Unbelieveable game! One of the best ever. Congrats to Boise, the WAC, and all the "mid-majors" who dare to dream!
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Unbelieveable game! One of the best ever. Congrats to Boise, the WAC, and all the "mid-majors" who dare to dream!
Most exciting college game I have ever seen! It was a battle from beginning to end. I thought BSU was crazy going for the 2-point try. As soon as they made it, I thought about the 'Pontiac game-changing performance' promotion. This has to be the play of the year...of the decade! And how about that lateral on the pass play to tie it to go to overtime!
The constant references in the game to 'David v. Goliath' and BSU as an underdog were sickening. I think all of us here knew Boise would be very competitve and had a great chance to win. Even with the WAC's great showing in the bowl games, it still will not get respect until it can do this year in and year out.
you're a dumbass (meant in the best possible way). Plase dont coach my teamOriginally Posted by dogeatdogworld
You're right. 3-1 in bowl games and the one bowl the WAC lost was lost by one point.
Truly one of the most fun games I've ever been too... whew... i'm tired just from all of the emotion going back and forth in the stadium! truly amazing...
Hey, brother. I watched every second of that game with Melanie. Unbelievable. When OU took the lead, she asked if I was coming to bed. I told her that it is my policy to never leave a game until it's over because Dad always left the Astro games before the final out, especially when they were losing. That's why he's never seen a great game...other than an OU blow-out! Those, to him, are "great" games.
I was pulling for BSU from the moment I heard they were playing in a BCS game. The girls couldn't figure out why I was pulling against OU. They had to go look at a map just to figure out where Boise is located....much like the OU players.
Frigg'n awesome game! Unfreak'n believable! The best game I've ever seen! If I hadn't seen it live, I would've thunk it was a corny movie.
Congratulations Boise State!
Anyone know a link to the Boise board so we can post a congrats there?
Agreed about the game. Probably half of the best 10 bowl games all-time have been either Fiesta Bowls or Holiday Bowls. And I can't remember one better than the one we just watched.
ESPN should have at least three of the Top 10 plays of 2007 locked up after one day just from this one game.
"David vs Goliath" doesn't bother me as much as the "mid-major" I heard thrown around on both FOX and ESPN Radio.
I admit that I haven't seen the end of every great game played in college football, but I really can't imagine that there is another game that had play-after-play be "the last play of the game" like this one.
I mean, OU had to try three times to get a two-point conversion;
Boise, for all intensive purposes, had almost no chance to score after the OU TD that tied the game, so when they threw an INT, it really looked like the end;
Boise throws a pass in the middle of the field on a 4th and 18, which would've most likely run out the clock, but they get that unbelievable TD! Had the goal line been two more yards further, the game would've been over because I think the OU defensive player had him in his sites;
Okay, OU gets an easy TD on thier first try in OT (that was sickening). But, Boise converts on a 3rd and 8 and scores on a 4th and 2 using a last ditch trick play;
Then they go for the WIN - THE WIN mind you - with another trick play that would've impressed Houdini!
Now how many games had that much drama? Sure, I'm guessing there were lots of come-from-behind games that ended on Hail Mary's, but how many were executed like that? Those were trick plays, sure, but they were well calculated and figured in their game plan just in case it came down to that situation. It didn't seem to me that they were just throwing it out there and hoping something good happened. They played every play at the end with perfection!
I wonder what he's thinking:icon_wink:
So now I wonder how many people picked Boise in the Bowl Confidence Contest??I DID!!!!
Lucky Dawg.... I had to work. I missed the WHOLE GAME.
At least it was for 2 1/2 times pay. :icon_wink: But was it worth the money to miss this game??
Not sure what he was thinking then, but about now probably that that trophy is going to be sitting in a trophy case 1150 miles northwest of Norman.I wonder what he's thinking:icon_wink:
ETA...here is a link to a running commentary column on the game from the College Football News site. Captures just about every facet of the game...great read....
Last edited by RealityCheck; 01-02-2007 at 01:49 AM.
dog eat dog finally found Jesus!
I thought that the clock stayed on 1:26 while OU got four plays to tie take the lead. Is that true?
Lauren cooked up what I call her Fayetteville yankee gumbo, with sausage, some tasty leftover spaghetti sauce, onions, peppers, canned black-eyed peas and canned purple-hull peas (to cover the taste of the requisite black-eyed peas I eat only on New Year's Day), canned okra, rice, Tony Cachere's creole seasoning and gumbo file, fresh parsley, fresh carrot and assorted other items I may not know about and we ate it while we were listening to the New Orleans Christmas CD and a Patsy Cline and I was watching the immediately preceding bowl game (which I no longer remember) and then sipping a little Napoleon whatever orange liquor as a second-night New Year's toast. Then I decided to go upstairs and watch the Boise game. I think a minute or two passed in the game and I awakened around 10:30 when OU had just scored to make the game somewhat close in the third quarter. At first I didn't look at the clock and thought I had missed the whole first half, but then realized I must be watching the replay! About that time, Lauren came up to bed and immediately went to sleep, almost telling me how my game turned out. But I cut her off and went downstairs and poured some dark-roast coffee and watched Boise caving in! I saw the smirk on the QBs face after he pitched the ball to an ineligible receiver and saw him laugh after the next big mistake and knew they were going to be lucky to win. Obviously, they were, but those arrogant moments he went through at that time made me wonder whether they deserved to win. It appears they did! Finally! I have to say that I have seldom felt so much emotion in the last quarter of a non-Louisiana Tech game. It was wonderful, but only to those who are totally objective or were on the winning side!
I was watching a replay so I don't know the facts, but it appeared the clock didn't start the whole time OU was in the red zone for their final drive to take the lead and that it only started again when Boise received the kickoff. Anyone who watched the whole game live know whether I am right or wrong on the clock? It could have run out while OU was still behind if what I saw was accurate. Or it could have run out too late for Boise to tie the game.
I never saw the first half but obviously it started out right and the game ended right. Thanks for Boise helping finance some improvement at Ruston!
Reading this thread after the fact was interesting because of they people would begin to take Boise's win for granted and then go to the opposite extreme when the tide turned. Another lesson to those who turn off the TV or radio or leave for the exit when they think a game's outcome has been decided. I think if I were recruiting players I would ask them about their favorite teams and then quiz them about the end of some of their games. If they said they quit watching early, I might not offer them a scholarship! And I love the reporters who call in at deadline with new information for their news stories, facts that were not available at their deadlines to turn in their copy. Things worth redoing a page for, even if it delays the start of the press or sometimes stopping the press to replace the plates. Never give up!
Last edited by aubunique; 01-02-2007 at 04:07 AM.
I don't think I have been on the edge of my seat at any Tech game as much as I was last night. THAT WAS REMARKABLE!
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