After 3 weeks of CFB...what have we learned?

It's worth taking shots on early totals as there are always a good amount of 3-7 PT middles available by kickoff - especially early in the season.
 
More than anything else today I enjoyed watching Texas play defense tonight. Other than the inexplicable TD they allowed before HT, that D was fantastic.
 
Well ECU learned how to play football for 1 qrt, led 17-7 then reverted to their normal self for the remaining 3 and allowed 57 unanswered.
 
neb is unbelievably bad on offense. their d actually played well today, but they'll get trounced by anyone even halfway ok.
 
Vandy beat an out of conference ranked team for the first time since like 1947.
 
I see why Utah went with Huntley and Carrington is a stud. Defense is down but still forcing turnovers (5!). But perhaps most importantly, note that the Utah kicker is really good for those close games.

Uconn and UVA play with pace. There games will have plays and their defenses are both questionable. good under the radar over teams in the right spots.

Do not trust Don Best weather reports or injury reports. They suck.

Without Stockstill, MTSU is going to struggle to score.

Safe to say at this point that UCLA cannot defend the run

Wyoming QB is good but you have to have an open receiver and protection for it to show. Their losses in offseason were underrated.

UTEP is as bad as I have ever seen them ... that is saying something for that program. Sadly, I like the coach anyway. Just no way to recruit to that shit hole.

I have no idea what northwestern is.

TAMU is awful. Missouri is awful. Ole Miss is awful. Tough to back the SEC against real conferences.

Cal defense is improved and more aggressive.

Okst is for real

After stanford drops to sdsu and usc got outplayed by texas, sans last seconds of each half, you have to wonder how overrated both of them are.
Meaning maybe the stanford win wasn't an indicator and maybe w michigan was.

I hate all fg kickers.

But the best ....

With a 17-6 lead late, after a made moh fg ... cinci drives the field and scores a td and gets the two point conversion. 17-14 moh. kick returner bobbles the ball into the ez and doesn't know he can take a knee. he instead returns it but doesn't get beyond his five yard line. fast forward .. cinci down to 1 timeout with clock running on third and two. A first down and moh can take knees for the win. Moh with all three timeouts. clock is ticking down as moh players start walking off the field but apparently no one takes a timeout. The result is a DELAY Of GAME PENALTY. So now MOH has third and 7. They elect to throw and it is intercepted for a TD. You cannot make that up if you tried folks.
 
The sequence of events that transpired in that Miami Ohio end is just unbelievable, but I saw it happen too. Coach acted like he told a ref he was going to call timeout before play clock got to zero. He tried arguing it with a ref after the fact and the ref was like 'sorry nope', and then coach was like whatever and apparently told his QB to go out and lose the game then. Couldn't have thrown a better pass to a defender if he tried.
 
cubsker said:
neb is unbelievably bad on offense. their d actually played well today, but they'll get trounced by anyone even halfway ok.
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I cannot believe their TT's are 2-1 on the over...glad I got off that train this week...
 
I learned that rhis could be a special season for the Aztecs. And...Penny is (at least IMO) possibly the best RB/KR in college football.

By the way...missed you guys.

What up BAR, kyle, smh!
 
This isn't a horrible one at all but just another example of a coach playing not to win...

I respect AFA and always have...no concerns with the coaching ever...just gonna nitpick here...

Down 22-13, Air Force has a great drive in which they were killing Michigan at the point of attack for half the drive at least. It was working well. It looked like a knuckle-biter coming...

On 2nd and goal from the 5 they ran a long developing pitch play for a 7 yard loss...then obviously couldn't throw on 3rd down and missed the FG. Okay, that happens many times every Saturday where coaches just change what is going well...

I digress...

Michigan goes 4 plays and done in 1:09...AF ball after punt...

AF starts with ball down two scores and 6 mins left. The drive sucks and they have 4th down but now under 5 minutes left. They are down 9 points with only 2 timeouts in their pocket on the road at the #7 ranked team in the country...

They punt.

They basically never see the ball again. Michigan broke one right before kneel down time or the last 30 seconds...

So back to the punt...they punt...Michigan ball at 4:50 mark up 9...Michigan gets to a 3rd and 4 and throws for a completion...but there is only 2:38 left now...over 2 minutes burned without a timeout...now AF uses a timeout...Michigan runs a play(hold) then another run...and finally AF uses their last timeout...Michigan has 2 plays left...breaks for a meaningless score at the 1 min mark...

My problem here is coach gave up on the game by punting with under 5 minutes left in a 9 point game...if he would have used his timeouts accordingly I would give him a pass but this screamed to me that he was happy with a respectable score on the road at a highly ranked opponent. That sucks for the kids who busted ass in this game...

*Now, an obvious rebuttal is that on a 4th and long they cannot pass anyways so why try? Yes, it is low percentage but maybe there is a flag or a breakdown. It happened a few times today. Well, even if no conversion happens and Michigan gets a short field...guess what...a score makes it 29-13...which is...a TWO SCORE game...but now you most likely have time left to, again, try and make something happen.

Give your team every opportunity to win a game. Understand clock management. Understand math. That is all I ask in pro sports from guys making insane amounts of money.
 
Back to coaching.

-The hail marys

-Why was USC throwing near end of 1h? And then why is Texas just dumb as rocks?
 
The bottom tier of the SEC, Vandy, SC, UK, have improved. The 2nd tier, AU, LSU, Ole Miss, have gotten worse. The middle of the pack is still middle of the pack. Not a great conference right now.

I fear the injuries are piling up for Alabama. Played last night without 5 LBers. And it showed. Lost a TE possibly to torn ACL last night. Defense will not be as good as the younger guys get acclimated so may have opportunities to bet against Alabama as they will give up more points than usual.

And LSU, this is why you don't hire Ed O. Going to be a long season on the bayou
 
B.A.R. said:
Back to coaching.

-The hail marys

-Why was USC throwing near end of 1h? And then why is Texas just dumb as rocks?
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That SMU hail-mary defense was the worst ever. Six defenders around one receiver, and no defender moved.
 
BYU is still slow, thought UTEP was bad after Rice but getting worse and Houston 38-3 over Rice so think UTEP may be regressing to 1970s when WAC teams padded stats at the Sun Bowl.
UTSA is rising even though it was Southern, shocked they had 48 by half as offense may be catching up with D.
Some really poor coaching as usual but some are taking it to new lows like Miami OH and Memphis joining the club.
Not to be outdone by the coaches some really dumb players came through ( like fielding a punt one yard deep in the endzone .. Texas )
E Carolina opponents team total is like a free ATM.
aTm QB Mond is improving and Baylor 0-3 will pull an upset in coming weeks, think Texas has a QB and a defense beyond past 8 years
Washington continues to manage the big picture out of the spotlight.
With Clemson stepping up the "Next Heisman" door is open
Alabama still strong but has "cracks" just not sure what they are but think they exist.
Vandy for real ? or just Cinderella at 11:59 ?
 
Stanford defense, especially front 7 is not good. They've been shredded vs the run 2 weeks in a row. One of the worst Cardinal D I've seen in a very long time.
 
VT putting up 64 points got my attention. I don't think of their offense as being that explosive, even if it was against ECU.
 
With regards to the AFA punt. Here is what is so upsetting about it. Yes, they are a bad passing team. But to punt there you are forcing yourself to be a good passing team two more times assuming you get the ball back. Meaning you are trading having to make one good pass play to having to make a lot of good pass plays. Also, to have a shot,you need a three and out anyway to stay down two scores and have time so there is almost no harm in the failure. And one of the things I like about the academies running option football is that it is a smart equalizer to their lack of talent. It is a good stratefy. I like to see good strategy from the people defending our nation. When afa makes that mistake it just hurts more.
 
I still think Lamar Jackson is worthy of the heisman. He threw for over 300 yards and rushed for 64 against that defense. If anyone else were to win at this point, I would think he was robbed. Mason Rudolph/Baker Mayfield winner at Bedlam is the competition at this point. If you have a Darnold ticket, the good news is that you save some money on toilet paper. If you put Jackson on those two teams from oklahoma rather than his team, .... oh my. Great, great player.
 
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I can understand be outplayed in a game but Missouri just looks disorganized. Just seems like every team that gets involved in things other than football becomes a bunch of pussies, like northwestern a couple years ago. Just shut up and play football.
 
Beginning to think Sumlin might well be the next coach at ASU after really thinking he'd end up possibly at UA after DickRod failure which isn't happening. Graham is failing...and Sumlin would actually get me to go to games. That needs to happen.
 
I've always thought Graham is overrated. He's more worried about his headset and wristband options. ASU has talented players but he doesn't get the most out of them IMHO.
 
Well and that would be the thing with someone like Sumlin too. He'll recruit like a muthafucka and AZ is full of blue chips, can he coach em? I'm thinking the PAC would be a welcome move for him...and you know he'll recruit. Seems almost too logical.
 
I can't remember yesterday other than some wench throwing a 118-110 card out there
 
vk said:
I still think Lamar Jackson is worthy of the heisman. He threw for over 300 yards and rushed for 64 against that defense. If anyone else were to win at this point, I would think he was robbed. Mason Rudolph/Baker Mayfield winner at Bedlam is the competition at this point. If you have a Darnold ticket, the good news is that you save some money on toilet paper. If you put Jackson on those two teams from oklahoma rather than his team, .... oh my. Great, great player.
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Lamar is really good, but lots of that was stat padding last night. Bobby left him in the entire game, even well past the game being in doubt and Clemson's 2nd/3rd string defenses were in.

@Sapakoff
Remember, fellow Heisman voters, that Lamar Jackson got 191 of his 371 yards of total offense against Clemson after the 4th Q started 33-7
 
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What the hell happened to the SEC?

AU struggled against Mercer (5 turnovers)

LSU got mauled by Miss St

TAMU continues to look disinterested

SoCar has now lost 4 straight to UK

Tenn vs UF was not a pretty sight to watch.

Ark looking like another 7-5 season at best.

Ole Miss in shambles due to the firing of Freeze.

Mizzou looks like a high school team with a middle school coach.

Vandy and UK look good.

I guess UGA is good but we will know more after the Miss St game.

Bama is the Snow White with 13 other dwarfs.
 
piperdog188 said:
Lamar is really good, but lots of that was stat padding last night. Bobby left him in the entire game, even well past the game being in doubt and Clemson's 2nd/3rd string defenses were in.

@Sapakoff
Remember, fellow Heisman voters, that Lamar Jackson got 191 of his 371 yards of total offense against Clemson after the 4th Q started 33-7
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Jackson had a run in the 3rd qrt that had my jaw on the floor, but it was called back by a chop block where the defender wasn't engaged with an OL, the OL was just in the area and the TE I think went low on him. But anyway, Jackson ran right up the middle faked some dudes out of their jocks.

The good thing is the Heisman isn't awarded after 3 weeks. The bad thing is it is an overrated award and gets too much focus.
 
That is why i try to remember to just say he is the best player in college football. Because this is a year where it is clear. He is playing WAAAAAAAY better this year than last
 
vk said:
I still think Lamar Jackson is worthy of the heisman. He threw for over 300 yards and rushed for 64 against that defense.
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More than half of his yardage came in the 4Q in garbage time.
 
I said this a couple weeks ago

Clemson is a problem jack

That line....QB looks like D-lite....they are recruiting at a level most cannot get on.....Ohio St and Bama....UT if they decide to
 
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