NCAA Week 11

Minnesota-Iowa may have more points than Georgia-Auburn.

 

Of course Iowa wins. Iowa only exists to ruin shit for people -- see Michigan in 2016 and Ohio State in 2017.

 

Oh, I've been watching Hawkeye football for almost 30 years. There's been many years with more inept offenses than this year's version.

(your point still stands. Iowa's not a top-25 team)

 

maybe Pitt and Iowa can match up in the Pinstripe bowl. We can meet up at get drunk before watching this 6-3 barnburner.

 

That would be a classic "bet the under" game. On both points scored and announced attendance.

 

Only over would be my blood pressure watching our flea bag offense commit multiple turnovers again.

 

Meanwhile in the Pac-12 ... they're just gonna Pac-12.
Canzano: Pac-12 officiating blunder is a symptom -- conference needs a total reboot

 

I have an acquaintance who was a Pac-12 white hat. Two years ago they offered him a position on the video replay team. He didn't want to stop reffing, but decided to take the offer because he didn't know if it would still be available in a couple of years when he wanted to leave the field. He is in his mid-60s. We talked about this about a month ago. I told him I'd read all of Canzano's stories, etc. He said, "Canzano is 99.9 percent correct."

 

So he was still an on-field ref in his early 60s? I've never paid attention to how old refs appear to be, but that seems really old to be reffing any college games.

 

Larry Scott seems like a guy who would have been great at Gannett - couple of buzzwords, an initiative or two and a roomfull of bewildered staffers.

 

Yes. He is in good shape and had no trouble keeping up with the play. Obviously, the white hat is in the backfield most of the time and doesn't do a lot of running, but his age was never an issue. He did tell me a couple of years ago that the league wanted the on-camera refs (white hats) to be younger, more buff, and, uh, they wanted more diversity.