Week 9 Open

Week 9 is now open.  I will advance the week on Sunday (10/27).

LOL UCLA beats Oregon 83-0 

Ken wrote:LOL UCLA beats Oregon 83-0 

Btw, your starting offense is suspended for the next game for stat padding.  haha

Illinois loses again, this team is just awful...the only positive thing that has happened is gaining the commitment of the #19 Recruit (#1 OLB). All this losing is making me lose recruits and I'll end up in a bigger hole than I did last year....I'll never have nice things for this team. I seriously feel your pain Ken and Truth..

Iowa Survives Scare

Coach Steel Pitt did indeed make the change and inserted true freshmen QB Jason Wade into the lineup as the starter at QB for the Iowa Hawkeyes.  After a shaky start, in which the Hawkeyes had to repeatedly settle for 3 FG's in the first half, the youngster calmed down.  The Wildcats though presented quite the challenge for the freshmen in his first career start. In addition to battling his nerves, he had to battle the road crowd as well as the cold, windy and rainy conditions.

Midway through the third quarter Northwestern took a 22-16 point lead, but the true freshmen QB made Coach Steel Pitt look like a smart man for making him the starter.  Wade led the offense to TD's on their next four possessions as the Hawkeyes outlasted Northwestern 44-37 to improve to 8-0.

Wade went 16/22 for 201 Yards.  The Iowa Hawkeyes amassed 302 yards on the ground as they got 188 from RB Damon Bullock (3TD)  and 109 from QB Jason Wade (2TD).

Btw, I had one of the weirdest plays in this game.  As you know Northwestern runs Shotgun - No Huddle on offense.  They completed a pass for 50+ yards and got tackled on my 2 Yard line.  The went no huddle and rushed to the line.  With the QB in shotgun, the Center snapped it to himself and ran into the endzone for the TD. 

LOL, how do you defend that?  hahaha

I saved the replay of the play (from two different angles) on the Dynasty Wire if anyone wants to check it out.

Steel Pitt wrote:Btw, I had one of the weirdest plays in this game.  As you know Northwestern runs Shotgun - No Huddle on offense.  They completed a pass for 50+ yards and got tackled on my 2 Yard line.  The went no huddle and rushed to the line.  With the QB in shotgun, the Center snapped it to himself and ran into the endzone for the TD. 

If only I knew...

Steel Pitt wrote:Btw, I had one of the weirdest plays in this game.  As you know Northwestern runs Shotgun - No Huddle on offense.  They completed a pass for 50+ yards and got tackled on my 2 Yard line.  The went no huddle and rushed to the line.  With the QB in shotgun, the Center snapped it to himself and ran into the endzone for the TD. 

LOL, how do you defend that?  hahaha

I saved the replay of the play (from two different angles) on the Dynasty Wire if anyone wants to check it out.

Hahaha awesome. I was beginning to wonder if I was the only one who had seen this glitch. Never seen it go for a TD, but definitely had the CPU center snap it to himself on at least 3 occasions at this point. Goes for at least 3-4 yards every single time. Genius playcalling. 

 DT Jamie Fritz -- 68 OVR (#24 DT)

FSU upsets #3 Louisville

Florida State overcame shaky QB play by Jacob Coker (filling in for the remainder of the season for injured starter Jameis Winston) to stun #3 Louisville 27-9. The Noles' defense played great all game, keeping the heralded Cardinals Offense and star QB Teddy Bridgewater out of the endzone all game.
SS Karlos Williams was all over the field and the D-Line brought just enough pressure to hurry Bridgewater into some bad throws.

FSU now has its bye week coming up before hosting ACC rival Clemson in Tallahassee.

Notre Dame outlasts BYU 42-33 in a game that was back and fourth until the final seconds of the game. ND had a 21-6 lead at the half but thats where the fun began. BYU outscored the Irish 14-7 in the 3rd quarter to make the score 28-20 entering the 4th. After intercepting Malik Zaire early in the 4th the Cougars Jamal Williams scores from 2 yards out to pull within 2, they go for the 2pt conversion and Taysom Hill throws a quick slant to a WIDE open receiver and he drops it leaving the score 28-26. After the Irish march down the field  and score take a 35-26 lead on an Atkinson TD run the Cougars run the triple option to perfection leading to a 63 yard TD run by FB Paul Lasike making the score 35-33 with 3:34 left on the clock. Notre Dame marches down to the BYU 2 yard line where the Cougar defense holds them out of the end zone 3 plays in a row bringing up a crucial 4th and Goal from the 2 yard line with 51 seconds to go. There was no question as to who was getting the ball and Notre Dame's all everything running back came through in the clutch scoring the game winning TD from 2 yards out. This is a game the Notre Dame's pass happy offenses of past years would have defiantly lost, BYU's defensive was flying around causing havoc for their sophomore QB but the Irish's ball control running game prevailed in the end. GAIII finishes with another 300 yard rushing game but this time the Irish needed every single yard. 

OV4U2 wrote: GAIII finishes with another 300 yard rushing game but this time the Irish needed every single yard. 

LOL @ "another 300 yard game" like 300 yard rushing games are routine. lol

michigan state baaaaaaaaaaarely gets it done against minnesota. Down 31-16 in the 3rd, the defense forces a safety, and the offense scores two touchdowns (the last of which came with 13 seconds left on a pass to all-world WR keith mumphery) in the 4th to avoid the upset.

I'm telling you...Wuck Fisconsin yes.

Hope all is going well in NCAA land. Best of Luck burnum.

Sorry, just got back from a quick road trip. I'll play my game in the morning before the NFL games.

I do find that funny that the real game ended in a similar way, but the exact opposite ending.