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NCAA Roundup: Husker Fans Seeing Red
Written by
Geeves
Published November 04, 2007
LSU and Alabama went back and forth all night, with current Tiger coach Les Miles and his predecessor, Nick Saban, trading scores left and right. Alabama took the lead with a 62-yard punt return touchdown with 7:30 left in the game, and things began to look bleak for LSU. The Tigers still trailed 34-27 when they took over at their own 16 with just under five minutes left. Then QB Matt Flynn went 6-of-9 passing the ball, and tossed a touchdown to WR Early Doucet on fourth-and-four from Alabama's 32-yard line just past the three minute mark to tie the score. Then the vaunted Tiger defense did the rest. On a drive that began at their own 32-yard line, the Crimson Tide were forced into an incomplete pass, then a run for minus two yards, then a fumble that LSU recovered at the Alabama 3-yard line. The Tiger offense punched it in to take the lead, then weathered the Tide comeback to win.
Oregon took care of Arizona State without much difficulty in what wound up being a rather anti-climactic game, considering it was No. 4 vs. No. 6. Oregon jumped out to a halftime lead of 21-3 and led 35-16 at the end of the third quarter on the strength of four touchdown passes by Heisman darling QB Dennis Dixon, then had Dixon sit out the fourth quarter to rest his injured knee. The defense did the rest, forcing two turnovers inside their own 30-yard line in the fourth quarter to stake a 35-23 victory and first place in the Pac-10.
The AP wire said it best: South Florida took only three weeks to go from a second-ranked team in contention for the national title to a tie with Syracuse for last place in the Big East. The game got off to a rip-roaring start, as South Florida took an interception back 73 yards for a touchdown, then Cincinnati answered with a 63-yard touchdown of their own, and South Florida came back with a 100 yard touchdown on the ensuing kickoff. Four and a half minutes into the game, it was already 14-7 USF. Unfortunately, things only got worse. Cincinnati got a 79-yard interception for a touchdown, then recovered a fumble inside the South Florida 35-yard line and turned it into a touchdown, and by halftime, it was 38-20 Bearcats. The Bulls did their best to fight back, but a first half drive that stalled at the Cincinnati 4-yard line wound up costing them a shot at a win with their late touchdown and (missed) two-point conversion. a 38-33 win for the Bearcats.
Geeves is mainly a critic of the sports and entertainment arena, recently shifting his time and resources away from his own middling blogs and into the Blogcritics realm at something resembling full time. You can catch him in the ACC and Big 10 sections of the BC Tailgate, the NCAA weekly roundup, or over in the TV section in his advertising series called "I Don't Buy It."
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