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Ncaa Football Open Sticky Thread, Week 4

by coldwarrior ( 170 Comments › )
Filed under College Football, Open thread, Sports at September 25th, 2010 - 11:30 am

This every Saturday after the Saturday Lecture open NCAA thread for those of us watching football and not wanting to soil the respectable threads with cries of ‘Hook ’em Horns’ or ‘Soooeeeee Piggie!’ and we sure don’t want to run Ralphie through a serious thread! Some of our writers would get really mad. This will be a stickie at the top of the page, its football and open, please see the ‘normal’ yet excellent threads below; get crazy and open two tabs!

The rankings have barely changed because everyone above the #17 rank is 3-0. I don’t see any shake-up happening this week except…(1) Alabama could lose at (10)Arkansas if the stars are in perfect alignment.

Its week 4 already and my beloved Pitt Panthers were embarrassed at home Thursday night by the hated Miami Felons, errrr, Hurricanes. And as I write this, the Friday night game has (4) TCU at SMU and its tied at 7! I don’t expect an upset here.

The noon slot doesn’t look too interesting. The ESPN crew is at Boise State home of the (3) Broncos and the blue Smurf Turf, if you have never seen the turf, tune into ESPN or check the game at 2000 eastern.

The 1530 eastern slot features an SEC clash: (1) Alabama at (10) Arkansas, the money is giving Arkansas 7 at home. This game has the potential to be much closer than that. Arkansas CAN win against Alabama, this is the first real test for the Tide this year. Ryan Mallett, the QB for Arkansas would love some payback after the stomping he took at ‘Bama last year.

The 1900 eastern slot has unranked Georgia at Mississippi State, this game is a pick ’em and a good SEC match up.At 1945 (12) South Carolina Gamecocks are at (17) Auburn this look to a another close SEC street fight.

Then we get to the over-hyped game of the week at 2000, (24) Oregon State is going to (3) Boise State. This game should not even be close. Vegas is giving the (see post 154, i made a HUGE mistake) Beavers 18! I will be looking at this game because i love the Smurf Turf on HD and the Boise State fans are MANIACS!

*oooh! lok, ribs!

and Puti sez hi!

Tags: ncaa football, Open thread, Saturday Sports
Posted in College Football, Open thread, Sports | 170 Comments »

NCAA Football Saturday and Open Thread

by coldwarrior ( 124 Comments › )
Filed under College Football, Open thread, Sports at September 18th, 2010 - 11:30 am

This will be weekly, every Saturday after the lecture is the open NCAA thread for those of us watching football and not wanting to soil the respectable threads with cries of ‘Hook ’em Horns’ or ‘Soooeeeee Piggie!’ and we sure don’t want to run Ralphie through a serious thread! Some of our writers would get really mad. This will be a stickie at the top of the page, its football and open, please see the ‘normal’ yet excellent threads below; get crazy and open two tabs!

Welcome to Week 3 of the 2010 NCAA Football season!

**NOTE to the ‘sports journalists’: that ‘NEW’ offense that yinz call ‘The Pistol’ is the ‘i’ formation from 30 years ago, and oh, and the ‘Wildcat’ is actually ‘the wing’ and its derivatives from the paleolithic era of football. I guess the next ‘new’ thing on offense is gonna be I M Hipp (Texas A&M) and Tony Dorsett (PITT, his name was pronounced ‘door sit’ before he made $$$) style backs wearing ‘tear away’ jerseys cut off at the mid riff. Put a full-back in that ‘pistol’ and you have a real i formation.**

Thursday’s Cincinati Bearcats at NC State Wolfpack was a very sloppy game. Cincinnati is desperately missing their old football coach, Brian Kelly, who took his dream job an Notre Dame. Cincinnati looked, well, discombobulated. Coach Kelly has the Irish at 1-1 with a close loss at home to Michigan in the Big House. Coach Krelly has a chance to get on the winning side when the Irish travel to Michigan State (2-0) to play the Spartans in Prime Time (2000 eastern on ABC) this should be a game to watch on the PiP. MSU’s secondary will be tested, they have been identified as the weak link.

On Thursday, Reggie Bush gave back the Heisman trophy he won in 2005…he says its not an admission of guilt. Yeah, OK Reggie…you spin ALMOST as good as James Carville, but not quite.

The most interesting noon game, the (12) Arkansas Razorbacks travel to Athens Georgia, home of REM and the B-52’s to play the Georgia Bulldogs. This classic SEC battle has a little back story: the Razorbacks haven’t won in Athens since 2003 and are riding a 6 game losing streak against the Bulldogs (Vegas is giving the Bulldogs 3.5…).

The Best Team in the Country, (1) Alabama gets their big star running back Mark Igram back from knee surgery; just in time to play the Duke Blue Devils, and too bad for Duke, this isn’t basketball (1530 ABC).

The (6) Texas Longhorns have to travel to Lubbock to play the Texas Tech Red Raiders (2000 ABC). Tech is an insane place to play, Texas Coach Mack Brown is 3-3 in Lubbock. Tech is a smaller venue (60K+) but it is insane loud and the wind is unpredictable. Vegas is only giving Tech 3 points against Texas…could be an upset watch!

The 2230 Eastern (9) Iowa Hawkeyes at the (24) Arizona Wildcats should be a battle in the trenches worth watching. The Wildcats have a good offensive line; they get to play against the best defensive line in the country. The Iowa defensive line will be playing on Sundays, so get an eye-full on ESPN.

So what games are you watching? BBQing anything? Its an open sports thread!

Tags: ncaa football, Open thread, Saturday Sports
Posted in College Football, Open thread, Sports | 124 Comments »

NCAA Football (and BBQ Thread)

by coldwarrior ( 236 Comments › )
Filed under College Football, Open thread, Patriotism, September 11, Sports at September 11th, 2010 - 11:00 am

Its week 2 in this very young and already interesting College Football Season. The Auburn Mississippi State game was more fun than i thought it would be with the War Eagles Holding on for the win at the Bulldogs. Friday night’s let down was Marshall once again blowing a lead and losing to the WV Mountaineers. Marshall had the Mountaineers at home, on this the 40th anniversary of the plane crash that killed the entire Marshall football team and they blew it. If you also appear to be a sports fan and want to get some profit out of it, check out https://uk.mansionbet.com/sports/golf/ for online betting.

And the rankings agree in all polls, Alabama is #1, Ohio State #2, and the boys from the smurf turf Boise State are #3! Watch out for Boise State….

So onto Saturday: Today’s top match-ups are 22 Georgia at 24 South Carolina at noon. There are three 3:0pm games worth looking at: first is 17 FSU at 10 Oklahoma, the rematch of the 2000 national championship in the Orange Bowl, and 12 Miami at 2 Ohio State. Colwarrior’s favorite football teams are whomever is playing Miami Hurricanes this week and whomever was the last team to beat them. Miami, ‘the U’, AKA the criminal element should have lost the right to a football team in the 1990’s with all of the gross violations they had. And as always the Michigan at Notre Dame game, both teams are in rebuild mode. Its still a rivalry and should make for an interesting match-up for the new coach at Notre Dame.

At 7:00 pm PSU is in Tuscaloosa to play the #1ranked Alabama Crimson Tide; shades of the classic battles between Bear Bryant and Joe Paterno.:

“It’s one of those games,” said Penn State quarterback coach Jay Paterno, Joe’s son, “that the rest of the country will sit down and watch. It’s the two uniforms that haven’t changed. You know you’re watching Alabama, because of the uniforms. We’re no different. The only thing I’ll miss Saturday is not having Keith Jackson there. They should have called him and said, ‘We need you for this, baby.'”

They have played each other only 13 times. Alabama has won eight, Penn State five. Yet each program has played a pivotal role in the other’s football history. There is more than fate there. Political commentator James Carville once described the state of Pennsylvania as “Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between.”

Carville referred to the values and politics of central Pennsylvania. But he may be on to something. For some 40 years, the Alabama Football Fan Club of Bridgeport, Pa., has made an annual pilgrimage to a game in Tuscaloosa, Ala. The club will be there Saturday night.

One of the Crimson Tide’s most beloved players, quarterback Joe Namath, grew up in Beaver Falls, Pa.

I’m afraid JoePa will not walk out of Tuscaloosa with a win this time. PSU has a very promising and exciting freshman quaterback and an inexperienced O line. Vegas is giving PSU 12, its hard to say when Coach Saban will have mercy on PSU and call of the Tide.

As an aside, today, we are not forgetting 9-11. We are BBQing, flyin’ the flags, and lookin’ at football while keeping an eye on the muzz. In the end, I am confident that our side, the side of freedom and liberty, will triumph over the fascism and evil that is Islam.

****sep 11 ‘where were you when it happened’ thread was saturday morning 11 sep 0800-1200, we would like to collect and share some memories…write your story for everyone and post it up for history****

please return to your regularly scheduled thread.

Tags: BBQ, ncaa football, Open thread, September 11
Posted in College Football, Open thread, Patriotism, September 11, Sports | 236 Comments »

NCAA football open thread! (Lecture is cancelled for the holiday weekend)

by coldwarrior ( 115 Comments › )
Filed under College Football, Open thread, Sports at September 4th, 2010 - 9:56 am

Since it is a holiday weekend, classes are canceled! The Saturday lecture will return next week. In its place is this:

HOOOORRAYYYY!!!!! Its my favorite time of year! NCAA football is upon us!

How about that PITT v Utah game on Thursday night. The polls had my beloved Panthers ranked an early #15 and the pick to win the Big East. PITT has the talent, and i hope that Coach Wanstedt doesn’t do his normal routine of wining just enough games to keep his job. It’s time to produce, Coach! (late edit: They lost to an un-ranked Utah. Coach Wanstedt failed to win the big game again, the offensive play calling was predictable and abysmal. It is time for him to go, he cant coach his way out of a wal*mart bag.)

The top 5 in all of the polls this early are 1 Alabama, 2 Ohio State and then 3-5 in no order Boise State, Florida , and Texas. The Boise State Broncos from the WAC just wont go away. They cant move to the SEC or the Big 10, so they try to make their non-conference schedule as tough as they can…and some teams just dodge them and refuse to schedule them because they are so dangerous, especially on the Smurf Turf. Is it time for Boise state to play for a national championship if they are the only undefeated?

And from Los Angeles, the USC Trojan’s got a dump truck full of sanctions handed to them by the NCAA for the Reggie Bush/sports agent money escapade. The Coaching staff and administration claimed they knew nothing of this, so the NCAA cited gross incompetence and a complete lack of administrative oversight against the program and the coaches. So its no 2004 BCS championship, deletion of the entire 2005 season, and are banned from postseason play for two years and will lose 20+ scholarships. Players will also be allowed to transfer to other schools without the one year sit down time.

And how about the brilliant move that the Big 10 made by getting Nebraska to join the division next year, what a great fit! I cant wait for a Penn State Nebraska series. Great call Big 10!

Notre Dame has a new coach, Brian Kelly, formerly of Cincinnati. Coach Kelly did a great job of building up the Bearcats and left his contract early. He got some heat for this. But, the Coach is an Irish Catholic from Boston, ‘Head Coach of Notre Dame Football’ is his dream job, so I think no ill feelings should be felt toward him. Its a once in a lifetime opportunity and i wish him well, except against my Panthers.

What games are you watching?

So, this is an open thread…it will run until the overnight behind the other threads while there is NCAA football on. Refer to here when talking football, and remember, lecture starts up next saturday!

Foodie Update: And here’s lunch: Andouille and Israeli Couscous stuffed italian peppers…its cajun, jewish, italian fusion food. And damn are these stuffed peppers excellent!