Here’s what comes to mind after a near-perfect Saturday with picture-in-picture and a fridge full of beer…<\/p>\n
The Auburn<\/strong> victory over LSU <\/strong>was by far the best 7-3 game I’ve ever seen.\u00c2\u00a0 It proves why SEC football will always be so great to watch, even when no one scores.\u00c2\u00a0 Those were two physical teams with stingy defenses and hard-nosed, between-the-tackles offenses; say what you will about SEC power football, but that game was more enjoyable than any West Coast game I’ve seen this year.\u00c2\u00a0 Auburn will win the SEC hands-down and this time they won’t get snubbed by the BCS.<\/p>\n My Sooners<\/strong> got hosed twice in the last minute of their game against Oregon<\/strong>.\u00c2\u00a0 I think replay in college football stinks, if only because it fails to work way too often, and always when the game is on the line.\u00c2\u00a0 If you’re going to institute replay in college football, at least have competent officials reviewing the video.\u00c2\u00a0 The onside kick review was conclusive from every angle, and yet the referee announced it was “conclusive” in the wrong direction.\u00c2\u00a0 The pass interference call where the ball was apparently tipped at the line looked obvious, but was arguably inconclusive.\u00c2\u00a0 Even still, Oregon scored twice in the final two minutes and blocked the potential winning field goal to stay undefeated.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n While Brady Quinn<\/strong> can likely forget his NYC invite to the Heisman Trophy ceremony in December, the Irish<\/strong> aren’t out of the hunt for a national championship just yet; it will be very difficult for any team to finish undefeated this season.\u00c2\u00a0 However, next up for the Irish is a road trip to Michigan State<\/strong>, who played a solid and complete game in its victory over Pitt Saturday.\u00c2\u00a0 A loss to the Spartans will certainly have Notre Dame looking at a second-tier bowl.<\/p>\n Conversely, Michigan<\/strong> was impressive all-around and is a contender as well.\u00c2\u00a0 They appear to have fixed their offensive issues from 2005 and they have a favorable schedule with Wisconsin (next week), Iowa, and Michigan State at home.\u00c2\u00a0 That finale in Columbus will be huge, as usual.<\/p>\n Clemson<\/strong> did what they do best,\u00c2\u00a0play inconsistent football.\u00c2\u00a0 The best part of that whole game was Tommy Bowden saying at halftime that he wouldn’t kick again for any reason.\u00c2\u00a0 The solution to a winning field goal?\u00c2\u00a0 Running the ball in for a touchdown from the one yard line with 0:08 to play.\u00c2\u00a0 They kept their ACC title hopes alive, but will need help; Boston College<\/strong>, who needed 2OT again against BYU,\u00c2\u00a0will have to lose twice.<\/p>\n Chris Leak<\/strong> played with poise and finesse against Tennessee<\/strong>, and the Gators<\/strong> look tough and should be in everyone’s national championship conversations…Nebraska<\/strong> may be better, but they are definitely not back,\u00c2\u00a0which is understandable with a playbook where every audible is a short essay…USC<\/strong> is definitely a contender, especially in a per-usual lopsided PAC-10…TCU <\/strong>held Texas Tech to a field goal, which is absolutely mesmorizing…<\/p>\n And last, and certainly least, a call into Terry Harvey’s post-game call-in show:<\/p>\n Caller: “Terry, is it possible that Southern Miss<\/strong> is just significantly better than what we thought?”<\/p>\n Terry: “No.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here’s what comes to mind after a near-perfect Saturday with picture-in-picture and a fridge full of beer… The Auburn victory over LSU was by far the best 7-3 game I’ve ever seen.\u00c2\u00a0 It proves why SEC football will always be so great to watch, even when no one scores.\u00c2\u00a0 Those were two physical teams with … Continue reading Quick Outs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/section30.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/section30.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/section30.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/section30.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/section30.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/section30.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/section30.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/section30.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/section30.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}