What I don’t understand is why there’s no penis/testicle awareness campaigns. I’m being serious. They are more rare but still terrible, and I don’t see why female cancer gets priority over male cancer.
Its because of going overboard with equal rights and PC men are an afterthought especially white males. That kind of what white supremacist say which I am definitely not. But the way things are today OSU will probably get shit if they don’t do anything for breast cancer this month. I believe its a good thing and I want them to but you shouldn’t be forced to support a cause.
Co-workers were talking about a girl that identifies as a cat and the parents were throwing a shit fit about the bathrooms not accommodating to her. Smh
Breast cancer is the 2nd most common cancer among women in the United States — however, it is worth noting that men are afflicted by it as well.
For men in the United States, the 2nd most common cancer is prostate cancer.
Broadly speaking, breast cancer is more fatal than prostate cancer, which is one reason why it is more talked of publicly. It affects a wider age range of women than prostate cancer for men, as well.
But there’s no lack of communication regarding prostate health cancer prevention or treatment options for men; you can find advertising addressing it in any men’s health magazine for example.
I would add that another reason we don’t see as much organizing to the same scale is social convention, in that men generally “ignore” or “brush off” issues surrounding health; this has gotten better over the years, but still needs work.
Asked in the last thread. I think it would be best for UCLA to win out. If Oregon loses and then we beat them they have 2 losses with us having the tie breaker. Then need Utah and USC to lose a couple.
The sucks and Bruins have done a good job of getting their running backs involved in the passing game. I would like to see more of that going forward. Lots of easy yards to be had.
While the pink stuff is most likely a scam from what I gathered, it does create awareness. My wife literally just finished her radiation last week. She was only 37 when diagnosed this Spring. We have a two year old, so she took it seriously and got it checked before it spread. At least the pink gets it on people’s mind. That being said she’s ask good now, and GO BEAVS!!
Yeah the organization that does the pink stuff only spends like 10% of the money on research. The vast majority just gets cycled through their marketing machine.
Some day they need to run a camera crew out to the fairgrounds to film a couple of those 3-day tailgates. They can be pretty epic compared to the frozen-brats-on-a-toy-bbq “tailgates” they usually show.
Penalties enforced on the ensuing kickoff is a rule that needs to be changed to being enforced on wherever the team ends up with the ball after the kickoff. Virtually toothless penalty otherwise.
Obviously JS was going to do an insides kick. May as well try to get your kicker hurt on an unnecessary kick.
Even MP and Jim Wilson were openly questioning the strategy there. Bad look for JS for sure.
I don’t mind the onsides attempt there. Lower risk after the penalty, good practice in a game that we shouldn’t be challenged in. But kicker Gattaca showing he needs more work.
Would it be the end of the world to allow 3-digit numbers for players instead of constantly changing uniforms? Such an unnecessary hassle in the sport.
Crowd not terrible for a shitty pac 12 opponent and cold sprinkly evening. Way more students than I would have expected and zero bison fans, not unexpected.
OK, true on both counts. Still don’t like being passive in that situation, especially hard to understand in light of the earlier onsides decision. JS is one hard to figure out guy.
Based on games today for top 25 teams, Beavs may have a good shot at jumping into the 23-25 range. Not many 2 loss teams left in front of them and several 2 loss teams lose today.
Beavs and coaches need to embrace the new style and not press for big plays. JS needs to settle into an old school NFL mindset of basics and allow the defense to win field position battles until the offense gets settled and scores regularly with BG at the helm.
The onside kick wreaks of trying too hard when you are already controlling the game. Relax and just make it more difficult for the opponent rather than gifting them 20-30 yards on a goofy attempt to be creative. No onside kick is high percentage anyway. JS mentioned to Ron Callan about giving Colorado good field position. Who made that onside kick call then?
Beavs should continue to roll and win 38-10. Go Beavs
Maybe. Will be a good test of big team bias. Texas may not drop out. Miss St will, but LSU will take their place. South Carolina’s win over A&M will be considered more
Impressive. I think we’ll just barely miss out.
Jack Velling – Potential game-changing TE. Fluid runner with soft hands. Yale offer suggests high intelligence, so he should move up the depth chart fast.
Can’t believe people were concerned about an upset in this one. Easiest win in some years. Colorado is insanely bad. Might be a HS level team talent wise.
I knew Martinez was going to be starting at some point after watching him early on. He is just such a load. Having a guy that can drag would be tacklers 5-10 yards after contact is a luxury. He might make it to 1000 yards still and I would not be surprised.
Bray did not want another TD against the defense. It was more of a move to keep the defense focused going into the BYE week and be able to flex their muscles by making a stop in the redzone. It worked because Grant got the interception to seal and allow offense to finish the game.
I was going to say that they mentioned in pre-game that today is his 23rd birthday so he can’t possibly have much eligibility left, but nope I just looked and he’s only a sophomore. How the hell does that happen.
This was Lindgren’s best called game since Montana State. Lindgren better have a really good if not similar game plan against Washington because UW is looking like crap against CAL. At this point, I would say Oregon is our biggest test/challenge the rest of the year. We should be 9-3 if not 10-2 at the end of the regular season.
Will say the 4th down play call with Colletto that was stuffed was garbage. Noone was out wide and so CU knew it was a run. Gave up the advantage of having a running QB. He made up for it on the next 4th down call though bringing Colletto in motion then under center for a sneak.
Love using the run to set up the play action or quick rollout. BG only thrown 1 int so far…hasn’t been electric but I think this is the team we need to be. Get back to the run with D Mart and Jam, make good decisions at the qb position and not turn the ball over. With this defense, that recipe should win a few more games. I’d say BG has played well enough to keep the job. At the end of the day, wins are the most important stat and he’s done that.
Glad to see Austin with a big hit in the 1st quarter and the pick 6. He did give up several long plays though too but good instincts and speed on that int. Hope Rawls is OK, he’s become a legitimate force on the D Line and I’d hate for him to lose significant time when he’s put together a really strong season so far.
The thing that stands out about Gulbranson is he has looked better every game. He has come a long way since getting thrust into action in hostile territory at Utah.
I’m with you in that I didn’t think he wasn’t the best back at the start of the season. Looked slow and wasn’t overly physical. He’s certainly adjusted and looks like a good combo with Jam. Both had some nice receptions as well. Fenwick should only see the field to give them a breather going forward.
Martinez averaged over 8 yds per carry and Griffin just under 7 yards per carry.
That’s gotta be the blueprint going forward. Lean heavy on the run game with that 1-2 punch and just need a QB as a game manager. Between that and a better than average defense they’ll be in most games.
If JS and Lindgren can’t see this? They’re damn fools.
Curious who’s in favor of Chance getting the starting job back? Seems some people really prefer his 8 picks in 4.5 games which I have a hard time understanding. Tonight, BG went for 200yds, 2 tds, 0 turnovers and only 1 sack. Tongue dropped a 3rd td. He’s still learning the starting role but man, I’d take 200-250 passing yards, 2 tds and 1 or less turnovers a game any day.
Let’s look at the 3.5 games chance started not including Montana State…
BSU: 14-23, 251 yds 2 td and 2 int.
Fresno: 14-27, 219 yds, 1td and 0 picks
USC: 17-29, 167, 0 tds and 4 int
Utah (1 half): 2-7, 26 yds and 2 picks.
Granted, USC is a good team but otherwise I’d say the competition has been fairly similar. BG has 3 wins vs pac 12 opponents including a good WSU team and Stanford has strung 2 wins back to back…They’re not good but have have been competitive the last month. What has chance done to put himself back in the starting spot? Outside the USC game last year, his work vs Pac 12 opponents is very much the BSU performance, 250 yds 1 or 2 tds and 1 or 2 int. I’d say Chance APPEARS more comfortable in the pocket but the turnover rate during his 1.5 years starting has been very bad which would suggest he’s not really comfortable back there.
I’d love to see Lindgren call these types of games more often. Don’t want to take the creativity away, but this felt much more “by the book”. Stuck with the run when it was working. Threw the ball effectively and enough to keep a defense honest and needing to respect the pass. The BL of 3 weeks ago would’ve stopped running the ball after 1 of those big runs and threw 8 consecutive passes. Lol. Anyway, I think it’s apparent that we have a very solid defense and we don’t need to always be trying to outsmart or run the quadruple reverse plays, etc. While it’s certainly been frustrating to watch that over the last few years, it’s somewhat understandable when our defense was downright bad.
It feels like the play calling it a little more open with Chance. They look to go deep a little more. Chance’s mobility is also such a huge boost. I think I would like to see him get another crack at it.
Yeah, they did seem to take a few more deep shots, which is surprising as the consensus of pundits/reporters is that BG has the best arm. Chance does bring more mobility for sure. It’s interesting though, despite some of that, the numbers are very similar but BG has been better with ball security. Not knocking Chance, just not sure the reward is there for the increased mobility. We don’t really call many designed qb runs so not really losing or on that part of the playbook. Guess I’d prefer to ride the 3 wins with BG and build his experience for next year.
Felt good to take care of business against a bad team. That’s what we should do. A few ugly plays here and there but football isn’t about being perfect. They were the better team throughout the course of the game and that’s why the result was what it was.
Can never start counting up wins with this program, but it sure feels like 9-2 headed into the Civil War is very possible. Extremely unlikely that we will have any PAC-12 championship stakes on the line in that game, but Oregon likely will. The USC loss will hurt more and more as time goes on and might be the sole reason the Beavs aren’t in Vegas.
I think 10 wins is a reasonable ask at this point and would be a great season all things considered.
So this is the pecking order for the PAC-12 in 2022. A couple of items to note. Unless I am mistaken, bowls cannot choose a team more than one game below the highest remaining team in the standings. Also, there is a new rule that prevents the loser of the conference championship game from returning to Las Vegas for the Vegas bowl. In this event, the Holiday and Vegas bowls would swap picking order (3/4)
1. Rose (PAC-12 Champion, unless the Champion is in the CFP. In this event the runner up may be invited to keep tradition)
2. Alamo
3. Vegas
4. Holiday
5. Sun
6. LA
7. One of the Espn bowl games (Ft Worth, Assparilla, First Responders) in the event the PAC-12 has more than 6 bowl eligible teams.
After tonight, the PAC has 5 bowl eligible teams. UO, OSU, USC, UCLA and UW. Utah is 5-2 and will certainly be bowl eligible. WSU at 4-3 should be as well.
The game at UW is huge. Whoever wins keeps in contact with the top 4 in the conference. The loser will have 3 conference losses.
BG definitely has more upside than Chance at this point. His throws look really good, even the interceptions. :) The biggest thing is he looks to be getting more and more comfortable. I’d stick with him going forward with Martinez-Griffin being our 1-2 punch at running back.
But the absolute most important reason BG is our guy going forward is he doesn’t squint. :)
He seems to stay calm even when defenders get close to him. Chance gets happy feet and throws off of his back foot. Chance is more mobile but BG can scramble for a few yards if needed, we have seen that. I guess Gebbia is healthy???
Agreed, I’m concerned about the pass protection against better teams and I thought the secondary was very sloppy in the second half for whatever reason. CU could have had more points if their receivers could hold on to the ball.
Overall it was nice to see the Beavs do what they were expected to do after being very fortunate against Stanford, although I don’t think Tree is as bad as some thought they were going to be.
Kudos to Lindgren on the play calling for that game.
BG is now 3-0 as a starter, I think you stay with him as qb1.
Defense again looked stellar, not as many sacks, but forced turnovers.
On side kick was not needed. JS should explain or Cookus should fess up he was just winging it.
Colletto now has forced fumble in his resume for the Hornung Award.
Martinez looking better each week.
No big injuries so a very good week to hit the bye and reset for the final 4 games.
Lowe, Julian, Musgrave, Nolan we’re all key players and have missed significant time, good job by coaching staff to adjust and continue with success.
I expect UW will be a very tough game up there, but I’m thinking 9-2 heading into the Civil War is a good possibility.
A 10 win or 11 win season is within reach, would be only the 3rd 10 win, 2nd 11 win season in program history, which should make it a “special “ season, but the 8 interceptions in 2 key losses kind of takes away any special feelings I guess.
Go Beavs! Good to be bowl eligible, now stay focused an finish well.
Your Sunday funnies. ESPN College football power index delivers again this Sunday morning. The Beavs currently sit at 39 having moved up 7 spots after the win over the Buffs. That is behind 8 teams who have lost 3 games and three teams Wisconsin, Iowa State, and Texas AM who have lost 4 games and who sit @ 24, 26, and 27 in the poll. In what is probably the biggest question mark of the poll is undefeated TCU @ 7-0 dropping two spots to 15 while Texas 5-3 sits at 6 which is one spot ahead of 8-0 Clemson. Tough one to understand there. Texas Tech jumps 16 spots to 31 after defeating 3-4 West Virginia in another one that is a head scratcher. The zeros drop 1 spot to 13 after the welcome home party they gave to Chip and company. The talk of them making the CFP builds, but we all know how it works. Nike U is always going to get the love. That being said, they look tough and are running all over everyone since getting owned by the Bulldogs which leads us to the question- just how weak is the Pac-12? I am a firm believer that teams can get better over the course of a season if they don’t absolutely suck to begin with. The beavs are better now than a month ago and with the RB situation seemingly shaking out the offense is going to start looking like what we all were hoping for at the beginning of the season. BG should remain the starter and Martinez and Jam should get the large majority of snaps. https://www.espn.com/college-football/fpi
In order of importance for ESPN:
5 points if Team “x” has/is:
From SEC
From Big10
Big name Coach people love or hate
Big money donor/or rabid donor base
Major market East coast
Major market west coast
Las Vegas betting interest
-3 points If team “x” has/is:
Small town outside of SEC
No name Coach
No big donors
No national championships
Small town west of Mississippi River
Small town west of Rockies
Small town north of Mason Dixon Line
Half finished stadium…
This formula will give you the best predictive for preseason rankings and tv scheduling without even looking at the game matchups. It also predicts recruiting ratings for each school.
Shows how incredible Chris Petersen and Dennis Erickson were as coaches, they crashed the party as outsiders. Boise St became an ESPN darling for a decade somehow.
Everyone knows hot pink jersey numbers cure cancer.
I didn’t know about breast cancer until I saw those jerseys. Man breast cancer makes me sick.
Haven’t seen. Pink on green, yellow, or white?
Hope UCLA wins based on UO’s transparent moral vanity alone…
Looking at stats, looks like neither team is yet interested in defending the pass? Each QB w/over 70% completion.
Pink AND grellow on black uni and helmet
What I don’t understand is why there’s no penis/testicle awareness campaigns. I’m being serious. They are more rare but still terrible, and I don’t see why female cancer gets priority over male cancer.
What color should penis/testicle awareness get?
Purple of course
Blue(ball)?
Rectal (brown)?
Notice nfl went to “intercept cancer” and rainbow motifs
Red, white, and blue of course
Its because of going overboard with equal rights and PC men are an afterthought especially white males. That kind of what white supremacist say which I am definitely not. But the way things are today OSU will probably get shit if they don’t do anything for breast cancer this month. I believe its a good thing and I want them to but you shouldn’t be forced to support a cause.
Co-workers were talking about a girl that identifies as a cat and the parents were throwing a shit fit about the bathrooms not accommodating to her. Smh
Sorry calling bs on the stupid cat meme
Meme?
I said co- workers I live off grid so I don’t have to pay attention to this garbage. Don’t shoot the messenger.
Our cat uses a litter box; is that what she is asking/demanding of her workplace?
Breast cancer is the 2nd most common cancer among women in the United States — however, it is worth noting that men are afflicted by it as well.
For men in the United States, the 2nd most common cancer is prostate cancer.
Broadly speaking, breast cancer is more fatal than prostate cancer, which is one reason why it is more talked of publicly. It affects a wider age range of women than prostate cancer for men, as well.
But there’s no lack of communication regarding prostate health cancer prevention or treatment options for men; you can find advertising addressing it in any men’s health magazine for example.
I would add that another reason we don’t see as much organizing to the same scale is social convention, in that men generally “ignore” or “brush off” issues surrounding health; this has gotten better over the years, but still needs work.
No reason to overthink this one. The better team will dominate.
49-10 Beavs. Bowl eligible before November for the first time since 2013.
Would be great for Chip to beat the sux.
Looks like 94% of bettors enjoy giving their money away
?
Was from a previous thread. And my post was erroneous. 94% of the money bet on this game was for UCLA.
My point remains. Those people that laid money on the Bruins must enjoy giving their money away.
This was a predictable outcome.
Well said, buddy. You called it.
I blew it; but like Daschel said, Vegas is undefeated vs bettors!
Ted Robinson is a piece of shit. Why do we let a golden domer do pac 12 games?
So… who’s still confident the Beavs beat Hole in November?
I think he’s pretty good. 38-20 Beavs
Is this a sucks promo? They just televised the whole shout thing like its a fuckin commercial.
UCLA losing is good for the beavs, right? Who do we want to root against moving forward?
Asked in the last thread. I think it would be best for UCLA to win out. If Oregon loses and then we beat them they have 2 losses with us having the tie breaker. Then need Utah and USC to lose a couple.
The sucks and Bruins have done a good job of getting their running backs involved in the passing game. I would like to see more of that going forward. Lots of easy yards to be had.
5 of UCKA’s 6 wins have been at home….
With a combined 33 people in attendance
While the pink stuff is most likely a scam from what I gathered, it does create awareness. My wife literally just finished her radiation last week. She was only 37 when diagnosed this Spring. We have a two year old, so she took it seriously and got it checked before it spread. At least the pink gets it on people’s mind. That being said she’s ask good now, and GO BEAVS!!
Yeah the organization that does the pink stuff only spends like 10% of the money on research. The vast majority just gets cycled through their marketing machine.
Ya that’s what I got from looking into it as well.
You are correct.My wife passed away from cancer four years ago. If you look into a lot of these causes, they are sort of a scam.
I’m sorry my man
Exactly. They’re not used to okaying in front of people.
UCLA has had one of the softest schedules in the country. I think they were a mirage and this is the same old PAC without any truly dominant teams.
Correct. Said it last week. No team in the PAC is CFP material
I’m impressed at how Boise has bounced back without a decent QB. Makes the Beavs’ win and SOS more impressive, which is good, too.
37-10 Beavs!
Oh FFS.
Well we gotta make it interesting right off the bat.
Thankfully Colorado is awful.
Remember when that chainsaw was a real one that they actually fired up on the sidelines?
Lol. No. That sounds like an OSHA violation.
It didn’t have a chain.
Griffins body looks a lot like Baylor’s. Just really stout and proportional. Nice rb. Martinez is the better back.
I like that both have shown potential to break large plays? They don’t seem to be the classic 1 – power back, 2 – quick/elusive back.
Some day they need to run a camera crew out to the fairgrounds to film a couple of those 3-day tailgates. They can be pretty epic compared to the frozen-brats-on-a-toy-bbq “tailgates” they usually show.
Fantastic throw
What a block by Colletto.
Great timing on that TD throw.
Low stress game is nice. Bolden should start.
Penalties enforced on the ensuing kickoff is a rule that needs to be changed to being enforced on wherever the team ends up with the ball after the kickoff. Virtually toothless penalty otherwise.
Wow. What a stupid call.
Obviously JS was going to do an insides kick. May as well try to get your kicker hurt on an unnecessary kick.
Even MP and Jim Wilson were openly questioning the strategy there. Bad look for JS for sure.
Onsides?……..Puhleeez!
SMH
I understand trusting your D, even the need to practice the onsides, but lacks class in this spot.
CO was out of the game and smith let them back in. Soooo bad a call.
Back in? Lol
GTFOH
That’s Scott Frost level decision making right there
Well Smith responsible for 3 points. Probably won’t factor in this game, but if it does…
I don’t mind the onsides attempt there. Lower risk after the penalty, good practice in a game that we shouldn’t be challenged in. But kicker Gattaca showing he needs more work.
If it works its a great call. If not it’s the dumbest decision ever.
JS didn’t want be out-degenerate gambled by Dan Lanning
Would it be the end of the world to allow 3-digit numbers for players instead of constantly changing uniforms? Such an unnecessary hassle in the sport.
No Fenwick runs yet. Is he hurt?
How’s the crowd size and energy?
How does Gulbranson look?
Crowd not terrible for a shitty pac 12 opponent and cold sprinkly evening. Way more students than I would have expected and zero bison fans, not unexpected.
Good energy.
Looking like a stat booster for the OSU D…
First down on CO 47, 3 seconds left, but no TO called? Why??
Total lack of “step on the throat” mentality.
JS saving TO’s for that new toaster oven??
Meh. They get the ball to start the 2nd half. Only thing they could’ve done there was throw a hail Mary for the end zone.
OK, true on both counts. Still don’t like being passive in that situation, especially hard to understand in light of the earlier onsides decision. JS is one hard to figure out guy.
Mp said fenwick didn’t practice this week
49-3 please.
Get Gebbia some game time in the fourth.
Why?
Based on games today for top 25 teams, Beavs may have a good shot at jumping into the 23-25 range. Not many 2 loss teams left in front of them and several 2 loss teams lose today.
Beavs and coaches need to embrace the new style and not press for big plays. JS needs to settle into an old school NFL mindset of basics and allow the defense to win field position battles until the offense gets settled and scores regularly with BG at the helm.
The onside kick wreaks of trying too hard when you are already controlling the game. Relax and just make it more difficult for the opponent rather than gifting them 20-30 yards on a goofy attempt to be creative. No onside kick is high percentage anyway. JS mentioned to Ron Callan about giving Colorado good field position. Who made that onside kick call then?
Beavs should continue to roll and win 38-10. Go Beavs
Maybe. Will be a good test of big team bias. Texas may not drop out. Miss St will, but LSU will take their place. South Carolina’s win over A&M will be considered more
Impressive. I think we’ll just barely miss out.
Smith is a damn coon’s ass . That onside kick call was wetter than my couche-couche stinkin’ arse on July 4th.
Laissez les bon temps rouler, Beaverionos!
– from the swamp
Man Cristobal is having a rough time in Miami. Think they’ll give him time?
BG lookin pretty good overall…. Keep growing up young Padawan.
And Martinez is separating himself from the others.
Td velling
Nice to see Lindsey right there with him to celebrate.
Velling TD made me happy to see. He’s gonna be a good one.
And ma’ boy Velling!
This one is over. Just don’t get anyone hurt and get the scrubs in there by the 4th quarter
Austin withvtd…Thought that onside let them back in it…thats what I heard…
I didn’t say that
Jack Velling – Potential game-changing TE. Fluid runner with soft hands. Yale offer suggests high intelligence, so he should move up the depth chart fast.
Have you ever quoted a player that you thought would be good but turned out to be a bust?
Not even hating i think you’re quite funny lol
Bolden, Martinez, Veiling, Gulbranson all looking real good today. Young guys who are the future offense.
Against Colorado.
Alex Austin with the pick 6
Can’t believe people were concerned about an upset in this one. Easiest win in some years. Colorado is insanely bad. Might be a HS level team talent wise.
Hopefully we can get all the players taking a redshirt some action soon. Would also love to see Gebbia see some
time tonight.
Somewhere in San Antonio, Mike Riley’s Pavlovian urge to check his bank account is being triggered by our impending bowl eligibility.
CU receivers couldn’t catch an STD in a whorehouse
Let’s set some kind of record for margin of victory in a PAC game and maybe that will get us into the top 25.
A&M with a chance to beat SC still. That would give us a good shot at the top 25.
Angry, you were right. Rb1 is Martinez.
Not a catch.
It looked like that interception was tipped.
These announcers are getting annoying.
You can see the ball hit the ground on replay
I knew Martinez was going to be starting at some point after watching him early on. He is just such a load. Having a guy that can drag would be tacklers 5-10 yards after contact is a luxury. He might make it to 1000 yards still and I would not be surprised.
How was that a chop block? He hit the front of him!
Technically it’s a blindside block, which is still a penalty even if he gets in front of him at the point of contact.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYAD2F0dFyI&ab_channel=NCAAResources
Is Loecher hurt? Stat tracker says Josh Green punted.
NO. Loecher punter earlier. Score was 35-3 when Green punted. My guess getting backups in the game
Isaiah Newell sighting!! Pretty good first carry there!
Hammer it out!
Martinez having himself a game
Good play there with Colletto
That will give future opponents something to consider
That QB sneak play was awesome. Love it. Martinez with 3 teeders now!
No players who see significant playing time should be playing at this point.
Bray did not want another TD against the defense. It was more of a move to keep the defense focused going into the BYE week and be able to flex their muscles by making a stop in the redzone. It worked because Grant got the interception to seal and allow offense to finish the game.
Against the Colorado offense. Been up since 4:30 am CST. thanks to my kids.
Bray was visibly unhappy with the series of PI’s that were committed in the 3rd, which I liked.
Secondary will have some film to review.
I like the run game commitment. Veiling is a beast. D Mart is ridiculous. Jam ran well as usual. Our 3rd string kicker records a tackle. Dominant
Colorado’s QB is actually pretty good. They surround him with some guys that will catch it and Colorado will start being in more games.
I suppose they will have to get a lot better on D as well. But still!
I was going to say that they mentioned in pre-game that today is his 23rd birthday so he can’t possibly have much eligibility left, but nope I just looked and he’s only a sophomore. How the hell does that happen.
I think he was on medical for a while because of knee.
Of course I say that and he forces one into triple coverage.
Hes a transfer so I doubt he has time to wait for that.
CU should’ve handed #21 the rock a lot more, a lot earlier.
Called it bitches – 272 yards on the ground!
I’m not even going to complain about Lindgren or JS. Good win and thank you for running the ball so much.
This was Lindgren’s best called game since Montana State. Lindgren better have a really good if not similar game plan against Washington because UW is looking like crap against CAL. At this point, I would say Oregon is our biggest test/challenge the rest of the year. We should be 9-3 if not 10-2 at the end of the regular season.
Could win them all. Could go 1-3.
They’ll beat Cal. That’s really the only gimme on the schedule.
Will say the 4th down play call with Colletto that was stuffed was garbage. Noone was out wide and so CU knew it was a run. Gave up the advantage of having a running QB. He made up for it on the next 4th down call though bringing Colletto in motion then under center for a sneak.
Love using the run to set up the play action or quick rollout. BG only thrown 1 int so far…hasn’t been electric but I think this is the team we need to be. Get back to the run with D Mart and Jam, make good decisions at the qb position and not turn the ball over. With this defense, that recipe should win a few more games. I’d say BG has played well enough to keep the job. At the end of the day, wins are the most important stat and he’s done that.
Glad to see Austin with a big hit in the 1st quarter and the pick 6. He did give up several long plays though too but good instincts and speed on that int. Hope Rawls is OK, he’s become a legitimate force on the D Line and I’d hate for him to lose significant time when he’s put together a really strong season so far.
BG has thrown 3 INT. had 2 in the Utah game, both in the Endzone.
Should’ve clarified from a starting perspective. While he tossed 2 vs Utah, tough to come in off the bench and being behind.
The doubters ready to admit Martinez is the best back? What about the difficult conversation with Nolan?
What about being the only site to have the beavs 6-2? Hey, Nuc.
Griffin was the starter in the game not Martinez
The thing that stands out about Gulbranson is he has looked better every game. He has come a long way since getting thrust into action in hostile territory at Utah.
He looked good vs Utah in between picks. You could see the promise.
He got away with 3 other picks. Most of his yards were from a screen pass to Harrison.
Pump the breaks it’s the worst team in the fbs. Gulbranson has still tried to throw plenty of picks as well but getting lucky.
3 games ago I wasnt ready to call Martinez the best back, but am now. With Jam a very close 2nd.
At least you can admit it.
Right now I’d agree and say Martinez 1A and Griffin 1B.
I’d agree with that
And me as well
I’m with you in that I didn’t think he wasn’t the best back at the start of the season. Looked slow and wasn’t overly physical. He’s certainly adjusted and looks like a good combo with Jam. Both had some nice receptions as well. Fenwick should only see the field to give them a breather going forward.
Martinez averaged over 8 yds per carry and Griffin just under 7 yards per carry.
That’s gotta be the blueprint going forward. Lean heavy on the run game with that 1-2 punch and just need a QB as a game manager. Between that and a better than average defense they’ll be in most games.
If JS and Lindgren can’t see this? They’re damn fools.
He’ll be the PAC 12 Freshman of the week for sure, Nix probably gets the Offensive title.
Curious who’s in favor of Chance getting the starting job back? Seems some people really prefer his 8 picks in 4.5 games which I have a hard time understanding. Tonight, BG went for 200yds, 2 tds, 0 turnovers and only 1 sack. Tongue dropped a 3rd td. He’s still learning the starting role but man, I’d take 200-250 passing yards, 2 tds and 1 or less turnovers a game any day.
Let’s look at the 3.5 games chance started not including Montana State…
BSU: 14-23, 251 yds 2 td and 2 int.
Fresno: 14-27, 219 yds, 1td and 0 picks
USC: 17-29, 167, 0 tds and 4 int
Utah (1 half): 2-7, 26 yds and 2 picks.
Granted, USC is a good team but otherwise I’d say the competition has been fairly similar. BG has 3 wins vs pac 12 opponents including a good WSU team and Stanford has strung 2 wins back to back…They’re not good but have have been competitive the last month. What has chance done to put himself back in the starting spot? Outside the USC game last year, his work vs Pac 12 opponents is very much the BSU performance, 250 yds 1 or 2 tds and 1 or 2 int. I’d say Chance APPEARS more comfortable in the pocket but the turnover rate during his 1.5 years starting has been very bad which would suggest he’s not really comfortable back there.
I’d love to see Lindgren call these types of games more often. Don’t want to take the creativity away, but this felt much more “by the book”. Stuck with the run when it was working. Threw the ball effectively and enough to keep a defense honest and needing to respect the pass. The BL of 3 weeks ago would’ve stopped running the ball after 1 of those big runs and threw 8 consecutive passes. Lol. Anyway, I think it’s apparent that we have a very solid defense and we don’t need to always be trying to outsmart or run the quadruple reverse plays, etc. While it’s certainly been frustrating to watch that over the last few years, it’s somewhat understandable when our defense was downright bad.
It feels like the play calling it a little more open with Chance. They look to go deep a little more. Chance’s mobility is also such a huge boost. I think I would like to see him get another crack at it.
Yeah, they did seem to take a few more deep shots, which is surprising as the consensus of pundits/reporters is that BG has the best arm. Chance does bring more mobility for sure. It’s interesting though, despite some of that, the numbers are very similar but BG has been better with ball security. Not knocking Chance, just not sure the reward is there for the increased mobility. We don’t really call many designed qb runs so not really losing or on that part of the playbook. Guess I’d prefer to ride the 3 wins with BG and build his experience for next year.
Dude it’s Colorado.
Meaning what?
They’re the worst team in college football so take anything from this game with a grain of salt.
I said 49-10, it was 42-9.
Felt good to take care of business against a bad team. That’s what we should do. A few ugly plays here and there but football isn’t about being perfect. They were the better team throughout the course of the game and that’s why the result was what it was.
Can never start counting up wins with this program, but it sure feels like 9-2 headed into the Civil War is very possible. Extremely unlikely that we will have any PAC-12 championship stakes on the line in that game, but Oregon likely will. The USC loss will hurt more and more as time goes on and might be the sole reason the Beavs aren’t in Vegas.
I think 10 wins is a reasonable ask at this point and would be a great season all things considered.
U want a merit badge?
Well it was a great prediction so he deserves credit.
Really? Mine was just as close. 35-10.
So this is the pecking order for the PAC-12 in 2022. A couple of items to note. Unless I am mistaken, bowls cannot choose a team more than one game below the highest remaining team in the standings. Also, there is a new rule that prevents the loser of the conference championship game from returning to Las Vegas for the Vegas bowl. In this event, the Holiday and Vegas bowls would swap picking order (3/4)
1. Rose (PAC-12 Champion, unless the Champion is in the CFP. In this event the runner up may be invited to keep tradition)
2. Alamo
3. Vegas
4. Holiday
5. Sun
6. LA
7. One of the Espn bowl games (Ft Worth, Assparilla, First Responders) in the event the PAC-12 has more than 6 bowl eligible teams.
After tonight, the PAC has 5 bowl eligible teams. UO, OSU, USC, UCLA and UW. Utah is 5-2 and will certainly be bowl eligible. WSU at 4-3 should be as well.
The game at UW is huge. Whoever wins keeps in contact with the top 4 in the conference. The loser will have 3 conference losses.
Go Beavs
I hope Beavs can end up being too 4. Sun bowl doesn’t appeal that much. Obviously any bowl is cool, but if I’m going it’s not going to be El Paso
What is UW looking at for ticket prices to this game? They have almost become out of reach for most mortal humans to attend an away game.
BG definitely has more upside than Chance at this point. His throws look really good, even the interceptions. :) The biggest thing is he looks to be getting more and more comfortable. I’d stick with him going forward with Martinez-Griffin being our 1-2 punch at running back.
But the absolute most important reason BG is our guy going forward is he doesn’t squint. :)
He seems to stay calm even when defenders get close to him. Chance gets happy feet and throws off of his back foot. Chance is more mobile but BG can scramble for a few yards if needed, we have seen that. I guess Gebbia is healthy???
Feels like a run-focused team, to set up play action, sweeps, etc.
I’d still like to see better pass protection; in harder games other teams will pressure more in that area. :3
Agreed, I’m concerned about the pass protection against better teams and I thought the secondary was very sloppy in the second half for whatever reason. CU could have had more points if their receivers could hold on to the ball.
Overall it was nice to see the Beavs do what they were expected to do after being very fortunate against Stanford, although I don’t think Tree is as bad as some thought they were going to be.
Kudos to Lindgren on the play calling for that game.
BG is now 3-0 as a starter, I think you stay with him as qb1.
Defense again looked stellar, not as many sacks, but forced turnovers.
On side kick was not needed. JS should explain or Cookus should fess up he was just winging it.
Colletto now has forced fumble in his resume for the Hornung Award.
Martinez looking better each week.
No big injuries so a very good week to hit the bye and reset for the final 4 games.
Lowe, Julian, Musgrave, Nolan we’re all key players and have missed significant time, good job by coaching staff to adjust and continue with success.
I expect UW will be a very tough game up there, but I’m thinking 9-2 heading into the Civil War is a good possibility.
A 10 win or 11 win season is within reach, would be only the 3rd 10 win, 2nd 11 win season in program history, which should make it a “special “ season, but the 8 interceptions in 2 key losses kind of takes away any special feelings I guess.
Go Beavs! Good to be bowl eligible, now stay focused an finish well.
Your Sunday funnies. ESPN College football power index delivers again this Sunday morning. The Beavs currently sit at 39 having moved up 7 spots after the win over the Buffs. That is behind 8 teams who have lost 3 games and three teams Wisconsin, Iowa State, and Texas AM who have lost 4 games and who sit @ 24, 26, and 27 in the poll. In what is probably the biggest question mark of the poll is undefeated TCU @ 7-0 dropping two spots to 15 while Texas 5-3 sits at 6 which is one spot ahead of 8-0 Clemson. Tough one to understand there. Texas Tech jumps 16 spots to 31 after defeating 3-4 West Virginia in another one that is a head scratcher. The zeros drop 1 spot to 13 after the welcome home party they gave to Chip and company. The talk of them making the CFP builds, but we all know how it works. Nike U is always going to get the love. That being said, they look tough and are running all over everyone since getting owned by the Bulldogs which leads us to the question- just how weak is the Pac-12? I am a firm believer that teams can get better over the course of a season if they don’t absolutely suck to begin with. The beavs are better now than a month ago and with the RB situation seemingly shaking out the offense is going to start looking like what we all were hoping for at the beginning of the season. BG should remain the starter and Martinez and Jam should get the large majority of snaps. https://www.espn.com/college-football/fpi
The most strongly weighted metric in the ESPN FPI is how much ESPN wants to market that team
In order of importance for ESPN:
5 points if Team “x” has/is:
From SEC
From Big10
Big name Coach people love or hate
Big money donor/or rabid donor base
Major market East coast
Major market west coast
Las Vegas betting interest
-3 points If team “x” has/is:
Small town outside of SEC
No name Coach
No big donors
No national championships
Small town west of Mississippi River
Small town west of Rockies
Small town north of Mason Dixon Line
Half finished stadium…
This formula will give you the best predictive for preseason rankings and tv scheduling without even looking at the game matchups. It also predicts recruiting ratings for each school.
Shows how incredible Chris Petersen and Dennis Erickson were as coaches, they crashed the party as outsiders. Boise St became an ESPN darling for a decade somehow.
Beavs up to #18 in the Colley Matrix (which is based heavily on SOS and strength of wins).
UW game is absolutely huge. BG will be deciding factor. He played ok vs. Buffs will have to play better vs UW. Bye week comes at perfect time
New thread up for the bye week.