. They had been bad for decades. We had to promote pig and commuter aggy to our 2nd and 3rd biggest rivals behind OU.

And maybe Riley knew something the rest of us didn't when he cut and ran for the coast. His cupboard may have been empty. And he took what was valuable there with him.

Georgia is actually just outside the Atlanta metro area, but only about 75 minutes from downtown Atlanta. Georgia State and Georgia Tech are both in downtown Atlanta. KSU is about 25 miles NW. They have an 8300 seat stadium. The way it is aligned, it will be difficult to expand. Its nice and relatively new, but little. Atlanta United sometimes plays there. Atlanta United 2 uses it as its home base (think AAA soccer). KSU has 40,000 students and on campus housing, but the kids all go home on weekends, so its a lot like a commuter campus. Baseball, softball and basketball are also new, nice and small, but they are probably big enough for CUSA.

Oregon AD Mullens, originally from WVU, was interviewed on TV there and made the comment that TV and USC/UCLA broke the regional tradition and that there was going to be more and more change. Didn't say anything specific, but definitely supported the idea that UW and Oregon might move to the Big 10.

had a chance to get fired up. Now I wasn't at UH 1990 or Ricky's 1998 game. Those, especially UH, you could tell even on TV they were loud. Those are the only two that possibly exceed that Tech game.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=brackens+hit+on+texas+tech+punter&atb=v314-1&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dzorwg3ZtGEg Brackens hit on the Tech kicker in 1995 was the loudest moment I've experienced. And the game was the loudest. It was a night game so everyone

That was only the first year. After that, we tended to win late. That definitely was a problem in past years I haven't seen much this year.

I still don't understand why anyone should line up offsides. All you have to do is look. But I see more lineup offsides penalties (not talking about Texas in particular) than I do jump offsides. Just stupid.

O line still needs to figure out how to open holes for the runners.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/pac-12-in-danger-of-eventual-collapse-as-big-ten-considers-further-expansion-big-12-interest-looms/ "...An offer deemed substantial enough would likely convince Big Ten presidents that California, Oregon, Stanford and Washington would be valuable additions to the league from the Pac-12. That figure is believed to be less than $100 million annually. If the Big Ten makes such a move, it would almost certainly increase the likelihood the Big 12 is able to get some combination of Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah from the Pac-12, thus crushing the Pac-12 and hanging Oregon State and Washington State out to dry. "If that [Big Ten move] happens, I think the other [four Pac-12] schools will want to jump to our league," said a Big 12 source familiar with the situation.... Industry chatter has Oregon State and Washington State moving to the Mountain West if the Pac-12 collapses. At that point, the MWC would replace the Pac-12 as the largest FBS conference completely located in the Mountain and Pacific Time Zones. Adding to the intrigue, the Big Ten and Big 12 share the same media rights consultant, Endeavor, a global sports and entertainment company.... It is believed the Big Ten's current rightsholders, Fox and ESPN, remain opposed to the conference expanding further. It is in the best interests of both networks for there to be a Pac-12, if for no other reason than cost certainty. After losing out on the new Big Ten deal, ESPN aims to acquire games that can be played in the "fourth window" -- after 10 p.m. Fox already has games in that window through its agreement with the Mountain West. As the Big Ten's primary partner, Fox would likely consider four additional Pac-12 schools "dilutive" to the Big Ten product. Opponents of Big Ten expansion continue to scratch their heads wondering how Cal, Oregon, Stanford and Washington can bring enough value to the conference. The answer? They don't. At least at first glance. However, Warren's play may be to get in on the ground floor with Amazon during a time in which when streaming is further catching up with linear cable...." Fox chose not to bid for the Pac going forward. They may consider it dilutive, but they still get better picks than any new bidder. ESPN obviously would like to get Pac schools cheap, but they don't have much influence over the Big 10.

https://www.si.com/college/2022/09/24/acc-suspended-referee-who-botched-call-in-notre-dame-vs-cal-per-report Be nice if the Big 12 did this. ACC suspended the referee who called a fake offsides on Cal on a missed ND FG that lead to a ND TD.

If you fumble it and it goes out of the endzone it has always been a touchback and you lose possession.

Well I was accurate on this one so far. The fire Sark thread has popped up. Maybe things will come together and I will be wrong on the 2nd sentence, but I'm not optimistic.

Actually its kind of stupid. He made one bad play on the INT. He missed an open guy in the end zone. Guess what, Bijan fumbled in OT. Card is better than most (if not all) of the QBs we have had except for Major/Chris/Vince/Colt going back to Robert Brewer in the early 80s and he's playing on a gimpy ankle. Sure, Ewers is better. But Card is plenty good enough. Our receivers and RBs are good enough. Our O line, play calling and defense are not.

A couple of our penalties were total boneheads. Looked like a Charlie Strong team. Offsides and PI on a 3rd and 26??????