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Or just run on it on 3rd down to get the 4 or 5 yards that the Chargers would have gladly given.

We need to convince the Chargers to start running the ball again.

Me too. But just means the Chargers would have had a 1st and a foot with 20 seconds to go and a timeout.

At the half:

Confirmed. Up 24-10. Now get a stop here, or even allow a FG at most, and the Lions will be in good shape going into the half and getting the ball back to start the 3rd.

Highlight reel run!! I think he stayed in.

Chargers back in it after Lions let them off the hook on two 3rd and longish conversions.

I think he is almost overdoing it with the gushing over the Lions. I mean it is nice to hear, but he is making them sound unstoppable.

This has been complete dominance so far.

So is Gibbs still a “bust”?

Wow, I would have bet the house that Lions would get a TD from a 2nd and goal at the 2 situation.

Are you from the future or the past?

What a push!

Kick it.

Offense is humming today. Two perfect drives apart from that one killer penalty by Decker.

Vikings almost blew the 24 point lead but hang on to win. After closing to within 8 points, the Saints had 3 possessions around midfield but lofted two of the easiest interceptions you’ll ever see.

Hahaha https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/38882186/source-penn-state-fires-offensive-coordinator-mike-yurcich Penn State fired offensive coordinator Mike Yurcich on Sunday, a day after the unit struggled in a high-profile loss for the second time this season, the team announced. Running backs coach Ja'Juan Seider and tight ends coach Ty Howle will replace Yurcich as co-offensive coordinators. The Nittany Lions scored only 15 points and managed just 238 yards of offense (70 through the air) in Saturday's 24-15 loss to No. 3 Michigan. Penn State's offense also struggled in a 20-12 loss to Ohio State on Oct. 21, finishing with only 240 yards and not reaching the end zone until the game's final minute.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/38880082/jimbo-fisher-expected-fired-texas-sources-confirm Texas A&M is expected to fire football coach Jimbo Fisher on Sunday morning, sources confirmed to ESPN. The steps toward removing Fisher began in a Texas A&M Board of Regents meeting on Thursday, according to sources. A four-hour discussion of Fisher's future led to the imminent decision. Fisher will be owed $76 million upon his firing, according to sources, which is a record amount of a buyout paid to a head coach. That number is more than double the known buyout paid to a fired college head coach. Texas A&M plans to honor Fisher's contract in full, according to sources. TexAgs first reported the school's plan to fire Fisher. Texas A&M (6-4, 4-3 SEC) is coming off a 51-10 victory over Mississippi State on Saturday. Fisher is 45-25 in six seasons at Texas A&M, and just signed a new 10-year contract with $95 million guaranteed in 2021. That deal was given, in part, because of the potential at the time of Fisher leaving for LSU.

I wanted to see Illinois lose to Indiana yesterday, due to Bielema's comments about in-stadium scouting being "sickening".

If I can get up at 9am my time to watch the start of the Michigan game, you can stay up to midnight to watch the 1st half of USC/Oregon 🙂

No, not eliminated, but after taking two Big 10 teams last year and having them both lose in the semis (albeit OSU giving Georgia a great game), I think OSU would be hard-pressed to get in over a 0-loss Washington-FSU conference champ or a 1-loss Washington-FSU-Oregon-Texas-conference champ. Incidentally, Georgia should move up to #1 after beating #9 Ole Miss by 35.

https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2023-11-11/ucla-usc-michigan-big-ten-war Commentary: USC and UCLA will enter a weakened Big Ten in the midst of an ugly Michigan mud fight* I am observing the moment from the perspective of USC and UCLA, who are about to join a conference that is not going to resemble the one they signed away their futures to in June 2022. It appears the Trojans and Bruins left one mess of a conference for a wealthier mess of a conference. They left a Pac-12 that no longer could compete in the college sports arms race for a Big Ten that’s choosing to wage war on itself. The nation’s oldest and most pompous power conference never will be the same again.... The discovery period would be delicious to those who crave college sports depravity — and damaging to all involved, including the 13 other universities that pushed Petitti into a corner.... Expect calculated leaks from Michigan, attacking its rivals’ pristine glass houses. The reports that Ohio State and Rutgers fed Michigan’s signs to Purdue before last year’s Big Ten championship game could be just the beginning.... Can you imagine this happening in the Southeastern Conference? A commissioner bowing to the Mississippi States and Kentuckys to take down Georgia or Alabama in the middle of a championship chase? ... Instead of issuing a blanket statement admonishing the sign-stealing culture across the conference and pushing for the use of headsets as soon as possible — and letting the NCAA investigate Michigan — Petitti made this an ugly spectacle that is sure to get worse... There is no Big Ten brotherhood to speak of anymore. Sure, Michigan’s Bo Schembechler and Ohio State’s Woody Hayes once waged their “10-year war,” but there was at least a semblance of honor to the proceedings. You’d hear about Wolverines and Buckeyes actively rooting for one another in bowl game... The Wolverines and Buckeyes will be so distracted by their own feuding, a door could open rather quickly for a team from the Pac-12 to emerge at the top of the standings. But, if this were to occur, that university would be wise to remember the lesson of the last three weeks: In today’s Big Ten, you had better watch your back *note the column's writer is a Michigan alum, so doesn't claim to be neutral on this

Hard disagree. I think it's Georgia, Michigan and Ohio State, in whatever order, being the three best by a wide margin. Georgia vs the Michigan-Ohio St winner for the national championship isn't a certainty, but it's about as high of a likelihood as can be at this stage of a season. Then since the Michigan-Ohio State game should all but eliminate one of them, there's a scramble among Florida, Washington, Oregon, Texas and Alabama for the final two spots.

It was looking well under for a long time. 3-0 Iowa at the half, 6-0 Iowa after 3. Iowa exploded for 16 points in the quarter, but still stayed under at 22-0.

It will be interesting to see if the NCAA weights this BIG suspension when it comes time to lay sanctions of its own. It stated a couple of years ago that in-person scouting of signs yielded "minimal competitive advantage". Harbaugh missing from this one game caused a more significant competitive advantage. Not suggesting Michigan will get off with a 1-game coach's suspension, it will be more than that, but to me Michigan has already partially paid for Stalion's sins.