Posted on 01/04/2007 11:24:18 PM PST by doug from upland
The BEST college football game I've EVER seen.
I've never seen so many "trick" plays called and carried off with such precision!! They obviously practice them often for occasions such as this.
Breathtaking!! Heart-pounding!!
It was, as someone described it, the kind of ending in a football game that was invented by an author, except for the fact that it was real.
Opps. I meant:
Any one named after the third BEST Confederate leader, can't be all that bad!!
"Definitely" and "you know" also need to be stricken from the athletic vocabulary.
I do not know enough to really argue. I'm not a rabid Buckeye fan like my friends, who know everything about OSU football. But I am enough of a fan to revel in this year and have great fun with it.
My father always told me that good teams win ugly. That little saying could describe some of the more difficult aspects of my life.
There should be a Notre Dame rule for BCS bowls. A team has to beat at least one ranked team to get in a bowl. ND hasn't beaten a team that ended up in the top ten since Lou Holtz was coaching them.
FROM AN OKLAHOMA FOOTBALL BLOG ---
Five Reasons Boise State Wins The Fiesta Bowl
Posted Dec 31st 2006 9:11PM by Brian Cook
Filed under: Oklahoma Football, Big 12, WAC, BCS, Bowl Games, Boise State Football
1. Ian Johnson Will Crochet Your Ass. At least, until the NCAA tells him not to. Johnson may be the best back Oklahoma's seen this year. Yes, even though he plays in the WAC. In Boise State's blowout of a pretty good Oregon State team Johnson went flapjack nuts, rushing for 240 yards and five touchdowns. 240 yards! Five touchdowns! On... 22 carries! Inconceivable. He even caught a pass for 21 yards. That Oregon State team finished 30th in rush defense and won 10 games.
2. Disrespect and Disinterest. This is the biggest football game in the history of Boise State's program; to Oklahoma it is an irritation and a letdown to make a BCS game and get thrown a team that plays its home games on hideous blue turf and has bowl game on its home field just so it doesn't get screwed. There must be a giant gap between the amount of attention each team is paying in practice; Oklahoma may be rusty.
3. It's Still Zabransky. You may remember Boise State's quarterback melting down against Georgia a year ago. Well, this year he's like, older and not as prone to turning the ball over eighty times in the first quarter. That Georgia game has distorted the conventional wisdom about Boise, but the margin of that win was more fluky turnovers than anything else. He's unlikely to repeat that performance.
4. The Chain. You know those hilarious victory chain things that conclusively prove that Duke is better than Florida because twenty different teams beat other teams, etc, etc.? Well, this is Boise over Oklahoma:
Boise St beat
Oregon St who beat
Oregon who beat
Oklahoma
Three steps....well... sort of.
5. Innerspace! Boise defenders are so hilariously small that Oklahoma offensive linemen will whiff on their attempts to block them. The defenders will burrow their way through the vascular systems of their opponents, emerging on the other side for copious TFLs.
What? It could happen.
That's the way they've been playing them all year -- speed, precision, and a bit of trickery. They aren't undefeated for nothing!
It's just that they aren't a "name" school -- yet -- so the networks don't broadcast them on Saturdays.
I'm in the Boise viewing area, so I've seen them a few times this year. Trust me, the Fiesta Bowl wasn't a fluke. These are deep-down gritty and resourceful take-chance guys, and their coach is, too.
Bully boys hey! Bully boys ho!
I don't know much about Florida, but an SC-Ohio State game would be quite a show. Having lost two games, however, SC didn't belong there.
Hey, enjoy! OSU had a super year, and will probably cap it on Monday. Their game with Michigan this year will be long remembered.
Fox owns the rights to the TV broadcast. Boise St got paid millions just for making the game.
Doug, I have to disagree!!
You may know, I am a USC fan and you are wrong in that statement. SC proved they did not deserve a chance to meet Ohio when they lost to Oregon State!
Yep, they really screwed up with the loss to Oregon State. But Florida also had one loss. Had they beaten UCLA, they were in. Michigan already lost to Ohio State, so they couldn't play them again.
The 2 starting offensive lines were almost exactly the same total weight 1522 for OSU 1525 for Boise St.
Andrew Woodruff for State was the biggest he's a 331lb sophmore.
Thanks for the info. That is suprising.
The only thing the Bengals led the NFL in was arrests. Eight team members but some had multiple arrests. I do not know Marvin Lewis' criteria for selecting players, but penchant for thuggery must be high on his list. :)
Oh, yes! University of Cincinnati ended Rutgers perfect season. That was another hiight.
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