Brent Nyitray
Fairlington Blade
Let the mutherfuker burn!
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Kevin S. Willis
Michigoose
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markinaustin
Arcanaut
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quarterback
ScottC
yellojktNone of the early games were terribly interesting (Rice beat UAB in OT 37 – 34, UCF trounced Rutgers 41 – 17, and UNLV crushed Air Force 41 – 21 on Thursday, then Navy beat San Jose State 58 – 52 on Friday). Today’s action:
MSU is at Northwestern (line: MSU, spread 7)(Noon EST/ESPN). This should be a rout–go, State! UPDATE: MSU wins handily, 30 – 6.
Michigan is playing Iowa (line: Iowa, spread 3.5) and that will probably be a closer game, especially since they’re playing in Iowa City. BTN at noon EST, if you’ve got it. UPDATE: Iowa wins 24 – 21. It was a much better game.
Oklahoma is at Kansas State (line: KSU, spread 3)(Noon EST/FOX Sports 1). Boomer, Sooner! UPDATE: Boomer, Sooner indeed! Oklahoma 41 – 31.
Pittsburgh is at Syracuse (line: Pitt, spread 1.5)(12:30 EST/ESPN3) in ACC action. Go Orange! UPDATE: Pitt squeaks out a win, 17 – 16.
Alabama A&M is playing Georgia Tech (line: GT, spread 51 [!!!])(1:30 EST/ESPN3). Sting ’em, Jackets! UPDATE: Georgia Tech wins 66 – 7. Damn!
Oregon is at Arizona (line: Ducks, spread 17.5)(3:30 EST/ABC)–go, Wildcats! UPDATE: “Carl’s” ‘Cats pull off a stunner and beat Oregon 42 – 16.
BYU visits Notre Dame (line: ND, spread 1)(3:30 EST/NBC). I’ll leave it to your imagination which team I’m rooting for in this game. UPDATE: Notre Dame wins 23 – 13.
BC is risking their eyesight today here in Maryland (line: BC, spread 1). Go, Eagles! Try to not be blinded by those uniforms. . . UPDATE: BC comes from behind to win 29 – 26.
Wisconsin is playing Minnesota (line: UW, spread 14.5)(3:30 EST/ESPN) and Indiana is at osu (line: osu, spread 31.5)(3:30 EST/ABC). C’mon Hoosiers–osu has to lose sooner or later! UPDATE: Wisconsin cruises past UMinn 20 – 7 and osu (dang it!) beats the Hoosiers 42 – 14.
Nebraska is in Happy Valley (line: PSU, spread 2.5). UPDATE: Nebraska pulls it out in OT 23 – 20.
Utah travels north to Washington State (line: WSU, spread 7). UPDATE: WSU wins 49 – 37.
SMU plays a late game at USF (line: SMU, spread 5.5). UPDATE: SMU wins 16 – 6.
Texas is resting up for Texas Tech on Thanksgiving.
Housekeeping note: I’ll be on the road between Michigan and home next Saturday, so there won’t be a football thread next week unless someone else wants to throw one up.
What else?
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All Things in Moderation 
Thanks Michi.
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Think nothing of it, “Carl”! 🙂
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Maryland unis not so bad today. All black. Much better than the flag unis.
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Wild end to BC-Maryland game. Last 5 minutes was perhaps the strangest final five minutes I have ever seen. Down 24-20, BC scores a TD to take a 2 point lead, but the extra point, to give them a 3 point lead, gets tipped, and as BC players stand around wondering what is happening, Maryland guy grabs the ball and runs 105 yards for a 2 point defensive extra point score. Tie game. Maryland then goes four and out and punts giving BC the ball on their own 20 with 1:30 left. With only 1 timeout left, instead of running a traditional 2 minute offense in order to get into position for a winning FG, BC runs two up-the-middle running plays for 5 yards, seemingly trying to run the clock out and get into OT. So on 3rd and 5 Maryland calls time out to stop the clock with 40 seconds left, presumably thinking they can force a punt and have time to get their own winning FG. After the timeout, BC runs a third up-the-middle run for Andre Williams, but Williams breaks out for a 40 yard run down to the Maryland 35. BC then lets the clock wind down to 2 seconds and calls its last time-out to set up a 52 yard field goal attempt. The kick then goes wide left, but refs blew the whistle just before the snap, as Maryland coach called a time out to ice the kicker. On the re-cick, BC puts it thru the uprights for a 3 point victory. Unbelievable.
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Wow–I should’ve been watching that game!
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Okie Lite trounced Baylor. Very weird.
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