Wow, What a great season this is turning out to be... thought it could use its own thread.

PS: Oklahoma State moves up to #8

Next week's game to watch : Missouri Vs. Texas

Cool idea for a thread. As a Notre Dame alumnus (1990), I always enjoy talking football.

I saw my first college game in person since 1997 yesterday when I road-tripped to UNC to see us fritter it away in the second half. Great start to the game: we kicked off, they went three-and-out, and we marched down the field for a touchdown. At half we were up 17-9, but we turned the ball over too many times to win. Still, we had that final chance and almost pulled out a win in the last seconds.

Still, at 4-2, we're leaps ahead of last year. With Weis' recruiting classes, it's only going to get better.

Maybe it'll be ND-Oklahoma State for all the marbles in a year or two? Congrats on your good season so far!

Glad to hear you got to go back to a game! sorry they lost though. Hopefully I willmake it back to Oklahoma State for a football game soon.

My Michigan Wolverines are struggling this year. I'm still a fan though. I hate those people that only cheer for their team during the winning years.

These "off" years just make me appreciate the good ones that much more.

Go Blue!(hopefully within the not-too-distant future).

I disagree with the last two posts.

Tuff year to be a Badger fan.

Badgers? BADGERS? We don't need no stinkin' Badgers!

Given that I live in Texas, I went to school there for a few years, and the Huskers are off to a mediocre start at best, I believe I'll start cheering for Texas. Hook 'em.

Jason

Peter, you forgot the video link:

UHF

Aaaand, the original, for reference:

Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Interesting chronology/analysis here:

wikipedia rulez!

My God, that'd be like me cheering for the poodle (carroll) and USC. Yuck!

Man, Letterman sure is proud of the Ball State Fighting Cardinals.

Go Horns! Looks like David's Cowboys completely knocked the Tigers off their game last week (so badly that they're still suffering today).

They looked pretty flat against TX today... either that, or TX was playing out of their minds good. Colt McCoy was definitely at the top of his game... fun game to watch.

Jason

yikes... next week Oklahoma State versus #1 Texas... should be a tough one.

You guys gave them a heck of a run. I thought you were going to pull it off for a while. Definitely a good game.

And my Huskers managed to beat Baylor today too while I was attending in person. Definitely a fun Saturday!

Jason

Yeah, I was a little bummed that we lost- but hey it went down to the last play and the last few seconds of the game! (even if it was a hail-mary attempt at a win)

I think gundy made a coaching error when he didn't call a time out to come up with a good game plan at 4th and 7 with a minute or so left. I mean, why would Zac Robinson pass the ball to the LINE OF SCRIMAGE on 4th and 7? o well...

I was surprised we actually stopped texas on the 1 yard line on their last drive and gave us at least a chance to come back. Plus we scored the same number of rushing touchdowns against texas as all of the previous 7 teams combined (only 2), and we managed to force colt to throw his 1st interception at a home game all season (in 170+ pass attempts).

hey, 7-1 is nothing to complain about when it comes to the cowboys

Now I need The longhorns to lose to texas tech, and texas A&M (yeah right)... Then OSU has to beat texas tech and OU and we can still be the big 12 champions. Now doesn't that sound simple?

Anything can happen, but I wouldn't put money on that scenario.

Btw - I totally agree about not calling a time out. It was a bizarre call. What did he think he was saving his time outs for if he didn't call one then? (not that I'd be any better in that kind of pressure packed situation, but still... I don't get his pay either)

Jason

The loss only pushed us back to number 9... not too bad.

Well,

Jason (myrison) hope your huskers can pull out a win against OU today. I wouldn't mind seeing some top ranked big 12 teams lose today (except my cowboys of course).

Today I am pulling for texas tech and nebraska (and OSU)

David, I hope you're right, but I wouldn't put money on it.

I'm actually going to a Texas Hold 'Em / Texas v. Texas Tech football party tonight, so I'm going to have to twist some arms to get the guys to flip back and forth to the NE game. It could be that I'll be glad I'm not watching it all as it definitely could turn into a rout quickly.

I'm trying to set reasonable expectations and have decided that I'll consider it a wash if Texas OR Nebraska wins today. (even if I lose at poker, which is most normally the case)

Jason

Well I hope you didn't lose at poker tonight. I would hate for you to have 3 losses

the Texas vs. Texas Tech game was amazing!

Oklahoma state gets to travel to texas tech next week... turning out to be a great football season for the big 12.

All I can say is...

University of Northern Iowa (UNI) Panthers, keep it up guys!!!

BCS rankings aren't posted yet but USAtoday and AP top 25 show Alabama as number 1 and texas tech close behind... Texas tech played a helluva game against texas, kinda surprised they won't be getting the number one slot.

Hopefully USC can beat alabama next week and OSU can beat texas tech. wouldn't hurt for OU or pennstate to lose either.

I hope Ball State keeps their streak alive, for Letterman's sake. Chirp Chirp! It's Bird Time!

At the Oklahoma State/ Colorado game a fan shines a laser/light into quarterback zac robinson's eyes.

What a bunch of crap!

Link here:
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/bl...rn=ncaaf,122600

You have to admit, a laser is much better than an RPG to the head.

Really depends on how powerful the laser is, dunnit?

You know, I saw that shark with fricken Laser Beams strapped to it's head sitting there in the crowd and thought something was up.

Old but still suits so many conversations.
I had just one request!

Go, Ball State, Go.

Hey, my mom went there.

Somebody say football? I know what I'm going to be doing this coming Saturday.

We can put a red 'X' on that Alabama logo now ...

Yup, good game!

I am pulling for the sooners now though, even if they are our rivals at bedlam time I still have to pull for my home state

The time has come once again.

Did anyone see this last night:
Oregon's player Punches another in the Face

Now he is ejected for the 2009 season...
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=txt25oregonblount&prov=st&type=lgns

Glad to see someone is punishing his ass.

Nice thread recycling, David!

Fun day today, eh?

The Oregon guy is still on scholarship, though.

yeah, no need to clutter the interweb with new threads when an old one is filed away ready for use.

So Oklahoma State was able to pull off a win against Georgia this afternoon! Go Cowboys!

AP-Top 25 Ranks prior to week 1 games:

RK TEAM RECORD PTS
1 Florida (58) 0-0 1498
2 Texas (2) 0-0 1424
3 Oklahoma 0-0 1370
4 USC 0-0 1313
5 Alabama 0-0 1156
6 Ohio State 0-0 1113
7 Virginia Tech 0-0 1054
8 Mississippi 0-0 1047
9 Oklahoma State 0-0 989
9 Penn State 0-0 989
11 LSU 0-0 914
12 California 0-0 746
13 Georgia 0-0 714
14 Boise State 0-0 659
15 Georgia Tech 0-0 593
16 Oregon 0-0 587
17 TCU 0-0 521
18 Florida State 0-0 307
19 Utah 0-0 289
20 Brigham Young 0-0 267
21 North Carolina 0-0 261
22 Iowa 0-0 229
23 Notre Dame 0-0 225
24 Nebraska 0-0 207
25 Kansas 0-0 134

Go Bears!

Yikes, OU's allstar/Heisman quarterback Sam Bradford took a pretty nasty fall on his throwing shoulder at the end of the first have against BYU... hope he is ok! (Even if they are rivals)

http://www.newsok.com/sooner-qb-sam-bradford-goes-down-with-injury/article/3398722

I feel the need to recycle this thread for the 3rd year in a row. Enjoying game day so far today. First 2 weeks I was out of town and not able to watch any football.... going to watch as much as I can get away with today though!

Watching Georgia and Arkansas right now. Oklahoma State is playing my home town team (Tulsa) today but unfortunately it won't be televised.

Nice work!

Nebraska at Washington today. Gawd, I hope it is interesting.

David, are you trying to get tickets to any of the concerts on the DMB fall tour? They aren't coming to Toronto, and I'd love to see them in Buffalo but I can't.

With them likely breaking up next year, I doubt I'll see them again .

No breaking up, just a year off. Some rumors that they are playing their last show in their hometown, the place they played their first shows, and then will never play again but I doubt it. I wont be able to make the east coast tours. Too much $$$ for airfare, hotel, fix, etc. But i wish!

Oklahoma state is playing Texas A&M tonight on ESPN- 6:30 central. Should be a good game

Nice to find a college football thread here...I kinda like the cowboys in tonights match up....but I can't wait for this weekends Alabama vs Florida collision...go TIDE..

I'm pullin' for the cowboys too (I'm sure my avatar gave that away)

Oh..yeah!

Talk about a roller coaster... SHEESH!

I'm off to the Minnesota (not so) Golden Gopher/Northwestern game tomorrow. The new Minnesota stadium is beautiful but the football team has just been brutally bad. Maybe a Homecoming game will wake them up.

Please, explain again what a football is?

It's not black, white, and round!

That sport is far more entertaining .

Better acting than in many movies

LOL

I must say soccer doesn't hold the only Oscars in sports. Derek Jeter's latest attempt at acting was quite believeable till the replay showed the ball hit the end of the bat.

All sports are guilty of it. I do think that the instances in soccer are hyperbolized, and there's an agenda in North America. The first sport that most people refer to for acting is soccer, and most don't even watch the sport. I agree it's a problem, but not to the level that's portrayed in the media.

I LOVE hockey, and I think the acting is worse than what it is in soccer.

Hockey has it's fair share of Oscar nominees....that clown on Philadelphia(Carsilly-O) and the other guy on Montreal(LaPierre) would give De Niro a run for his money.

Carsilly-O !

Hockey at least will penalize a player for acting while Soccer, well, they go down without even being touched by the player and the Refs buy it. I guess it really boils down to poor refing. If they wouldn't call that stuff the players wouldn't be so willing to act.

In Formula 1, such fake incidents are impossible.

Unless you're a second string driver for Renault.

And the manufacturers never order the number 2 driver to let the other driver pass, at least they now get penalized for doing it during the race. The drivers now make it look like they are actually racing when it happens now.

OU/ Texas is the big rivalry on TV in my area, should be a good game!

Alabama/ Florida on after that.

Yeah, unless the driver's name is Massa or Vettel.

Those guys should be racing Nascar with the attitude they have, IIRC they were nearly crucified for their actions.

Eh, Massa wasn't, Ferrari was. Nothing happened to Red Bull, because they were much more subtle. Not to mention Vettel ended up finishing ahead of Webber in that race.

I never did get into Nascar, but I must admit the cars are pretty cool.

"IROC...Italian Retard Out Cruising."
Jim Lauletta

Big F1 fan here. Team McLaren all the way! All time favorite driver is Mikka Hakkinen (I have a specially painted diecast car honoring him), and although I respect his skill and achievements, Michael Schumacher can suck it!

You haven't experienced vertigo or iambic pentameter, if you haven't watched NASCAR .

http://firebryanstinespring.blogspot.com/

Nuff said.

Go Sebastian! (Vettel, naturally). Or Button. But Hamilton must fail.

Well another college football weekend has passed and Alabama will remain atop all the polls. They still have their work cut out having to play SC(20th)& LSU(12th) on the road and finish the season against Auburn(10th)at home. Fwiw both LSU and Auburn should move up this week and likely rank higher. They'll also likely have to beat Florida again in the SEC championship game before they kick OSU butt in the BCS championship game...oh yeah!

Yeah, Alabama is looking really strong this year...

Washington Huskies beat USC! Nice.

LSU's win was spotlighted in the sermon at our church today. Our pastor, a devout LSU fan, left his living room in disgust, ranting and raving, when the clock ran out - completely missing the penalty called. This morning at the men's breakfast at our church, he was handed a single mustard seed. So inspiring was the mustard seed that he changed his entire sermon to focus on the topic of faith rather than whatever he was going to talk about (which is usually planned several weeks in advance).

At the other end of the spectrum, I asked my wife, "LSU played yesterday?"

To all of my fellow Americans:

Should be an exciting match up tonight between Oklahoma and Oklahoma State. Winner claims big 12 south title and plays Nebraska for Big 12 championship.

Most years OSU is just playing to try and keep OU from going to the big 12 championship but this year this year they are the ones playing for something to lose.

Bumpity.

David, I just wanted to tell you how happy I am for you and the other OSU fans. Hope you are savoring the joyful moments, and that the season ends in a most satisfying way.

Hoping Stanford beats Oregon tonight. I hates me some Ducks.

Hoping Oregon beats Stanfurd tonight. I hates me some Trees.

My two favorite teams are the Huskers and whoever beats Texas...

oh my today I love Missouri, I think hell just froze over.

Thanks Tom! I'm holding my breathe and hoping OSU doesn't choke in the next two games.

We finally got a College Football team last year. College/University football is not nearly as big as as it is in the U.S. but it's fun to have a team to watch. Best of all they are poised to win the Atlantic conference in this just their second year in the league. Go Hurricanes!

I am looking forward to Bedlam this year. Should be an outstanding game. I don't think I could favor either team... gonna be a tough game pick.

My guess, OSU will be favored by 3 points.

Tough loss for the Cowboys last night. My condolences to Terzaghi. Hopefully they can rebound and beat the Sooners.

Awesome game Cyclones, the stunner in Ames!!!!

College footall is over.

On to Basketball!

Nah, cyclones played great. OSU did not play like a #2 team at all.

I beg to differ. My son attends LSU and so far they remain undefeated. Our youth minister at church went to Arkansas and is a diehard razorback fan. The two teams meet up this coming Friday. Should be an interesting showdown. It will be interesting to see who ends up in the SEC playoffs...

Yeah, I was mostly joking

OK, now if Alabama and Arkansas can manage to lose than there is still a shot for OSU to head to the national championship game...

I'm an LSU and Auburn fan next week

I know that no one else cares but nobody said What college football league you were talking about. The Holland College Hurricanes won the Canadian Atlantic Conference here at home on Saturday. It's the first collegiate championship for this very tiny college since 1960.

That's quite an accomplishment!

I watch an occasional CFL game sometimes on Friday night on the NFL network. I actually enjoy their games quite a bit. It makes me curious about Canadian college ball because I just don't know anything about it. In fact I always just assumed it must exist but have never heard for sure that it does until now, heh.

The Vanier Cup(Canadian College Championship game) took place last night and it was a very good game; it even went into overtime. The Grey Cup (CFL champioship) game is tomorrow.

Not quite exciting, except to ME, but my brother and sister-in-law were on tv when they cut to the crowd after Iowa scored it's only touchdown against Nebraska Friday. I was watching their boys at the time, and fortunately we recorded it. The boys were in disbelief seeing their parents on tv. LOL!

I didn't get to see the Vanier cup this year but it was fun to watch the BC lions come back from an 0 and 5 season opening to win the Grey Cup!

Mary, that is exiting. I always wondered what you would look like in a beer helmet. Oh, sorry, I thought you said You were on TV. Still cool though.

Oklahoma state is looking great against Oklahoma! 41 to 3 so far and still lots of time left! Not bad considering that they were only favored by 3.5 points...

I would prefer that the Cowboys (rather than bama, again) play LSU in the title game.

Same here! If it wasn't for that solid performance from Iowa state and not so great performance by OSU it would be certain. Now we wait and see...

The bcs is garbage.

LOL, ya

I'd pay real money to see the SEC finally lose.