College Football Bragging Rights Thread

[LeBrad]

Does your school have a football team?

Are they any good?


After beating the Buckeyes, my team sits atop the Big 10!


please share

 

[Gokul43201]

You dirty, rotten Nittany scum ! You just got lucky...all thanks to that lousy interception. Bah !

PS : By the way, Young and Skynyrd made up and even did a few gigs together, as a goodwill kind of thing. But yeah, Young was spot on !

 

[Moonbear]

I don't know how to feel. The football team at the university I've just started working at this fall (WVU) just beat my alma mater's team (RU). It's tough having split loyalties like that. (Then again, my alma mater's team sucks, so this is no surprise that everyone beats them). I guess I better be careful what sweatshirt I wear outside on game days, though.

 

[LeBrad]

You dirty, rotten Nittany scum ! You just got lucky...all thanks to that lousy interception. Bah !

Thanks for keeping that top-10 spot warm for us!

 

[SpaceTiger]

You dirty, rotten Nittany scum ! You just got lucky...all thanks to that lousy interception. Bah !

Yeah, the sack/fumble recovery, fourth-down conversion, and OSU's scoreless second half were pretty lucky too.

 

[Gokul43201]

Yeah, the sack/fumble recovery, fourth-down conversion, and OSU's scoreless second half were pretty lucky too.

Ummm...correct !

 

[Gale]

i think penn state sucks

 

[LeBrad]

i think penn state sucks

Remind me what your school is ranked in football?

 

[SpaceTiger]

Remind me what your school is ranked in football?

Don't confuse the poor girl. Gale, a "ranking" refers to the team's standing relative to other teams in the country. It's that number you'll often see in front of other teams' names when you're reading the box scores.

 

[Gale]

Har har har! such comedians... you boys and you're lame foosball

 

[gravenewworld]

My school's football team sucks, although we have sent players like Brian westbrook, Brian finneran, and Howie Long to the pros. In 1 month though College BBall starts and my school is supposed to be ranked in the top 5 in the nation.

 

[hypatia]

Go Blue! U of Michigan!

 

[loseyourname]

My school doesn't have a football program, so I root for the same team I've been rooting for since I was a kid - the hometown Trojans. They've been doing pretty well the last couple of years.

 

[Gokul43201]

Go Blue! U of Michigan!

Muck Fichigan. Go Buckeyes !

 

[SpaceTiger]

Go Blue! U of Michigan!

Prepare to be JoePwn3d!

 

[Gokul43201]

Pa has to win a few every now and then, right ? I mean...the odds catch up, don't they ? Is it a decade yet, since the Rose Bowl ?

<okay, now you're going to respond with Pa's winning record...blah, blah >

 

[SpaceTiger]

<okay, now you're going to respond with Pa's winning record...blah, blah >

Thanks in part to another of our wins against the Ohio State buck passers.

 

[Gokul43201]

Thanks in part to another of our wins against the Ohio State buck passers.

I wonder how many times that's happened these last few years ?

 

[SpaceTiger]

I wonder how many times that's happened these last few years ?

We got to give you something to live for.

 

[Mattius_]

You totally have to give it up for Nebraska 4-1 after last season. We almost beat Texas Tech but isntead we intercepted and fumbled on the same play with just over 1 minute left when we could have easily just took a knee and run the time out. Instead TT took it down to the red zone for a double hurried pass to a double covered reciever for the LUCKY win. Nebraska came back from 21-0 to almost win against 15th ranked TT what a game to watch but what a tragic ending. Anyways it is good to have the same fire back in Nebraska after 3 years of it being gone.

 

[Gokul43201]

Does Nebraska still have the Raiders' coach...watsisname ? Callahan ?

 

[loseyourname]

The Big 12 is a joke right now. I'm glad Callahan seems to be turning his program around, but there is no excuse right now not to win at least nine games in that conference. It's sad, too. Texas is probably going to steamroll through every team it faces this year (except Ohio State) in the regular season and end up in the Rose Bowl, only to be sacrificed to a much better USC team. I'd much rather watch a more deserving ACC or SEC champ. If Virginia Tech, Florida State, Georgia, or Alabama (heck, even Penn State) manages to run the table and gets passed over by Texas, another crime has been committed like Oklahoma getting in over Auburn last year and getting in over USC the year before, only to be thoroughly dismantled both years. They should bar all Big 12 and Big East schools from the championship game until those conferences can get their acts together.

Back to Nebraska, though. I like Callahan, and I hope he gets you guys a bowl win this year. In fact, I actually like Texas and I hope they win their bowl game, too. I just hope it isn't the Rose Bowl, because I'm pretty certain that USC would stomp all over them, as would Va Tech and possibly a few other schools.

 

[Gokul43201]

That Robinson...he can play ! Too bad !

 

[loseyourname]

If you guys missed the USC/Notre Dame game, you might have missed one of the all-time classic finishes in college football. This one is up there with the Doug Flutey hail mary and the Stanford band play. To pull out a win after the Notre Dame fans rush the field thinking they've pulled out a win . . . wow.

 

[Integral]

WAHOO! Beavers 23 Bears 20

 

[Gokul43201]

If you guys missed the USC/Notre Dame game, you might have missed one of the all-time classic finishes in college football. This one is up there with the Doug Flutey hail mary and the Stanford band play. To pull out a win after the Notre Dame fans rush the field thinking they've pulled out a win . . . wow.

I missed that one, but the Michigan - Penn State game would've come a close second.

Michigan up by 3 with 2 minutes left. Penn State drives the length of the field and scores (after a pass interception on 4th and 7 gets them to the 10 yd line) going up by 4 ... 53 seconds on the clock. A field-goal will not do it for the Wolverines.

Michigan (Breaston, I believe) returns the kickoff to midfield ! A couple of botched plays later, Carr calls time-out. After arguing with refs for responding late (or who knows what), he gets 2 seconds put back on the clock. 28, no 30 seconds to go...Michigan near midfield. 4 plays later, there's 6 seconds on the clock, Michigan at about the PSU 20-something yd line. Spread offense - all receivers run deep and are covered by the secondary...Henne hits a tight-end at the sideline for a gain of about 10 with ... 1 second on the clock. The Big House is in prayer.

Last play of the game; Henne throws a dart to freshman reciever Manningham in the end-zone for the score and the win !

 

[Moonbear]

I missed that one, but the Michigan - Penn State game would've come a close second.

Michigan up by 3 with 2 minutes left. Penn State drives the length of the field and scores (after a pass interception on 4th and 7 gets them to the 10 yd line) going up by 4 ... 53 seconds on the clock. A field-goal will not do it for the Wolverines.

Michigan (Breaston, I believe) returns the kickoff to midfield ! A couple of botched plays later, Carr calls time-out. After arguing with refs for responding late (or who knows what), he gets 2 seconds put back on the clock. 28, no 30 seconds to go...Michigan near midfield. 4 plays later, there's 6 seconds on the clock, Michigan at about the PSU 20-something yd line. Spread offense - all receivers run deep and are covered by the secondary...Henne hits a tight-end at the sideline for a gain of about 10 with ... 1 second on the clock. The Big House is in prayer.

Last play of the game; Henne throws a dart to freshman reciever Manningham in the end-zone for the score and the win !

Darn! I always cheer for whoever is playing against Michigan, even if it's Penn State.

It was a madhouse here. It was the homecoming game, and I needed to get into the lab to work. Well, if you're not going to the game, you might as well work, because everything else in town was closed for the game! Darn small college towns. But the traffic was horrid...even worse was trying to get back off campus once I was on it...all the ways I know to go were barricaded off for game parking.

 

[Gokul43201]

It was a madhouse here. It was the homecoming game, and I needed to get into the lab to work. Well, if you're not going to the game, you might as well work, because everything else in town was closed for the game! Darn small college towns. But the traffic was horrid...even worse was trying to get back off campus once I was on it...all the ways I know to go were barricaded off for game parking.

You're crazy for not watching the game (WVU vs Louisville) - it was fantastic. The game went into overtime, and a second, and a third - with TDs in all three OTs. In the third OT, UL couldn't complete the mandatory 2-pt conversion, which WVU did !

Of course...I've been studying all day !

 

[loseyourname]

A lot of good finishes today. The Minnesota/Wisconsin game was an absolute heartbreaker. All the Gophers have to do is get the punt off and the game is probably over. Something like this happens every year to that poor team. I'd hate to be a Minnesota fan.

I can feel a good finish coming on in the UCLA/WSU game as well. Another Pac-10 shootout.

Edit: The Penn State/Michigan game wasn't carried here, but I was following it on yahoo! while watching the USC game.

 

[Moonbear]

You're crazy for not watching the game (WVU vs Louisville) - it was fantastic. The game went into overtime, and a second, and a third - with TDs in all three OTs. In the third OT, UL couldn't complete the mandatory 2-pt conversion, which WVU did !

Of course...I've been studying all day !

Bleh. I could do without the games. I wouldn't mind doing the tailgate parties, but people here seem to take the games too seriously and I'm just starting to get irritated that I can't just get into the lab and get my work done without having to navigate around all the football traffic (on the up-side, the parking lot I'm usually assigned to park in is used for football parking, so I get a special permit for game days to park right up next to the building I work in...the door closest to my lab even ). It's the only day I don't have to hike up a mountain from the parking lot to my lab.

I don't even know how to get tickets here yet (I didn't look into it because I thought it would be cold by now and I'm not into the sitting in bleachers freezing thing so only usually go to the first few games of the season if I go to any). I just got information on basketball tickets yesterday, so I probably started too late to get information on football tickets.

I visited a friend (post-doc in our lab) downtown after work (tried to suggest I should fix her up with you but she found some MD in Syracuse this week...sorry Gokul, I tried. I thought you'd be her type, and Columbus is closer than Syracuse.)