Propers to the Dogs for a helluva contest. Has any team been in more nail-biters this season than Mich St.? (2 vs Wisc, the Outback Bowl today, and I know I'm missing one other)

Dantonio's first bowl win and a cap to a great college career for Kirk Cousins. Today feels alright.

Cheers to the Georgia mob around these parts. College football games like this have that special ingredient NFL games will never capture.

That Cousins certainly raised his draft stock with that 2nd half.

What a shite showing by The Dogs. Shit in the bed and roll around in it.

De'Anthony Thomas is a freak of nature

I was thinking similarly... Like Michael Jordan, just seems like he's a different species from thosevaround him. Great game.

Another tough rose bowl loss for UW. Crazy game. I could not believe that fumble by Aberderis...the d-back made a great play to knock the ball loose and the ball just popped out about a foot from the sideline and just sat there...if that ball rolls out of bounds it might be a different outcome. I think they got the call right at the end too...Russell just didn't have time to spike the ball with 2 seconds. They needed to run a play. Too bad. Oregon has some ridiculous athletes, we started to get the run bottled up somewhat toward the end of the game, but there was no answer for that Tuinei guy. Dude is sick...long and fast and great hands, NFL talent for sure. At least I've got the Packers.

Attempting?!?

If the snap would have gotten off at the exact time the clock started, Russell definitely had time to spike it; but he lost three-quarters of a second before getting the snap. Given a clock stoppage at 0:02, it would have made for a hell of an ending to a game that was so much closer and competitive than I expected it to be. The Badgers definitely had their chances to beat them. Oregon has offensive weapons, but the weak D line and secondary is convincing enough that they should have not played in the championship game.

And someone should put a suicide watch on that freshman kicker from Stanford. You could see the diarrhea running down his legs before both of those misses. He's got some mental preparation to work on -- if he makes it through the offseason.

That was written at the start of the 4th quarter - before the blew out a diaper in the bed, and then cleaned that up only to simultaneously have disentery-level diarrhea while rocket vomiting all over the place (dookie-puke).

BETTER??

i actually thought Oregon was a bit of a fraud this year. the pac 10 is down, the defense is pretty weak, and darron thomas just isnt a very good qb, but he did play better than I thought he would in the RB. They obviously have weapons, but as other teams have shown, if you can just stop them from making so many big plays, they can be beat. they are kind of like those old UNLV hoops teams, they will run most teams off the field, but when they run into a talented and disciplined opponent, they can get exposed...they thrive on getting turnovers and momentum. Wisconsin just didnt have the ability to stop those big plays and that interception was a killer. Pretty evenly matched teams with similar defensive liabilities.

Was definitely rooting for UW because I was hoping to see Russell Wilson get a nice win to end his career. He was baited nicely by the LB on that interception, but that was obviously a big moment in the game - I believe UW could have gone up by two scores if that ended up being a successful drive. That strip on Arberderis was unfortunate as well. Nice play by the DB and crazy non-bounce by the sideline. I would have liked to have see at least a last pass attempt into the endzone at the end of the game. Fun game to watch though.

sorry, man

i was pulling for UGA, and just couldn't believe how quickly that 16-0 lead went up in smoke

was bielama's bizarre 2nd timeout in the 2nd half as big of a deal as the announcers made it out to be? i didn't think it was the end of the world, but it was a bad decision to not take it before the snap when he could've asked the officials their reasoning and then elected to challenge. also, having that in their backpocket might have given them an extra few seconds.

Yeah, Oregon was simply trying to use up as much clock as possible in their last drive. If Wisconsin had two timeouts it is likely Kelly would have gotten a little more aggressive in his playcalling and not ran it straight ahead (not to say that the Ducks didn't want to get a first down, UW stopped them, but they were running VERY vanilla). Also, props to Wilson for getting the ball down to the Oregon 19, but was simply playing for the clock to run out - it was the Prevent of all Prevent defenses - they had like 3 safeties on their own goal-line for those plays, so of course Wisconsin found some huge zones (Oregon was certainly lucky that didn't bite them in the butt)

And Rodney, can you just admit that you hate the Ducks and can never be truly non-biased in your commentary? While Darron Thomas probably doesn't have a future in the NFL and on occasion his throws can be high, he still had the 12th best passing efficiency ratings in the country at 158.6. He threw for 30 touchdowns this season and had just 6 interceptions. I'll admit he frustrates me at time, but other times, like yesterday, he is NAILS.
As for stopping the Ducks from making big plays - almost nobody has been able to do it - they scored more against LSU than any other team did this year, and while the National Championship game last year was relatively low scoring for both teams, there were still big plays. That's just the thing about the way Oregon plays - when they get THAT many plays in with THAT many athletes, they are bound to break some.

That timeout would have meant UW could have stopped the clock with just under a minute, instead of letting Oregon run the clock down to 20 seconds or so before punting.

I know everyone else was probably bored to tears, but we were partying here!

Let's Go...Mountaineers! Woooooo!

If Wisconsin had timeouts then Kelly would have managed that drive completely differently, he did what he did specifically because Wisconsin had no timeouts - I'm not saying that Wisconsin might not have stepped up and gotten a stop but Kelly would have been a lot more aggressive about making sure that the game was put completely away. As such, you can't really just slap another 40 seconds on the clock.....also, IF they had timeouts and IF they a had forced Oregon to punt, they clearly wouldn't have had 3 safeties lined up 30 yards down the field on each of the last two plays leaving the underneath zones completely wide open.....all they were doing was making sure that nobody got behind them.

Clemson has been a total fraud most of the year.

I wasn't bored as much as embarrassed for the Orange Bowl and college football. Orange should be kicked out of the BCS for the games/matchups they continue to put out there.

As for college football in general, the lack of Defense in 3 of the 4 BCS bowls was absolutely pathetic.

That's all probably true that the circumstances would not have been the same, but it was a silly use of a timeout that he would have definitely liked to have at the end of the game.

Agreed Derris, I think the Orange and the Fiesta should be removed from the BCS and replaced with the Cotton and Peach (CFA)--better stadiums, better college football cities.

(Or conversely, leave the Orange and the Fiesta in the BCS and the once-every-four-years rotation for the MNC game and make Dallas and Atlanta the permanent home for the National Semifinal games once we get the inevitable +1 format in a couple of years.

All you have to know about Clemson is that slightly above mediocre NC State stomped them 37-13 in November, and it wasn't even that close (trash time TD to bring it to 13).

Man, way to kill my buzz.

crazy talk

This.

Why? You all have had sucky games in the past. And, the OB has way more history than the Peach Bowl. Whatever, you all are nuts.