I don't know how many here had a chance to watch Ole Miss-Jax State, but I got it on ESPN Game Plan.
It would be a vast understatement for me to say that it was the most unusual game I've ever seen.
I've honestly never seen so much of a momentum turn around in any football game. And after watching the game in it's entirety I have to think it may possibly be the biggest upset in college football history.
Ole Miss started Nathan Stanley at Quarterback and he looked like Eli Manning to start the game. His first six pass attempts he was 5-6 for 113 yards and three touchdowns. And I'm telling you Ole Miss's receivers were so much bigger and faster than Jacksonville States DB's it wasn't even fair.
They were getting open 10 and fifteen yards for long touchdowns.
And the Ole Miss defense was also downright scary. Big, fast, physical, and totally dominating the Gamecocks who could do absolutely nothing right.
After five minutes of the game I honestly turned to my wife and said.."This could end up 100-0). It truly looked that way.
And then...guess what?? Nutt replaced Stanley with Masoli.
He looked ok, don't get me wrong. He came in with the score 21-3 and actually led the Rebels to ten first half points.
But when he was in the game, Ole Miss went nearly totally to the run and abandoned the long pass attempts Stanley had been so effective with.
It shortened the game time wise, which was a blessing for a worn out and out physicalled Jacksonville State team which literally was getting run out of the stadium.
And you could just sense a vibe when Masoli came in, that the entire team lost something. Very hard to describe. But they went from a bunch of fire breathing dragons to just kind of going through the motions.
Once Jax State had a couple of breaks go their way....it was night and day.
They flat out lined up and ran over that hyped Ole Miss front seven in the second half.
Everyone knows the end result. But the amazing thing to me still, is that Nutt, in the second half rarely played Stanley, and with the game on the line, Masoli was his QB. That was obvious.
End result. Stanley who passed for 113 yards and three touchdowns in the first quarter and a half, ended up with 133 total passing yards.
And Ole Miss didn't attempt another "bomb" after the first quarter.
I don't know what Nutt was thinking but I can tell you right now, if he had of left Stanley in the game, Ole Miss would have won by a score of something like 59-17. Jax State had no answer for him.
But he couldn't beat 'em watching from the sidelines.
Just simply a weird game. I'm fairly good with words, but unless you saw it, it can't be described.
But I'm very happy for the Gamecocks cause I simply don't like Ole Miss..lol...and you have to love Jack Crowe.
But that one yesterday was simply unbelievable.
sip
It would be a vast understatement for me to say that it was the most unusual game I've ever seen.
I've honestly never seen so much of a momentum turn around in any football game. And after watching the game in it's entirety I have to think it may possibly be the biggest upset in college football history.
Ole Miss started Nathan Stanley at Quarterback and he looked like Eli Manning to start the game. His first six pass attempts he was 5-6 for 113 yards and three touchdowns. And I'm telling you Ole Miss's receivers were so much bigger and faster than Jacksonville States DB's it wasn't even fair.
They were getting open 10 and fifteen yards for long touchdowns.
And the Ole Miss defense was also downright scary. Big, fast, physical, and totally dominating the Gamecocks who could do absolutely nothing right.
After five minutes of the game I honestly turned to my wife and said.."This could end up 100-0). It truly looked that way.
And then...guess what?? Nutt replaced Stanley with Masoli.
He looked ok, don't get me wrong. He came in with the score 21-3 and actually led the Rebels to ten first half points.
But when he was in the game, Ole Miss went nearly totally to the run and abandoned the long pass attempts Stanley had been so effective with.
It shortened the game time wise, which was a blessing for a worn out and out physicalled Jacksonville State team which literally was getting run out of the stadium.
And you could just sense a vibe when Masoli came in, that the entire team lost something. Very hard to describe. But they went from a bunch of fire breathing dragons to just kind of going through the motions.
Once Jax State had a couple of breaks go their way....it was night and day.
They flat out lined up and ran over that hyped Ole Miss front seven in the second half.
Everyone knows the end result. But the amazing thing to me still, is that Nutt, in the second half rarely played Stanley, and with the game on the line, Masoli was his QB. That was obvious.
End result. Stanley who passed for 113 yards and three touchdowns in the first quarter and a half, ended up with 133 total passing yards.
And Ole Miss didn't attempt another "bomb" after the first quarter.
I don't know what Nutt was thinking but I can tell you right now, if he had of left Stanley in the game, Ole Miss would have won by a score of something like 59-17. Jax State had no answer for him.
But he couldn't beat 'em watching from the sidelines.
Just simply a weird game. I'm fairly good with words, but unless you saw it, it can't be described.
But I'm very happy for the Gamecocks cause I simply don't like Ole Miss..lol...and you have to love Jack Crowe.
But that one yesterday was simply unbelievable.
sip
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