This game has lived up to billing.

My opinion of Boise remains even if they come back here. They are a great team/program but it's the grind that gets you respect. Until a playoff or they get out of that conference they'll never get true respect.

Looked like a top five team. If they go undefeated they should be in championship game unless Alabama and Ohio State also go undefeated. Simply no 1 loss should rank above this team.

Virginia Tech was making a shit ton of uncharacteristic mistakes on Special teams, were one dimensional on offense much of the night and have an inexperienced defense. They might run the table in the ACC and prove that Boise State is a truly great team this year, or they can go on to lose a few down the road and show that they were overrated and the Broncos got a break playing them with a high ranking early on in the season.

And the level of play, and coming back at the end of a game with no timeouts in a hostile environment was what "BCS Conference teams" should do. Other than Oregon State this was the stage that Boise State could demonstrate their quality. They did

File under: News harry will love

Reggie Bush to be stripped of his Heisman

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/n ... sman090710

I've resisted emoticons, text-speak, and other aberrations of standard written English after the Beats, however...

that is interesting. given nebraska's football history, don't you think that number should be higher? five notches north of iowa state is nothing to high five tommie frazier over. they get paid millions to be stomped on by sec teams.

VT has a history of being ranked and then dropping games.

As for the UMD/Navy game...Navy should've pulled that one out. They held onto the ball longer, and had more yardage...on paper this was a Navy win. The Terps D though definitely deserves the game ball. Dang. That goal line stand.

That one play where the Maryland defender leaped, no, FLEW over the offensive line to sack the Navy quarterback was one of the most amazing plays I've ever seen. (I think it was earlier in the game than that last goal line stand, though.) Looked like "Jefferson" in Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

Just checked and the guy's name is Adrian Moten.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/polls?poll=1&week=3
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/p ... l=3&week=3

New Polls are out.
Boise State is #3 in both polls now, my Huskers moved up to #6 in the AP and #7 in the Coaches Poll.
OU and Florida both dropped a bit after non-stellar performances against questionable foes.
Georgia broke into the top 20 in the Coaches poll and Virginia Tech fell to #13 in both polls.

In all the years (and that's a shit ton) of watching Florida football, I have never seen a worse offensive performance. Unless they find some serious mojo damned quick, I have doubts about them even having a winning season.

I'm remembering this moment.

The Heisman Trophy Trust is denying a Yahoo! Sports report that the trust is expected to strip former USC running back Reggie Bush of his 2005 Heisman Trophy and leave the award vacant.

"I can tell you the Heisman Trophy Trust has made no decision regarding the Reggie Bush situation," Robert Whalen, executive director of the Heisman Trophy Trust, told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

Two sources close to the trust told Yahoo! Sports that the organization is completing its investigation and will agree with the NCAA's finding that Bush accepted improper benefits while at USC and was ineligible during the 2005 season, according to the report. The NCAA cited USC for "lack of institutional control" and handed the Trojans four years' probation, a two-year bowl ban and a reduction in football scholarships.

The president of the Heisman Trophy Trust, William J. Dockery, reiterated that the reports were inaccurate.

"The status of the USC/Bush matter remains unchanged. Any reports to the contrary are inaccurate," Dockery said.

ESPN's Chris Fowler told "SportsCenter" that although members of the eight-person trust have had informal conversations among themselves about what to do about Bush's Heisman, "they certainly have not made any decision" about rescinding it.

"They haven't made a decision. No announcement is imminent," Fowler said Tuesday. "They have not had any formal meetings about this."

Dockery has said the Heisman Trophy Trust meets on the second Tuesday of every month.

Bush would become the first player in the 75-year history of the Heisman Trophy to have the award taken away.

In July, USC president C.L. Max Nikias ordered the school's athletic department to return its copy of Bush's 2005 Heisman to the Heisman Trophy Trust. Nikias also ordered the school to remove nearly all references to Bush and former basketball player O.J. Mayo, including murals, as part of the NCAA's directive to disassociate the school from the athletes.

As that time, Bush had not been asked to return his copy and the Heisman Trophy Trust said it had not yet decided whether Bush would be stripped of the award.

Bush met with Heisman representatives last month at the New York law offices of Emmet, Marvin & Martin, the sources said, according to the Yahoo report.

The sources declined to discuss the details of that meeting, according to the report.

Bush now plays for the Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints, who said Tuesday that they would have no comment on the report.

Typically, the Saints have declined comment on Bush's NCAA violations because they have no bearing on his pro career.

Team headquarters also were closed to reporters on Tuesday.

Bush's Los Angeles-based attorney, Shawn Chapman Holley, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the AP.

Last week, Texas coach Mack Brown said former Longhorns quarterback Vince Young, who finished second in the 2005 Heisman voting to Bush, should be given the award if Bush is stripped. Young led the Longhorns past USC to the BCS national championship that year, after Bush was awarded the Heisman in a landslide.

The NCAA ruled that Bush received lavish gifts from two fledgling sports marketers hoping to sign him. The men paid for everything from hotel stays and a rent-free home where Bush's family apparently lived to a limousine and a new suit when he accepted his Heisman in New York in December 2005.

In July, when USC said it would give back its copy of the 2005 trophy, the Heisman Trophy Trust said it had no timetable on a decision and would make no additional statements on the matter.

"The Trust will be considering the issues raised in the USC/Reggie Bush matter, and after reaching a decision will publish it, but due to the complex issues involved and the Trust's desire to reach an appropriate decision, no definitive timetable has been established," the trust said. "Until the matter has been fully considered and a decision is reached, the Trust has no further comment."