SnoTap College Football Try Week 9

After a couple weeks of doing some different stuff with college football, we are back with College Football Try basically talking about different things that happened during Saturday's slate of games. 

Oh, Missouri - The hype about the Tigers seemed to be real as we reached halftime in their game against South Carolina. Missouri had 17 point advantage at halftime against South Carolina and seemed like they were in complete control. Conner Shaw did his best 'Walt Frazier' impression and came into the game to lead the Cocks back with 17 unanswered to force overtime. Missouri tries to hold on, but Andrew Baggett, the kicker for Missouri, clanked a 24-yard field goal. It is a heartbreaker for the Tigers and a dent to their SEC East chances yet they are still in a good position to make it to Atlanta. The real question is how Missour responds from this on Saturday against Tennessee at home.

Oklahoma powers its way past Texas Tech - I came away truly impressed with Oklahoma. I changed course on Texas Tech this week and worried about Oklahoma's offense which proved to be wrong. The combination of Damien Williams, Ray Finch, Blake Bell and Brennan Clay rushed for over 250 yards and a major reason why Oklahoma was able to defeat the Red Raiders. This should not be a detrimental loss for Texas Tech though. They seem well on their way to be a perennial top 15 team. Davis Webb is a good true freshman quarterback. He will get much better under Kliff Kingsbury.

Oregon's defense gets simply no respect - Everyone can trip over themselves talking about Oregon's offense because they have dynamic players like Marcus Mariota and De'Anthony Thomas yet no one stops to talk about this defense. They held UCLA at bay for most of the game and UCLA took advantage of short fields with turnovers. Oregon has a very talented corner in Ifo Ekpre-Olomu as well other great players on this Oregon's defense. Ekpre-Olomu and the Ducks secondary held Brett Hundley to only 69 yards of passing. He is one of the best quarterbacks in the nation and Oregon is outchea doing that?!  They get no love.

THA DUKIES BABYYYYYYY - David Cutcliffe might be a wizard. He found his groove at Duke University making the Blue Devils bowl-eligible for the second consecutive year and having his team knock off Virginia Tech for the first time since 1981 and their first win against a top 25 opponent since 1994.  They did not complete a pass in the second half and still won the game which speaks to their great defense.  Bad Logan Thomas came to play in a major way as Duke picked him off four times. Looking ahead, Duke has a pretty interesting home game against Miami in two weeks that looks a lot better than the beginning of the year.

Ohio State proves once again, the B1G sucks - I hate to bang this drum again, but Ohio State beating Penn State by 49 points says so much more about how inferior the Big Ten is to the rest of the conferences in college football. We cannot get a full gauge on Ohio State until we see them against real opponents. The same can be said for Wisconsin, Michigan State and anyone else playing well in the Big Ten right now. I just cannot go to back for this conference until I start seeing more balance across the board.

Miami looks ahead, and still gets by Wake - This would have been very bad for Miami. They clearly had visions of Florida State in their mind as they head to Tallahassee this week.  The fact they have needed a last-second drive to beat Wake Forest at home and had to survive North Carolina the prior week, we could be looking at the biggest paper tiger not named Ohio State in the top ten.

Bo Pelini's seat is getting warmer - It is time to start wondering if Bo Pelini will have a job in December that begins with 'head coach' because let's be honest, he gets a top notch defensive coordinator job if he were fired with maybe Alabama if Kirby Smart leaves (Oh my god Saban and Pelini would be terrifying personality wise) or Texas. Pelini's bunch has road games against Michigan and Penn State plus a home game against Michigan State that might decide his fate. The whole voicemail and negative talk about Tommie Frazier does not help his case either.

Charlie.