after a quarter, anyway. Pirates up 14-0 in Blacksburg.

No mid-major has haunted a Power 5 team the way ECU does VPI

Fucking Russell Athletic

the heather grey and the navy blue ... heavily.

2 missed field goals iirc

a dropped td pass by corey smith

and at least two or three miscues by barrett that could have gone for 6...


terrible loss

Ga Southern with 28 unanswered 2nd half points to take a 38-35 lead with 10:46 and their fans are LOUD

I don't feel so bad about UCLA squeaking by them in Week 1, their front 7 is legit.

you're welcome

I mean sometimes they score, and they get a lot of talent and put guys in the NFL, but I can't remember a time in the last decade I thought "Man, I really like watching that Va Tech team on offense!"

QB play has been abysmal for most the time since

I mean I know this was a bit before the spread option took over and he took them to a title game, but there were times you were like "They should just let #7 run around back there"

Altho Tyrod Taylor was better than he got credit for

But I thought we'd have a deceptively good record because
our strength of schedule would be even "badder." The
coaching is just not getting it done. The D has shown up
but that last sequence on offense before the half was BRUTAL.

For only a freshman its obvious Peppers is an irreplaceapble part of the back 7. He gives the D so much flexibility. Plus it seemed like Countess and Lewis built off their mistakes last week.

As far as the offensive game flow however...I dont get it. There's no reason to *ever* take that long to get lined up and snap the ball, much less as the half is winding down.

And I still think Derrick Green is David Underwood reincarnate.

>And I still think Derrick Green is David Underwood
>reincarnate.

there was a lot of consternation amongst OSU fans when Meyer didn't continue to recruit Green (who was high on Tressel's wish list)...seemed like Meyer had that one nailed.

If he can run directly at a gap he's useful

But if he has to read zone blocking and select a cut, he ends up running straight into a pile (which he cant move, despite his size)

GOLD

holy shit, ECU played perfect "choke the game away" offense from the 2nd through 4th quarter...but finally got their balls back at the end. good game.

They'll need to beat Illinois on the road, and they may not be capable of that.

I think you got it, plus Iowa has been far from world beaters and you beat UNL last year, although winning in Lincoln this year should be more difficult

Plus Michigan is hardly a juggernaut, even in Ann Arbor

Big Ten is a mess outside of MSU, who knows what teams shows up from week-to-week

with powerhouses Charleston Southern and ODU on their schedule, it's okay to dream of 4 wins, but 3 is probably likely

Having to rally against UMass at home, Derek Mason is having a rough go of it

I can't believe how bad of a job he's done. I thought he was a good hire at the time.

Today, he played his fourth QB of the year, starting a true freshman and burning his redshirt. He benched him after one series lol. Now his redshirt year has been wasted.

He doesn't know what he's doing and they probably only win three games this year. UK will blow them out.

Today, he played his fourth QB of the year, starting a true
>freshman and burning his redshirt. He benched him after one
>series lol. Now his redshirt year has been wasted.

Yikes, what a joke.

There has to some talent, not all of it left with Franklin and the kids in the rape case.

nature has corrected itself

and Brian Kelly should be forced to mail his 2012 COY award to James Franklin

They have *already* regressed to "same ole Vandy."

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Iowa lost to a winless Iowa State.

Indiana lost to Bowling Green.

Maryland lost an entertaining game to WVU.

Minnesota is getting clobbered by TCU.

Illinois is unable to get out of its own way and is going to lose to UW.

I am not a conference pride cheer leader and none of these teams are expected to compete for the conference title but I was kind of surprised at how bad some of these teams looked while losing. It seems like none of them have made any improvement from last season.

to a team it was favored to beat by 30+ and has lost 18
straight games.

#B1G

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Those look like swap meet counterfeits.

UCLA gets the ball twice

Finally we get the bank error in our favor for that one.

Our playcalling actually looked pretty good to start but our defense has been a bit of a disappointment to start the season IMO.

We can basically punt any Pac-12 South winning hopes (forget about anything beyond that) if he's out an extended amount of time though I don't think it's anything that'll keep him out long. He might be done for this game though... hopefully we can survive.

He probably missed the rest of this game but the injury didn't look season ending.

even then the OL doesn't look great with Hundley back there.

Sua Filo covered up a multitude of sins up there last year, both being able to pull and being an actual capable backup LT when our tackles inevitable got hurt. And our defensive front 7 ain't looking much better right now.

season. Ellis McCarthy hasn't shown much improvement and Vanderdoes has been invisible.

Dude is literally our 4th, maybe 5th best lineman (depending if you count Hollins as a DE or LB). Has some good plays but mostly just slow off the line. Vanderdoes at least gets off blocks even if he's slow off the line. We're totally screwed if Neuheisel has to play extended time though.

We could use him for depth because we are super thin at DL. He would probably be a starter or the first DL off the bench.

If you expected your 5 star DL recruits to be the next Kelly Gregg instead of the next Haloti Ngata. Dude is alright, just not quite living up to expectations.

We are so thin at DL this season.

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I can't believe they both ended up at UCLA.

If he loses this game we might see a mid season firing at Florida.

to emulate you know who

Their first two games were underwhelming but they looked good or at least better today against a shitty Illinois team.

>to emulate you know who

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that was never the case with Oregon

Not sure why he didn't see that BC was playing with fire in that night game home atmosphere with the 9/11 tie-in and a D that had to hear all week how bad their run defense was against Pitt seven days prior.

Not sure why they didn't elect to use their big fast wideouts first and work back into the run from there considering SC is at 3rd string there anyway.

They made zero adjustments all game and squandered opportunities to bury them early.

True freshman don't cross country travel well, Sark, how about Nelson Agholar?

Ah well, in the overall scheme it wouldn't be a loss that means all that much if they have a great rest of conference play period then peaking at seasons end with a possible ND, UCLA, Oregon gauntlet.

But games like this make think they've got at least one bad P12 game to lose before that.

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>But games like this make think they've got at least one bad
>P12 game to lose before that.

I'm going to be at the Coliseum for the Cal-SC game if you want to meet up and have some pregame drinks.

Mack Brown had a lot of recruiting misses but he seemed to have recruited a great punter.

Jordan Hicks is nasty too this year.

>Jordan Hicks is nasty too this year.


jk, he is a great LB...wish he stayed in state.

i found this excerpt to be hilarious, in hindsight...

"Ranked as a top-20 recruit by Scout.com and Rivals.com and as the No. 1 high school outside linebacker in the nation, Hicks did say that Ohio State coach Jim Tressel and Texas coach Mack Brown recruited him in a similar fashion.

"They have the same values and they preach a lot of the same things to the team that seem very similar," Hicks said.

The uncertainty around Florida coach Urban Meyer - who initially resigned before the Sugar Bowl but instead will take an undetermined, though likely brief, leave of absence - played a major role in taking the Gators out of the running.

"It affected it a lot," Hicks said. "It showed how much more stable Texas was than Florida, and it had a big effect on my decision."

Ohio State offered that same stability, but in the end, Hicks said it was the little things that turned him toward the Longhorns. He grew especially close to defensive coordinator Will Muschamp, who is the coach-in-waiting at Texas and will take over when Brown retires. Muschamp was offered the head job at Tennessee this month and when he turned that down, Hicks said it showed how loyal Muschamp was to Texas."

He basically gave ucla two extra offensive possessions in this game with the coin flip mess up and then after his team got penalized for running into the punter once, they do it again which extends a ucla offensive possession.

hahahahha

He can't run for shit.
That arm strength is amazing though.

Schiano's not gonna get that call in December after all.

Last undefeated B1G team.

Edit: Nebraska is also still undefeated and will more than likely beat Fresno State.

I still think Charlie Strong will be a good coach and he is kind of hand cuffed with poor talent and recruiting misses from Brown but he had some questionable moments tonight.

Still should have won though

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Don't care about style points on that one, after Hundley went out, a win is a win. Neuheisel throws about as well as me, but that kid has some HEART.

arrrrrgh

I'm pretty sure no team in history has made it to the other teams 32 yard line 9 times, held them to 17 or 20 points or w/e and still lost

great win for the Bruins....

and Paul Perkins is a grown man...

tailback U. huh??

lol.

that Pitt gashed for 380 on the ground the week before.

It was one of the most pathetic performances I've ever seen by a Trojan team, it'll get put on the D but they suit 54 players with more on O, BC switched to a jumbo and just started running right at em after SC squandered early chances to be up 24 points or more.

The issue was they couldn't maintain a drive on offense, they seriously didn't put a drive together that lasted more than six plays or more than five minutes of actual time before D was back on the field.

Sark's play calling in this game made Kiffin's look imaginative, they ran on run downs and passed on passing downs. Kept trying to get these little bubble screens rather than get the ball to their outside guys or run uptempo like they did in the Fresno game.

Cody Kessler's numbers look alright but he had no real impact on the game, almost like a Nick Foles for my NFL team.

I would really love to see what Max Browne can do at some point but Sark's gonna say '8 TDs, no picks in three games' so he's not going anywhere anytime soon.

UCLA still looks terrible too btw, look forward to conference play.

Urban fault.