SnowBigRed

Apparently they have never been to Burrito King in Madison.

I agree the names are crazy, it use to make me think that there were too many bowl, but than I thought how can I possibly live without the Beef 'O' Brady's St. Petersburg bowl. PapaJohn's.com Bowl is always a classic Why can't it just be the Papa John's bowl? Is the web site more important than the pizza store?

I want to see Nebraska put a holy beat down on a team after a disappointing loss, similar to what Ohio State is doing right now. Brutal.

Fine, let's discuss. How do you propose to enforce slowing down the offense from an officiating standpoint? Is it fair to not let teams hurry up in the two minute offense? If the hurry up is only legal in the final 2 minutes of a half, what about if a team is down by 2 scores with 6 minutes left? Once a team is ahead, should they have to wait a specific period of time before snapping the ball? I agree that it gives the offense a definite advantage, but there really isn't any way (that I can see) to enforce it without taking away from some other part of the game. Therefore, until a good way to enforce it is thought up, it will be legal, and therefore should be used if a team can hack it.

No discussion here. It's legal, and it's very, very smart (and obviously effective).

100% agree with everything the OP stated. Geographically, it makes sense. Historically, we'd be better off busting skulls with Penn State.

I'm not saying that NU should necessarily be favored in every game, but one would assume this will be the case (preseason anyway).

According to VegasInsider.com, Nebraska is an early favorite at Washington (-4.5), at Okie State (-7.5), at TAMU (-4.5), at KSU (-13) and against Texas (-2.5). Little early for this, but interesting none the less.

There's definetely a difference, and I'm not saying that he definitely had possession. I was just stating I could kind of see where the ref could have made that call. Initially, I thought we got away with one, but after looking at it over and over, I convinced myself that the ref could have made the call (not saying it was the correct one). However, as VA Husker stated, if the ball was intentionally fumbled forward, there should have been a penalty (per NFL rules, no word on NCAA rules so this may not apply). Overall, Nebraska shot themselves one too many times in the foot, which is not surprising considering how the past couple years have gone. The refs did not blow this game for us. The refs were bad, but they were bad for both sides.

You got me. I can't find a rule that clearly states that you can't advance a forward fumble. I guess I was always under the impression that you couldn't intentionally fumble a ball forward, but I can't find anything stating otherwise. Nice catch. We may have caught a break on that one.

I've never posted on this board, but after this game, I had to vent a few frustrations. I've talked with a lot of guys about this so-called "down at the one yard line" fiasco and here is how I see it. I DVR'd the game and watched this play numberous times in slow mo and I believe that this was actually the correct call. To me, it looks as if the returner caught the ball and had possession of it. He then realized that he was going down so he essentially fumbled it on purpose. Headsy play, don't get me wrong. However, he fumbled it forward, which results in a dead ball and can not be advanced. Many on here I'm sure will disagree with me, but this is the reason I think that call was made, and I think it was the correct call. The only calls I had real issues with was the PI on a ball that was clearly thrown away, and the lack of holding calls. The holding goes both ways, so at least they were consistent. But, you can't tell me with the amount of pressure we put on McCoy that there wasn't some holding on some of the plays that didn't result in sacks.