JOY. AGAIN.

OH MAN!!! What a game. And howabout that clipping call on Bradon James’s kickoff return TD? That bad call and the Tennessee trick play were all that kept it close.

Well played by both teams. Fantastic game to watch.

Good thing that Eric Ainge has been practing his gator-chop. Nice shot of him being a total dork on the sidelines…

good game florida.

i guess if tennessee had to lose, it’s somewhat fitting it was by one point.

congrats on a clean win

does tim tebow have arms

Yes he does, and at the end of those arms are hands that committed two turnovers last week…

But it doesn’t matter since his legs will drag LBs for 1st downs all night long!

I watch the game at the Hooters in Costa Mesa, California with Gator Club mates.

Until DeShawn Wynn’s run and first down with about 1:22 on the clock. The collective group from the Gator Nation did not breathe and had irregular heart beats.

Nobody noticed that there were beautiful girls in Tennessee orange hot pants and skin tight tops dancing on top of bar stools trying to generate some gyrating Hooters Girls’ version of a deliberator.

The collective Gator Nation lost at least 20,000 cumulative years of life expectancy. There was one poor fellow in the joint in Tennessee colors – I think he flat lined along with a bunch of folks wearing that ugly shade of orange at Neyland Stadium.

Dear Lord Baby Jesus,

Thank you for allowing us to overcome the shotty refs, and smiling on the GATORS. Thank you for Reggie Nelsons hands, Tebows legs and Leaks poise. That is all.

Love,
Uncle Brian

And Dallas Baker the touchdown maker. Amen

Man, now I have to watch punt returns instead of getting more beer, cause Brandon “I got tripped by that bitch Colquist” James is gonna break something off this year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_vkyDxK69k

orson, please please please do a story on this. its practically written for you.

Separation Saturday Schtick:

Most Exciting Game: Urby beating Fulmer by the tiniest of margins.

Most Exciting Ending: Battle of the Big Zeroes, with Oregon winning on a blocked kick over Okie land during the last play of the game.

Biggest Surprise of the Day: Notre Dame getting a full gynecological exam – on the table with full stirrups on and all of the rest of it – by Michigan. Maybe ND might play like men in their next game. Willingham is laughing at the savior of ND land – Weis. Not even Beano Cook would give Brady Quinn a shot at the Heisman right now.

Ugliest Game of the Day (Uglier than Tony Kornheiser’s Bearly There Comb-Over): Auburn Vs. LSU. The game was like seeing a heavy weight fight with fighters hugging each other for 12 rounds, and not landing, even if they wanted to, a decent punch. 7 to 3? Looks like a game as exciting as regular season baseball broke out in the deep south!

Saddest Performance of the Day: Nebraska played the game not to win, but to not get blown out by USC. They were running the clock out on themselves for most of the second half. Nebraska needs to be in a conference with teams like Nichols and Dimes State, Rice and Duke. If they are not going to play, then cancel the games with the better teams and stick to the minnows of college football.

The Who Cares Bowl: Too bad there had to be a winner? in the Dadgum father and son fiasco of a game.

Miami Mice lost again. who cares….

Good call on ugliest game of the day… A real horror to watch for those of us down in here; did you actually have time to see the game while you were so busy trying to be “dadgum” clever about the deep south? Baseball and Boxing in one wonderful metaphor….How’s that working out for you?

w00t. w00t. w00t.

A much deserved w00t to you and yours, sir.

America can thank Michigan later for halting the ND love train in its tracks.

Surprise of the Day, Part II: Texas Tech being held to 3 points, and losing to TCU, 12-3.

May I edit my comment? My heart just restarted, I recovered consciousness and I noticed that I did a lousy job of proofreading.

Tebow has a baby arm!!!

Go Gators! Amazing!!!!!

PS – I won money on MEEEChigan.

…and lost money on the Gators(-3.5). (AND I DONT GIVE A FUCK!!!!!!!!!!)

Amazing? Florida should have beat Tennessee by at least two touchdowns. Good win. Granted. Amazing, Hell no.

Great win by the Gators. I felt especially great for Dallas Baker, who will now be remembered for scoring two touchdowns as a senior instead of a boneheaded personal foul as a sophomore. What a difference great coaching makes.

I actually the Auburn/LSU game — two great defenses going at it rather than two inept offenses screwing up (see Miami/FSU).

But did anyone besides me notice the bizarre outfits the Auburn drum corps was wearing? They looked like a cross between Oompa Loompas and garage mechanics! Completely ridicule worthy.

Great game Florida. That was a well fought game.

I need to go take a dump. I had my ass packed as an ND fan yesterday and it is time for the enima.

But it still was a great day for football.

Oh my….Gators Win!!!!! I guess it wasn’t just a nightmare gone Great. Great win in front of 100,000 plus hostiles.
This game reemphasizes my hatred of that song “rocky top”.

Ltrain:

I was watching Auburn-LSU primarily during the first half, checking in every now and then on the Michigan-ND game, going on at the same time. I gave up on the AU-LSU game during the second half and made Michigan-ND the main game, to see if Charlie, Quinn and Co. could rally their team back into the game, while checking back on the other game. Had I been a real college football maniac I would have seen one and recorded the other. Like the saying goes, Every day should be….

I am going down to Ruby Tuesday’s and making a ham, turkey and cheese sandwich. UF had the better of the run of play all night — lucky to be that close, really.

Wire:
I posted late last night? Oh boy. In any event, as mentioned above, I enjoyed the AU/LSU battle of good defense vs. the FSU/Miami battle of the inept offenses – fortunately on days like yesterday my wife lets me run a cable splitter and 2 televisions in living room…still almost wore both remotes out.

If you couldn’t appreciate the AU-LSU game, you will never appreciate defensive footbaw.

LSU has given up 13 points this season, AU has given up 17.

LSU scored 45 in its first two games, AU scored 40 and 34.

These are two teams with pretty good Os and unbelievable D’s.

AU and LSU will be in the top statisitcal categories on O in the SEC at the end of the season, and will be 1 and 2 in the defensive categories.

By the way, Orson is never, ever, under any circumstances, allowed to pick Florida to beat Tennessee. Even if the whole UT team is declared ineligible and Big Phat Phil has to suit up again, Orson is to pick UT to win the game. Promise?

NewAZ,

After seeing pass interference flag waved off (not to mention the no-call on the absolutely egregious PI by David Irons late in the first half and the overrule of the Jacob Hester first down catch), I think I’m starting to understand why the home team has dominated this series of late.

As someone who was raised a gator, but then went to Vandy, THANK YOU Florida. You made this season worth it to me!!! God bless Baker, Leak, and Nelson

Is it just me, or does it show how idiotic most football players and announcers are when Wilhoit, a Communications major with a 3.6 GPA, wins a scholar-athlete award?

brandon siler, who is a criminology major, has close to a 4.0 GPA. why he isn’t the scholar-athlete of the whatever the fuck, i don’t know.

Well, as much as I dislike the Gators, they played a great game last night against a Vols team that is 100 times better than they were last year.

Still, this was just the doorstep for Florida’s hellish schedule coming up. If I were a Gator fan I would have to feel very good if I take 3 out of the next four.

All I know is that a burglary was committed….they done stole our cheese. I hope that sandwich was tasty!

Congrats to the Gators on a kick-ass game.

Until next year…

referenceing post #12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWnByXye7bI

this one was just as good if not better. Nothing like some drunk UT chicks throwing lame insults at the Gators.

I think it’s an unwritten rule that the scholar-athlete always has to come from the home team, just as the ‘SEC Moment’ has to show the home team beating the visitor (although that might be a tough requirement to meet in some games… sometimes a great play from a valiant loss might suffice.)

OMG that was beautiful… very few things in life are as satisfying as an unhappy Feelup Foolmer… even better when he thinks he has it wrapped up late in the game…

I felt decent about putting 41 on ULM given how they treated Kansas last week, but then I looked at the Big 12 scores and realized that the Sun Belt is the better conference.

A few observations about Separation Saturday:

Watching Florida State play is like watching the WNBA. Only slower. And with more lesbians.

The transitive property in effect: watch how a still-underachieving (and still LLLLoyd Carr coached) Michigan team will accrue all of the empty hype previously heaped on the vastly over-rated Notre Shamers. Oh wait, did Herbstreit already vote scUM number three in his poll? Guess so.

We now know the answer to a riddle the media hoped would never be asked.

Q: What’s the only thing more obnoxious than Charlie Weiss in victory?

A: Charlie Weiss in defeat.

Finally, Congratulations to Orson and the Gator Nation! Oh, and about the shameless Dallas Baker manlove: once the gag-reflex subsides and Dallas takes it out of your mouths and puts it back in his pants, you guys collectively need to rinse, brush, and tacitly agree to never mention this again, chalking it all up to frat-boy experimentation and too much Jaegermeister.

We can get beyond this, but I will never be able to look at you the same way again.

What a great day yesterday. Tennessee, Miami, FSU, and Notre Dame all lose. LSU/Auburn had a good, defensive game, and Oregon beats Oklahoma (albeit with controversy).

I nominate Duke for poster of the day. The FSU line should go on a EDSBS T-shirt.

I was in Section O at Neyland watching my Gators take it to UT. Nice comeback from 10 down in front of a very loud stadium.

Reggie Nelson is the man. Intercepted Chomp Boy’s 1st and last pass attempts.

Tebow is a full-size man; he always took the Vol LBs on a ride for an extra yard or two.

Props to Deshawn Wynn. Guess we got the better of the two best Ohio RBs (other being Israeli Mafia Boy).

Bogus block in the back negated James’ TD; no-call on UT punter tripping James on another return. Needless to say, James is electric.

Best Gator front 7 since the early 90s. Dominant.

Dallas Baker … look up the definition of “redemption”.

Hey DHC, you are allowed to trip a runner if he has the ball.

“Best Gator front 7 since the early 90s.” Amen to that. A great, gutsy win, and hats off to the Gators. My reality sensors tell me the secondary needs some work, the PK is iffy, and the O could work on finishing a few more drives — but it’s hard to find a lot of fault with a team that rallies from a 10-point road deficit and backs up its pregame cheese chatter. Well done.

oh, duke, i can only dream…

That was a fine way to end the evening, speshully after watching the domers crap their pants against the ’rines. God I love saturdays in the fall.

Ouch. Just damn.

There’s no excuse for that kind of meltdown, especially on the part of our offensive. I volunteer to give one player in particular a spanking :-)

offensive=offense, though it was hard to tell the difference yesterday

True, the Gators are cruising the SEC East aquarium again, but had better be careful about where they nibble. ‘Bama, Georgia, and S. Carolina just might bite back. Even if they chomp those 3 barracudas, there are a couple of Great Whites from western waters (LSU, Auburn) lying in wait. At least there’s sushi (Free Shoes Univ.) on the menu.

You should have left it as offensive; sounds like you’re at war or something.

More random thoughts …

That was as loud and rocking as I’ve ever heard Neyland.

Hats off to Justin Harrell for reason #28,763 why college fball is superior to pro.

I’m very upset FSU and Miami lost. Well, not really.

The UF oline is better at run blocking than pass protection. They played very well, overall.

I just watched a Ford Mustang commercial with the offending vehicle (on the Nurburgring, no less) flashing brights on a Carrera GT. Yeah, ok. Ford is a benefits plan that happens to make a few cars and trucks.

Drove back home this AM from Knoxville. My twin boys greeted me at the door with fake Gator tattoos on the cheek … well, I hope they’re fake.

Very subdued UT crowd post-game. Not much bitterness. I guess the last couple of years have beaten their expections down to [name redacted] levels.

I’m glad ND lost I don’t have to hear stories about how their DB is a pro boxer. Damn ESPN will dig anything up to make Notre Dame look so better than everyone else.

It might get so bad they’ll have a story where Samardja fucked the ugly chick, where B. Quinn could get in her good looking friends pants. With interviews and everything.

Post #40- funniest shit ever.

“Hey DHC, you are allowed to trip a runner if he has the ball.”

Actually, you’re not.

“I just watched a Ford Mustang commercial with the offending vehicle (on the Nurburgring, no less) flashing brights on a Carrera GT. Yeah, ok. Ford is a benefits plan that happens to make a few cars and trucks.”

[Total threadjack ahead] Umm, that isn’t exactly a garden-variety Mustang in that commercial – rather, it is the Shelby GT 500, packing 500 supercharged ponies under its hood. OK, so the Shelby wouldn’t exactly outgun a Carerra GT on the ’bahn, but it comes pretty darn close and retails for one-tenth the price. Not a bad performance bargain for $43k. [and I am generally a total anti-domestic car snob]

Bogus block in the back negated James’ TD; no-call on UT punter tripping James on another return. Needless to say, James is electric.

About as “bogus” as the hands to the head penalty that negated the Leak-INT TD. It was a wash of “bogus” penalties…props to the officials for not making 1 sided calls.

DHC, do you happen to read TTAC?

I don’t know if I was hung over a bit after the AU/LSU game, but I was not impressed with UF’s O-line. I’ll hold judgment until the Bama game, as they clearly held the key last year…

RE: post 55,

Yeah, I hear ya on the raw HP of the Shelby. It very may well keep up with the CGT for a bit … but then the road begins to curve and we can see the Cobra’s off-road capabilities.

NewAZTiger,

I can’t click the link. What is TTAC?

I’ll try again..

TTAC = thetruthaboutcars.com

Did you see Erik Ainge jumping on the bench and doing the gator chomp to the home fans early in the third quarter? There was LOTS of football left to be played, you giant tool.

Socraticsilence:

Not trying to be a smartass, but do you really think that the seven officials on the field saw Colquitt trip the returner and just decided not to call it?

2006 NCAA Football Rules and Interpretations

Page FR-58 Rule 2, Section 28, Article 1. Tripping is intentionally using the lower leg or foot to obstruct an opponent (except the runner) below the knees.

Page FR-115 Rule 9, Section 1, Article 2.c. There shall be no tripping (Exception: Against the runner).

NCAA.org has the rulebook right there for everyone to see and it helps me to know what’s going on when they throw those flags——or in this case don’t.

Courtesy of IBSpringer when describing the AU/LSU 06 game.

The Thrilla in the Loveliest Villa.

AU:LSU :: Ali:Frazier

I didn’t realize AU and LSU were playing a baseball exhibition.

A decent quarterback drives it for at least a winning field goal instead of getting an intentional grounding call on first and ten from the gators 37 yard line and then throwing his second interception of the game on 4th and 13. Still, on a day when a lot of visiting teams were getting a lot of home cooking, (and UF was getting home cooked pretty good, too) you guys won a big road game.

UF takes UT by 30 or more in Gainesville.

Great game by the Gators — the O-line played much better than I feared they would.

What I haven’t heard, however, is how stupid Nelson was to intercept Ainge’s fourth-down pass, rather than let it drop. It was proably a difference of twenty yards, which, if the Gators had not made the first down on Wynn’s run, could have been the yardage that put the Vols in postion for a last minute field goal attempt.

Great performance by the Gators’ offensive and defensive lines. That INT for TD that was called back in the 2nd quarter for a somewhat questionable roughing the passer penalty sure hurt. I think UF was the superior team, though.

That’s the loudest I’ve heard Neyland in a while, and I’ve been going to UT games since 1989.

The Vols will be back to mid-90’s form soon enough. I think the UT/UF rivalry may be getting back there as well.

Danielson did bring up the folly(?) of actually catching Ainge’s final INT, for that very reason.

To Poon at comment #64:
You obviously didn’t watch the LSU/Auburn game. Easily the most exciting game of the year. Too good offenses, two great defenses. 7-3 is not indicative of how well played the game actually was. If only the officiating was up to the standards of the players on the field……

OK, so the Shelby wouldn’t exactly outgun a Carerra GT on the ‘bahn, but it comes pretty darn close and retails for one-tenth the price.

To second DHC, the boat anchor in the nose of the Shelby Mustang, posing as an engine, would pretty much kill that race the instant there was a corner… a Roush Stage 3 Mustang GT will keep pace with a Shelby in a straight line with fewer horsepower, and leave it for dead in corners, for roughly the same money.

However, I’d still rather have a modified Skyline R34, right-hand drive and all.

Threadjack over.

“After seeing pass interference flag waved off (not to mention the no-call on the absolutely egregious PI by David Irons late in the first half and the overrule of the Jacob Hester first down catch), I think I’m starting to understand why the home team has dominated this series of late”

Hmmm, the last two games at Darwin’s waiting room on the Plains have been gifted to the Barn by shitty referees making questionable calls, no-calls and outright rimjobbing of the Cajuns. Does make one wonder.

Great will be the day when a big SEC game isn’t affected by some son of a bitch in stripes. And it ain’t just this game, either. There’s better officiating on the PeeWee fields in any small town in the South on Satuday morning than in SEC games. Pathetic.

Every last SEC ref is an embarassment to major college football, and the SEC office should be ashamed. Sadly, they’re not. Does make one wonder if there isn’t some home cooking somewhere…

SEC Referees: When You Care enough to send the very best, well, you ain’t sending any of these assholes.

BG

That was a great game. It will make Georgia’s wins over both of these teams all the sweeter!

And yes, the nation owes Michigan a debt of gratitude for its efforts on Saturday.

That roughing the passer after the bad call on the punt return was no where near questionable. You arent allowed to hit the QB in the head with your hand like that, for any reason. While it may be a stupid rule, it is still a rule nonetheless.

so this is what detox feels like. it’s 11:11 AM, and nothing new.

why, god, why?

Did anyone else notice when UF ran the ball out of the I-formation that they got at least 5 yards, plus they had the big run on the last scoring drive out of the I? Shouldn’t that tell Meyer something about running the ball.