- Alabama's secondary came up big against Mississippi State, writes Chris Talbott of the Associated Press.
- The Crimson Tide's 2010 defense will have a tough act to follow, but it will be a talented group, writes Don Kausler Jr. of the Birmingham News.
- If you're looking at numbers, Alabama running back Mark Ingram is the Heisman Trophy frontrunner, writes Ray Melick of the Birmingham News.
- The top eight in the BCS standings did not change.
- Alabama's air attack finally did something against Mississippi State, writes Gentry Estes of the Mobile Press-Register.
- Estes also has some facts about Bama's next opponent, UT-Chattanooga, a Football Championship Subdivision team. So this is basically like a bye week for the Tide.
- UTC will get a nice $400,000 check for coming to Tuscaloosa, writes Tommy Deas of the Birmingham News.
- If Auburn had scored at the end of the Georgia game, Gene Chizik was going to go for two and the win, writes Kevin Scarbinsky of the Birmingham News.
- Auburn plummets to No. 8 in ESPN.com blogger Chris Low's power rankings.
- He also writes about what we learned in the SEC this weekend. And he doles out some helmet stickers.
- We've got bowl projections. Barring a win against Alabama, most people have Auburn going to one of the lower-tiered bowls of the SEC tie-ins. Low has the Tigers in the Liberty Bowl. It's Outback or Music City say Mark Schlabach and Bruce Feldman. Sports Illustrated's Stewart Mandel also says Liberty, against Houston. Think there could be some points scored in that game?
- Cincinnati, TCU and Boise State are helping change the college football landscape, writes Mandel. I really want to see all three of these teams go undefeated, just to see how the BCS folks justify leaving any one of them out of the title game. (Texas, by the way, has played a creampuff schedule. Nobody seems to be pointing this out.)
- Oooh, that was a chilly post-game handshake between USC's Pete Carroll and Stanford's Jim Harbaugh. The Wizard of Odds has some details.
- Bill Plaschke of the Los Angeles Times writes that after years of being the bully, the tables have turned for USC.
- A usual Monday staple: how newspapers played up college football games on their front pages.
- This is probably more interesting to journalists, but Oregon is using FERPA (the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) to refuse divulging any information about what suspended running back LeGarrette Blount had to do to get re-instated to the team. Ken Goe of the Oregonian has the story.
- Here's a blast from the past for me. Justin Doherty, who was a sports information director during my time at Wisconsin, has an excerpt from a book he wrote about Ron Dayne. This part is about when he broke the NCAA rushing record against Iowa. I was at the game. It was cold, but fun. Once he got the mark, everyone in the stadium held up the free No. 33 towels up so that the whole stadium was a sea of white. It was pretty cool.
2 comments:
If we needed one point to tie at the end of the game, you kick the PAT. Why? Our kicker is almost bullet proof. Our TD performance in the red zone, not so much.
In over time, strong kicking is like having two castles in chess at the end. Always nice to have even if you don't need it.
The logic of going for two when the game is in doubt seems flawed. Why do you go for two? It's because you think you have momentum. Did we have momentum at that point? Perhaps if we had just scored a TD.
I know Chris Brown at Smart Football is always oing over stuff like this.
A smart statistician would have to look back over our 3rd and short or 4th and short to see what kind of percentage we've had. I don't don't think it's good enough to warrant going for two with the game in doubt at the very end of regulation.
Well, Georgia's kicker is just as good. And Byrum did barely sneak a field goal in earlier.
Plus, I don't think Chizik had much confidence in his defense at that point. The Tigers got run over in the second half. I don't think I can fault a coach for going for two on the road. At home, I'd say no.
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