Cal, which used to be second to last in the country in giving up sacks, gave up zero sacks to Oregon State. Oregon State is dead last in the FBS in sacks/game. Xavier Carlton got another half sack (7.0) and has more sacks than the entire Beavers team (5.0).
UConn has gone 3-0 against teams that have owls as their mascots. 48-14 over FAU, 29-20 over Temple, and 17-10 over Rice. UConn does not play Kennesaw State this season
Javian Thomas (59) is averaging nearly the same amount of yards per game as UCLA (64), which is remarkable since the former hasn't been a starter until lately
[ACC] #19 Pitt beats Syracuse 41-13, L'ville beats BC 31-27, #6 Miami beats FSU 36-14, Duke loses to #22 SMU 28-27 as their 2-point conversion in OT fails, VaTech beats GaTech 21-6, UNC smokes UVA 41-14, Wake Forest beats Stanfurd 27-24 as Ashton Daniels gives up a pick with 28 seconds to go at the Wake 36.
On the two-point conversion attempt Duke’s receiver was held by the SMU defender in the end zone, keeping him from extending to the ball. Should have resulted in a penalty, half the distance for a retry.
I think the rule is that you cant use another player to propel yourself upward (a teammate's back for example). I guess it's fine to leap clean over them.
Judging by that picture and knowing that capacity is around 50,500, it seems likely that the reported attendance is *tickets sold* as opposed to actual tickets used.
Troy Taylor must be reliving the bad ol' days of Cal football under Kapp and the early days of Snyder.
...and yet the 49ers allowed Dallas back into the game. Indeed, the 49ers scored a FG in the 3 possessions before taking over from Dallas on downs. 2 of those 3 49ers possessions were 3 and outs.
Glad it wasn’t Hicks (#22) who was doing the taunting. Elijah was among the several Chicago DB’s who leaped but failed to knock the ball down, though. I feel bad for him.
I went out for awhile and was pleased to see the Commanders behind when I got home. I went to the kitchen to make dinner. While it was cooking, I turned the TV back on with two seconds left and saw the last play. I’m not a Commanders fan so was quite disappointed.
Sorry, but the jury is still very much out on Caleb Williams as an NFL QB.
He has never been good at operating within the framework of an offense. That worked at USC against college atheletes in 45-41 games, but there is only so much you can do when every single play becomes an off-script frazzled dash. There’s no 3-step or 5-step drop for him or a quick throw where he gets the ball out, which is how Deshaun Watson made his name. Unsurprisingly, both are struggling. At the NFL level, you have to hit the easy plays that the D gives you, and he’s not doing that.
also yesterday somewhere about halfway thru, Goff was something like 6 of 8 for 28 yds. they were up 35-14 or so mostly on more return yds than yds from scrimmage.
Goff finished 12/15 and 85 yds, 3 TDs for the game. pretty impressive given that they scored 52 points.
I saw the Lions scored 52 points and was so excited to check my fantasy update, only to be disappointed that Goff gave me only 13 points, and St Brown just a couple of points.
This is wrong. The below link is a post from the Cal Band director, Matt Sadowski. He is the ONLY paid member of the Band. Literally everyone else involved is a volunteer (including the students). We have complained about the sound system in Memorial on this blog, but this is not the way to fix it.
I get your point: there should be better avenues of discussion. But this has been a point of friction for years and I'd bet money that there have been numerous attempts to discuss this very issue without any action from Cal Athletics.
At some point, you have to stop beating your head against a wall and attempt to enlist others to make your point. That's what I see Sadowski doing here.
This points up a problem I have with Cal Athletics - they continue to make decisions that drive away folks who have been season ticket holders for decades. The way in which Cal Band's involvement over the last 15 years has been diminished is a detriment to the Cal football experience. The Marching Band has played increasingly less in that time. Marching bands are supposed to be an integral part of the college football experience. Cal Athletics has decided that the Band should mostly be seen and not heard.
This contributed to my decision to drop my season tickets after the 2015 season. I will never buy more than a ticket for the Big Game because they have decided to devalue the college experience in favor of an NFL Lite model. It isn't my jam, and it isn't why I was attracted to college football or even Cal football specifically to begin with.
It's one way to get attention or make Cal Athletics officially explain their reasoning to the fans. I'm sure he tried to discuss it internally and Cal Athletics decided to ignore his and fans' complaints
Smoke
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
J. Michael Sturdivant has as many receiving TDs as Fernando Mendoza (1)
You love to see it.
Cal, which used to be second to last in the country in giving up sacks, gave up zero sacks to Oregon State. Oregon State is dead last in the FBS in sacks/game. Xavier Carlton got another half sack (7.0) and has more sacks than the entire Beavers team (5.0).
UConn has gone 3-0 against teams that have owls as their mascots. 48-14 over FAU, 29-20 over Temple, and 17-10 over Rice. UConn does not play Kennesaw State this season
UTSA blows a 35-7 lead at half, loses 46-45 to Tulsa
https://www.espn.com/college-football/playbyplay/_/gameId/401645355
Javian Thomas (59) is averaging nearly the same amount of yards per game as UCLA (64), which is remarkable since the former hasn't been a starter until lately
Oklahoma is dead last in the FBS in sacks surrendered (39), having surrendered 10 vs. Ole Miss.
[Ex-PAC] Arizona loses to WVU 31-26, Colorado beats Cinci 34-23, #1 Oregon beats #20 Illinois 38-9, USC beats Rutgers 42-20, #13 Indiana beats UW 31-17, Wazzu beats SDSU 29-26
[ACC] #19 Pitt beats Syracuse 41-13, L'ville beats BC 31-27, #6 Miami beats FSU 36-14, Duke loses to #22 SMU 28-27 as their 2-point conversion in OT fails, VaTech beats GaTech 21-6, UNC smokes UVA 41-14, Wake Forest beats Stanfurd 27-24 as Ashton Daniels gives up a pick with 28 seconds to go at the Wake 36.
On the two-point conversion attempt Duke’s receiver was held by the SMU defender in the end zone, keeping him from extending to the ball. Should have resulted in a penalty, half the distance for a retry.
SMU committed six turnovers to Duke's zero.
Last play of regulation: Duke only need to kick a 30 yarder to win
https://twitter.com/NoleBhoy/status/1850381501071798351
Box jumps coming in handy!
I guess the rules have changed. I would have thought it is illegal to vault an offensive lineman.
I think the rule is that you cant use another player to propel yourself upward (a teammate's back for example). I guess it's fine to leap clean over them.
Correct.
Furd drops to 2-6 with a home loss to Wake Forest. Enjoying the schadenfreude.
Official attendance 23,471
https://twitter.com/ericbahn/status/1850269732039201115
Judging by that picture and knowing that capacity is around 50,500, it seems likely that the reported attendance is *tickets sold* as opposed to actual tickets used.
Troy Taylor must be reliving the bad ol' days of Cal football under Kapp and the early days of Snyder.
PRO
49ers strong Q3 enough to beat the Cowboys 30-24. Kittle too much for Dallas to handle
https://www.espn.com/nfl/boxscore/_/gameId/401671795
...and yet the 49ers allowed Dallas back into the game. Indeed, the 49ers scored a FG in the 3 possessions before taking over from Dallas on downs. 2 of those 3 49ers possessions were 3 and outs.
Looks like Justin Wilcox took over for Kyle while he stepped out for a smoke.
You give Wilcox too much credit, and Shanahan not enough blame. Shanahan's offense tends to turtle when it has a big lead.
Though the difference is that the Niners can usually run the ball pretty well (when they're healthy).
That’s how you blow a double-digit, 4Q lead in the Super Bowl on three separate occasions….
Precisely my point.
the best part of NFL stuff this weekend
Tampa Bay wore uniforms from the team's Creamsicle jersey era and honored the 1979 Bucs, who won the franchise's first division title.
the Commanders has some yelllow/black uniforms that looked more like the Steelers. it was a little confusing.
Warriors lose to Clips 112-104. Steph sprains ankle
https://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore/_/gameId/401704667
home woes continue. the W's used to have such an amazing home court advantage.
New statue unveiled by Miami Heat. Congratulations Laurence Fishburne/Kelsey Grammar/Ken Watanabe
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/28/sport/dwyane-wade-miami-heat-statue-nba-spt-intl/index.html
Looks like Sean Payton's culture still lingers in Nawlins
https://twitter.com/SamMonsonNFL/status/1850647859516912034
Jets sucked more than the Pats, lose 25-22
https://www.espn.com/nfl/matchup/_/gameId/401671618
Man U sacks Erik ten Hag
https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/41528230/manchester-united-sack-erik-ten-hag-amid-poor-run-form
Bears and Commanders have a rock fight for 3.7 quarters. Then Chicago's offense woke up. And then it got a bit wild.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/recap/_/gameId/401671599
The final play
https://twitter.com/RGIII/status/1850701640107446333
we saw it as it happened. was nuts. HAG was here too.
that was nuts. apparently the Chicago DB was taunting the crowd before the play. he apologized ..
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/42043231/tyrique-stevenson-taunts-commanders-fans-seconds-bears-lose-hail-mary-td
He should have kept taunting and the Bears would have won the game. Instead he went back to play defense and tipped the ball to Washington WR.
Good point.
Glad it wasn’t Hicks (#22) who was doing the taunting. Elijah was among the several Chicago DB’s who leaped but failed to knock the ball down, though. I feel bad for him.
I went out for awhile and was pleased to see the Commanders behind when I got home. I went to the kitchen to make dinner. While it was cooking, I turned the TV back on with two seconds left and saw the last play. I’m not a Commanders fan so was quite disappointed.
Sorry, but the jury is still very much out on Caleb Williams as an NFL QB.
He has never been good at operating within the framework of an offense. That worked at USC against college atheletes in 45-41 games, but there is only so much you can do when every single play becomes an off-script frazzled dash. There’s no 3-step or 5-step drop for him or a quick throw where he gets the ball out, which is how Deshaun Watson made his name. Unsurprisingly, both are struggling. At the NFL level, you have to hit the easy plays that the D gives you, and he’s not doing that.
Over the last 5 games, the Lions have more touchdowns (24) than incomplete passes (20)
vs Tennessee: 7 TDs, 4 incompletions
vs Minnesota: 4 TDs, 3 incompletions
vs Dalls: 5 TDs, 8 incompletions
vs Seattle 6 TDs, 0 incompletions
vs Arizona 2 TDs, 5 incompletions
Darrell Taylor completely fooled on this quick-shovel, leading to him celebrating what he thought was a sack but was actually a super late hit
https://twitter.com/SportsSturm/status/1705267245268729906
also yesterday somewhere about halfway thru, Goff was something like 6 of 8 for 28 yds. they were up 35-14 or so mostly on more return yds than yds from scrimmage.
Goff finished 12/15 and 85 yds, 3 TDs for the game. pretty impressive given that they scored 52 points.
I saw the Lions scored 52 points and was so excited to check my fantasy update, only to be disappointed that Goff gave me only 13 points, and St Brown just a couple of points.
CAL
This is wrong. The below link is a post from the Cal Band director, Matt Sadowski. He is the ONLY paid member of the Band. Literally everyone else involved is a volunteer (including the students). We have complained about the sound system in Memorial on this blog, but this is not the way to fix it.
https://x.com/MattSadowskiUCB/status/1850296436031910160
I get your point: there should be better avenues of discussion. But this has been a point of friction for years and I'd bet money that there have been numerous attempts to discuss this very issue without any action from Cal Athletics.
At some point, you have to stop beating your head against a wall and attempt to enlist others to make your point. That's what I see Sadowski doing here.
This points up a problem I have with Cal Athletics - they continue to make decisions that drive away folks who have been season ticket holders for decades. The way in which Cal Band's involvement over the last 15 years has been diminished is a detriment to the Cal football experience. The Marching Band has played increasingly less in that time. Marching bands are supposed to be an integral part of the college football experience. Cal Athletics has decided that the Band should mostly be seen and not heard.
This contributed to my decision to drop my season tickets after the 2015 season. I will never buy more than a ticket for the Big Game because they have decided to devalue the college experience in favor of an NFL Lite model. It isn't my jam, and it isn't why I was attracted to college football or even Cal football specifically to begin with.
It's one way to get attention or make Cal Athletics officially explain their reasoning to the fans. I'm sure he tried to discuss it internally and Cal Athletics decided to ignore his and fans' complaints
Go Bears!!!
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
WaPo has reportedly lost 8% of its subscriber base after Bezos blocked the paper's endorsement of Harris
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/28/nx-s1-5168416/washington-post-bezos-endorsement-president-cancellations-resignations
That is as it should be.
The actions of Soon-Shiong and Bezos are simply more evidence that massive wealth degrades one's personal empathy for others.
DBD AV CLUB
Finished Slow Horses S4.
Fantastic.