College football

[billy.pilgrim]

Were the officials sec? This replay looks more like a sec call, although the officials aren't recognizable to me.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/s ... concussion

It sure looks like helmet to helmet targeting that left the Ohio player with a concussion.
Also I wasn't aware that they could reverse a personal foul.

So, instead of 1st down at the 2, it's 4th down and long.
Ohio State would have had 4 more points and Georgia would have lost....

Shoulder to shoulder first? Definitely not the crown of the helmet. Idk, I'd want all angles and slo-mo. The "expert" analyst thinks it wasn't targeting.

If there's another simultaneous foul like roughing the passer or hit out of bounds, which it was close to, that personal foul is not reviewable and stands. However, since targeting has such a severe penalty it is reviewable and is thus reversible.

If Ohio State gets that TD at the end of the 3rd, the 4th likely would have been played different. It might have flipped the winner, or not.

Per 2022 rule clarification

"Targeting and Making Forcible Contact to Head or Neck Area of a Defenseless Player

ARTICLE 4. No player shall target and make forcible contact to the head or neck area of a defenseless opponent with the helmet, forearm, hand, fist, elbow or shoulder. This foul requires that there be at least one indicator of targeting. When in question, it is a foul. ...

Note 1: "Targeting" means that a player takes aim at an opponent for purposes of attacking with forcible contact that goes beyond making a legal tackle or a legal block or playing the ball."

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-fo ... j7bcseti5d

Sorry, I'm from the sec. We've had entire crews suspended for fixing games.

He was defenseless
Their helmets met
He left with a concussion

One bad call is the only thing that kept UGA in the game.

[Vrede too]

... He was defenseless
Their helmets met
He left with a concussion

One bad call is the only thing that kept UGA in the game.

Hitting a defenseless player is its own non-reviewable foul and could have been potentially called, but it wasn't. The issue which I'm not opining on is that it may have first been shoulder-to-shoulder contact. If there is subsequent helmet-to-helmet contact it may be considered incidental.

[billy.pilgrim]

... He was defenseless
Their helmets met
He left with a concussion

One bad call is the only thing that kept UGA in the game.

Hitting a defenseless player is its own non-reviewable foul and could have been potentially called, but it wasn't. The issue which I'm not opining on is that it may have first been shoulder-to-shoulder contact. If there is subsequent helmet-to-helmet contact it may be considered incidental.

"ARTICLE 4. No player shall target and make forcible contact to the head or neck area of a defenseless opponent with the helmet, forearm, hand, fist, elbow or shoulder."

Possibly so, but I've seen far less before the rule change that got the Targeting call.
There are plenty of clips of the play that to me look like obvious Targeting.

[O Really]

Wait - the TCU-GA game isn't until next week? Why, and why didn't I know this? Apparently I don't give a ratzass.

Pasadena lucked out - chilly but no rain. Best parade of all.

[Vrede too]

Wait - the TCU-GA game isn't until next week? Why, and why didn't I know this? Apparently I don't give a ratzass.

Pasadena lucked out - chilly but no rain. Best parade of all.

Maybe because we dislike the usual teams - Alabama, Clemson, Georgia, Ohio State?

It's been late since they went to the Playoff system in 2015, as early as January 7, 2019 and as late as January 13, 2020. With the Playoff expansion it shifts to a week or so later, January 20, 2025.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_F ... me_results

[Vrede too]

GO:

12:00 PM EST, Tampa, TV: ESPN2
Illinois 8-4 > (22) Mississippi State 8-4, no spread
10-19

1:00 PM EST, Cotton Bowl, Arlington, Texas, TV: ESPN
(10) USC 11-2 (-2) > (16) Tulane 11-2
Wow, 45-30 with 4:12 left, I went to do other things. 2 TDs and a safety later 45-46! Good on Tulane for not giving up. They're partying in New Orleans today.

Plus 2 games I don't care about.

That's it for me. I don't care about the finale on Mon, 1/9, 8:00 PM EST.

[Vrede too]

CONFERENCE (BOWL TEAMS)
BIG TEN (9) 4-2 .667
MAC (6) 4-2 .667
INDEPENDENTS (5) 3-2 .600
PAC-12 (7) 3-2 .600
ACC (9) 5-4 .556
AMERICAN (7) 3-3 .500
C-USA (6) 3-3 .500
SEC (11) 4-5 .440 - Championship game team
MOUNTAIN WEST (7) 3-4 .429
SUN BELT (7) 3-4 .429
BIG 12 (8) 2-6 .250 - Championship game team
https://www.ncaa.com/news/football/arti ... ll-playoff

Final, not counting the Chump game:

CONFERENCE (BOWL TEAMS)
MAC (6) 4-2 .667
INDEPENDENTS (5) 3-2 .600
AMERICAN (7) 4-3 .571
ACC (9) 5-4 .556
BIG TEN (9) 5-4 .556
SEC (11) 6-5 .545 - Championship game team
C-USA (6) 3-3 .500
MOUNTAIN WEST (7) 3-4 .429
PAC-12 (7) 3-4 .429
SUN BELT (7) 3-4 .429
BIG 12 (8) 2-6 .250 - Championship game team

MAC rules, BIG 12 (almost) drools.

[billy.pilgrim]

Not everybody is going to like a braggart like Neon Dion, but he is what he is, and has been since getting to FSU. Difference though in a "sham" like the article painted is that he has delivered on his boasts everywhere he's been. I'm not fond of the "God sent me" bit, but it's no worse than a bunch of other religiosity-wrapped coaches around.

One can argue if his talk with the team was much different from the much-maligned Musk rant, but hey - they went 1-11 and not much better the year before. Something needs to change - maybe it's some of the players.

I'm too good for boosters. I can give myself nicknames.

https://flywareagle.com/2023/01/03/aubu ... snt-hired/

"In an interview with Undisputed with Skip and Shannon co-host Shannon Sharpe (h/t The War Rapport), Sanders said that his time is more valuable than meeting with the power brokers who fund operations for Power Five programs.

Needless to say, that was the lightbulb fans needed to go off to understand why Auburn football was such a poor fit for ‘Prime Time’:"

"The amount of time coaches can spend with football is limited by ncaa rules. He just doesn’t want to do the foundational work to build the program. He’s unwilling to lower himself to these sort of coach activities. He is all about himself. https://t.co/DunOWVUzAL

— Auburn Tweep (@AUTweep) January 2, 2023"

[Vrede too]

I'm too good for boosters. I can give myself nicknames.

https://flywareagle.com/2023/01/03/aubu ... snt-hired/ ...

Laudable attitude IMO, even if self-destructive for a Power Five prospect. Bending over for boosters is as demeaning and unhealthy for the sport as modern political fundraising is for democracy.

This caught my eye, linked from your link, same reporter. I thought Freeze had pulled off the coup of the decade.

What Bo Nix’s return means for the Auburn football program

Then I saw the dateline, "1 year ago". Opps.

[billy.pilgrim]

I'm too good for boosters. I can give myself nicknames.

https://flywareagle.com/2023/01/03/aubu ... snt-hired/ ...

Laudable attitude IMO, even if self-destructive for a Power Five prospect. Bending over for boosters is as demeaning and unhealthy for the sport as modern political fundraising is for democracy.

This caught my eye, linked from your link, same reporter. I thought Freeze had pulled off the coup of the decade.

What Bo Nix’s return means for the Auburn football program

Then I saw the dateline, "1 year ago". Opps.

Yeah, opps is right. I give Bo credit for seeing the truth about blufield.

[billy.pilgrim]

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/tailgati ... nship-game

Tailgating not allowed at SoFi Stadium for Georgia-TCU national championship game

[Vrede too]

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/tailgati ... nship-game

Tailgating not allowed at SoFi Stadium for Georgia-TCU national championship game

That's unAmerican!

"the greatest travesty of the bowl season"

... Now, before you go screaming about the NFL or SoFi Stadium ruining the atmosphere, the rule seems to have been created by the College Football Playoff....

Otoh, I don't care if GA and TCU fans get screwed.

[O Really]

No tailgating? Ridiculous.
What's next from these clowns? No team flags, costumes, face paint? OTOH. if there's no cowbell, that is good.

[GoCubsGo]

As long as there's no vuvuzelas, I'd kill myself.

[Vrede too]

Isn't the "championship" game coming up soon?

[GoCubsGo]

Isn't the "championship" game coming up soon?

Next week.

[O Really]

65-7, seriously?
I didn't watch or keep up with the game. Even if NCIS hadn't had a triple cross-over, I had toenails that needed clipping. Hopefully both teams cleared their benches and everybody got to play in the "national championship" game. That would be about the only good.

[GoCubsGo]

65-7, seriously?
I didn't watch or keep up with the game. Even if NCIS hadn't had a triple cross-over, I had toenails that needed clipping. Hopefully both teams cleared their benches and everybody got to play in the "national championship" game. That would be about the only good.

The game started earlier than I thought (what was up with that, before prime time?), so when I looked in it was already the middle of the first quarter. Then the wheels fell off. Turned off in the second quarter when it was 31-7 or something like that.

[O Really]

65-7, seriously?
I didn't watch or keep up with the game. Even if NCIS hadn't had a triple cross-over, I had toenails that needed clipping. Hopefully both teams cleared their benches and everybody got to play in the "national championship" game. That would be about the only good.

The game started earlier than I thought (what was up with that, before prime time?), so when I looked in it was already the middle of the first quarter. Then the wheels fell off. Turned off in the second quarter when it was 31-7 or something like that.

Yeah, apparently came on at 4:30 here.

[Vrede too]

65-7, seriously?
I didn't watch or keep up with the game. Even if NCIS hadn't had a triple cross-over, I had toenails that needed clipping. Hopefully both teams cleared their benches and everybody got to play in the "national championship" game. That would be about the only good.

They say, "The Devil Went Down to Georgia". He smote.
Devil - 1
RW Christians - 0

I wish I'd known that NCIS was a triple going in. I'm not a fan of the LA iteration. It was pretty farfetched, but okay.