Official 2017 College Football Thread

infamous114 wrote: »

King_MOEbra wrote: »

Ohio State over Texas in the Championship Game.

Great prediction

Thanks, I try.

USC and Texas will play this week for the first time since the Vince Young-led Longhorns beat the Reggie Bush and Matt Leinart-led Trojans 41-38 in the Rose Bowl to win the BCS national championship following the 2005 season.

It was one of the most memorable college football games in history.

That's why USC's official game notes caused a stir this week: They list the Trojans as 4-0 all time against Texas, while acknowledging one loss -- in that Rose Bowl -- was vacated due to NCAA penalty.

In 2010, the NCAA found USC committed what it referred to as "agent and amateurism violations" involving Bush, and part of the penalty for the football program included the "vacation of regular and postseason wins" from the 2005 season.

The loss to Texas, of course, does not fit that criteria.

But, according to USC sports information director Tim Tessalone, the program was instructed in 2010 by Jim Wright, then the NCAA director of statistics, not to include participation in any games that year as part of its official records. That edict included the Rose Bowl.

"I have documentation in a letter sent in July 2010 to Wright noting all the changes he instructed us to make, including that losses had to be vacated," Tessalone said in an email. "The letter also states that he had reviewed all our revisions and approved them."

Just in case anyone wants to relive one the greatest days of my life

https://youtu.be/YFAejQi05vI

Shane Buechele is a gametime decision for tomorrow but should be good to go which is a good thing because he still gives us the best shot at a W

The defense is what has me nervous the most, our secondary has been disappointing to say the least so far this season and Sam Darnold might be primed for a big day unless we can get a legit pass rush going

I think this is a winnable game but watching SC against Stanford last week didn't do much to boost my confidence.........best chance for us is going to involve controlling the tempo of the game by feeding Chris Warren and trying to wear out the SC defense. I think we have some mismatches on the outside we can exploit with Collin Johnson but if we have Shane throwing the ball 50 times and try to win a shoot out then it's going to be a wrap

We looked trash vs western Michigan but we gave Stanford the blues.

With all the hype Darnold gets, RoJo and Carr been eatin. What y'all run Defense lookin like? Because that's probably where the game gets decided

Inglewood_B wrote: »

We looked trash vs western Michigan but we gave Stanford the blues.

With all the hype Darnold gets, RoJo and Carr been eatin. What y'all run Defense lookin like? Because that's probably where the game gets decided

Yeah yalls backs have been putting in work and could definitely be a problem especially if we aren't wrapping up but our run defense is a tale of two defenses at this point...was trash against Maryland and was phenomal against San Jose St so its probably somewhere in between

@Shizlansky I knew he had been taken majority of the first string snaps but I just saw that he was named the starter too....dont know how to feel about that at the moment. Like I said Shane gives us the best chance to win if he's healthy but if he still having shoulder problems than the Ehlinger/Heard combo is the our only option

I want Mack Brown to be sick to his stomach

Sam starting? If he plays well how do you ever bring Shane back?

I like UCLA.

I want them and USC to be good.