Arizona v Nevada

[donovan]

How is it I pick the team I really don't want to win, Arizona, and give them 25 of my 35 confidence points and the defense for Arizona gets in a fight on the sideline because they forgot the game had started? So if the coach has any testículos, they are in New Mexico, close enough, the coach will not let the two guys suit back up for the second half and there will go my points....but...my guess is, this is just guys that are keyed up and excited and you want that intensity. You know what you call guys like that in the heat of real battle called war....dead.

Game reminds me of one of the cartoons when they play baseball and the runners just spin around and around home scoring runs.

[Eric]

I take this stuff way too seriously, but I feel a little sick right now. I had Nevada at 5 and I redid my picks to take Arizona in low double-digits

My rationale for picking Nevada was to not trust Rich Rodriguez to win a bowl game. Should have stuck with my gut. I took a second look at it and realized that, most of the time, the BCS teams beat the non-BCS teams in bowl games. Especially when the teams have identical records, you should assume the BCS team is more talented. But when you pick bowl games, you have to consider whether or not the other team will even show up and they oftentimes don't.

Rich Rodriguez's defense coaching is beyond inept. Arizona has had a mediocre defense in the last few years, but there's no excuse for them to drop to 114th in total defense. They are getting absolutely shredded by Nevada. Of course, the good news for Arizona (down two scores early in the 4th) is that Nevada is also a mentally unsound team that has a tendency to gift-wrap games to their opponents. So it's not over yet. Arizona can't stop Nevada, but Nevada can stop Nevada. If the implosion occurs, I think they can still come back.

[Eric]

Well, there you have it. None of us went with Nevada, but we deserve to lose the points for putting our faith in Rich Rodriguez

The moral of the story everybody: You can't spot a team 21 points and expect to win. You also can't ignore defense as a coach and expect to be consistently competitive, as RichRod always somehow manages to do. It's amazing to me that a coach can completely ignore 45% of the game and expect to succeed. The other 45% being offense and the 10% being special teams. It's ridiculous. Shame on us for picking that buffoon

[Eric]

Okay, never mind

The implosion happened. The classic Chris Ault self-destruction occurred.

[donovan]

Yes it did....and frankly I just as soon lost my points.....Arizona and RR are pathetic.....

[Eric]

This game was like the immovable object and the unstoppable force, but in reverse. If you pit two headcase teams against one another, somebody has to win. One team is going to implode and the only thing you find out is which team is more of a headcase. It was classic Chris Ault and classic Rich Rodriguez, only somebody has to win by default.

[Spence]

It was a terrible collapse by Nevada. Rich Rod was there with his typical lack of any kind of defense. He may win more than he loses at Arizona, but he is a terrible football coach who absolutely could care less about the defensive side of the ball. He and Mike Leach should get married.

[Spence]

Toledo is playing better than I expected into the fourth quarter against Utah St. Doubt if they will win, but it is going to go down to the wire.

[Spence]

Toledo is playing better than I expected into the fourth quarter against Utah St. Doubt if they will win, but it is going to go down to the wire.

Spoke way too early.

[donovan]

Im watching it on something called Justin TV streaming...that is like out of focusville. Good game....Both battled hard. Score in the last moments making it looked much different that it was. Toledo played well...Utah State will continue on..if they just don't try to be something they are not... Good Game..

I wish I could see the Eastern Washington Sam Houston Game....EWU has come within three points.....

[Cane from the Bend]

I took Arizona to win this game, too:

However, they should have lost.

The refs blew an obvious safety on Nevada's first kick . . .

The Arizona return man muffed the catch on the one yard line, picked the ball up, backed himself into the endzone, then took a knee.

He Fielded the Ball outside of the endzone, carried it into the endzone on his on (Non momentum driven) . . . and downed it

When the camera was zooming away from the Arizona endzone; you could see two of the refs hurry into a conference just as the camera shot moved away from them . . .

Obviously they chose not to call it a safety . . . but the booth sure as heck should have been all over it.

Maybe in the end, the outcome would have been the same, however; it would have changed the complexity of the game, to where Arizona would either have had to make two successful 2 point conversions . . . or, a field goal at some point, in order to make up for lost PATs.

Anyway . . . I guess I should take my +1 correct choice (+2 if you count Utah St) and be satisfied . . .

(or does that make me a cheater) poke-poke, nudge-nudge

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[Cane from the Bend]

I take this stuff way too seriously, but I feel a little sick right now.

heh . . . well at least this turned around for you . . .

In my Predictions, I took Texas to win (and they may), though initially I took Oregon St.

Actually; I do a predictions game for the bowls with another group (just the predictions, though, not an entire season) . . . and my picks here were base nearly verbatim off of those predictions . . . save for the Texas/Oregon St game. (which might also constitute as my cheating, by some) --- (man, where's BYUfan1 when you need `im?)

We'll see if that one comes back to bite me in the end.
(er . . . the Texas over/Oregon St thing, that is)

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