🏈 GAME THREAD 🏈 WEEK FIVE: NCAA / SEC Games of the Week - Three Top Ten Teams Tumble

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• USC is at Illinois
• Tennessee is at Mississippi State
• Indiana is at Iowa
• Ohio State is at Washington
• Oregon is at Penn State
• LSU is at Ole Miss
• Auburn is at Texas A&M
• Notre Dame is at Arkansas
• TCU is at Arizona State

Nine games that probably make up the best regular season weekend of 2025.

 

[alabama mike]

I am going to give the edge to E. Carolina right now against Army on Thursday night because the game is being played in Greenville, N.C. and not at West Point.

 

[TerryP]

I am going to give the edge to E. Carolina right now against Army on Thursday night because the game is being played in Greenville, N.C. and not at West Point.

ECU allowed BYU more than five yards a carry last weekend between their starting QB and RB.

 

[alabama mike]

ECU allowed BYU more than five yards a carry last weekend between their starting QB and RB.

I saw that but still think they will pull out the win at home. Its a decent Thursday night game. I cant wait until the MAC starts playing in the middle of the week.

 

[TerryP]

I saw that but still think they will pull out the win at home. Its a decent Thursday night game. I cant wait until the MAC starts playing in the middle of the week.

The line doesn't make sense to me. I'll look at it more when I get a little time/bored.

A quick glance at power rankings show Army -4 on a neutral field. IF HFA is average (2.5) for ECU, that would lend to Army still being favored by 1.5.

A quick glance at efficiency numbers and ECU has a slight edge with special teams, they are close but trailing Army in defensive efficiency, and are in another world with offensive efficiency (top 20 team in Army, 93rd for ECU, out of 135 teams.)

Geesh...the more I look.

 

[TerryP]

Penn State having a white out for Oregon...hope Lanning runs this one UP!

 

[TerryP]

One tradition continues and we aren't but a little over four minutes into the first game of the weekend.

A review.
The TV official rules analyst gets his call wrong.

 

[TerryP]

10:52 and another review...geez, 'bout done with this.

 

[RTB X Bot]

 

[TerryP]

Not a bad read.

With Oregon coming to town and Ross pointing to Knowles as the possible difference maker for Penn State I gotta mention this.

If I'm an Oregon fan I'm worried about whether the defense can stop Penn State from running the ball.

 

[BamaFan334]

Not a bad read.

With Oregon coming to town and Ross pointing to Knowles as the possible difference maker for Penn State I gotta mention this.

If I'm an Oregon fan I'm worried about whether the defense can stop Penn State from running the ball.

If I'm a Penn State fan I'm worried about falling back into every other decent game situation, where we flop.

 

[TerryP]

If I'm a Penn State fan I'm worried about falling back into every other decent game situation, where we flop.

Weird team.

Aside from three games over the last four or five years they've been in one score losses the vast majority of the time. A nine point loss, maybe two, is the outlier. I'm guessing it's around 15 losses since '21 (they were BAD in 2020.)

FWIW, Michigan blew them out. Ole Miss and UArk did in bowl games.

 

[TerryP]

Oregon opened with a FCS team, Montana State. Then three games against FBS teams. They are ranked 39th in the NCAA in rush defense.

The three FBS teams they've played have combined for two wins this season.

 

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[TerryP]

Anyone want to venture a guess as to who has the longest winning streak in FBS right now?

 

[Scrape&Search1032]

Holy shit what's play by that Virginia defender.

 

[Scrape&Search1032]

Virginia's O-line is doing something Alabama's couldn't.... push them off the ball. Fuck.

 

[Scrape&Search1032]

Virginia is beating the shit out of Florida State.

 

[Scrape&Search1032]

Morris has thrown two really bad picks that FSU capitalized on and score off of. Gotta take care of the football.