September here, and college football starting up

[oyarde]

South Florida up 11 in the 3rd.

 

[Zippyjuan]

Buffaloes honor No.19 with helmet decals tonight vs. their former Big-12 rival Cowboys
in the UColorado's first game since the passing of Rashaan Salaam on December 5.

4 months ago no one could have guessed on this start of New Years weekend that they face an 11-win season.

I am gonna try to livestream starting at 7pm Mountain Time at a link at the NCAA website :
http://www.ncaa.com/news/football/a...a-state-how-watch-live-stream-game-time-alamo

Thanks for the link. Not showing locally in San Diego and I cut my cable. Go Buffs!

Won't work for me. Requires cable provider offering WatchESPN. Guess I am limited to Game Tracker.

Coroner rules Salaam death suicide: http://www.espn.com/college-footbal...olorado-buffaloes-rb-rashaan-salaam-shot-head

It was also noted in the coroner's report that Salaam's family was offered the chance to test him for chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, before the autopsy, but the family declined. The presence of CTE has been linked to the suicide deaths of a number of athletes including former NFL players Junior Seau and Dave Duerson.

Salaam's brother, Jabali Alaji, told USA Today in December that Salaam had "all the symptoms" associated with CTE. He also told the newspaper Salaam's brain was not donated for evaluation for CTE because of the family's Muslim faith. Muslim burial rituals call for burial within days of death and forbid desecration of the body.

Salaam won the Heisman Trophy in a season in which the Buffaloes finished No. 3 in the final Associated Press poll. He rushed for 2,055 yards and 24 touchdowns that season and also won the Walter Camp and Doak Walker awards.

If Colorado wins the Alamo Bowl, they will tie their record for most season wins with eleven- and that happened when Salaam played for CU in 1994.

 

[Zippyjuan]

http://www.espn.com/college-footbal...rmer-byu-cougars-coach-lavell-edwards-dies-86

LaVell Edwards, who coached BYU for nearly 30 years, dies at 86

College Football Hall of Famer LaVell Edwards, who coached the BYU Cougars for 29 seasons, died Thursday at the age of 86 from complications after breaking his hip, his wife said.

Patti Edwards told the Provo Daily Herald that her husband suffered the injury on Christmas Eve.

Edwards led BYU to national prominence with his dynamic passing offenses and became one of the most successful coaches in college football history. He won the 1984 national championship during his tenure from 1972 to 2000, and he had an overall record of 257-103-3 with the Cougars. He ranks seventh all-time in FBS coaching victories and second behind Joe Paterno among those who coached at just one school during their career.

He received national coach of the year awards in 1979 and 1984, and he coached 1990 Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Ty Detmer among his 34 All-Americans.

Edwards took BYU to 22 bowl games and won 20 conference championships. Other quarterbacks who flourished under his guidance include Gifford Nielsen, Marc Wilson, Jim McMahon, Steve Young, Robbie Bosco and Steve Sarkisian.

"It's a tough time for all of us," Young, a Hall of Fame quarterback and ESPN analyst who played for Edwards from 1980-83, said Thursday. "The No. 1 quality that Coach had was a gift -- I'm going to say it was from heaven -- that he had the ability to look at you and get a sense of you and be able to have a vision for your future. To see things that you didn't see, to see potential in you that you didn't know about. ... It was personal to you.

"He had the ability to see around the corner and it was individual. Football is the ultimate people sport and you have to have people skills, and he had the ultimate people skills. It was a gift."

Edwards was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2004, and BYU's stadium bears his name.

 

[oyarde]

South Carolina makes big comeback to push game to OT .

 

[oyarde]

Penn St to suspend two starters from Rose Bowl .

 

[oyarde]

Arkansas up 17 .

 

[Zippyjuan]

Arkansas was up 24 to nothing- now trails 28- 24 in the early 4th quarter.

 

[Jan2017]

Thanks for the link. Not showing locally in San Diego and I cut my cable. Go Buffs!

Won't work for me. Requires cable provider offering WatchESPN. Guess I am limited to Game Tracker.

Yep I'm not a cable subscriber or going to give out credit card for free live streams either -
Colorado misses 47 yard FG wide left, so first quarter ending 3-0

 

[oyarde]

Colorado trails 17 - 0 , 7 minutes to half .

 

[oyarde]

Colorado looks bad so far today .

 

[oyarde]

Arkansas was up 24 to nothing- now trails 28- 24 in the early 4th quarter.

35 unanswered second half points for Va Tech for the win for win # 10 this season .

 

[oyarde]

4th & Goal from the 5 with 11 minutes to play down four touchdowns and a FG , I think I would have taken the FG then kicked on onside kick . You can pretend you are only down four touchdowns if you convert all of the two point conversions but that is poor thinking because that is not happening . Colorado has to go four downs rest of the way down 5 scores , every first down they give up is a nail in the coffin .

 

[oyarde]

Now they would only be down 21 with 5 minutes to play had they taken that chip shot FG . They are on the board , trail 8 - 31 .

 

[oyarde]

Well , poor performance , not really ready to play against a very good team , but still a big year for Colorado with 10 wins . The fans should be pleased at the improvement .

 

[Zippyjuan]

CU was probably hurt by the loss of their defensive coordinator who left to go to Oregon. When he came just two years ago, CU was 120th in the country in defense. In the regular season, they were Top Ten this year. Next season will be tougher. Not only without him but eight starters who were with CU for four years are going to be gone as well as Lufau at QB though freshman Montez has looked good when he played. Also seems to show that the Pac12 was not that strong though CU can be very proud of what they accomplished this year- especially compared to the previous four or more seasons. First bowl game in a decade. Top 20 team? Maybe. Top Ten? Not yet. Recruiting class ranked Top 20 so future looks good.

 

[oyarde]

Air Force puts up 17 in the Third quarter , takes control .

 

[oyarde]

Big basketball game tomorrow , my Hoosiers and # 6 Louisville .

 

[oyarde]

Michigan 39 yards from a lead in the 4th.

 

[oyarde]

Wow . Michigan doomed themselves giving up that 66 yard kickoff return .

 

[oyarde]

With 16 minutes to play , Michigan went for Two instead of kicking the one . It will cost them the game if the cannot come up with a FG in 36 seconds .