NCAA 2014 NCAA - Week 14: Nov 26-30 [Thanksgiving]

[aussiedude]

TV Schedule


Wendsday November 26th
College Football Playoff: Top 25 LIVE 11AM ESPN
Ohio Vs Miami [Ohio] LIVE 11AM ESPN2

Friday November 28th
LSU Vs Texas A&M LIVE 11:30AM ESPN [Replay 9PM ESPN]

Saturday November 29th
Nebraska Vs Iowa LIVE 4AM ESPN
UCF Vs South Florida LIVE 4AM ESPN2
Stanford Vs #8 UCLA LIVE 7:30AM ESPN [Replay 9PM ESPN]

Virginia Vs Virginia Tech DELAY 7PM ESPN2

Sunday November 30th
College Gameday LIVE from Tuscaloosa, Alabama 1AM ESPN
Michigan Vs #6 Ohio State LIVE 4AM ESPN [Replay 10PM ESPN2]
South Carolina Vs #21 Clemson LIVE 4AM ESPN2
#8 Baylor Vs Texas Tech LIVE 7:30AM ESPN
Florida Vs #3 Florida State LIVE 7:30AM ESPN2 [Replay 12AM Monday Dec 1 ESPN2]
#15 Auburn Vs #1 Alabama LIVE 11:45AM ESPN2 [Replay 8PM ESPN]

College Football Final DELAY Monday Dec 1 2AM ESPN2

#2 Oregon Vs Oregon State DELAY Monday Dec 1, 11PM ESPN

Internet Subscriptions
Sunday November 30th
Purdue Vs Indiana 4AM BTN2GO International
BYU Vs California 6AM Pac-12 Networks
#18 Minnesota Vs #14 Wisconsin 7:30AM BTN2GO International
#25 Utah Vs Colorado 8:30AM Pac-12 Networks

ESPN Films
SEC Storied: Its Time. Sunday Nov 23 8PM ESPN, Tuesday Nov 25 10PM ESPN,
ESPN 30 for 30: Youngstown Boys Saturday Nov 29 2AM ESPN2
ESPN Films: Roll Tide/War Eagle. Sunday Nov 30 3PM ESPN, Sunday Nov 30 7PM ESPN2
SEC Storied: Bo, Barkley and the big hurt. Sunday Nov 30 8PM ESPN
SEC Storied: The Stars are Aligned Sunday Nov 30 9PM ESPN


* Its one of the best weekends of college football, Thanksgiving weekend. Full of rival games and many teams the last chance to become bowl eligible or improve Bowling prospects.

* We all expect Gameday will be at the Iron Bowl

* Some of the Delay games will end up being replays

 

[aussiedude]

Playoff Top 25

01. Alabama
02. Oregon
03. Florida State
04. Mississippi State

05. TCU
06. Ohio State

07. Baylor
08. UCLA
09. Georgia
10. Michigan State
11. Arizona
12. Kansas State
13. Arizona State
14. Wisconsin
15. Auburn
16. Georgia Tech
17. Missouri
18. Minnesota
19. Ole Miss
20. Oklahoma
21. Clemson
22. Louisville
23. Boise State
24. Marshal
25. Utah


AP Top 25

01. Alabama
02. Florida State
03. Oregon
04. Mississippi State
05. Baylor
06. TCU
07. Ohio State
08. Georgia
09. UCLA
10. Michigan State
11. Kansas State
12. Arizona
13. Arizona State
14. Wisconsin
15. Auburn
16. Georgia Tech
17. Missouri
18. Ole Miss
19. Marshal
20. Oklahoma
21. Colorado State
22. Minnesota
23. Clemson
24. Louisville
25. Boise State

 

[aussiedude]

Bowl Eligible Teams:

SEC:
East: Missouri, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina
West: Alabama, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Auburn, Texas A&M, LSU, Arkansas


Pac-12:
North: Oregon, Stanford
South: Arizona State, USC, Arizona, UCLA, Utah

Big12:
TCU, Kansas State, Baylor, Oklahoma, Texas, West Virginia

ACC:
Atlantic: Florida State, Clemson, Louisville, Boston College, North Carolina State
Coastal: Georgia Tech, North Carolina, Duke, Miami [Fl]

Big10:
East: Ohio State, Michigan State, Maryland, Penn State, Rutgers
West: Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa

Independents:
Notre Dame, BYU

Mountain West:
West: San Diego State, Nevada
Mountain: Colorado State, Utah State, Boise State, Air Force

American Athletic:
Memphis, UCF, Cincinnati, East Carolina, Houston

C-USA:
East: Marshal, Western Kentucky
West: Louisiana Tech, Rice, UTEP,

MAC:
East: Bowling Green
West: Northern Illinois, Toledo, Western Michigan, Central Michigan

Sun Belt:
Georgia Southern, Louisiana-Lafayette, Appalachian State, South Alabama, Texas State, Arkansas State



* Michigan need to beat Ohio State to become Bowl eligible
* The winner of Northwestern Vs Illinois will become Bowl eligible

 

[nobbyiscool]

I love next week!

It's a shame I'm away for a wedding and won't be able to watch the Saturday games

I'm not a fan of Auburn or Alabama, but I have a couple of days off work before going away - I'd love to try and find the time to watch last years Iron Bowl again!

 

[Dirty Bird]

70% Iron Bowl
20% Egg Bowl
10% Wisconsin-Minnesota

 

[aussiedude]

what a surprise another FSU game

 

[Dirty Bird]

Who are you kidding.
When they lose you'll be loving the game

 

[aussiedude]

Who are you kidding.
When they lose you'll be loving the game

Yeah but they wont drop one to the Gators. i was shocked they were a 6 win team, i thought 3-4 wins.

Based on how teams have been able to run on FSU lately i can see GT testing them, but i think GT are still a one trick team and wont test them enough with the pass. Miami was the last team i thought could test them, BC played good yesterday just not as good as they did when they upset USC early in the season.

 

[aussiedude]

big get for BTN with ESPN not picking up Minnesota/Wisconsin, since i think the winner go the the B10 championship game.

 

[Dirty Bird]

Yeah but they wont drop one to the Gators. i was shocked they were a 6 win team, i thought 3-4 wins.

Based on how teams have been able to run on FSU lately i can see GT testing them, but i think GT are still a one trick team and wont test them enough with the pass. Miami was the last team i thought could test them, BC played good yesterday just not as good as they did when they upset USC early in the season.

The triple option in itself is a 3 trick pony....

 

[U2tigers]

The triple option in itself is a 3 trick pony....

I was going to say the same. GTwould definately be hard to match up on for a defense.

 

[Dirty Bird]

I was going to say the same. GTwould definately be hard to match up on for a defense.

It's interesting that there's more teams running it now.
Was only Army, Navy and Air Force. Then Georgia Tech brought it in. Now New Mexico and Georgia Southern employ it.

If you're not ready, you can be ****ed. New Mexico put 42 up on Boise State a few weeks back in 1 half alone.

 

[Richo is God]

Too many channels to watch. I'll be at DKR on thanksgiving. Ucla/usc tailgate was awesome but I'm expecting bigger and better for the horns

 

[Dirty Bird]

Didn't expect that.
BOISE!

 

[Dirty Bird]

Just looking at the big 6 bowls atm.

Here's what I'm thinking

Rose Bowl - Oregon vs Florida State
Sugar Bowl - Alabama vs Ohio State.

Fiesta - TCU vs Arizona
Cotton - Baylor vs Boise State
Orange - Mississippi State vs Michigan State
Peach - Georgia vs UCLA

1. This is based on Ohio State getting the nod over Baylor (I suspect they may send a message to the Big XII to add a conference championship game.
2. TCU and Baylor are interchangeable
3. Michigan State and UCLA are interchangeable

If they go with Baylor #4 and Ohio State #5. I think they'll make it Boise State vs Arizona in the Fiesta and TCU vs Ohio State in the Cotton.

 

[Richo is God]

Holy s**t tomorrow will be crazy at DKR. Can't wait

 

[U2tigers]

Just looking at the big 6 bowls atm.

Here's what I'm thinking

Rose Bowl - Oregon vs Florida State
Sugar Bowl - Alabama vs Ohio State.

Fiesta - TCU vs Arizona
Cotton - Baylor vs Boise State
Orange - Mississippi State vs Michigan State
Peach - Georgia vs UCLA

1. This is based on Ohio State getting the nod over Baylor (I suspect they may send a message to the Big XII to add a conference championship game.
2. TCU and Baylor are interchangeable
3. Michigan State and UCLA are interchangeable

If they go with Baylor #4 and Ohio State #5. I think they'll make it Boise State vs Arizona in the Fiesta and TCU vs Ohio State in the Cotton.

Due to bias I reckon you should have Georgia/Missouri vs UCLA - I acknowledge Georgia is better/higher profile then Mizzou but surely if Mizzou win this week, they jump Georgia, for the fact they play in the SEC championship game, let alone if they win that as well.

Not enough love for Mizzou out there IMO - Surely the loss to Indiana can't have that much of a say. (Georgia loss was bad though - although thats quality opposition)

 

[aussiedude]

Due to bias I reckon you should have Georgia/Missouri vs UCLA - I acknowledge Georgia is better/higher profile then Mizzou but surely if Mizzou win this week, they jump Georgia, for the fact they play in the SEC championship game, let alone if they win that as well.

Not enough love for Mizzou out there IMO - Surely the loss to Indiana can't have that much of a say. (Georgia loss was bad though - although thats quality opposition)

for the Big 6 bowls the tie breaker is Playoff ranking, Georgia is higher. Mizzou wont move up 6 spots this week, and then if they lose in the SEC title game they will drop below Georgia again.

The other bowls they can pick teams based on things like fan base, providing the teams conference has a deal with the bowl.

 

[Dirty Bird]

Due to bias I reckon you should have Georgia/Missouri vs UCLA - I acknowledge Georgia is better/higher profile then Mizzou but surely if Mizzou win this week, they jump Georgia, for the fact they play in the SEC championship game, let alone if they win that as well.

Not enough love for Mizzou out there IMO - Surely the loss to Indiana can't have that much of a say. (Georgia loss was bad though - although thats quality opposition)

I'm thinking a loss to Alabama in the SEC Championship will knock you down below them in the pecking order.

 

[Dirty Bird]

A&M robbed.

 

[Dirty Bird]

I know I'm against putting whole stories on here, but I don't know what segment to put in as it's a sad story.

http://www.idahostatesman.com/2014/11/27/3510984/that-dudes-a-fighter.html?sp=/99/1687/&ihp=1

Boise State's Ioane continues to play football as he awaits kidney transplant
The senior needs a new kidney. First, he wants to play his final games as a Bronco.

His urine was the color of cola.
That's how Boise State football athletic trainer Jim Spooner discovered safety Jeremy Ioane was sick.
Spooner conducted a random drug test in the summer of 2012, shortly before Ioane emerged as one of the best players on the Broncos' team.
What followed has challenged Ioane, Spooner and the coaching staff to handle an exceedingly rare situation: Ioane has played college football at a high level while fighting a disease that has decimated his kidneys.
He recently was placed on a list for a kidney transplant - the estimated wait is up to three years - but Ioane hopes instead to receive a kidney from a family member. His mom, Doris, has started the donor-matching process, which takes four to six weeks, through the University of Utah. His twin sister, Jasmine, also offered to donate, but the family prefers to retain her as a future option in case Ioane needs a second transplant, Doris said.
The surgery likely will take place next year. Ioane's kidney function is down to 1 percent.
"I am kind of looking forward to doing the surgery," Ioane said this week in an exclusive interview with the Idaho Statesman. "But I guess right now it's more day-to-day - what can I do so that I feel better tomorrow?"
For that, Ioane connects a catheter in his abdomen to a dialysis machine by his bedside each night. For 8-10 hours, the machine does the work his failing kidneys can't - ridding his body of waste.
"Without dialysis, he would not be alive," said Dr. Michael Adcox, Ioane's nephrologist.
Ioane practices when he can, works out when he can, attends meetings when he can.
He worked through drills at practice Tuesday, the first day of the Broncos' game-week practices, and was a full participant in Wednesday's practice. Coaches are optimistic he will be able to play Saturday night against Utah State - it's a critical game for a team with Mountain West championship and major-bowl aspirations, and it's also Senior Night.
Ioane, who is from Honolulu, expects about 40 friends and family members to attend the game.
His parents and three of his five siblings moved here in November 2012 after the birth of Ioane's son. About 30 people are traveling from Hawaii this week.
Ioane skipped last week's trip to Wyoming to increase his chances of playing this week but has needed to supplement his dialysis with six-hour sessions at a dialysis center in the past week. He also has tried to find the right formula with his medications to make sure he has the necessary energy.
"Hopefully I feel the best that I've been for the longest time," he said. "And hopefully I go out there and just make my family proud."
Ioane's illness has been a closely held secret in the Boise State football program for more than two years. He is a private person - he didn't inform the trainers when the miscolored urine first appeared - and was publicity-averse even when he was healthy. Some of his teammates still don't know the extent of his disease, and some of his close friends didn't find out until his condition worsened in May.
Coaches encouraged Ioane to tell his story publicly this week to put his Boise State career in the proper context as he's honored at Saturday's game alongside 10 other seniors.
"The thing this shows is how tough, No. 1, he is. No. 2, how much he cares about this program," defensive backs coach Julius Brown said. "… I don't know how many kids could go through everything he's gone through every night, every day, every week and still find the energy to get yourself to play a Division I college football game on Saturday."
'VERY RARE DISORDER'
Doctors diagnosed Ioane with IgA nephropathy after a kidney biopsy in the summer of 2012. The disease occurs when abnormal deposits of the protein IgA collect in the filtering units of the kidneys.
Ioane is Samoan and Hawaiian. The Polynesian community has a higher occurrence of the disease, Spooner said, but Ioane's diagnosis still was unusual.
"It's a very rare disorder that typically is not found in the young population," Spooner said. "It's usually in people who are 50-plus."
Ioane spent his sophomore season trying to slow the disease's progress. He received monthly chemotherapy treatments while starting all 13 games, earning All-Mountain West honorable mention, finishing second on the team with 70 tackles and grabbing three interceptions, including a touchdown return against Michigan State.
The treatment kept the disease at bay during the 2013 season, when Ioane was able to stop chemotherapy.
He started 12 games - he missed one game with an unrelated injury - and was named to the All-MW second team with 59 tackles. Coaches around the conference noted his physical style.
The Broncos' new coaching staff - hired in December 2013 after coach Chris Petersen and most of his staff left for Washington - was eager to reunite with Ioane. Coach Bryan Harsin, defensive coordinator Marcel Yates and Brown were part of the staff that signed him in 2010. Ioane chose Boise State over Notre Dame and Washington despite a recruiting trip that included a flight diverted to Idaho Falls and a bus ride to Boise - still one of the biggest recruiting victories in program history.
When Harsin arrived, he met with staff members from every area of the football program. Spooner gave him the rundown on the team, then - knowing Harsin had been through a string of meetings - told him he needed to pay extra attention to the last name on the list: Ioane.
Harsin's first question was whether Ioane could play safely with his disease. Convinced of that, he was determined to get him on the field.
"No way in hell am I going to stop him from doing what he wants to do if he can play," Harsin said.
WORRIED ABOUT FOOTBALL
Ioane was a full participant in spring practices in March and April, but by May his health was sliding.
Adcox told him he needed a transplant and recommended he do it soon, before he needed dialysis. But that would have cost Ioane his senior season at Boise State.
Adcox offered dialysis as a bridge to cover football season.
"He never gave me any room to not play football," Adcox said.
Adcox has worried about potential risks of Ioane playing football "ever since I met the guy," he said. He referred Ioane to a specialist in Seattle in the summer of 2013 for a second opinion on the situation.
Among Adcox's concerns were weaker bones caused by medication and other issues related to Ioane's treatment but not directly connected to the disease. For example: He wondered whether Ioane would be susceptible to injury as a "suboptimal performer" because of his lack of training and practice time.
"This is uncharted territory," Adcox said. "The easiest thing for me would have been to say, 'You can't play.' I just knew we had to give him the opportunity."
Adcox, Spooner and Ioane came up with a plan to keep Ioane on the blue turf for one more season - a plan updated frequently with new information.
A catheter, a long tube, was inserted into Ioane's abdomen in May. It is taped down with a pad when he plays and doesn't pose any risk, Spooner said.
At night, Ioane connects the tube to a cycler to perform automated peritoneal dialysis. Fluid is pumped into an abdominal area rich with blood vessels. Extra fluid and waste is drawn out of his blood and removed.
He also takes daily medication, gets weekly shots and deals with an array of side effects that include light-headedness, dizziness, dehydration and fatigue.
He lives with his parents.
"For me as a mom, it's been really rough," Doris said. "If I could, I would have taken it all away from him. Every day is challenging and it's one day at a time. Jeremy's always been our energetic kid."
RIGORS OF FALL
Fall camp, with its grueling daily schedule, was particularly challenging. Brown met with some of the leaders in the defensive backs room to inform them of Ioane's situation so they understood why he wouldn't always be available.
"It's been a struggle," Ioane said. "There are days I wish I was just coming in normal like everyone else with a ton of energy. Some days, I come in and try to fake it like nothing is wrong with me. Some days it's hard and I can't fake it. I have to tell Spooner straight, I'm just not feeling well."
Still, he started the first three games and handled his regular workload in the safety rotation. He grabbed an interception in the first quarter of the season opener against Ole Miss, added a game-clinching interception in the fourth quarter against Colorado State and helped the Broncos limit Connecticut to 290 yards.
Through those games, the Broncos allowed 1.6 yards per carry. Since then, they've allowed 5.1.
"He's a game-changer," Yates said. "If he was healthy, I think he would have changed our defense significantly."
STEADY DECLINE
After the 2,200-mile flight home from Connecticut on Sept. 13, Ioane's legs swelled so badly that Spooner told him to spend the day on dialysis.
That was when his senior season unraveled. Ioane missed the next game against Louisiana and needed a procedure to repair the catheter (the damage was unrelated to football, Spooner said) that forced him to miss the Air Force and Nevada games.
None of the issues were life-threatening, Spooner said.
"There's never been, from day one, an emergency situation with him," he said.
Five weeks after that flight from Connecticut, Ioane returned to the field for the Oct. 17 game against Fresno State. He participated in 32 snaps - about the same as the other safeties in the rotation - and posted his best grades of the season, Brown said.
Ioane didn't feel well the next week. He didn't plan to wear his uniform for the BYU game, but the other defensive backs told Brown they wanted him out there with them. Ioane showed up in full gear and participated in the coin toss as a captain.
"That dude's a fighter," senior cornerback Bryan Douglas said. "He's still smiling around here when he shows up, he's still being a leader, he still teaches the younger dudes."
Ioane tried to play again two weeks later at New Mexico. He didn't practice much and entered for the third series. The Lobos broke a 57-yard run on the first play and scored in three plays.
Ioane sat the rest of the game.
"I can tell when he's doing good and when he's not," Brown said. "I just felt like that game he wasn't the Jeremy that we knew."
LIFE EXPECTANCY IS 'DECADES'
The transplant likely will end Ioane's NFL dreams. He should be able to live a normal, active life, but the transplanted kidney - it goes in the abdomen - is not as well protected as original kidneys.
"He'll feel fantastic compared to how he feels now," Adcox said. "… For the most part, compared to you and I, he'll be a pristine athlete."
The transplant surgery takes about 3› hours. Ioane's surgery will be performed at the University of Utah - Idaho doesn't have a transplant program - and requires a three-month stay in the community for monitoring. The donor surgery is done by laparoscopy.
"I'm just praying that I'm a match for him and I can do it," Doris said.
Ioane's life expectancy after surgery, Adcox said, is in the "decades."
Ioane graduates next month with a communication degree and might try coaching.
He already is a father.
Ioane and his girlfriend, Brynne, have a 2-year-old son, Raydor.
"I wish I had more energy to play with him," Ioane said.
The transplant should correct that.
LOOKING AHEAD
Ioane and Spooner have been busy going through the pre-transplant checklist. For example, Ioane needed to get his wisdom teeth removed to reduce the chance of an infection.
"I learn something new every day," Ioane said.
He also has matured, he and Spooner say.
Two years ago, Spooner needed to remind him to take his medication. Now, he doesn't even check to make sure Ioane has packed all the necessary equipment for road trips.
"He's drastically more mature," Spooner said, "and, unfortunately, probably by force. … Most people would say, 'I can't go through that and do my job.' He's going through that and playing football."
Now that his story is known, Ioane can serve as a role model to survivors of kidney disease, Adcox said. The doctor is a Broncos season-ticket holder, so he knows exactly where Ioane is during games.
It's "extraordinary" that he has played through the disease, Adcox said.
For Ioane, it was the only decision that made sense.
"The team that I play for is like a family to me," he said. "So I felt like it was the right decision to finish it off with them. To me, it doesn't matter how much I play, as long as I'm there with the team, there to support the team and do whatever I can to help them win."

http://www.idahostatesman.com/2014/11/27/3510984/that-dudes-a-fighter.html?sp=/99/1687/&ihp=1


Boise State has set up a donation page to be able to help cover costs of the transplant.
The page can be found here: http://www.youcaring.com/medical-fundraiser/jeremy-ioane-medical-fund/269398
And it's touched a few in the NFL ranks:

 

[Paul Kersey]

Geez, Aggies got rolled on that last drive eh?

 

[roodav]

Mark Snyder must be gone surely?

Iowa 3 turnovers on their first 3 possession, pick in the redzone, fumble on punt return and fumble in the redzone. Then they finally get points from a pick 6.

 

[roodav]

Also Western Kentucky are leading Marshall 28-21...with 2 and a half minutes left in the first quarter. Both teams over 200yds offense already

 

[roodav]

Turnover city this Iowa-Nebraska game.

Marshall down 42-21 in the second, good news for Boise State i guess.