Posted on 01/10/2011 9:18:04 PM PST by Alas Babylon!
Dittos to that. I'm an MBA grad from there back in the 80s. Fortunately didn't meet any hard leftist profs in the business school but certainly heard they existed in other areas.
The 2 best teams played last night...no debate.
YEah, the were impressive. And got scorched for 450 yards.
I don’t think any team has hotter cheer leaders. Wow! For that reason alone I wouldn’t have been upset if Auburn had lost.
As for the SEC being so dominant, it ended up 5-5 in bowl games.
The saddest part for me is Ohio State finally beat an SEC team and it was Arkansas. The only big bowl the SEC lost. Just damn!
Back to those Oregon cheer leaders....wow again!
Hmmm. Miami Hurricanes have the Ibis? Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets have the Rambling Wreck model T Ford? Tennessee has the Volunteers and the hound dog? Western Kentucky Hilltoppers v. the red "Elmo" thing? Stanford Cardinal and a tree? Harvard Johns and the Crimson? Yale Eli and the Bulldogs? Utah Utes and a red-tailed hawk? Navy Midshipmen and a Goat? Army Black Knights and mule? Tulsa Hurricanes and the super-hero, Captain Cane? North Carolina Wolfpack and a Tamaskan breed dog? North Carolina Tarheels and a horned Dorsett sheep? I could continue.
Yeah, they’ve really expanded into a semi-national recruiting power. Oregon shows up on alot of lists in Midwest and Texas, like LaMichael James.
I believe you'll find it was the Auburn secondary that got scorched.
It's delusional when a BSU fan states that BSU's offensive line is a big as any team in the NCAA, and yet Auburn can field three complete OLs that are larger than BSU's first-string. Then again, that's the kind of delusion I expect from BSU.
Which is why BSU gave up 528 yards to Nevada, which beat a 7-6 ACC team in its bowl game by only seven points.
The Buckeyes have won 2 BCS bowls in a row...last year’s victim was the Oregon Ducks 27-17 in the Rose Bowl.
The Buckeyes have won 2 BCS bowls in a row...last year’s victim was the Oregon Ducks 27-17 in the Rose Bowl.
The game?
(1) The turf was terrible. On just the opening kickoff, the Oregon kick returner slipped twice, and an Auburn defender had a foot slide so badly on the turf that it bent back and tore up his other knee. I don’t know how it effected Oregon’s passing game, but Newton, Dyer, and other Auburn running backs slipped a dozen times – and, as far as I could tell, Oregon’s RBs slipped three or four times.
(2) Auburn’s DL was the factor. Oregon averaged 303 yards rushing and 49 points per game this season, but rushed for only 75 yards, and scored only 19 points against the seventh best defense in the SEC. Oregon couldn’t run the ball at all up the middle . . . but could barely run it to the outside, either.
(3) Oregon showed inventive coaching and gutsy calls and made all but one (the goal-line stand) of its necessary big plays. Over a quarter of Oregon’s total yards came on two pass plays. Oregon’s trick punt worked perfectly. Oregon converted both of its two-point conversions, as well as that huge fourth and seventeen or eighteen.
(4) Auburn’s yardage seemed more impressive, because it ground out 250+ yards rushing. Auburn ran over 80 plays, a BCS record. Oregon was big play/no play, and <2-minute drives – and Auburn, during many drives, just ground Oregon down.
(5) Cam Newton choked. He overthrew two receivers who were wide open and had beaten all Oregon coverage, and short-armed that open pass into the end zone on fourth and goal – and then fumbled, giving Oregon a chance to score the tying touchdown. You can’t really look at three plays for Oregon and say ‘man, except for that break, we would have blown Auburn out of the game.’ If Newton made his three wide-open passes, that was nineteen points for Auburn (because I’ll take away the safety that resulted from the missed fourth-and-goal pass).
(6) I think the inventiveness of Oregon’s wide-open offensive scheme and the cutting-edge feel from uniforms on down as a result of the Nike relationship through Knight means nothing but good things for Oregon being able to expand its already growing national recruiting base. Plus, Oregon has or is getting great new facilities, thanks in large part to Knight.
The SEC East stunk this year, but the SEC West by far was the toughest division in all of College Football.
Overtime would have been a more fit conclusion to this game.
SEC! SEC!
SEC 5 - 5 in bowl games this year...
Conference-by-conference bowl records
How each has fared during the postseason games
Conference Schools Record Percentage
MWC (5) AF,BYU,SDS,TCU,Utah 4-1 .800
Big East (6) Conn,Lou,Pitt,Syr,USF,WVU 4-2 .667
Independents (3) Army,Navy,ND 2-1 .667
Sun Belt (3) FIU,MTenn,Troy 2-1 .667
SEC (10) Ala,Ark,Aub,Flor,Geor,Ky,LSU,MSU,SCar,Tenn 5-5 .500
MAC (4) Miami,NIU,Ohio,Toledo 2-2 .500
Pac-10 (4) Ariz,Ore,Stan,Wash 2-2 .500
ACC (9) BC,Clem,FSU,GT,Mary,Miami,NC,NCS,VT 4-5 .444
WAC (4) BoiseSt,FresSt,Haw,Nev 2-2 .333
Big 12 (8) Bay,KSt,Mizzou,Neb,OU,OklaSt,TexA&M,TT 3-5 .375
Big Ten (8) Ill,Iowa,Mich,MichSt,NWstrn,OSU,PSU,Wis 3-5 .375
C-USA (6) ECU,SMU,SoMiss,Tulsa,UCF,UTEP 2-4 .333
It would be delusional to say that. That's why no one did. AU's defense sucks. 79th in points against. 56th in passing yards against. Those fat boy criminals on the defensive line have given up alot of yardage each and every game. When a mediocre QB like Oregon's torches them, imagine what a real QB like Kellen Moore would do to them.
Boise had one semi-bad game against a very good Nevada team who is 1st in the nation in rushing and 6th in points scored. Granted, they only won in OT because BSU's kicker missed two winning fieldgoals, but Nevada was nothing to sneeze at.
BTW, Boston College had the #1 ranked rushing defense in the country. Couldn't stop Nevada.
Boise or TCU would handle Oregon or AU.
What was BSU’s (only) signature win this past season? A 3-point win to open the season against VA Tech at a neutral site. After stringing 11 wins together at the end of the season, Stanford destroyed VA Tech. The same Stanford team that was beaten by Oregon this year.
Yeah yeah. Heard lotsa talk about Wisconsin being the best team in the country too. Then they played TCU. The same TCU team for all intents and purposes that got manhandled by BSU last January.
Where's my A la carte cable?
If I remember correctly the one common opponent for BSU and Oregon this year was Oregon State. Both teams beat OSU if I am not mistaken.
Don’t worry, I’m always for Bama. But when AU makes it to the national championship game, I’m gonna give them my support for that. Think of it as sort of a North vs. South thing at that point.
You don’t need to subscribe to cable to watch the game. It was broadcast on Espn3 (internet live stream).
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