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Did Nebraska Get Screwed ? (NCAA Big XII )
December 06 2009 | self

Posted on 12/06/2009 3:35:50 PM PST by Para-Ord.45

Was it me or did the refs give Texas a second chance after Texas QB Colt McCoy ran a play trailing by two points with only six seconds left, rolled out and threw the ball away and out of bounds as the clock ticked down to 0.00 and then the referee`s whistle blew.

Texas coach Mack Brown demanded an extra second to kick a field goal and the officials obliged him. Texas kicked the field goal and won the game.

I only saw the reply once with audio and clearly heard the official`s whistle blow after the clock showed 0.00 on the clock.

Nebraska got screwed.


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To: tiger63
Mack Brown is in fact as stupid as “less smiles” he just has more fuds to pay off the zebras in charge of the game. NU beat the eleven from Texas, they lost because of the refs. Tuck Fexas!

Oh boo friggen hoo.

Texas Fight! Beat the HELL out of the red tide!

61 posted on 12/06/2009 4:53:42 PM PST by Hazwaste (Some people are like slinkies. Only good for pushing down stairs.)
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To: Para-Ord.45

Nebraska should have played loose prevent coverage and allowed a completion. As long as it wasn’t completed in the end zone, Nebraska would have won.


62 posted on 12/06/2009 4:54:32 PM PST by death2tyrants
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To: ColdWater
2. The votes will be cast based on this weekends performances. 184 yds passing and three interceptions won't do it.

So the Heisman is awarded based on the best performance of December 5, 2009? That's rich.

63 posted on 12/06/2009 4:57:40 PM PST by Hazwaste (Some people are like slinkies. Only good for pushing down stairs.)
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To: CharlesWayneCT
OF course, Nebraska probably wouldn’t have needed help at the end if they had just not kicked the ball out of bounds on the kickoff.

Between the kickoff out of bounds and the horse collar tackle penalty, the Texas offense only had to gain 16 yards to get to the 29 yard line from which the ball was snapped on the game winning field goal.

64 posted on 12/06/2009 4:58:12 PM PST by Paleo Conservative
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To: wolf24

Maybe or maybe not but the equation has totally left out the #4 team, TCU. If the BCS polling had any consistencies then Texas should have remained #3 while TCU should have leapfrogged to #2.


65 posted on 12/06/2009 5:00:43 PM PST by tobyhill
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To: davetex

>> That game just about wore me out, and I was in my living room!!

At times last night my heart was pounding so hard I could see my shirt move.

When I was going to UT in the early eighties, it seems like game after game after game was like this: low scoring, good defense but unproductive offense, nail biting right to the last play of the game, even though UT usually pulled it out. But I was younger then and my heart could take it.

I’m either going to have to stop watching UT football, or install a defibrillator next to the teevee.


66 posted on 12/06/2009 5:07:50 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
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To: Hazwaste
So the Heisman is awarded based on the best performance of December 5, 2009? That's rich.

Three (candidates) went in (into the Dec. 5 games), one came out. And it wasn't Tebow or McCoy. I don't like the system but that is what happened.

67 posted on 12/06/2009 5:07:55 PM PST by ColdWater ("The theory of evolution really has no bearing on what I'm trying to accomplish with FR anyway. ")
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To: Hazwaste

I heard today that Alabama has met Texas 8 times in history. Texas 7 wins, one for the Tide. Wow, I didn’t expect that factoid if it was correct.


69 posted on 12/06/2009 5:11:40 PM PST by vetvetdoug (FUBO, a fashion statement for conservatives.)
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To: Para-Ord.45

Get rid of the cameras and reviews. They are momentum killers and as it turns out the refs are almost always right.


70 posted on 12/06/2009 5:18:17 PM PST by InvisibleChurch (nothing is normal anymore)
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To: wolf24
The BCS is supposed to rank based on votes and computerized “strength of wins”. Texas was supposed to trounce Nebraska but instead got a questionable win. Texas win certainly should have kept them at #3 but because the way the system is being manipulated, it actually moved them up to #2.
71 posted on 12/06/2009 5:18:35 PM PST by tobyhill
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To: tiger63

Texas won, get over yourself. Neither team played their best effort and both had calls by refs that could go either way and totally change the outcome, but that is almost every game I’ve ever watched.

Your statements show nothing except you hate the University of Texas. That’s your opinion. However, it has a great program for sports, not just football, and scholarship.

Come back and tell me how brilliant you are when you become a NCAA coach and win a national championship.

Longhorn Class of 87
Hook Em Horns!


72 posted on 12/06/2009 5:22:54 PM PST by 1scrappymom (Hook Em Horns!!)
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To: ColdWater

I think you left out the fourth candidate for the Heisman who didn’t play this weekend....Toby Gerhart. According to this ESPN poll its Colt #1 and Gerhart #2 for the Heisman:

http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/rank?versionId=15&listId=363#topOfList


73 posted on 12/06/2009 5:26:15 PM PST by northwinds
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To: Para-Ord.45
The whistle blew at Zero.

Damn, Obama was at the game? Doesn't that guy ever not play?
74 posted on 12/06/2009 5:26:55 PM PST by Overtaxed Patriot (Lock and load)
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To: Para-Ord.45

Nebraska screwed itself - an out-of-bounds penalty on the kick (inexcusable) and a personal foul. No way should Nebraska have lost that game the way they did.


75 posted on 12/06/2009 5:28:01 PM PST by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable, and unambiguous clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: northwinds

Alabama will eat Texas’ lunch. Will not even be close.


77 posted on 12/06/2009 5:28:51 PM PST by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable, and unambiguous clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: northwinds
I think you left out the fourth candidate for the Heisman who didn’t play this weekend....Toby Gerhart.

I would like to see Toby win but the talk on the street was considering only the three.

78 posted on 12/06/2009 5:29:40 PM PST by ColdWater ("The theory of evolution really has no bearing on what I'm trying to accomplish with FR anyway. ")
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To: tobyhill

>> If the BCS polling had any consistencies then Texas should have remained #3 while TCU should have leapfrogged to #2.

Why, exactly?

Texas played one more game than TCU — and, however ugly it was, they won it.

Only in a logic-free alternative universe should the following happen:

a) Two undefeated teams are ranked #3 and #4, after playing the same number of games
b) #3 plays, and wins, an additional game; #4 does not play, and so has played fewer games than #3
c) #4 leapfrogs #3 because #3 played “ugly” while #4 sat on their butts in front of a teevee watching it.

That just makes no sense!

You could argue that BEFORE the game TCU should have been higher than Texas — I don’t agree but at least that’s a valid argument. Or, you might argue that Cincinnati, who also played and won a game, should should move up because Pitt was ranked higher than Nebraska and Cincinnati’s additional game was “prettier”. That argument is also supportable.

But moving TCU ahead of Texas after Saturday is baseless.


79 posted on 12/06/2009 5:29:51 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
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To: Para-Ord.45

Yes it was you. the horrified NCAA leapt at the chance to keep Texas alive for the win. the extra second was put on to preserve the BCS Nebraska was screwed.


80 posted on 12/06/2009 5:30:13 PM PST by montag813
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