Oct 18 | USC

forkbeard3777

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I was thinking about this all of last week. How hard is it to run a Play Action Bootleg, and find Raridon or Faison in the flat?

This play is incredibly difficult to stop in the NFL. I would be shocked if college teams could stop it.
For the life of me, I don’t know why they don’t do a dual RB formation/play call on short yardage situations.

Put Love or Price at QB and in the shotgun and motion the other running back not at QB (or Faison out of the slot) and hand it off or keep it. Arkansas did this with Darren McFadden and Felix Jones and it torched us. In the embedded video, you can see they did it a handful of times and it was unstoppable.

Having solely Love back there as a battering ram is way too predictable. Having Price next to him or Price/Faison running across for a potential handoff would keep the defense honest and would force them to defend the field.

 
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ulukinatme

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It's time for @ulukinatme to post his annual pic.
Shit...I've dropped the ball. Usually I do it when the thread gets created, hopefully the jinx isn't in. It's a win every year I've done it in the past.

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peadeam

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Never, rain yes but not real winter weather. There has been a long standing agreement between Rockne and the USC coach way back when to play in October for nice fall weather so wives can go shopping in Chicago and see the fall colors and when they play out in SoCal it’s November so the wives can go shopping in nice winter weather in Beverly Hills.

Wives SMH…..
Only cold game I remember was 1995
 

NDPhilly

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Somewhat interesting, the spread and moneyline for Tenn at Bama and USC at ND are essentially identical.
 

Some Irish Bloke

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Right outside Marquette! Few and far between in this country!!

I love Marquette
Also love Marquette. S/O Blackrocks brewing! 51K and MyKiss are two of my all time favorite IPAs. I was there in 2020; took a road trip through the UP. they were building the new location so I haven't seen it yet. I was the guy in the ND hat, did you see me? Lol. Love the UP man. Go Irish! Beat USC
 

Some Irish Bloke

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Where is the prediction thread? We're going to pound these losers by 2+ TDs.
Usually post these on Wednesdays and they are up Wednesday afternoon or Thursday, depending on when the threads get approved by mods. I like to give people a few days to transition from the previous game and start digesting some data on the next opponent.
 

InKellyWeTrust

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Usually post these on Wednesdays and they are up Wednesday afternoon or Thursday, depending on when the threads get approved by mods. I like to give people a few days to transition from the previous game and start digesting some data on the next opponent.
It was more of a rhetorical statement, but I appreciate your work on those prediction threads.
 

ACamp1900

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This is all I’ve ever wanted in my life as a ND fan. Violence.
When times aren’t so good with the program I often think back to Bowden lamenting how much more physical ND was than FSU,… and I wish it were just a constant thing. Good news is its far less of a concern lately
 
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