What I learned in College Football today, Week 1
Aug 31, 2014 0:18:13 GMT -5
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Post by keln on Aug 31, 2014 0:18:13 GMT -5
1. If you pitch the ball in an option play, as long as it barely drifts forward, it is a "forward pass". Even if the quarterback wasn't making any motion that had any intention whatsoever of a forward pass.
2. If you tip a pylon with a football from outside the out-of-bounds, with your knee on the ground, then it is a touchdown. As long as you are doing it against Ohio State. No other instances of that in college football history have ever been a touchdown. But let's make up new rules when beating Ohio State is on the line.
3. If you are the Naval Academy, and you attempt to pass the ball, then the team you are playing is allowed to commit defensive holding on your receivers. It's in the rule book somewhere I am sure.
4. If you beat a previous 9-4 team that goes to bowl games regularly by only seventeen points, then you "just held on, but are struggling".
5. If you beat a previous 10-3 team that goes to bowl games regularly by only 6 points, then you "are gods among men and were clearly in charge of the game the whole time"...as long as you are Florida State.
6. If you are losing to a ranked Big Ten team almost the entire game, and make a pretty cool comeback on them, then you "were never in danger of losing, because all you had to do is show up anyways, being an SEC team. And BTW, that team you beat by a million, or maybe just four points, is a Big Ten team, so they don't even count".
7. Any stadium in the South that is within easy driving distance of an SEC team you are playing is considered "neutral territory". It's a fact, look it up. On an SEC board.
8. ESPN announcers still hate Ohio State. Maybe they were abused by Penn State as children and just got the two schools mixed up.
9. Sportscasters still believe that everyone on a Big Ten team has an automatic 2 seconds added to their 40 times.
10. That 2 seconds is subtracted from every SEC player's 40 time. Even the water boy. SEC speed!
2. If you tip a pylon with a football from outside the out-of-bounds, with your knee on the ground, then it is a touchdown. As long as you are doing it against Ohio State. No other instances of that in college football history have ever been a touchdown. But let's make up new rules when beating Ohio State is on the line.
3. If you are the Naval Academy, and you attempt to pass the ball, then the team you are playing is allowed to commit defensive holding on your receivers. It's in the rule book somewhere I am sure.
4. If you beat a previous 9-4 team that goes to bowl games regularly by only seventeen points, then you "just held on, but are struggling".
5. If you beat a previous 10-3 team that goes to bowl games regularly by only 6 points, then you "are gods among men and were clearly in charge of the game the whole time"...as long as you are Florida State.
6. If you are losing to a ranked Big Ten team almost the entire game, and make a pretty cool comeback on them, then you "were never in danger of losing, because all you had to do is show up anyways, being an SEC team. And BTW, that team you beat by a million, or maybe just four points, is a Big Ten team, so they don't even count".
7. Any stadium in the South that is within easy driving distance of an SEC team you are playing is considered "neutral territory". It's a fact, look it up. On an SEC board.
8. ESPN announcers still hate Ohio State. Maybe they were abused by Penn State as children and just got the two schools mixed up.
9. Sportscasters still believe that everyone on a Big Ten team has an automatic 2 seconds added to their 40 times.
10. That 2 seconds is subtracted from every SEC player's 40 time. Even the water boy. SEC speed!
