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Goodbye to Romance College Football
Wow, every Saturday has lots of comebacks, blowouts, upsets, late covers, back doors, coaching confusion, but yesterday seemed especially crazy!
Rutgers QB Laviano bests Beathard in compl %, yards, QBR and Rutgers running numbers even with Iowa (although Iowa had better ypc). Rutgers had 1st and 10 at Iowa 12 on their first drive...but eventually punted! Iowa fails on a 4th down att from Rut 10 and next drive Rut fails on 4th down from Iowa 3. Key Rut 4th qrt fumble sets Iowa up for a 1 play 26y TD drive for the 14-7 lead. Rutger's final drive gets to Iowa 17, failed on 4th and 2, Iowa runs out the clock.
Iowa State scored more pts vs SJ ST (44) than they had in their previous three games (43).
Charlotte (spread ranging from +29-24) trailing 20-48 had a 1st-and-goal at Temple 9 on final possession, but failed to score. While Temple did kick a couple short FGs after good drives, they also had a 1p 13y TD drive following Phillips fumble. Olson was a brutal 17 of 42 passing and Phillips had 116 rushing, but 66 on 1 big run and just 48y on his other 15 carries.
Unbelievable the domination and incompetency on display in East Lansing! Badgers held 176-121 yard edge and 13-6 1st half lead. MSU's first three drives of the 2nd half resulted in 2 net yards (Scott fumble ret for TD and dropped punt snap) leading to Badgers getting a quick 17 pts for a 30-6 lead entering the 4th qrt. 153 of MSU's 325 yards came in the 4th qrt.
Nevada was covering from the start until 58:33 game time when Purdue hit a wide open medium pass to the TE which he ran 50+y for the Purdue covering TD. Nevada got to the Purdue 18 where they ran out of time. Earlier Nev failed to get any points out of a 1st down at Pur 3. Purdue did throw INT at the Nev 4 and fumble inside the Nev 10. Purdue did have 6.2 to 3.8 ypp edge.
Virginia led 28-0, but CMU tied it 28 all in the 4th while Bronco closed his eyes and paced up and down the sideline like he was praying to Joseph Smith. UVA hit some huge plays to pull away 49-35.
VT O would start three-and-out on their first three possessions before waking up. They got on the board early with a punt ret TD.
Syracuse led 14-0, but UConn would tie at 14 all and later 17 all. Cuse got a INT for TD, on the next drive UConn failed on a 4th and goal from the 2 and Cuse would ice it with a drive starting at their own 1 for a TD and 14 pt win. Orange missed 2 FGs on the day.
PSU-Michigan went 'over' thanks to a late PSU INT and Mich TD with 2:00 left. 21 pts were scored in the 4th qrt.
Indiana had a 611-352 yard edge, but lost 28-33 to the now 4-0 Wake Forest Demon Deacons. Early IND had a ball off recievers hands INT'd in the EZ and then later WF got a INT ret for TD. IND also had a FG blk'd from the 19 after a 70y drive. Lagow for INT threw 5 INTs.
UMass had leads of 7-3, 7-6, 14-6, 14-13, 21-20 before Miss ST would reel off 3 straight TDs (one pick six).
Two end of half snaps with :01 left with 2 different results.
BYU was driving as time was ticking down 2nd qrt, when in the RZ, BYU WR didn't go out of bounds with about :14 left and BYU scrambled to the line for the snap where they planned to spike the ball. They appeard to snap and spike with :00 on the clock. It went to replay and BYU was awarded :01 left and they kicked a FG to only trail 13-21. It looked extremely close, if there would've been a tenth of a second on the game clock, they may have got the snap off with something like :012 and spiked the ball with something like :005.
Hill threw 3 costly INTs, 1 returned for TD and the last ended the game when BYU was in getting in position to tie or possibly win.
Crazy play in the game...after Hill's 2nd INT with 2:30 left and WVU up by 3, 1st-and-goal at the BYU 4, Howard looked to audible and the center snapped the ball where BYU fell on it avoiding what would surely be a forthcoming WVU TD and gave them new life. BYU went 70y in 1-1/2 minutes, but Hill took a shot at the EZ where the ball went off of the receivers arms and a second WVU DB behind the play picked it off for the win.
I will add more later, have to get ready for NFL
Rutgers QB Laviano bests Beathard in compl %, yards, QBR and Rutgers running numbers even with Iowa (although Iowa had better ypc). Rutgers had 1st and 10 at Iowa 12 on their first drive...but eventually punted! Iowa fails on a 4th down att from Rut 10 and next drive Rut fails on 4th down from Iowa 3. Key Rut 4th qrt fumble sets Iowa up for a 1 play 26y TD drive for the 14-7 lead. Rutger's final drive gets to Iowa 17, failed on 4th and 2, Iowa runs out the clock.
Iowa State scored more pts vs SJ ST (44) than they had in their previous three games (43).
Charlotte (spread ranging from +29-24) trailing 20-48 had a 1st-and-goal at Temple 9 on final possession, but failed to score. While Temple did kick a couple short FGs after good drives, they also had a 1p 13y TD drive following Phillips fumble. Olson was a brutal 17 of 42 passing and Phillips had 116 rushing, but 66 on 1 big run and just 48y on his other 15 carries.
Unbelievable the domination and incompetency on display in East Lansing! Badgers held 176-121 yard edge and 13-6 1st half lead. MSU's first three drives of the 2nd half resulted in 2 net yards (Scott fumble ret for TD and dropped punt snap) leading to Badgers getting a quick 17 pts for a 30-6 lead entering the 4th qrt. 153 of MSU's 325 yards came in the 4th qrt.
Nevada was covering from the start until 58:33 game time when Purdue hit a wide open medium pass to the TE which he ran 50+y for the Purdue covering TD. Nevada got to the Purdue 18 where they ran out of time. Earlier Nev failed to get any points out of a 1st down at Pur 3. Purdue did throw INT at the Nev 4 and fumble inside the Nev 10. Purdue did have 6.2 to 3.8 ypp edge.
Virginia led 28-0, but CMU tied it 28 all in the 4th while Bronco closed his eyes and paced up and down the sideline like he was praying to Joseph Smith. UVA hit some huge plays to pull away 49-35.
VT O would start three-and-out on their first three possessions before waking up. They got on the board early with a punt ret TD.
Syracuse led 14-0, but UConn would tie at 14 all and later 17 all. Cuse got a INT for TD, on the next drive UConn failed on a 4th and goal from the 2 and Cuse would ice it with a drive starting at their own 1 for a TD and 14 pt win. Orange missed 2 FGs on the day.
PSU-Michigan went 'over' thanks to a late PSU INT and Mich TD with 2:00 left. 21 pts were scored in the 4th qrt.
Indiana had a 611-352 yard edge, but lost 28-33 to the now 4-0 Wake Forest Demon Deacons. Early IND had a ball off recievers hands INT'd in the EZ and then later WF got a INT ret for TD. IND also had a FG blk'd from the 19 after a 70y drive. Lagow for INT threw 5 INTs.
UMass had leads of 7-3, 7-6, 14-6, 14-13, 21-20 before Miss ST would reel off 3 straight TDs (one pick six).
Two end of half snaps with :01 left with 2 different results.
BYU was driving as time was ticking down 2nd qrt, when in the RZ, BYU WR didn't go out of bounds with about :14 left and BYU scrambled to the line for the snap where they planned to spike the ball. They appeard to snap and spike with :00 on the clock. It went to replay and BYU was awarded :01 left and they kicked a FG to only trail 13-21. It looked extremely close, if there would've been a tenth of a second on the game clock, they may have got the snap off with something like :012 and spiked the ball with something like :005.
Hill threw 3 costly INTs, 1 returned for TD and the last ended the game when BYU was in getting in position to tie or possibly win.
Crazy play in the game...after Hill's 2nd INT with 2:30 left and WVU up by 3, 1st-and-goal at the BYU 4, Howard looked to audible and the center snapped the ball where BYU fell on it avoiding what would surely be a forthcoming WVU TD and gave them new life. BYU went 70y in 1-1/2 minutes, but Hill took a shot at the EZ where the ball went off of the receivers arms and a second WVU DB behind the play picked it off for the win.
I will add more later, have to get ready for NFL
