Saturday Night Insanity: USC Upsets Oregon, Robert Griffin III Upsets Oklahoma.

All, College Football Ty Duffy November 20th. 2011, 12:18am

Woe to the poor sap who fell asleep on his couch. Oregon missed a last second field-goal and fell 38-35 at home to USC. Oklahoma was victim of a Heisman-campaign altering touchdown drive by Robert Griffin III for a 45-38 upset. The already probable LSU vs. Alabama rematch has been all but confirmed. We’ve just been spared the debate.

The BCS Top 3 should be LSU, Alabama and Arkansas, all in the SEC West. Assuming an Alabama win in the Iron Bowl, LSU goes to the title game with a win either against Arkansas or in the SEC Title game with Georgia (gets there on tie-breakers). On the off chance Alabama loses, Arkansas could go through to the SEC Title Game and potentially the BCS Title game with an LSU upset. Virginia Tech and Stanford (assuming they get by Cal) probably move into the four and five positions.

RGIII was 21/34 for 479 yards and four touchdowns. He also had another 72 yards on 18 carries on the ground. Expect him to rocket up Heisman boards this week.

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25 Responses to “Saturday Night Insanity: USC Upsets Oregon, Robert Griffin III Upsets Oklahoma.”

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Richt'sLeftNutIsSmarterThanChizik Says:
November 20th, 2011 at 12:22 AM
If there were a 16 team playoff, OU, OSU, Oregon losing would not have mattered.
/ reverse TBL
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tyduffy Says:
November 20th, 2011 at 12:34 AM
OSU mattered. Oregon, OU games didn’t matter. Alabama was going in anyway. Now we just don’t have to listen to endless, empty debate about it.
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José Ovechkin Says:
November 20th, 2011 at 12:39 AM
RGIII has to be in the top 2 for the Heisman race. If you traded him and Andrew Luck would Baylor be any better?
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maise Says:
November 20th, 2011 at 12:48 AM
is that an a&m question?
/angry briles
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ButtersBC Says:
November 20th, 2011 at 12:50 AM
I don’t get the immediate backlash that comes after every good game from the anti-playoff crowd…if a game has to have national title implications in order to make it great that’s an indictment of the sport, tonight would still have been a fun stretch of football
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maise Says:
November 20th, 2011 at 12:55 AM
butters,
it is irritating that a great night of football has to be anything other than just a great night of football.
fun football = fun football
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tyduffy Says:
November 20th, 2011 at 1:02 AM
I don’t get the immediate backlash that comes after every good game from the anti-playoff crowd…if a game has to have national title implications in order to make it great that’s an indictment of the sport, tonight would still have been a fun stretch of football
This
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Menarky Party Says:
November 20th, 2011 at 1:05 AM
rgIII, heisman. that is all.
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José Ovechkin Says:
November 20th, 2011 at 1:06 AM
Go Cal
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b.easy80 Says:
November 20th, 2011 at 1:08 AM
Cal- Stan one score game, what a weekend
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Col. Larry H. Parker Says:
November 20th, 2011 at 1:11 AM
Of course, it shouldn’t be a one score game, but the Stanford coach has apparently forgot he has one of the best QBs in the nation and is calling weak run plays that are getting destroyed.
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Jim Harbaugh Scramble Says:
November 20th, 2011 at 1:11 AM
Woe to the poor sap who fell asleep on his couch
happened to me during the UFC prelims.
Go Cal
watch your mouth.
the best news about all this turmoil is that if Michigan can (gasp) beat OSU they should get a bcs bid.
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José Ovechkin Says:
November 20th, 2011 at 1:12 AM
the best news about all this turmoil is that if Michigan can (gasp) beat OSU they should get a bcs bid.
I dunno about should, but they will.
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Col. Larry H. Parker Says:
November 20th, 2011 at 1:12 AM
The already probable LSU vs. Alabama rematch has been all but confirmed. We’ve just been spared the debate.
Until next week when Arkansas beats LSU and we get a three way inbred spitoon fest.
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Jim Harbaugh Scramble Says:
November 20th, 2011 at 1:15 AM
/ reverse TBL
heh. I would have prefered use of “bizzaro” but, I approve.
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Jim Harbaugh Scramble Says:
November 20th, 2011 at 1:17 AM
I dunno about should, but they will.
I don’t mean should as in they earned it, but should as in it will happen.
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Col. Larry H. Parker Says:
November 20th, 2011 at 1:25 AM
I don’t mean should as in they earned it, but should as in it will happen.
You mean Notre Dame’s emphatic win over BC today isn’t enough for them to slide into a BCS game?
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starkweather Says:
November 20th, 2011 at 1:50 AM
the Stanford coach has apparently forgot he has one of the best QBs in the nation and is calling weak run plays that are getting destroyed
I am understanding that Luck calls most of the plays on offense himself, no? Please to be correcting me if I’m wrong.
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Col. Larry H. Parker Says:
November 20th, 2011 at 2:20 AM
I am understanding that Luck calls most of the plays on offense himself, no? Please to be correcting me if I’m wrong.
I honestly have no clue. If so, he fuckin sucks at play calling. He had a chance to break Cal’s neck but instead was way too conservative after recovering the fumble early in the 4th. Cal came back down and made it a one score game. Obviously they won, but Cal blows and conservative football gets burned against much better teams, like say, Oregon.
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cassino Says:
November 20th, 2011 at 3:14 AM
You would think that with everything that happened this weekend one would hesitate to pencil anybody in anywhere, but here’s Duffy, etching LSU/Bama in stone.
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Jason Lisk Says:
November 20th, 2011 at 9:45 AM
I feel like that first line was written for me. I did make it long enough to see the end of USC-Oregon, and saw the tipped pass, but I passed out on the couch before the Baylor-OU game went final.
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tyduffy Says:
November 20th, 2011 at 10:41 AM
You would think that with everything that happened this weekend one would hesitate to pencil anybody in anywhere, but here’s Duffy, etching LSU/Bama in stone.
Because it was all but etched in stone, even before Oregon and Oklahoma lost. This isn’t a mystical process. Computer polls are dictated by schedule strength. Voter behavior is incredibly predictable.
LSU – best record, strongest schedule and head to head wins over Alabama and Oregon. They beat Arkansas they are in the title game. If they lose to Arkansas, they don’t fall out of the Top 2 in the BCS Standings. Thus they win the tie-breaker with Alabama, go to the title game. If LSU beats Arkansas and then loses the title game, they had head to head wins over Bama and Oregon and the best resume of any 1-loss team.
Alabama – Came into the weekend a strong 3rd, moves into 2nd with an OSU loss. They killed Arkansas who weren’t going to pass them in the polls.
Oregon did not have the “no rematch” bump since they also played LSU (and lost in much worse fashion). The teams remaining on the schedule (a) would not have helped the computer polling and (b) would not alter popular perception.
Oklahoma was sand-bagged by a bad loss. Their only real opportunity was to score a huge win over n undefeated OSU that would leapfrog them past Alabama and Oregon in the human polls. That opportunity ended the moment OSU lost.
LSU was in regardless. The opponent, if not OSU, was always going to be Alabama as long as they won the Iron Bowl.
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AssaultWithAConcreteDildo Says:
November 20th, 2011 at 11:37 AM
Except, tyduffy, if Arkansas beats LSU at LSU, they will jump LSU and Bama – as they should, since they would have beaten the consensus Number One at their place.
Which means they play in the SEC title game. Which means LSU, as the probable Number Two, makes it over Bama, since they beat Bama. Which means nothing is “etched in stone.” This is assuming a Bama win in the Iron Bowl.
Bama killing Arkansas is so September.
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tyduffy Says:
November 20th, 2011 at 12:37 PM
Except, tyduffy, if Arkansas beats LSU at LSU, they will jump LSU and Bama – as they should, since they would have beaten the consensus Number One at their place.
Which means they play in the SEC title game. Which means LSU, as the probable Number Two, makes it over Bama, since they beat Bama. Which means nothing is “etched in stone.” This is assuming a Bama win in the Iron Bowl.
Bama killing Arkansas is so September.
No, they won’t jump Bama. Bama absolutely destroyed them and unless they send LSU cascading down the human polls they won’t jump LSU in the BCS rankings.
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AssaultWithAConcreteDildo Says:
November 20th, 2011 at 12:43 PM
And I am telling you that if they beat the consensus number one in November people will quickly forget about what the consensus number two did to them in September. Polls are about “what have you done for me lately.”
If Arkansas shows explosiveness on offense – something Bama apparently lacks – the pollsters will be much more interested in seeing an Arkansas-LSU rematch instead of a Bama-LSU rematch.