Saturday Football Open Thread, Week 12

Posted on November 16, 2013 by Michigoose

Early games: the Yellow Jackets lost to Clemson 31 – 55 Thursday night, and UCLA beat Washington. Today’s games:

A hapless Iowa State is playing Oklahoma in what should be a rout for the Sooners (line: OK, spread 21). UPDATE: Oklahoma wins 48 – 10.

From MiA:  They call themselves Sooners to commemorate the Land Rush in which the most aggressive of them got the best homesteads.  It was an actual covered wagon race for a land grab.  Thus we call this team The Land Thieves.  Later, they adopted their two word fight song, Boomer Sooner, by plagiarizing Yale’s inane Boolah Boolah.  The Land Thieves is both historically accurate and appropriately disrespectful.
 

And an equally hapless Purdue is visiting Happy Valley to take on PSU (line: PSU, spread 20.5). Go, Nittany Lions! UPDATE: PSU 45 – 21.

Indiana is at Wisconsin (line: UW, spread 18.5)(ESPN2, noon EST) while osu is playing the Illini (pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease)(line: osu, spread 32)(ESPN, noon EST).UPDATES: UW 50 – 3 and osu 60 – 35, damn them

NC State is playing Boston College (line: BC, spread 7.5). Go, Eagles! UPDATE: BC wins 38 – 21.

UPDATE: Maryland (of the horrible uniforms) is in OT at Virginia Tech and won 27 – 24.

WSU is at Arizona (line: AZ, spread 13.5) and Syracuse is at unbeaten FSU (line: FSU, spread 38.5)(errrr)(3:30 EST, ABC). Cheering for the Wildcats and Orange. UPDATE: FSU 59 – 3 (yup) and WSU 24 – 17 over Arizona

Michigan is playing the blood-spattered Wildcats (line: UM, spread 2.5), and if anybody deserves to lose for bad uniform choice, it would have to be Northwestern.UPDATE: UM wins 27 – 19 in OT

MSU is at Nebraska (line: Nebraska, spread 4)(3:30 EST/ABC) and Paul and I are duking it out. Go, State!!!UPDATE: MSU wins 41 – 28

OK State (who I believe Mark refers to as The Land Thieves) is playing Texas in Big 12 action (line: Texas, spread 4.5)(3:30 EST/FOX) and I’ll stay out of the middle of that one.  From MiA: we call this team Okie Lite, but no disrespect is intended.UPDATE: OSU wins 38 – 13

Utah visits the Ducks (line: Oregon, spread 25) and USF is hosting Memphis (line: Memphis, spread 2.5)(ouch). UPDATE: Utah and USF both lost

Minnesota and Notre Dame have the weekend off. May all the right teams win!

What else?

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  1. markinaustin, on November 16, 2013 at 9:09 am said:

    Texas has remarkably salvaged a mediocre year from a disaster by firing defensive coordinator Manny Diaz after game two. However, the ‘Horns’ best QB, best LB, arguably best DT, best RB, a starting OG, and a starting CB are all out for this game. If I were betting, I would take Okie Lite against the spread. Earlier in the week, the spread favored Okie Lite, so there has been a bunch of late money on the ‘Horns. We call our surprisingly successful 2d string QB, Case McCoy, “Noodle Arm” and “Derp”.

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  2. Michigoose, on November 16, 2013 at 12:55 pm said:

    At the half, I have to say Illinois is doing nothing for me. NOTHING,

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  3. Michigoose, on November 16, 2013 at 12:57 pm said:

    And Oklahoma is only up by seven because of a lucky run.

    It can’t be 3:30 soon enough. . . .

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  4. Brent Nyitray, on November 16, 2013 at 6:14 pm said:

    Nice job on Neb..

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  5. Michigoose, on November 16, 2013 at 6:36 pm said:

    Thanks! I was biting my nails till the end.

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