Gang of Six stuff
So Heisman Pundit and CFR ate their crow, somewhat begrudgingly, over Boise State's annihilation at the hands of UGA. HP says he's wrong for the right reasons, and that the scheme should still work.I have yet to see any discussion of why the Louisville offense - part of that vaunted six - failed to overwhelm the meager University of Kentucky defense (which as we all know is a bottom feeder in the SEC).
And of course, with the LSU - ASU game move, more discussion elsewhere on his blog of the SEC scheduling cream puff non conference games. Yada yada yada.
[Edit: Oh, and HP is sure digging himself a deep hole by trying to pass off a large part of BSU's ineffectiveness on Zabransky's poor passing, yet failing to do the same for Brandon Cox. Read: when it comes to the SEC defense, it's poor opponent play that allows them to succeed. When it's an ACC defense shutting down an SEC opponent, it's good D. Cobbie, even you've got to admit that Cox's throws were HORRIBLE. Into double - and triple - coverage a couple times. That said, GT did play extremely well.]
[Edit 2: Forgot to link to CFR's Mea Culpa. Seems to be much more accepting of this outcome than HP.]
posted by Publius @ 6:27 AM
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Anyone who watched the Georgia game knows that it wasn't just the Zabransky meltdown that cost them to lose. Their whole team got anihilated. On Georgia's first touchdown, I believe, their receiver left their whole secondary in the dust. A couple drives later, same thing, except Shockley, being as inaccurate as he is, missed him. Dawgs were swarming to the ball all game long whenever a skill Bronco had it in space.
Zabransky was awful but even without his meltdown, Georgia still would've won rather easily. It was perfectly obvious that Boise State isn't anywhere near as good as the elite programs in the nation and that they have a long way to go if they want to get there.
They're an outstanding WAC team, nothing more.
I don't know how much of the game you saw but in the first half, the Boise players were completely outmanned. It was evident their atheticism just doesn't stakc up with Georgia's.
I'm not intending to criticize Boise and I applaud them for scheduling this game. It's just that they are what they are, which is a very good WAC team and not much more. I wasn't overly impressed with them last season, despite their undefeated regular season record, largely because their defense was pretty bad. It's tough for me to believe a team out of a conference like the WAC can legitimately play with the powers when their defense doesn't even do that well within their conference.
I just don't haven't ever seen Boise State as a truly special lower conference team. I thought Utah was last season. I don't see it with Boise.
Yeah, that happens.
That 24th weekend looks ridiculous. LSU-Tennessee is at Tiger Stadium, and is at night, confirmed by an LSU fan's email response from Skip Bertman, our AD. So take that for what it's worth.
PS - I'll be sure to take pics in Tempe this weekend!
It's college football weekends like the next two that make me somewhat regret having the job I have.
If I'm lucky, maybe I can watch Michigan-Notre Dame in the truck and catch the last three quarters of Texas-Ohio State from my hotel room.
I remembered your rec on the library bar from the past, I'm definitely heading there.
(FYI, my roommate is a broadcast associate for Fox Sports so he travels with an NFL crew to a different game every week - also, if you know anyone in Seattle who wants to make a couple bucks running errands and doing random stuff for Fox for the Hawks-Falcons game in a couple weeks, let him know. I believe they'd have passes to get out on the field, but not certain.)
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