Taysom Hill Fractures Leg Vs. Utah State

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BYU was supposed to be one of those possible gate crashers to the college football playoffs party, but the injury to all-world QB Taysom Hill might have just crashed that idea for this year.

In tonight's game against Utah State, he was dragged down and it wasn't pretty...

Here's the injury


After initially being told the injury was to an ankle, the school confirmed it was a fracture.
Christian Stewart is now in charge for the foreseeable future...

MAC 0-2 Yesterday With Northern Illinois And Bowling Green

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Both games went to the end, but in the end, both MAC squads were season-ending losers yesterday in Detroit and San Diego...

Let's start with the back and forth game in Detroit where FOSG Niki Noto was patrolling the sidelines...

James Conner rushed for 229 yards and even played some rush defensive line in the final series as Pitt finishes 7-6 after a 30-27 win over Bowling Green at Ford Field. Conner broke the record of Tony Dorsett for yards in a bowl game as head coach Paul Chryst played 60 minutes of smash-mouth against the Falcons.

"After the last game, Coach told me they wanted to unleash me on both sides of the ball, so I've been getting a lot of reps both ways," Conner said postgame. "I was pretty tired by the end, but I wasn't going to tap out. They kept giving me the ball, so I just kept running."

Here's your highlights...


The nightcap was in San Diego- and, for the record, the flower is pronounced "point-set-uh..." everyone...

Not "poin-set-e-uh..."

And Jordan Lynch was put up against a top-10 NCAA defense in Utah State that had to rely on its defense with the injury to talented QB Chuckie Keaton. The Aggies held the Huskies to 99 yards rushing and won 21-14 over the 23rd ranked team in the country.

Aggies running back Joey DeMartino had 23 carries for 143 yards and a TD. Safety Brian Suite intercepted a pass and recovered a Jordan Lynch fumble. Lynch finished 80 yards short of 2,000 yards on the year. He could have become the first QB in NCAA D1 history to pass and run for 2,000 each in a season.

Here's your mainly defensive highlights...

So Much For Living In The Present

Okay...

Full disclosure...

TBH told us about this one...

You're all aware that Auburn survived their shootout with Washington State at home, but this was the boxscore they used in the Dothan Eagle newspaper...

First, to show you we're not messing with you and that it isn't a work on our part...
Here's the date...

And here's the box score...
Notice everything goes wrong starting with the opponent...

The HQ has heard about living in the past, but this is a bit much...
And rubbing it in to the Aggies one more time...???

C'mon, man...

Utah Comes From Behind To Defeat Rival Utah State

In the third quarter Utah was down 23-14 to Utah State and it looked as if the Aggies would win their second in a row over the Utes.

That didn't happen.  Utah quarterback Travis Wilson led the Utes to four scoring drives in the second half in their 30-26 win over the Aggies.







“The team responded well tonight" Utah quarterback Travis Wilson said. We never doubted ourselves and kept our confidence up. We were able to make some big plays downfield that set us up well for our touchdowns.”

Wilson threw for 302 yards against Utah State, only the second time in his career.

 Our guys showed resiliency, especially after getting down 23-14, we didn’t fold and kept fighting." Utah head coach Kyle Whittingham said.  "In the end it was just enough to get the win.”

OSG COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Thursday Night Previews

North Carolina at South Carolina

Forget about Jadeveon Clowney, all eyes will be on North Carolina's offensive tackle James Hurst who will be matched up on Clowney.

"Obviously it's the biggest match-up in my college career." Hurst said.  "I do think about it all the time.  Everytime I do a football activity it's related to that match-up."

Hurst is one of the best offensive lineman in the ACC and is on the pre-season Outland and Lombardi trophy watch lists.  Thursday night he's going up against a freak of nature.

South Carolina will win this battle.

Ole Miss at Vanderbilt

This game should be appointment TV for your Thursday night.  Ole Miss and Vandy are two teams who a eager to have a seat at the big boy table within the SEC.

Ole Miss head coach Hugh Freeze will try to run as many plays as possible on offense and gas the Commodore defense.  You can bet Vanderbilt head coach James Franklin will be in the ear of an SEC official making sure the Rebel offense doesn't have an advantage.

"When the ball is snapped I want everyone set." Franklin said.  "We went back and looked at (film of game vs) Ole Miss last year and there were probably 10 to 12 plays we they snapped the ball their offense wasn't set. The officials had a hard time keeping up with the pace to get into position to do that."

"So as long as everyone is playing by the same rules and this isn't Canadian football where people are running toward the line of scrimmage when they snap the football, I'm good with that."

Franklin would be good with a loss and that's what should happen.  Ole Miss will get it done in Music City.

USC at Hawaii

Southern Cal quarterbacks Max Wittek and Cody Kessler will play against Hawaii.  This should be a Trojan blowout.

Utah State at Utah

If your looking for a Thursday night upset this might be the one. Last year Utah State won in Logan.

"Utah State is a very good opponent." Utah head coach Kyle Whittingham said. "They have most everyone back. They have a new head coach and a lot of the same assistant staff. We expect that they are going to be every bit as good as last year and we have a big challenge ahead of us."

Those of us in the OSG HQ are calling and upset.  Utah State makes it two in a row over the Utes.

Where's The Offense? BYU Over Utah State 6-3

Talk about a contrast in college football last Saturday we were treated to the West Virginia – Baylor game that ended up 70-63 and you wondered if anyone played defense.

Friday night BYU defeated Utah State 6-3 and now you wonder what happened to the offenses.  Heck this is a score you expect from the defensive dominant SEC than out west where the offenses are known to explode.

Those of us are old enough to remember when BYU put a lot of points on the board and put up some ridiculous offensive yards.  1946 was the last time the Cougars won a game scoring six points.

This was a game that featured more punts (13) than total points (9).

The only touchdown of the game was Taysom Hill’s three yard pass to JD Falslev in the second quarter.

I think I lost a couple years off my life because of the stress, but any way you get a win, we come out smiling.”  BYU defensive back Preston Hadley said.

“It was a fantastic game and an excellent rivalry game.” BYU head coach Bronco Mendenhall said. “We are lucky, and I’m glad that we won. I’m fortunate to coach this team.”

Here’s the highlights.  (Thanks BYU-TV Sports)

 

Utah State Upsets Wynn-less Utah

We had a real bona-fide upset between two in state rivals Friday night in Logan, Utah.

Aggie running back Kerwynn Williams plunged into the end zone from a 1 yard to give Utah State at 27-20 overtime win over the Utes- Utah State’s first win over Utah in 12 years.

“It was an amazing job by a tough-minded group of kids,” said Aggies Utah State head coach Gary Andersen, “... I don’t have a lot to say. I guess I’m kind of speechless on this one.... It’s a great day to be an Aggie and I’m just proud to be those kids’ head coach..”

Anderson spent 11 years as an assistant at Utah before taking over at Utah State.

"They out coached us, both sides of the ball and special teams. They played harder than we did. It was even a miracle that we were in the game after our first-half performance." -Utah head coach Kyle Whittingham said after the game.

While the Utes lost the game they may have lost more. Ute quarterback Jordon Wynn left the game in the second quarter with an injury to his non-throwing arm following a hard hit. It was the same injury that ended Wynn’s season last year.

Jon Hayes replaced Wynn and went 12-26 passing for 154 yards and one touchdown.

Here’s a game reports from KSL-TV Salt Lake City, UT

WAC Hemorrhaging Members- May Be Down To 4 Soon...

Utah State and San Jose State are now heading to the Mountain West Conference in time for the 2013-14 season...

These two are supposed to replace San Diego State and (wait for it) Boise State. But, "Wait a minute" you say, "I thought Boise was heading to the WAC...?"

Yes, that is true...
For now...

SDSU is going into the Big East and Boise wants to bail into the Big West Conference now for everything except football since everyone is leaving the WAC and Boise doesn't want to hang around for the death sentence.

You've seen the Texas State story below. And now with the egress of Louisiana Tech and UTSA to Conference USA and the idea of Texas-Arlington moving to the Sun Belt to replace the Louisiana schools moving to the new ConfUSA, all that's left would be Idaho, New Mexico State, Denver, and Seattle.

And the last two don't have all the big money sports...

Got all that...???

Winners... The Mountain West, Conference USA, and Sun Belt groups- simply because they survived...