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College Football 2007
Well what a way to get this season started eh?
Usually this is just a puff week with a few decent games thornw in there but this was probably the biggest upset in the history of the game.
1-AA Appalachian State becomes the first 1-AA team ever to beat a nationally ranked 1-A school. The 5th ranked Wolverines failed so hard the crowd over 100,000 people thought they were watching the Lions.
Notre Dame got spanked, Cal won the best matchup of the day over Tennesee.
Thoughts? Comments? Has anyone seen Darth Garden Gnome to make sure he is ok?
Usually this is just a puff week with a few decent games thornw in there but this was probably the biggest upset in the history of the game.
1-AA Appalachian State becomes the first 1-AA team ever to beat a nationally ranked 1-A school. The 5th ranked Wolverines failed so hard the crowd over 100,000 people thought they were watching the Lions.
Notre Dame got spanked, Cal won the best matchup of the day over Tennesee.
Thoughts? Comments? Has anyone seen Darth Garden Gnome to make sure he is ok?
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We were watching Kansas vs. Auburn game earlier and rooting for an upset. I'm not a huge football fan, but I love upsets in the beginning. Too bad they lost it at the tail end.
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UCF won a game? 
Hell will now begin serving popsicles and ice cream sandwiches at the cafe.

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I got treated to my alma mater slaughtering Buffalo. Ray Rice was in stellar form, so I'm looking forward to the season.
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Oh my, it's going tp be a long season.Darth Fanboy wrote:Notre Dame got spanked,
No real surprises on Saturday from where I was sitting, outside of the Appalachian State stunner. I laughed at that when I remembered Adam Sandler mentioning them in The Longest Yard when he was telling the warden that he needed a tune-up game. Well, at least Michigan gets Notre Dame in a couple weeks to try and sort things out.
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Spartans had a good showing, but then again they usually have a good showing then flop mid-season. Hopefully the new running game will give them more wins like the UAB game.
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I thought they didn't have interdivisional matchups in the NCAA.Darth Fanboy wrote:Well what a way to get this season started eh?
Usually this is just a puff week with a few decent games thornw in there but this was probably the biggest upset in the history of the game.
1-AA Appalachian State becomes the first 1-AA team ever to beat a nationally ranked 1-A school. The 5th ranked Wolverines failed so hard the crowd over 100,000 people thought they were watching the Lions.
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It's the new stadium. Besides, they have to win at least one before Texas comes to town to spank their ass.The Dark wrote:UCF won a game?
Hell will now begin serving popsicles and ice cream sandwiches at the cafe.
*looks at Appalachian State*
Though I guess bigger upsets have happened.
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It was an away game. Texas is the first home game (trust me on this one, I live about a mile from the stadiumSteve wrote:It's the new stadium. Besides, they have to win at least one before Texas comes to town to spank their ass.The Dark wrote:UCF won a game?
Hell will now begin serving popsicles and ice cream sandwiches at the cafe.
*looks at Appalachian State*
Though I guess bigger upsets have happened.

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I'm less familiar with football policies than basketball (my alma mater didn't have a football team), but our basketball team, Div II, played University of Florida my senior year. We actually didn't do too horribly considering our three star players were all injured (one was out for the season with an ACL injury, one had broken a toe the game before, and one pulled a hamstring that week in practice).Patrick Degan wrote:I thought they didn't have interdivisional matchups in the NCAA.
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After last years horrible chokefest, Ohio State might still be good. Whooped on Youngstown State 38-6, so that's a positive sign.
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The Utes played their first game, and managed to lose two of their star players, probably for the entire season (including the quarterback). Looks like we'll be taking a downslide for a while.
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I know they were on the road, Dark, I was just saying that having the new stadium made 'em lucky. 

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Well, the highlights of Iowa had them looking okay against Northern Illinois but who knows what that means at this point.
I saw the first half of Arizona at BYU. BYU looked good. Arizona's QB looked like shit. He looked scared and kept dumping things off too soon. I guess two concussions last year might make him a bit skitish. As a team Arizona looked rather small against BYU.
I'm not holding out high hopes for Arizona this year. The good teams who they beat last year are going to be gunning for them and I'm not sure there are a bunch crapy teams left in the Pac-10 for them to make up the difference. If they can come off decently against Cal in a couple of weeks then they might be a pretty good team because Cal looked good against Tennessee and Cal is one of the teams that owes Arizona from last year.
I saw the first half of Arizona at BYU. BYU looked good. Arizona's QB looked like shit. He looked scared and kept dumping things off too soon. I guess two concussions last year might make him a bit skitish. As a team Arizona looked rather small against BYU.
I'm not holding out high hopes for Arizona this year. The good teams who they beat last year are going to be gunning for them and I'm not sure there are a bunch crapy teams left in the Pac-10 for them to make up the difference. If they can come off decently against Cal in a couple of weeks then they might be a pretty good team because Cal looked good against Tennessee and Cal is one of the teams that owes Arizona from last year.
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They just had their one good half of the year early - they outscored NC State 25-3 in the first half, and were outscored 20-0 in the second half. I expect the downward trend to continue through the year.Steve wrote:I know they were on the road, Dark, I was just saying that having the new stadium made 'em lucky.

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They have limited interdivisional. Basically in Football I believe you can have 1 maybe 2 matchups between a 1-A and 1-AA (or between 1-AA and 2) then in basketball a few more maybe 3-4 max though usually they would be scheduled as exhibition. You don't see Div 1-A and Div-2 or Div-3.Patrick Degan wrote:I thought they didn't have interdivisional matchups in the NCAA.Darth Fanboy wrote:Well what a way to get this season started eh?
Usually this is just a puff week with a few decent games thornw in there but this was probably the biggest upset in the history of the game.
1-AA Appalachian State becomes the first 1-AA team ever to beat a nationally ranked 1-A school. The 5th ranked Wolverines failed so hard the crowd over 100,000 people thought they were watching the Lions.
Anyway back to the weekend my Terps looked solid, admittedly against Temple but they've had trouble before. Most importantly Steffy was solid at QB since losing Josh Portis means we really don't have a backup QB this year. The O-line was solid and Lattimore looks to have bulked up so between him and Ball the MD ground attack should be solid and with Heyworth plus a scrambling Steffy we may actually have a vertical attack worth talking about. Still the deciding point will come about when we get into games against West Virginia and Rutgers in about 2 weeks.

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The funniest part of the whole Appalachian State win is that 1-AA teams are usually hired to come to a major program and get beaten up so the team can have an official game that's more like a warm-up practice game. That's right. Appalachian State got paid a few hundred thousand dollars or so to be Michigan's punching bag, and they won. They got the victory, the bragging rights, the media attention, AND the money.
While I'm here, I thought it was hilarious how Notre Dame miked the GT band. I could hear the band yelling cheers and jeers on TV. Over the freaking commentators, I heard them and the cheerleaders exchanging, "YELLOW!" "JACKETS!" over and over. I knew when the band was about to play because I heard the drum major's whistle, and I could tell that one of the trumpets was badly out of tune the entire time. Oh yeah, and Georgia Tech won. Go Jackets!
While I'm here, I thought it was hilarious how Notre Dame miked the GT band. I could hear the band yelling cheers and jeers on TV. Over the freaking commentators, I heard them and the cheerleaders exchanging, "YELLOW!" "JACKETS!" over and over. I knew when the band was about to play because I heard the drum major's whistle, and I could tell that one of the trumpets was badly out of tune the entire time. Oh yeah, and Georgia Tech won. Go Jackets!
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All the bloody more humiliating this defeat was. Fucking disgrace. Typically the first match typically is meant to present a fine show to incoming freshman. Well played and well done. The coach should get a firing especially after one of the most badly handled seasons 2 years ago where the Wolverines were just getting kicked around left right center. He might have been somewhat vindicated last season but the way they got kicked around by Florida and Ohio State just went to show that the team needed more brains.Mayabird wrote:The funniest part of the whole Appalachian State win is that 1-AA teams are usually hired to come to a major program and get beaten up so the team can have an official game that's more like a warm-up practice game. That's right. Appalachian State got paid a few hundred thousand dollars or so to be Michigan's punching bag, and they won. They got the victory, the bragging rights, the media attention, AND the money.

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You mean USC and OSU right?Fingolfin_Noldor wrote: He might have been somewhat vindicated last season but the way they got kicked around by Florida and Ohio State just went to show that the team needed more brains.
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