The Geno Smith show is good on the Road
After yesterday’s win there is no contest- WVU‘s quarterback Geno Smith is your Heisman candidate. This year he has 1,996 passing yards, 204 attempts and the best stat ever no interceptions.
The game was a close one, all really coming down on a 41-yard field goal that Texas kicker Anthony Fera missed late in the fourth quarter. This is the same kicker who transferred from Penn St– and whose absence was most notable in the Penn St loss to UVa.
Also I must mention the WVU receiving duo Stedman Bailey and Tavon Austin- wow. Bailey had three touchdowns and Austin another one plus 111 yards on kick returns.
What this game signifies is that WVU is the top dog in the Big12- nice for your first year.
Oklahoma bounces back
Keeping with the Big 12- OU came up with an impressive win against Texas Tech- 41-20. Landry Jones had 25 of 40 catches for 259 yards and two touch downs. Tech did have 271 passing yards but only 89 rushing yards.
Penn State comes from behind in the 4th to beat N’western
Trailing 11 going into the fourth quarter the Nittany Lions had to pull up their boot straps. They scores three times in the final 10 minutes of the game.
This happened after N’western has a 75 yard punt return for a touchdown late in the third quarter.
Stanford gets overtime victory
Andrew Luck who?
Stanford qb Josh Nunes had a career high 360 yards, threw two touchdowns and ran in for three more.
He was a scoring machine.
But Arizona looked good- they did get over 400 passing yards against Stanford something that hasn’t happened since 2007. But the defense couldn’t hang on.
Florida defends its Swamp for the Win
Oh my- now this was a football game. None of these basketball, let the quarterbacks throw until their arms give out. This was fought on the ground- and the Gators win.
Mike Gillislee ran for 146 yards and two touchdowns giving the Tigers their first regular season loss in 19 games.
South Carolina makes it an ugly day for UGA
Wow- 35-7 victory for the Gamecocks (try saying that name without a giggle- I bet you can’t). They not only got the win but stopped a Georgia team that had a league-leading 48.2 points and 536 yards a game offense.
Notre Dame easily withstands the Hurricanes
Back in the 1980s this was a great rivalry- and if you’re interested a wonderful book called “Perfect Rivals” by Jeff Carroll is an excellent read. This time the Irish has 587 yards total and 376 yards rushing.
This wasn’t even close- Miami only scored once a field goal in the first quarter and then the Irish led for three quarters without a single Miami score.
Did I mention the Irish are undefeated?
The Triangle is Evil and Should be Destroyed
Perhaps next week I won’t write about UVa and Va Tech and then maybe those team will win.
Of course actually playing defense would help as well.
UVa is a mess- but looking I should have expected this with the loss of Kris Bird and Chase Minnifield– it’s just hard to go from your first good season in so many years to a now four game losing streak. And to lose where you score no points in the second half. Grrrr
On the other hand we could be the Hokies who right now need to have a hotline set up to calm fans down. Seriously I was looking at the fan message boards and a scream of S.O.S messages make me wonder- what are y’all thinking? Calm down folks.
I guess when you’re used to winning consistently one bad season is a shock.
On the other hand let’s look at Duke and UNC- obviously Virginia and VT forgot it was football season and went straight to basketball season. I’m not going to look at the numbers- I don’t want to its too painful. Both teams were impressive- especially Duke’s defense. And UNC found many holes in VT coverage- I was shocked.
And no 4 FSU lost in the Triangle as well to NC State makes the Triangle and evil place for ACC football- evil.
So maybe there should never be all three teams having home football games because it caused a great disturbance in the force.
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