"Extra tick alters a lot"

When they come to play next year the clock operator should start the game clock on the scoreboard at 15:01 and see if the refs blow the whistle at the opening kick off to please reset the game clock to 15 min.
This will never happen, but I sure would laugh my a$$ off if it did!

 
Not really sure how Texas winning helps Nebraska in recruiting, and I know for sure that Texas doesn't need to win to make the Big 12 look good.

Go BAMA!!!!!

 
[...] I can't wait till October when we take that 1 second and beat them senseless as a reminder that they were let off the hook and it won't happen again.
you and me both.

whornes have had it good for too long. time to harsh their mellow.

 
Page one of today's USA today:

When Texas, with a final second put back on the clock, beat Nebraska 13-12, it affected the national championship race, the major bowl picture, and even the Heisman.

Article reads that if Nebraska had won:

1. The obvious- Cincinnati most liekly steps into the national champ. game.

2. If Cincinnati is in the champ game, does Kelley leave for Notre Dame?

3. Allowing the clock to run down, ultimately cost Colt the Heisman because fewer then 10% of the voters had voted. The article does suggest that perhaps this was not fair to Colt because he had a splendid four year career. Also mention is the upsurgence of Suh, who would have garnered more votes had Nebraska been allowed to win.

4. B12 champ Nebraska, would have been headed to Fiesta bowl, Texas would have landed a at large bid to a BSC bowl, and Boise State would have been bumped.

5. Brown may not get a $2 million raise.

6. 40,000-60,000 Texas fans already had their plane tickets, hotel rooms, etc; wouldn't have been very happy.

Not really new ground in this article, but it is nice to hear it on a national level.
I think for Kelley leaving he wouldn't have given one thought if Cincinnati was in the Championship Game.

For number 3. I don't care what Colt did in his 4 years, the heisman is awarded yearly. He was worse this year than last year. when people start to consider overall rather than the yearly this is another reason why the Heisman is worthless.
I agree, but many believe Crouch was awarded the Heisman as a career award in 2001. I believe his numbers were better in 2000. His greatness was undeniable, just thought I would throw that out there for perspective.

Kelly had eyes for ND probably before he took the Cincy job. I think if Texas lost, there would have been a unified push to get TCU in the championship game, JMO. I doubt Mack Brown gets that raise if they lose the Big 12. Texas fans would whine, because that's what Texas fans do best. I can't wait till October when we take that 1 second and beat them senseless as a reminder that they were let off the hook and it won't happen again.
When they come to play next year the clock operator should start the game clock on the scoreboard at 15:01 and see if the refs blow the whistle at the opening kick off to please reset the game clock to 15 min.

Somebody good at photoshop can create at game clock for next years game. The kickoff is about to start and 15:01 is on the clock on the big board!!!!

Funny stuff.

 
Page one of today's USA today:

When Texas, with a final second put back on the clock, beat Nebraska 13-12, it affected the national championship race, the major bowl picture, and even the Heisman.

Article reads that if Nebraska had won:

1. The obvious- Cincinnati most liekly steps into the national champ. game.

2. If Cincinnati is in the champ game, does Kelley leave for Notre Dame?

3. Allowing the clock to run down, ultimately cost Colt the Heisman because fewer then 10% of the voters had voted. The article does suggest that perhaps this was not fair to Colt because he had a splendid four year career. Also mention is the upsurgence of Suh, who would have garnered more votes had Nebraska been allowed to win.

4. B12 champ Nebraska, would have been headed to Fiesta bowl, Texas would have landed a at large bid to a BSC bowl, and Boise State would have been bumped.

5. Brown may not get a $2 million raise.

6. 40,000-60,000 Texas fans already had their plane tickets, hotel rooms, etc; wouldn't have been very happy.

Not really new ground in this article, but it is nice to hear it on a national level.
I take an exception to this guys reasoning on #3, because the Heisman is not about a 4 year career, it is supposed to be about just that one season Colt McCoy had the national stage and blew it with one play where he didn't use his head and just throw the ball into the ground so there would have been no question about the time. If he had done that, everyone would be saying what a heady player he is, and how he deserved the Heisman, and the voters probably would have voted more for him, giving it to him. McCoy's explanation about a so-called clock in his head and how they practice that play in practice was pure bull and everyone knew it except for the ding a ling that had the slow clock in his head or didn't hear the alarm going off. Nebraska did not win because there was 1 second on the clock, not because they were not allowed to win. If the officials had not looked at the instant replay, Texas fans would be playing the "whiner" role that so many Nebraska fans are now playing to nausea without anything to back them up.

#5 Brown would NOT have gotten that raise...probably just a modest $500,000 raise for winning the South.

#6 Ebay and Ticket Hippo would have been flooded with tickets (they probably would have made profit on the tickets, even though that would have been a poor consolation to their hurt ego's), the hotels most likely would have allowed the cancellations, unlike the airlines - who are just pricks looking to make any kind of profit that they can.

 
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On USA Today:

The ground, meanwhile, has shifted beneath Cincinnati's Brian Kelly and Notre Dame, which is eying him as its next coach. Can Kelly bail on the Bearcats, or announce a pending move, a month before they play for their first national championship? Can Notre Dame hold off on a hire — on putting together a staff and making a proper run at recruits — until almost mid-January? The guess is no and no.

 

"I might not be here at Notre Dame," Kelly told a Chicago radio station earlier this week, "because we don't know if they would have waited. … I was going to play in the national championship game."

 

Notre Dame probably looks elsewhere, maybe to Connecticut's Randy Edsall.

On Foxsports.com

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP)

Texas quarterback Colt McCoy may have played a factor in Brian Kelly being the new coach at Notre Dame.

 

That's because if McCoy had held the ball a second longer against Nebraska in the Big 12 title game, Cincinnati likely would have been playing for the national championship instead of the Longhorns. Kelly says if that were the case, he would not have left the Bearcats before the national title game.

 

Kelly said on Tuesday he doesn't know if Notre Dame would have waited for him, but he knows he would have stayed to coach in the title game. He says every job he's accepted he's taken it because he wants to play for championships.

 

Notre Dame is hoping Kelly can lead the Irish to their first championship since 1988

 
On USA Today:

The ground, meanwhile, has shifted beneath Cincinnati's Brian Kelly and Notre Dame, which is eying him as its next coach. Can Kelly bail on the Bearcats, or announce a pending move, a month before they play for their first national championship? Can Notre Dame hold off on a hire — on putting together a staff and making a proper run at recruits — until almost mid-January? The guess is no and no.

 

"I might not be here at Notre Dame," Kelly told a Chicago radio station earlier this week, "because we don't know if they would have waited. … I was going to play in the national championship game."

 

Notre Dame probably looks elsewhere, maybe to Connecticut's Randy Edsall.

On Foxsports.com

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP)

Texas quarterback Colt McCoy may have played a factor in Brian Kelly being the new coach at Notre Dame.

 

That's because if McCoy had held the ball a second longer against Nebraska in the Big 12 title game, Cincinnati likely would have been playing for the national championship instead of the Longhorns. Kelly says if that were the case, he would not have left the Bearcats before the national title game.

 

Kelly said on Tuesday he doesn't know if Notre Dame would have waited for him, but he knows he would have stayed to coach in the title game. He says every job he's accepted he's taken it because he wants to play for championships.

 

Notre Dame is hoping Kelly can lead the Irish to their first championship since 1988
I still don't think Cincinnati stays ahead of TCU due to TCU picking up more computer points if Texas falls out. I don't see how Cincinnati pick up enough ground on TCU in the polls. I think these guys are looking at how Cincy and TCU are ranked with Texas ahead of them and incorrectly assuming they each move up 1.0 spots with Texas out of the way.

 
I still don't think Cincinnati stays ahead of TCU due to TCU picking up more computer points if Texas falls out. I don't see how Cincinnati pick up enough ground on TCU in the polls. I think these guys are looking at how Cincy and TCU are ranked with Texas ahead of them and incorrectly assuming they each move up 1.0 spots with Texas out of the way.
That's very hard to say considering the agenda-driven balloting we've seen. You're trying to gauge the agendas of dozens of AP voters and coaches, and that's an impossibility. If we beat Texas the agendas take over and the votes are skewed dramatically.

 
I still don't think Cincinnati stays ahead of TCU due to TCU picking up more computer points if Texas falls out. I don't see how Cincinnati pick up enough ground on TCU in the polls. I think these guys are looking at how Cincy and TCU are ranked with Texas ahead of them and incorrectly assuming they each move up 1.0 spots with Texas out of the way.
That's very hard to say considering the agenda-driven balloting we've seen. You're trying to gauge the agendas of dozens of AP voters and coaches, and that's an impossibility. If we beat Texas the agendas take over and the votes are skewed dramatically.
Yep, and as I recall the movement to put Cincy ahead of TCU had already started the week before our CCG game was even played. Which tells me the "powers that be" had their bases covered no matter who had won the Big12.

 
I still don't think Cincinnati stays ahead of TCU due to TCU picking up more computer points if Texas falls out. I don't see how Cincinnati pick up enough ground on TCU in the polls. I think these guys are looking at how Cincy and TCU are ranked with Texas ahead of them and incorrectly assuming they each move up 1.0 spots with Texas out of the way.
That's very hard to say considering the agenda-driven balloting we've seen. You're trying to gauge the agendas of dozens of AP voters and coaches, and that's an impossibility. If we beat Texas the agendas take over and the votes are skewed dramatically.
Yep, and as I recall the movement to put Cincy ahead of TCU had already started the week before our CCG game was even played. Which tells me the "powers that be" had their bases covered no matter who had won the Big12.
I can't disagree with you two. Mathematically it looks like it should've been TCU but the human element might've taken over and enough voters who have Cincy #4 and TCU #3 might've moved Cincy to #2 with a Texas loss to put them in the champtionship game.

 
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