College Football 2023 - RIP Pac-12
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I just want to say that my alma mater Jacksonville State was predicted to win 2-3 games this year and we've already won 4. Suck it, pundits.
CFB is really weird this year. No one's all that great. UGA would've lost to Auburn yesterday without Bowers and still barely escaped and Auburn is pretty terrible this year.
It's so weird that we rose a spot in the Coaches and fell in the AP after finally having a dominant performance. The media said we'd lose that game while Vegas said we would curbstomp SC. Vegas was right as they often are. Turns out someone other than me values the return of an ALL-SEC CENTER. And thank the heavens Cooper is back!:
Btw, IDK if you remember Bru McCoy. He transferred to us from USC and has been a great player for us. He suffered a really horrific injury last night. Bad, bad. (His ankle/foot was not exactly attached to the rest of his leg). I've heard he had surgery last night and recovery should take 6 months (all unofficial), His family had flown in for the game too. It was freaking awful. I know he got into some trouble there with a gf but he's been a model here with no bad rumors around him at all. And ish gets around. He finally found a place for himself and I absolutely hate that he's gotten injured. He has another year of eligibility that he didn't intend to use but my guess is that he will now. It's a huge loss for us not just at the position but he has been a core driver on this team and last year's team. A heart/soul type player.
Bru also had one of the best NIL deals in the country with "Huddle for Hearts" which was setup to give out a defib (AED) any time he scored a TD.
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I do remember him.
Looks like a broken ankle?
I have no idea what will happen in the playoffs, but I can tell you right now our defense is not good enough to get there. USC was up on Colorado 34-7 at one point, and won 48-41, and only then after recovering an onside kick with a minute left.
Our offense is world-class. Too bad.
Looks like a broken ankle?
I have no idea what will happen in the playoffs, but I can tell you right now our defense is not good enough to get there. USC was up on Colorado 34-7 at one point, and won 48-41, and only then after recovering an onside kick with a minute left.
Our offense is world-class. Too bad.
Dislocated and fractured ankle is what they've finally released. A fellow vol buddy of mine who does sports medicine and also does team doc work for a semi-pro team in Texas said that it may not be as bad as it looked. Said it could be 100 percent recovery and a not *if* but "when* timeline for the type of injury. Basically put a plate in and some screws and wait. When it happened it looked like his foot was just hanging off. One of the most gruesome injuries I've seen in a while.
And your defense may suck but that doesn't matter as much as it used to. Hell, we almost made the playoffs last year with a defense that ranked near the bottom of CFB because the offense could simply outscore you. SC caught us sleeping though. And tOSU wasn't too different last year either. Watching them vs UGA last year was about how a neutral site game would've gone, imo.
There are a handful of offenses that have rewritten the rules of modern college football and Riley runs one of them. Heupel's is another (though not this year for us). (Basically, we're watching Mike Leach evolved via his former pupils - it's not air raid but it's not simple west coast spread either).
Lord save me from traditonal sports boards. Not understanding the difference between someone making a point about the economic servitude that our economic system enforces on damn near every member of our society and traditional chattel slavery may cause me to have an aneurysm. When I go to a sports board, I really do just want to talk sports but it never fails that these conservo bastards have to bring their politics into it and whine, whine, whine. I can only bit my tongue so much. And Lord knows I bite it - a LOT>
Somewhere out there, Joe Pisarcik is smiling…
Just not ready for Primetime Friday.
If USC could put up a defense they'd be something this year. I went to school there during the Ted Tollner / Larry Smith era (Rodney Peete and Todd Marijuanavich, QBs), and my level of fandom and viewership has dropped off to almost zero in recent years. I basically only watch the ND and fUCLA games, and then only if I'm home and thinking about it. My entire adult life, with only a couple exception years during the Pete Carroll era, USC teams have been choke-artists when it comes to the Big Game, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Part of me has never gotten over '88 when we had a shot at the national title, only to lose to Notre Dame at Thanksgiving. Gawd, I was beside myself for a year after that. Most of the time these days I just root for Navy.
Big game for Washington and Oregon just starting. Let's go Dawgs!!
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