College Football Saturday: LSU, Boise State Roll To Cap Wild Day

It’s a good thing West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen is in one of the few professions that rewards smiles like this.

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Adams, over the course of the return, muffs the catch at his 35, retreats to his 16 to pick up the ball, switches field not once but twice, and runs almost 30 seconds off the game clock. Oh, and he scores a second touchdown despite muffing a punt.

Battlefield Conditions: Deplorable. Michigan Wolverines and Western Michigan Broncos: mission aborted due to weather. Notre Dame and USF: took well over five and a half hours to complete their patrol due to same. USF maintained unit integrity; Notre Dame became lost, replaced squad leaders. Situation became dire. Officer Kelly’s methods became unstable. May require psychological eval upon return to base.

Logistical Issues: Ole Miss: lost cargo in transport. Helpfully returned to endzone by Mormon missionaries in area for safe keeping. Lost: two war dogs on loose for Florida by callsigns “Demps” and “Rainey.” Believed to be rabid, dangerous, and responsible for multiple casualties inflicted on Florida Atlantic. (184 yards rushing, three rushing TDs, 85 yards receiving and a TD, and a blocked punt returned for a TD.) Texas State: up 10-9 at the half over Texas Tech, died when a crane dropped an armored personnel carrier on them in a 50-10 loss.

We made no bones about our distaste for the opening night schedule of college football games. With blowouts and cupcakes abound, it was just no fun. But since that first night of action, college football has built to a crescendo, beginning with a Baylor and TCU game full of ham and ending with a Saturday game of slates with all of the schadenfreude. This is what college football is all about.

Thunderstorms hit the Midwest and terrible football seeped into South Bend. This should not come as a surprise; we go through this every year. Notre Dame’s return to glory is boasted during the offense, and inevitably the Fighting Irish faceplant. Christmas came early this year and Skip Holtz played the role of Santa. The irony here is almost too much.

I had no idea Stony Brook even fielded a team. Neither, apparently, did UTEP. After going through the motions and failing to show any discernible signs of life in regulation, the Miners suddenly awoke in overtime to avoid further embarrassment in a 31-24 win. But let’s be honest: needing overtime to beat a team whose mascot is the Seawolves is, in no way, something to brag about.

But there’s no way to spin this one. Stony Brook -- S-T-O-N-Y B-R-O-O-K -- led for most of the game and it took a late touchdown by UTEP to force overtime. Not a good look, Miners.

It’s all right, Les Miles. You’ve only been at LSU since 2005, and Geaux Tigers has only been a slogan for, like, ever.

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Believe it or not, Stony Brook have not trailed at any point in this game.

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The Tigers led by three at halftime, 16-13, but turned that into a 30-13 advantage by rattling a true freshman on the Ducks. De’Anthony Thomas fumbled the ball on consecutive Oregon possessions, which LSU converted into touchdowns. Michael Ford, who scored the first of those touchdowns, added a second touchdown in the fourth quarter.

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Brandon Boykin was a factor on defense all night long and his 80 yard touchdown run in the first half kept things interesting for Georgia for a while, but BSU asserted themselves as the better team in the third quarter, as Moore quickly lead his team to two touchdowns, turning a 14-7 halftime lead into a 28-7 lead very quickly in the third quarter.

Thanks to Oregon and LSU’s decisions to play each other, Boise will move up at least one spot in next week’s rankings. There are difficult tames ahead, but this was probably the toughest game on BSU’s schedule, and they’re well on their way to another BCS berth.

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The offensive stats all favor the Seawolves. They have over 200 yards more total offense than the Miners (368 to 127) and have dominated the ground game (216 to 38). This would be an embarrassing loss for Mike Price and the Miners.

Stony Brook went 6-5 during the 2010 season and went 5-1 in Big South play, good for a first-place tie.

Garcia came in and righted the ship immediately in the second quarter, guiding USC to two quick touchdowns, but ECU scored just before halftime to run their lead back up to ten. It felt like that drive was going to give them some momentum heading into the second half, but that’s more or less the opposite of what was actually the case.

Between Georgia’s struggles against Boise State on Saturday night and South Carolina giving up 37 points to ECU, it feels like next week is going to be incredibly fun.

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Moore had one interception in the first half, but that’s been his only hiccup thus far. Boise’s Heisman candidate has been unstoppable in the third quarter and he now has three touchdown passes on the night. Boise has marched down the field on their last two drives, aided by a defense and special teams unit performing just as well as the offense. It’s been an absolute clinic in all facets of the game in the third quarter, and Georgia is going to have to wake up fast. This is starting to turn into a blowout.

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Bo Levi Mitchell put the ball in the air 69 times and completed 39 of them for 473 yards and three touchdowns. The two interceptions, obviously, did not help him. Brandon Kaufman and Nicholas Edwards combined for 22 receptions and 248 yards. Oh, the running game put up just 31 total yards.

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This, friends, is how you use conference realignment as a trolling method. Congratulations to the Rice band, also known as The Mob, for trolling hard during its halftime show at Texas, and being topical with their formations.

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With some halftime adjustments, maybe the offenses will start to click.

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Boykin has been fantastic, both with that run and his play on defense. However, he left the game with an injury in the second quarter. It didn’t appear to be serious, but there’s currently no detailed information. Hopefully he’s just fine and returns to the game for the second half.

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The game was delayed by weather twice, both at halftime and in the fourth quarter. The first halftime delay lasted over two hours, while the second weather delay lasted around 30 minutes.

Notre Dame almost engineered a dramatic comeback, as Rees lead the Irish down the field in the fourth quarter in a fantastic two-minute drill to bring his team back within three points, but they couldn’t recover the onside kick. The Irish will be left wondering what could have been, as they easily should have scored three or four more touchdowns than they did.

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Moore is doing well, passing 7-10 with a touchdown and no interceptions, but Georgia is doing well to contain him and the rest of the Boise offense, forcing Moore away from his first option and into short checkdowns. The touchdown pass was an impressive one - a 17-yard pass to Matt Miller - but Moore has been held at bay for the most part, so far.

Both teams look well-prepared and are executing well on both sidses of the ball. So far, this game is as advertised.