What a terrible football game. 7 turnovers at last count in the FIRST HALF.

8 turnovers, 17 flags..... :laugh:

USFBullSpit Wrote:8 turnovers, 17 flags..... :laugh:

Who cares, it is C-USA. We have much bigger fish to fry like Oregon State, Maryland, Nebraska, Georgia Tech ect. ect.

What's the NCAA I-A record for turnovers in a game? With a UH fumble we are now at 9 total with 26 minutes left to play. You know its bad when your points equal the number of turnovers recovered from the other team (UTEP at 5).

CollegeCard Wrote:What's the NCAA I-A record for turnovers in a game? With a UH fumble we are now at 9 total with 26 minutes left to play. You know its bad when your points equal the number of turnovers recovered from the other team (UTEP at 5).

Now UTEP's winning 34-26. Top Coog would never live that down - a team playing so damn bad, yet still beating his team :laugh:

shanked FG just the icing on the cake

Game ends on a....yeah you guessed it, Kevin Kolb INT! 5 interceptions on the night. Really having trouble coming up with a more overated QB right now. 8 INT's on the season in 3 games.

CollegeCard Wrote:Game ends on a....yeah you guessed it, Kevin Kolb INT! 5 interceptions on the night. Really having trouble coming up with a more overated QB right now. 8 INT's on the season in 3 games.

You shouldn't have trouble CollegeCard. His name is Palko.

St. Patrick Eagle Wrote:

CollegeCard Wrote:Game ends on a....yeah you guessed it, Kevin Kolb INT! 5 interceptions on the night. Really having trouble coming up with a more overated QB right now. 8 INT's on the season in 3 games.

You shouldn't have trouble CollegeCard. His name is Palko.

his name is mud.

do you guys not appreciate any football outside the big east?? it just seems like a regular thing to me that every time two teams from a non bcs conference play on tv, there is a thread on here about how much the game sucked.

i thought it was a pretty exciting game. both florida state and miami were pretty accident prone whenever i've seen them this year as well. whenever a team has a wide open spread offense, which both utep and houston do, they are more prone to committ turnovers. yes, there were several interceptions and turnovers, but both quarterbacks threw something like sixty pass attempts. when teams aren't conservative, they are naturally going to turn it over a lot more.

xubrew Wrote:do you guys not appreciate any football outside the big east??  it just seems like a regular thing to me that every time two teams from a non bcs conference play on tv, there is a thread on here about how much the game sucked.

i thought it was a pretty exciting game.  both florida state and miami were pretty accident prone whenever i've seen them this year as well.  whenever a team has a wide open spread offense, which both utep and houston do, they are more prone to committ turnovers.  yes, there were several interceptions and turnovers, but both quarterbacks threw something like sixty pass attempts.  when teams aren't conservative, they are naturally going to turn it over a lot more.

well, there's exciting, good football, and there's exciting utep vs. houston football. the game ended on what, the 10th turnover? in overtime?

No, that game pretty much just sucked until the 4th quarter. I'd say hands down the worst TV game of the year sloppiness wise. I mean come on, 26 penalties I believe. 10 turnovers. Houston pretty much is incapable of punting the ball. Briles can't coach. The 4th quarter was exciting since it was close. I would say the same thing if this game had been a BE game.


As for Kolb, Palko has been at least just as bad. At least for Palko his new coach is forcing him to play to a new style that is the opposite of his strengths. Kolb is throwing 8 INT's in the system he's been in since he was 15 according to the announcers.

yes, but the point is that houston does not exactly play a conservative brand of offense.

collegecard, do you not remember when john l. smith coached louisville?? he was (and in some ways still is) the king of non conservative football. i saw many a game that louisville played that very much resembled the one we saw tonight.

houston didn't exactly play like worldbeaters last year. they won three games. utep is anything but conservative as well. i don't know what else people expected to see. i could have told you before it started that it would be a wild game with lots of offense, lots of passing yards, and lots of turnovers. what i don't get is why everyone seems to want to comment on how much the game sucked. people were saying the same thing about yesterday's game between tcu and utah as well.

xubrew Wrote:yes, but the point is that houston does not exactly play a conservative brand of offense.

collegecard, do you not remember when john l. smith coached louisville??  he was (and in some ways still is) the king of non conservative football.  i saw many a game that louisville played that very much resembled the one we saw tonight.

houston didn't exactly play like worldbeaters last year.  they won three games.  utep is anything but conservative as well.  i don't know what else people expected to see.  i could have told you before it started that it would be a wild game with lots of offense, lots of passing yards, and lots of turnovers.  what i don't get is why everyone seems to want to comment on how much the game sucked.  people were saying the same thing about yesterday's game between tcu and utah as well.

I don't think UofL has ever had a QB throw 5 INT's in a game. I'm sure we might have once or twice but I don't remember a game with 5 turnovers for us. Additionally, UofL under Smith was horrible about penalties, and even the year we led the nation in penalties we would have been put to shame by this game. I didn't think it needed to be explained but I won't be surprised if the 26 penalties tonight ends up the most in any game all year long. And passing downfield a lot doesn't mean you necessarily have to keep throwing it to the other team.

It doesn't mean both teams are bad. In fact, I figured even pre-season that UTEP would win the West. Still think they likely will.

I'm not gonna put lipstick on a pig of a game. Simple as that.

To be fair - this turned into a very exciting football game. YEs, I started the thread - and you have to admit the first half was just plain awful.

But it got a lot better in the second half and turned out to be a good game.

The QB play in that game was a joke. Wow.

xubrew Wrote:do you guys not appreciate any football outside the big east??  it just seems like a regular thing to me that every time two teams from a non bcs conference play on tv, there is a thread on here about how much the game sucked.

What about the fact that, every time a Big East football game is on TV, threads are started on CUSA, MAC, and MWC boards, and sometimes even on ACC boards, about how badly the Big East allegedly sucks?

I guarantee a simple search would show you at least four times as many threads on the CUSA and MWC boards, especially, slamming the Big East's games in general and the Big East's everything in particular.