Go Irish, Beat the Farm!
Notre Dame has a 7-0 lead over Stanford early. BEAT THE DRUNKEN TREES!!!
Meanwhile, in Morgantown, UConn took an early 7-0 lead over West Virginia, but the Mountaineers have rallied and are up 14-7 with 4:14 left in the first quarter. WVU's second touchdown came after a devastating UConn fumble on a punt return deep in their own territory. The Huskies' success this season has been based largely on an excellent turnover margin, and now is definitely not the time to stop taking care of the football, with a BCS berth on the line.
Incidentally, the biggest UConn fans in the country right now are in Columbus, Ohio, as a West Virginia loss would send Ohio State to the national championship game (unless a two-loss SEC champion could leapfrog one-loss Ohio State). In addition, a UConn victory would mean that Hawaii, if they get BCS-eligible, would probably go to the Fiesta Bowl rather than the Sugar Bowl. (The Sugar Bowl picks last, the Fiesta Bowl second-to-last, and I imagine the folks in Glendale would prefer Hawaii to UConn if those were their only two options.)
P.S. Tennessee is beating Kentucky, 31-14. Win, and the Vols clinch the SEC East -- and eliminate Georgia from the SEC race, and hurt the slim national-title hopes of both LSU and Georgia, but virtually guarantee Georgia a BCS at-large berth (if the Bulldogs beat Georgia Tech).
Also, Oklahoma is up 14-7 over Oklahoma State at the end of the first. A Sooner victory would largely eliminate the various truly wild BCS title-game scenarios, since the Big 12 would be guaranteed to produce a highly ranked champion. A hypothetical two-loss, Big 12 champion Oklahoma would represent the "floor" for BCS scenarios; anyone who can't finish the season ranked ahead of them would be eliminated. (Whether that would totally eliminate USC, I'm not entirely sure. The computers don't much like Oklahoma.)
LOL at this comment at Blue-Gray Sky. The first, non-gross part.
Posted by: Jim Hu | Nov 24, 2007 4:31:37 PM
Pac-10 refs just screwed Oregon over on a bad interception call. The reviewers apparently don't have the same feeds as the ABC crew that's calling the game...
Posted by: Scientizzle | Nov 24, 2007 4:40:58 PM
Tennessee is looking like they don't really want to win late in this game...
Posted by: DUP | Nov 24, 2007 4:55:02 PM
And the refs screwed Oregon again on a missed PI call that couldn't have been more blatant.
Posted by: Scientizzle | Nov 24, 2007 4:57:07 PM
I'm still trying to figure out what called back the interception return in the ND game at the end of the half. Neither the refs nor ABC (who was more concerned with talking about the Cal/Stanford game) seemed to bother to say what the penalty actually was.
Posted by: Wobbly H | Nov 24, 2007 5:20:52 PM
When was the last time ESPN showed a game between a 3-7 team and a 2-9 team?
Posted by: David K. | Nov 24, 2007 5:21:43 PM
As much as I feel obliged as a Stanford alum to watch ND-Stanford, Kentucky just took Tennessee into OT.
Posted by: Jim Hu | Nov 24, 2007 5:31:24 PM
Karl Dorrell cannot coach.
That is all.
Posted by: Texasyank | Nov 24, 2007 5:45:03 PM
"When you think about it, actually nobody on earth can block a soul. Souls have no physical properties."
Souls may have no physical properties, but if we reject both mind-body dualism, and reductionism (of the soul to physical properties), then we can provide an account of the soul whereby the soul relates to the body in such a way that there can be no change in bodies without a corresponding change in the soul. This would mean that to block a soul JUST IS to block a body.
Posted by: Condor | Nov 24, 2007 5:45:05 PM
Holy cow...interception and then a blocked kick in the 2nd OT with an almost game winning runback with multiple laterals...nuts!
Posted by: David K. | Nov 24, 2007 5:52:28 PM
Refs robbed Grimes of a touchdown catch.
Posted by: kcatnd | Nov 24, 2007 6:06:23 PM
This officiating is terrible. The P.F. on the interception return was stupid, the touchdown was clearly not reversible error, and the hit by Lambert was pretty clearly illegal.
Posted by: Wobbly H | Nov 24, 2007 6:19:22 PM
Agreed, Wobbly. Of course, anyone with eyes hooked up to a brain would have to agree. I hope Pritchard is OK. I don't think Lambert meant to hit him like that, just bad timing. But it's an obvious call that wasn't made.
Posted by: kcatnd | Nov 24, 2007 6:27:54 PM
anyone with eyes hooked up to a brain would have to agree
Which component do you think the refs are missing? I'm going with the brain, because even without eyes, they should have been able to hear the helmet-to-helmet hit.
Posted by: Brendan | Nov 24, 2007 6:30:36 PM
This is such a sick and surreal college football season...I just cheered when UCLA scored....
Posted by: gahrie | Nov 24, 2007 6:32:02 PM
Yes.
And USC has some work to do.
Posted by: Texasyank | Nov 24, 2007 6:35:06 PM
fucla beat the Ducks...not only did they lose a Heisman-caliber QB, the 2nd, 3rd & 4th stringers all went down with injuries.
The decimated Oregon offense has previously lost its top 2 WRs & 2nd-string RB, too. Just shows how valuable Dixon was to his team...
Posted by: Scientizzle | Nov 24, 2007 7:01:10 PM
Brendan, the Huskies' success this season has been based on the fact that, up until today (or yesterday, as it were), they didn't play anyone with a pulse. Just like Kansas. Their great turnover margin is just the symptom of that weak schedule.
Posted by: Andrew | Nov 25, 2007 4:51:47 AM