Congrats To The OSU Beavers
Could this finally be Cal's year to get to the Rose Bowl? USC seemed poised to dominate the Pac10, but now with their loss to OSU, who knows what the future holds?
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Twist cannot Hulu his Meredith.
by BearsNecessity on Sep 25, 2008 9:48 PM PDT up reply actions
I was watching the Office! And switching over to the game. Every time I went to the game, USC would do something great and I’d freak out. I’m bad luck!
Sunny In Philly is up next!!
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I did the exact same thing.
OHH MYYY GOOD!!! HE FINALLY DID IT!! IN THE RAIN!!! AT A REST STOP!!! I HAVE A MAN CRUSH ON A NONEXISTENT MAN!!! Plus Jenna Fischer is hot.
Go Bears!
by RollOnYouBears667 on Sep 25, 2008 10:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Oregon QBs finding new and creative ways to get injured
Remember Darron Thomas, the QB who led a brilliant but incomplete comeback against Boise St last week? He was involved in high-speed crash during a car race.
Thankfully he’s fine (two other Oregon players involved suffered minor injuries). They just use bubble wrap to wrap up their QBs after every game and toss them into a padded room until the following game.
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Did anyone get a good screen cap of the SC band crying or Sanchez throwing a tantrum???
by CaliforniaBone on Sep 25, 2008 10:28 PM PDT reply actions
Also, crap. First quasi major injury of the year:
Cal coach Jeff Tedford said freshman nose tackle Kendrick Payne is out for the season. Payne had knee surgery a couple of weeks ago, but Tedford characterized it as minor. Apparently, when surgeons got inside, they found that Payne had torn his medial collateral ligament.
I realize he would have been 3rd string (behind Hill and Kane, I believe?) but the idea of a thin Dline sends chills down my spine.
http://www.ibabuzz.com/beartalk/2008/09/25/thursday-night-update-4/
Yeah, this is bigger news for Cal than the USC defeat
We don’t have a solid D-line that can get penetration on strong O-lines, we’re losing 2-3 more games. Oregon, ASU, Arizona, UCLA, Oregon St., USC all become close affairs.
by BearsNecessity on Sep 25, 2008 10:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Some good news from this
is that he’ll be able to use this year as a redshirt year and he’ll still have four more years of eligibility.
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by Berkelium97 on Sep 25, 2008 10:53 PM PDT up reply actions
HOLY SHIT!
Just got back from the worthless Giants game… Never ride Cal Train to the games if you live in South Bay… Damn thing takes forever and is hot as hell! NOW, HOW IN THE FUCK DID USC LOSE? WHAT DID I MISS?
Rodgers led the Beavers to victory
He’s BACK.
by BearsNecessity on Sep 25, 2008 11:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Wow, just read a more detailed account of what happened. This is bad, now USC will probably take the Rose Bowl. I was hoping we would go undefeated minus USC and get in. Now USC will probably not be in Championship game, but you never know.
Or we go to the Rose Bowl
by, ya know, winning out and beating southern cal.
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Southern Cal's loss is good and bad
Bad because it reduces their chances of going to NCG, and thus they go to Rose Bowl instead thereby knocking us out.
Good because it gives them a very important loss. If they take another Pac-10 loss, the Rose Bowl is a wide open race for everyone else. Thus, Southern Cal picking up the L just opened up the door for us getting to the Rose.
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You’re saying Cal is undefeated in Pac-10 play when it plays USC, then loses? then USC and Cal both win out and we each have one Pac-10 loss?
If that’s so, I’m not sure on who goes to the Rose, but the tiebreaker is NOT head-to-head. Thus, if we and USC each finish with 1 Pac-10 loss and we lost to USC, that does not necessarily knock us out of the Rose. I forgot what the tie-breaking system is, but it’s not head-to-head, otherwise we wouldn’t have been Co-Pac-10 Champs in 2006.
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oh wait, actually, i might be wrong. Pac-10 champ tie-breaking rules are different from Rose Bowl tie-breaker rules, i think. So you might be right.
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halp...
i’m so confused.
Hey, let’s just win out. Then we don’t have to worry about this tie-breaker crap.
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Um, you forget 2006?
We lost the tiebreaker because we lost our head-to-head.
by BearsNecessity on Sep 26, 2008 12:26 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, but we were still Pac-10 champs. So I was right, Pac-10 champ and Rose have different tie-breaking rules. Right?
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So we’re all on the same page here. Pac-10 champs and Rose bowl have different tie-breakers.
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The Rose Bowl has tiebreaking rules?
Don’t they, you know, pick who goes?
by BearsNecessity on Sep 26, 2008 1:36 AM PDT up reply actions
Perhaps I'm wrong, so correct me if I am
But yes, the Rose Bowl does have tie breaking rules and they cannot just "pick" which Pac-10 goes to the Rose Bowl. The rules are actually quite complicated, IIRC.
Unless of course you’re thinking about the Rose Bowl picking at-large bids. In that case they have much more freedom, but that freedom to "pick" only happens when the #1 Pac-10 goes to the NCG. Assuming U$C doesn’t go to the NCG, then the Rose Bowl may have to use its tiebreakers (assuming my memory isn’t completely wrong and there are tiebreakers).
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Here's your correction:
There are no tie-breaker rules for the Pac-10 champs. You either win out-right by having the best record all by yourself or tie in which case you’re both/all co-champs.
For the Rose Bowl, I broke it down quite thoroughly a while back:
http://excusemeformyvoice.com/blog/?p=110
Short answer: head-to-head is the tie-breaker if at all possible. It get’s much more complicated if head-to-head matchups, like in 3-way tie, can’t resolve things.
Ah yes, thanks
You did break down the tie-breakers. It’s hard to remember the order of those tiebreaking rules.
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Conquest Chronicles not happy...
Wow, surprising to see that such a good team has commentators that are remarkably similar to some of our more colorful characters here. They have the, “Oh God, all is lost. We really suck. The season is over,” types. They have the perennially optimistic crowd of, “well the Rose Bowl is still a good game too!” types. Then they have the types who don’t really care. It’s so funny to see how alike sports fans are across such a broad spectrum.
Yeah, they’ve been to a BCS game the past SIX YEARS. A Rose Bowl’s plenty chill for them.
by BearsNecessity on Sep 26, 2008 1:37 AM PDT up reply actions
We have our bone head commenters like anyone else
but its tame on CC compared to what is on WeAreSC…just insane.
The problem that USC fans face is that its either NatChamp or bust. It’s a problem I’m sure most fanbases would LOVE to have. But, either way, fans are ridiculously entitled and if things goes wrong at all, shit will hit the fan.
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I thought the biggest problems USC fans face is which restaurant to attend after they leave the game.
by BearsNecessity on Sep 26, 2008 12:41 PM PDT up reply actions
Just to comment on your earlier post….I went to the Maryland game, they have a cannon as well. Not only do they fire it when they score a TD, but also when they score the extra point…obnoxious as hell.
Can someone who knows a lot more about zone blocking break down what OSU’s front line did? At least, I think it was zone blocking. Either way, I want to know how USC’s D-line got batted around like a beach ball.
I thought it was mostly man
with that one receiver coming in motion to seal of the weak side.
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Huh. Come to think of it, I do remember Rodgers the elder going in motion and making some good blocks. Either way though, I’d like to know what the secret is against USC’s D-line.
USC comes off dominating win of top 5 team.
USC drinks Kool-aid for a week and a half.
USC gets bulky and slow from drinking Kool-aid.
USC gets bowled over.
Can someone tell Washington to win their next six games? Please?
by BearsNecessity on Sep 26, 2008 12:58 PM PDT up reply actions
EDSBS provided some great headline puns for the media. Including:
Trojans Penetrate into Soft Waiting Flesh of Beavers, Fall Asleep Inside
Beavers Poke Surreptitious Hole In Trojans, Snatch Victory
Ejaculate Football Sodomy Metaphor Cockslap Lagos Hookerface
Something’s Fishy In Corvallis
Mark Sanchez is a Vag
Reminds me of the 2006 Cal-USC game
One announcer said “And the Trojans get great penetration in there”.
Or the classic “Houston Nutt busts in there”.
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