GeotechDuck

Is Texas State the prize now?? Man, this just keeps getting better.

So we have four Rivals 5* players now? Holy cow!!!

That’s pretty clean. Looks great.

I actually thought it was a decent idea to try and get a “best of the rest” conference together with the best MWC and AAC teams……….

Considering the alternative of streaming on Apple TV with nobody watching for less media rights money, I am okay with it.

USC with the famous 8 yard route on 4th & 9. Perfect ending!

If you don’t punt and only have 6 third down attempts, that is a very very good day. Hoping to see more of that.

And they didn’t even take one of the fastest growing TV markets in UNLV from Vegas. Why not take UNLV? It makes more sense than Boise.

Wow. What to say about this? I don't think it is necessarily a terrible idea to try and rebuild the PAC with the best MWC and AAC teams available. Then you ensure that you are the Top G5 conference and likely have access to the playoff most years. I know some say they will get cut out next round, but I have my doubts. However, as another poster pointed out, where is the media rights money coming from and will it be any better than the MWC money? Seems like a big risk for the 4 teams leaving the MWC if there is no set deal on the table, unless OSU and WSU are footing the bill, which I guess is likely.

Hmmm. Penn State was terrible yesterday, but they stay at No. 8? No. 9 is generous, considering.

Jackson certainly looked the part at times last night. He is young, so will make some mistakes, but love his effort and motor. He is going to be very good.

Idaho beat Wyoming yesterday, so at least we have that going for us.

I am not going to panic yet. The next three games over 4 weeks are all very winnable, even with our current OL and discipline issues. They need to run with the lineup of Poncho at center, Harper at RG and Strother on the left side. That lineup played significantly better last night and they should have stuck with it longer. Hopefully, they see it on film and make the permanent adjustment. The penalties can get cleaned up, those are just stupid mistakes. I have confidence in Lanning that he will get this piece sorted out. Hopefully, the team can make some significant improvement before they play tOSU. But can they make enough improvement not to get completely boatraced in that game? I am skeptical right now. The stretch starting with tOSU is going to be brutal. If they can’t get it cleaned up, we still have access to the Las Vegas bowl as members of the BIG.

Yeah. I think they slid Harper over to RG and put Strother in on the left side. They looked to play a lot better with that lineup, then they went away from it. Little bit of a head scratcher. I wish they would have stuck with that for a while. We were ripping off some runs and had good protection.

Finally a win against Boise! I’ll take it. I am confused though. It looked like they pulled Pickard out, put Poncho at center and moved Harper over and that lineup played well during that series. Then they went back to the lineup that was struggling. Why? Did I miss something??

This is not a good football team right now.

That last play call…sweep on 3rd and 6 is a head scratcher. Wow. going into halftime down? Yikes?

IMO, this article is spot on. Strength of Schedule is used as a measure to compare teams, when the rankings that are used are purely subjective. College football needs something similar to the NET ranking used for college basketball, especially with these mega-conferences. Right now, there is little to no consideration for unbalanced schedules, number of conference games, cupcakes, etc. The days of evaluating teams based on preseason ranking and win % only should have been over a long time ago. Barely getting past some FCS school should put a major dent in your resume. Oregon has what amounts to a Q4 win and USC has what would be considered Q1 win. Right now, USC should be well ahead of Oregon in the rankings.

Yeah. Agree. Bo had incredible pocket presence and probably contributed to those low sack and pressure numbers. Either way, our OL should have manhandled any FCS team and that is concerning for sure. Specifically, the right side of the line played about as poorly a game as I have seen in a long, long time. IMO, this was the worst performance by a Lanning coached team to date. I have to wonder if Gabriel was hurt or if he was not seeing the whole field. His numbers were fantastic, but there were several occasions where he checked down, where even on TV you could see a receiver running free down field for what looked to be an easy pitch and catch for a score. On one occasion, he checked down to Ferguson on 3rd down and I believe they picked up the first. However, the TV angle showed Tez running free towards the end zone with nobody close to him. On occasion, QBs will mis those reads, but that happened at least three times that I could see on TV. Which likely means it happened more than that. Did anyone evaluate film yet?

I can’t remember the last time our OL played that bad in a game. The right side of the offensive line was like a sieve all night. Hopefully we get Bedford back next week for Boise and can slide Poncho back over to Center.

How bad was the right side of the offensive line tonight? I hope Bedford can play next week. That was flat out UGLY.

OL looks pretty bad. I hope Gabriel is okay after hitting his hand on that helmet.

Another vote here for YouTube TV. The multi view is pretty cool too:

I believe you can get all of this with YouTube TV, plus all the ESPN channels and other college networks. In addition, you get up to three BIG network channels for overflow (probably critical for hoops and other non-football sports). I did a ton of research and I kept landing back on YouTube TV as my best option for this year. I signed up last week and they have a deal this month for something like $54/mo for the first 4 months. Sometimes you have to laugh. It is almost like the cable companies are trying to go out of business.

Its difficult to find good yellow gear. I don't love wearing jerseys and yellow gear outside of that seems thin. BTW...I'm heading to Michigan State, so I am taking recommendations on where to find good yellow gear.