• @ToasterOverlordOPM
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    61 month ago

    ESPN’s College Gameday

    Really glad they moved the set back to the South Mall after having it next to the LBJ Presidential Library the last several years. The Tower makes a much better backdrop than DKR. Although I don’t love that they used Smokey the Cannon to blow a hole through Beck’s jersey. I was at Gameday in 2019 when they did that to Joe Burrow’s jersey and remember how that turned out…

  • @1hitsong@lemmy.ml
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    51 month ago

    Technically, do Army and Navy have unlimited NIL money provided by us taxpayers? 🤔

  • @ToasterOverlordOPM
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    41 month ago

    12Georgia @ 1Texas

    Georgia may be fast on the streets, but our players are faster than theirs on the field. Horns by a million

    • @ToasterOverlordOPM
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      31 month ago

      OK y’all, I’ve got to make an important meeting early in the morning so I have to get to bed. If (when) Texas loses, I will update the banner but it’s going to be in the afternoon tomorrow

      • g0d0fm15ch13fM
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        21 month ago

        Good luck in your meeting! Maybe the UTs can meet in the Citrus bowl…

      • @ToasterOverlordOPM
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        31 month ago

        I had never seen that before and it made me chuckle. Unfortunately that’s been the highlight of this game for me thus far

    • @wjrii@lemmy.world
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      31 month ago

      Reports of HEB-UT’s demise may have been exaggerated.

      Tangentially, I had their quick-service BBQ restaurant’s brisket today. The fatty is much better than the lean, but overall not bad at all, and the brisket baked beans are an excellent side.

    • @ToasterOverlordOPM
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      21 month ago

      Comms go down briefly. How fitting that the headsets for both teams are sponsored by major airlines (Delta and AA)

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      21 month ago

      Not sure I agree with putting in Manning, it’s the oline not protecting Ewers that’s the problem…

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        21 month ago

        Agreed. I know Sark is just trying to get a spark, but trusting in the defense and trying to come out swinging in the 2nd half would be a better gameplan

    • @ToasterOverlordOPM
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      21 month ago

      Calling a TO only 10 seconds into the game? Okay…

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        31 month ago

        I genuinely thought it came out of the stands at first and was ready to go full Zapruder film on trying to find the perpetrator

    • @ToasterOverlordOPM
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      21 month ago

      Carson Beck is an outstanding quarterback

      Says Herbie, on the play Beck throws his 2nd INT (which should have been his 3rd) in the first quarter

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      11 month ago

      Incredible tip drill! And almost perfectly executed a flea flicker on the next play. That would have been a thing of beauty

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      Yeah that’s an oof of a call, DKR has every right to be upset with that one

      Also I thought PI was an auto 15, not a spot foul

      Edit: Yeah I said be upset, not endangering safety by throwing shit

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      11 month ago

      Surely its too early to go for it there, now you’ve come up empty instead of getting at least some points

  • @ToasterOverlordOPM
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    41 month ago

    Michigan @ Illinois

    Not sure if Illinois’ unis are a crime against humanity or a brilliant fashion statement

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        21 month ago

        If you haven’t seen it, check out how Brad Nessler, Gary Danielson, and Jenny Dell went along with the 1920s theme in the embedded tweet here

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          That’s awesome. I want to see Michigan do fake helmets now, since their iconic stripes are a holdover from the leatherhead days

  • @wjrii@lemmy.world
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    UK @ UF

    I’ll watch this one so y’all don’t have to. Florida opens the scoring with a FG.

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      Carbon copy of Florida’s previous TD drive. Nice run after a long completion down the seam sets them up. Somebody is NIL’ing the living bejeezus out of Lagway next year. I hope it’s UF.

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      Well, THERE’s the special teams breakdown that comes from not prioritizing it and tempting the football gods by calling it the “GameChanger Coordinator.”

      27-13 Gators after a weaving, slightly crazy KO return. And after some mild silliness, that’s how we go to halftime.

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      3rd quarter ends with Kentucky at about midfield versus a Florida D that is either tiring or is being coached to give up some yards to milk the clock. Neither idea is particularly impressive, but Lagway looks like the future and we’ve yet to see Billy do anything truly head-scratching, so we got that going for us…

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      Florida gets some home cooking on the initial call on third-and-goal. Another good drive for DJ though. 34-20.

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      21 month ago

      Would love to be wrong about Billy, but he probably needs to surprise in one of the gauntlet games and take care of business against a very weak FSU to save his job.

      Still, they definitely had some moments and actually put a team away, eventually.

    • @ToasterOverlordOPM
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      21 month ago

      I am trying to check on this game during the ad breaks in the Texas game but they keep lining up

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        21 month ago

        Y’know, uhh, if you wanted to, there’s room over here for fans that suddenly find they dislike UGA.

        Just sayin’.

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          11 month ago

          Watching now. Have y’all always done Mr. Brightside? Feels like everyone’s just copying Michigan now, although it’s not like they own the song or anything

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            21 month ago

            No clue. The Tom Petty song in the second half is our newest “thing,” as far as I know.

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        11 month ago

        I’ve noticed this throughout the season… The networks are conspiring to make this happen more and more

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      Gators still up 3-0 at end of 1st quarter and back in the red zone. Lagway looks better against UK’s defense and with a proper week of preparation, but still playing a bit like a freshman. Florida D is holding up so far, but they just have that feel like Stoops is going to try to wear them out, and I’m not sure if the UF offense will be efficient enough to force UK into being one-dimensional.

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      Gators punch it in for a TD after a long int return. This Wildcat team may, uhhh, not actually be very good.

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      Welllll, shit. Kentucky with the TD on a flea flicker, the ad-absurdum of play-action.

      They miss the XP though. 6-6.

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      Pick-6 to the Gators. I don’t really know how Vandagriff was ever a 5-star. That is just not an SEC starter’s arm. Did he get injured in spring ball or something?

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      Weird sequence there. Gators intercept Vandagriff, then almost immediately Lagway gives it back on a very Freshman-y throw. Kentucky squanders the 63 yard return though, turning it over on downs because they were utterly uncreative. Florida maybe benefited from an early whistle (depends on whether you assume the DL lets up upon hearing it).

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      11 month ago

      41-20, Gators drive it down after the turnover on downs. Even a “Barely Enough Billy” team should have this one in hand with 3:30 left.

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      TD Gators. Nice effort on the running play for the score, after a great snag on a rope for 50 yards.

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      And a nice opening drive from Kentucky, with a fourth down conversion and a few passes mixed in to keep Florida honest. One score game now, Billy.

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      And Gators go up 6-0, after some uninspiring 3rd-down playcalling, but nothing super stupid has happened yet.

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      Are the cigars a Smoky/Great Smoky Mountains thing? If so, I get it, but there is nothing quite so eye-rollingly bougie as 20-year-olds lighting up a stogie in a golf-shirt. 🤣

      GG, Vols. Y’all are uglying your way to a good year.

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        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Saturday_in_October#Victory_cigars

        In the 1950s, Jim Goostree, the head athletic trainer for Alabama, began another tradition as he began handing out cigars following a victory over the Volunteers.[10] Both teams continued the tradition for some time, though kept it secret due to NCAA rules concerning extra benefits and tobacco products. Alabama publicly restarted the tradition in 2005, though as a result, self-reported an NCAA violation.[11] Every year since 2007, the winner of the Alabama–Tennessee game knowingly violates the NCAA rule and reports the violation in honor of tradition.[12]

        Edit: lmao they’ve already updated the 2024 results

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          Ahh, there we go. I should have known that an eye-rollingly bougie CFB tradition would have started at Bama. 🤣

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      21 month ago

      Bama’s defense is the softer of the two and tends to give up yards and points. I don’t know why Vol’s O just hasn’t gotten untracked here.

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      21 month ago

      I SAID IT’S GREAT TO BE A TENNESSEE VOL

      I SAID IT’S GREAT TO BE A TENNESSEE VOL

      I SAID IT’S GREAT TO BE A TENNESSEE VOL

      I SAID IT’S GREAT TO BE A TENNESSEE VOL

      I SAID IT’S GREAT TO BE A TENNESSEE VOL

      I SAID IT’S GREAT TO BE A TENNESSEE VOL

      I SAID IT’S GREAT TO BE A TENNESSEE VOL

      I SAID IT’S GREAT TO BE A TENNESSEE VOL

      I SAID IT’S GREAT TO BE A TENNESSEE VOL

      I SAID IT’S GREAT TO BE A TENNESSEE VOL

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      Not sure I disagree with Bama having gone for this. You need a three and out either way, it’s just that you’re likely down 7 instead of 4 if you pull it off. OT/2pt is arguably a small price to pay for one more play where you control your destiny.

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      21 month ago

      Third Saturday in October make a field goal challenge - difficulty: Impossible

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      21 month ago

      LETS FUCKING GO, YOUR LITTLE PISSBABY ANTI TEMPO BULLSHIT CAN’T STOP THE HEUP TRAIN BABYEEEEEEEEEE

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      Dog we better spend literally the entire off week doing nothing but throwing full speed bombs

    • @RandAlThor@lemmy.ca
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      Milroe’s design runs just don’t work. I don’t know why they keep running it. It’s always telegraphed.

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      I was just thinking it was about time for Milroe to make a red zone mistake, lol

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        You forgot SEC games from 10 years ago, or the Big10 from not long ago? Running and defense all day games? Yea.

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        Agreed. Close to the end of the game so it has some influence, but there is still enough time on the clock that Alabama still gets another drive as we are seeing now

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    I’m just here to make my weekly “Neal Brown is a fucking clown” comment. Like seriously, 45-10, except we got a pity TD to make it 18 and they scored with 25 left and they didn’t give it to them. It’s so tragic I spent $1k on season tickets to watch this bullshit. 1 1/4 enjoyable games at home. Watched us die against Penn State (with a 2 hour weather delay). We beat Albany. We beat Kansas (and looked like shit for 3 quarters and also had another 2 hour weather delay). Got the shit kicked out of us at a night game by ISU. Got the shit kicked out of us even worse tonight by KSU. Only have Baylor and UCF left; Baylor just beat up on Zona, and UCF plays ISU way closer than we did.

    This team is painful.

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    I guess the refs decided that they’ve flagged LSU enough. No more penalties for them?

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    Refs just handing the game to Georgia

    Wow! I don’t think I’ve ever seen a refs change a call like that holy crap

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    At this point in the season the only thing that I want is for Navy-Army to be an undefeated match-up.

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      Go Navy! (Mostly so my retired navy officer boss will be in a better mood around Christmas bonus season)

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    TCU @ Utah

    I’m too old for the B12 to have late games, especially when the Frogs shit the bed with a red zone fumble. 😡

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        The secondary probably got an earful after the DB held onto a 4th-down arm-punt earlier and cost the Frogs 31 yards.

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      Frogs, same as most of the other games, have done a lot of good, then found ways to fuck it up, but they punched one in. 10-0.

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      TCU got VERY lucky to only have running-into called, and not roughing the kicker. They drive down and get another three.

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      Jeez, Utah’s offense has just imploded without Cam Rising. Frogs are basically playing 4-minute offense going into halftime. Hope that doesn’t come back to bite them, but I can’t even fault them for thinking it will work.

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      This one’s still going? Jeez. I just finished my second cigar lol and saw there’s still a game on

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        Yeah I don’t know how, or why I’m still awake. Both my teams appear to be coached by idiots, but they also might both win tonight.