College Football 2012 GDG

[Jacob Hawkes]

Watching Texas A&M over Alabama, Clemson over LSU, and now Louisville over Florida the SEC has some wholes. They are great at smash mouth and against other teams that play smash mouth but they have real problems against speed based option and west coast style attacks. Seems like their corners are not great cover guys. Luckily I don't think Goldston from ND is good enough to give Bama as many issues, but he is young and if he has made a lot of strides in the last 6 weeks then Bama might be in a lot of trouble.

TAMU beating the gumps had everything to do with Johnny Football & the gumps not being as fast as people would like to think they are.

The LSU game was a joke. KeKe Mingo got sick & if he doesn't, LSU wins going away. He was like a spotted gazelle the other night. Of course there were about a dozen other injuries & 6 free 1st downs that were NOT warranted. Not to mention the lack of OBVIOUS calls against Clemson. Paging Stud The Dud, get your fat ass out the booth & coach The OL. That was disgraceful.

The game last night had everything to do with 1 team thrilled to be there & the other was in Gainesville. 1 couldn't have played better & the other any worse.

It's not about a certain style. It's about what happens, who WANTS to be there, & unforeseen circumstances (Penalties/injuries.).

[hughest]

My thought last night was not necessarily that Florida wasn't excited to be there, but that Florida thought all they had to do to win was show up. I never felt like they had any real sense of urgency. Even at half time it was like they thought Louisville would never be able to hold up through 4 quarters. And let's face it - lots of times a lesser team can play with a better team for 1 or 2 quarters, but then they get wore down. I don't think Florida ever thought they could actually lose the game until the last half of the 4th.

And the LSU game - that's just Les being Les. All you can ever do is just shake your head at his descisions. He's a weird little bird.

[Jacob Hawkes]

I guess you guys might have a point on the lack luster performance of Florida;
http://www.yardbarker.com/college_fo...ville/12565543

No might to it. It's a fact. Look what the gayturds did all year against subpar competition.

You lose 1 game all year against a rival, don't even make The SEC CHAMP GAME, & have to play a basketball school in your BCS Bowl? Frick that. I don't fault them for mailing it in. No different than Free Shoes U or Stanford. Where's the motivation???? Put Stanford up against Free Shoes U & now we have a game I WANT to see. Put the gayturds up against OU. I WANT to see that game. I WANT to see K St./Oregon. I WANT to see ND/gumps. The other crap games, screw that.

[road kill]

TAMU beating the gumps had everything to do with Johnny Football & the gumps not being as fast as people would like to think they are.

The LSU game was a joke. KeKe Mingo got sick & if he doesn't, LSU wins going away. He was like a spotted gazelle the other night. Of course there were about a dozen other injuries & 6 free 1st downs that were NOT warranted. Not to mention the lack of OBVIOUS calls against Clemson. Paging Stud The Dud, get your fat ass out the booth & coach The OL. That was disgraceful.

The game last night had everything to do with 1 team thrilled to be there & the other was in Gainesville. 1 couldn't have played better & the other any worse.

It's not about a certain style. It's about what happens, who WANTS to be there, & unforeseen circumstances (Penalties/injuries.).

Anybody got any cheese?????

[Franco]

Last night's crowd at the Sugar Bowl set an attendence record. It was the smallest crowd to attend a Sugar Bowl since 1939! Even the Gator Nation wasn't interetsed in the game let alone their team. Less than 7,000 in the stands were Gator fans.

From NOLA.com

"Afterward, Strong credited the partisan Louisville crowd for the victory. The school's leather-lunged contingent represented more than half of the 54,178 fans in the stands and dwarfed the half-hearted turnout by the Gators, effectively transforming the Superdome into a home stadium. More than one "Lou Orleans" signs could be seen in the crowd, which was the smallest at the Sugar Bowl since 1939.

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[jerod]

The only Gator players that were playing with a purpose were Matt Elam and Sharrif Floyd and that was to try and increase draft value.

[John Robinson]

No might to it. It's a fact. Look what the gayturds did all year against subpar competition.

You lose 1 game all year against a rival, don't even make The SEC CHAMP GAME, & have to play a basketball school in your BCS Bowl? Frick that. I don't fault them for mailing it in. No different than Free Shoes U or Stanford. Where's the motivation???? Put Stanford up against Free Shoes U & now we have a game I WANT to see. Put the gayturds up against OU. I WANT to see that game. I WANT to see K St./Oregon. I WANT to see ND/gumps. The other crap games, screw that.

I watched the first three quarters of the LSU game and felt that LSU was the real deal. I thought they were well coached and played hard, no shame in losing on a last second field goal. However, I don't agree with you on the Florida game. How is this any different from a big school losing to a much smaller school during the regular season? We crucify USC or LSU for laying an egg during the regular season, but make excuses for the same team not being motivated in a big bowl game? Watching last night's game it looked to me like Florida came in way overconfident and was basically frozen by shock when Louiville actually put up a fight.

As far as crap bowl games, I hate the fact that there are so many no-name bowls that you get five and six loss teams playing. It used to be that a USC would be lucky to play in a bowl game with two losses, now they play with six losses? Music City Bowl, Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, Beef O' Brady Bowl, New Era Pinstripe Bowl, Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl, even (Sorry Jacob), the Chick-Fil-A Bowl are kind of cheesy, but how do you not get up for the Rose, Sugar or Orange Bowls?

John

[Dustin D]

How is this any different from a big school losing to a much smaller school during the regular season? We crucify USC or LSU for laying an egg during the regular season, but make excuses for the same team not being motivated in a big bowl game?

THANK YOU! from Montana!

[DoubleHaul]

As far as crap bowl games, I hate the fact that there are so many no-name bowls that you get five and six loss teams playing. It used to be that a USC would be lucky to play in a bowl game with two losses, now they play with six losses? Music City Bowl, Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, Beef O' Brady Bowl, New Era Pinstripe Bowl, Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl, even (Sorry Jacob), the Chick-Fil-A Bowl are kind of cheesy, but how do you not get up for the Rose, Sugar or Orange Bowls?

John

The Chick-Fil-A bowl is the old Peach Bowl, at least. That used to be a very solid bowl before the huge proliferation of them. It was New Years Eve in Hotlanta (when all the best bowls were New Years Day) and always a fun time for the fans.

[M&K's Retrievers]

Anybody got any cheese?????

Maybe they should change the title of this thread to "The SEC Whiner Page".