• ToasterOverlord@fanaticus.socialMEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    Actually seems like the true sicko game in the early window is JMU @ UNC. Good lord is this some sloppy football. Every other play is extremely amazing, terrible, or stupidly fluke-y, and it’s on both teams

    Edit: and literally within a couple minutes of making that comment, both teams have turned the ball over. Both teams are averaging about 10 yards per play. There is noooooo defense in this game

  • ToasterOverlord@fanaticus.socialMEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    Watching Florida @ Mississippi State in the early window. I tell myself it’s to scout 2 future opponents, but deep down I know it’s because this is Sicko football

  • njm1314@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    Man hearing Charlie Strong who used to be the coach of Texas be regulated to the UTSA versus Houston Christian game is something. This is a like a D Squad broadcasting crew. Hell E squad. Though from the sound of it he’s not good enough to be on this squad even.

    • ToasterOverlord@fanaticus.socialMEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Ugh, that is a name I’d prefer to forget. I’m surprised he isn’t a DC somewhere though. Tom Herman also did the broadcasting thing for a bit and wasn’t good at it either

      • njm1314@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        I know he was an analyst with Alabama last year. Though considering where he is today must not have done very well at it.

    • g0d0fm15ch13f@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      I’m not much of a religious guy. But it is an objective fact that god made Saturdays for 2 reasons:

      1. Pull Sets
      2. College Football

      Let’s get this got dang bread

    • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      I forgot just how little I missed Brad and Gary. There’s something sort of classic and cozy about the timbre of their voices if you don’t listen to a single god-damned word they’re saying, but they’re very bad.

    • ToasterOverlord@fanaticus.socialMEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Mullings with the go-ahead TD in the last minute! It is sad that Michigan’s entire offense is just him, though. Literally every major gain or conversion in the 2nd half was on him

    • ToasterOverlord@fanaticus.socialMEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      The rare double-fumble-on-the-same-play! Shame it resulted in a new set of downs for SC. I did think his arm was going forward though, so neither fumble should have counted

  • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    Florida at Mississippi State

    Billy deciding he’s got this shit figured out: he’s doing a 2:1 ratio of Mertz to Lagway. It’s yet another odd choice, and if it doesn’t work, and he loses today, he might get tarmac’d in Starkvegas.

    • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Florida up 28-14 at halftime. They probably win today, and Mertz, as usual, looks quite decent against teams that can’t pressure him consistently. Run defense is super suspect though, and maroon Bulldogs are playing hard. I’ll go out on a limb and say Florida wins by 8 after MSST pulls it to within that close with under a minute left.

      I don’t really think a win changes much though. Billy has to surprise and probably manage a bowl; 6 looks tough though, and anything beyond that in the regular season looks almost impossible. 5-7 might save him if they look surprisingly competitive versus Andrew-Johnson-UT and/or Georgia and none of the others are unexpectedly embarrassing. If I had to guess? 4-8 but he’s gone before the end of the season.

      • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        LOL, nothing screams “I know what I’m doing” like a pre-announced gameplan and yanking one QB after a TD pass, and the other after a running back fumbles.

    • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Early fourth, and MSST just failed on a fourth and goal. Florida up 35-21. This game is… fine.

      As an aside, I’ve been watching Desmond Watson for years, and he is basically useless except as a 450-lb speedbump meme.

    • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      And the one player on the team most closely associated with Billy coughs up the ball, though at least it’s followed by a 3-and-out.

      I’ve always prided myself on being a cerebral fan, somebody who tries to understand the why’s and remember the human stories even when things aren’t going how people hoped, but man this Florida team is difficult to watch and I want to burn it all down. My outward wonk is in conflict with my inner Floridaman.

    • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Gators moved the ball well on the second possession, but then immediately soft against the run in the first quarter against MS ST. 7-7.

    • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Honest question for officiating nerds, what’s the difference between targeting and RtP due to neck/head contact? The Miss St kid definitely went high on Mertz, but he wasn’t late.

      • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Fortunately or not, I am not sure MS ST has enough talent to be the ones to finish Billy off.

  • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    Utah @ Oklahoma State

    Rooting for Okie Lite, just because Utah thinks that splitting the eyeballs of the 30th-largest state (population 3.4M) with an upjumped charter school makes them too good for the Big XII. 🤣

    • ToasterOverlord@fanaticus.socialMEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      By my quick math Gundy and Whittingham have coached a combined 492 games. This has gotta be the most experienced coaching matchup of the year, right? A quick look at UNC and Iowa’s schedules seems to check out

  • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    Not planning to stick with this one, but I did enjoy the Arky QB inadvertently karate kicking the Auburn defender.

  • CMLVI@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    Estimating about 2 hour delay for us. Which is damn near what we had for Penn State.

    We’re probably gonna do the same shit too, go into locker room, Neal is gonna come up with the world’s worst game plan, come back out, and just shit all over himself

  • g0d0fm15ch13f@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    Well I was really hoping NC state would put up a fight against clempson and make me feel better about our win but I’ll just settle with poor gator play