Two Amazing Games

[silverscreenselect]

1) Texas A&M hosted South Carolina A&M was unbeaten and ranked #3 in the country. South Carolina had won one conference game all year. The first half, everything that could go wrong did go wrong for A&M: two missed field goals; dropped passes; interceptions. South Carolina led 30-3. In the last 20 years, no SEC team had lost a game that they led by 27 or more points (287 straight). So, A&M scores four touchdowns on their first four possessions of the second half and holds on to win 31-30.

2) Georgia Tech went to Boston College. Tech was 8-1; BC had lost nine consecutive games and hadn't won a game against FBS competition all year. So, Tech makes the same mistakes they made the week before against NC State and trailed 28-17 at the end of three quarters. Tech then scored two TDs to take the lead, only to have BC score with four minutes left to go up by one point. Tech then went on a long sustained drive and would up inside the BC 10-yard line as time ran down. BC was out of timeouts, and Tech had fourth down. They could have run the clock down to 2-3 seconds but instead, Coach Key pulled a Mario Cristobal play and called timeout with 14 seconds left. Tech kicked the FG to take the lead but BC had a chance after the kickoff with a Hail Mary throw on the last play of the game. Fortunately, it was short and incomplete and Tech won 36-34.

Next week, Tech plays Pitt at home and I'll be there. Pitt got clobbered at home by Notre Dame this week. If Tech wins, they're in the ACC championship game, probably against Virginia (if VA wins their last game against Virginia Tech, they're in the championship as well).

[Beebs52]

And OU beat Alabama. There's that

[BackInTex]

1) Texas A&M hosted South Carolina A&M was unbeaten and ranked #3 in the country. South Carolina had won one conference game all year. The first half, everything that could go wrong did go wrong for A&M: two missed field goals; dropped passes; interceptions. South Carolina led 30-3. In the last 20 years, no SEC team had lost a game that they led by 27 or more points (287 straight). So, A&M scores four touchdowns on their first four possessions of the second half and holds on to win 31-30.

I watched the first half. We needed some more Command Strip sticky things to finish putting up the Christmas lights (yeah, I know it's too early, but sue me). Round trip to Walmart, including the shopping is 1 hour. I didn't want to waste my hour watching us lose,so I left at the start of the 2nd half. By the time I got to Wal-mart we had scored two touch downs. When I got back to the car, we had scored another. By the time I got home we scored another and were leading. Rather than watch the rest of the game I decided to continue listening to it on the radio while I put put the Command Strips on the windows. Not until the game was over, and it wasn't over until it was over, did I go back in an watch some of the scoring drives. I did not want to change anything, not that I'm superstitious or anything.

[Beebs52]

And OU beat Alabama. There's that

And there's that...heh heh heh.