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yep....looks like the Big 12 will have their one bowl winner in Texas...

And Wisconsin managed to do it...I thought that they would win this game...

Alabama shut Michigan down the second half...pulled away. 35-16.

I did not think that Michigan matched up that well...

Minnesota and Auburn was a good match...Minnesota by 7...

As a boy, I remember Ryne Duran with the Yankees (my boyhood team).

He was a thrower...glasses an inch thick and terrible vision, a wild pitch every now and then into the back screen, and a 100 mph ball, all kept batters on their toes.

I used my body to tackle a big back...would wait until he made his move up close and would throw myself low across his knees...usually took the hit with my hip

You tackled and played differently, and perhaps more cautiously, in my day (early 60's). With just a single bar face guard, you were aware of face vulnerability. I took a powerful forearm under my bar that ended my season...broken nose, split lips, loose teeth. I played rugby until my late 30's...ov...

The NCAA does say they will err on the side of safety. Players are so instructed...yet there will always be an idiot lowering his hemet to punish on a tackle. The only area being called that even bothers me some is when the offensive running back lowers his head into an oncoming defender's tackle......

There is nothing about being a runner...in the targetting rule. ..there is a determination in calling roughing the passer...whether he has become a runner. There is another section of targetting rule about being defenseless being away from the play and blindsided They were not salient to this call. ...

The targeting call was the textbook definition of a target... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhUby8SOEbs Targetting...any one or more of the following ...Leading with helmet, shoulder forearm, fist, hand or elbow to attack with forcible contact at the head or neck area.(guilty) ...Lowering the head...

In the replay, you can see the ball held out as he tries to bring it into his body...which he never did...the officials, I guess, determined that he didn't "secure it and make a football move with clear control of the ball" (the rule) before having it knocked out. It was close enough to ca...

Spence...it could have been...but it was a darn good match....not like LSU-Oklahoma

Today was good for me...I had Penn State and Clemson win.

Now if only Florida would stumble against Virginia....

And Clemson's win helps my points...

Good game....Best yet !

Spence wrote:Hasn’t really hurt them up to now.

No...

They got in......but may not get the future benefit of the doubt against a strong second team from a conference.

losing Tee really hurts Clemson...