USC vs Stanford

• centralbucksfan

  Anyone watching this ending? USC scores to take the lead, 35-34. Stanford driving right down the field .... .08 seconds to go...on USC 10yd line.
• Tiger2003

  

  yep
• centralbucksfan

  Stanford for the win! 37-35! Guess "all that talent" some thought USC had isn't coming through. Two weeks in a row USC loses on final seconds!
• centralbucksfan

  Harbaugh is doing a great job at Stanford. Luck might be best QB in country. Nice game ending drive with about 1 min to go.
• Footwedge

  Anyone else notice the clock snafu that helped Stanford out tremendously?
• Fly4Fun

  

  Kiffin will be out of there in 3 years...
  
  What happened to that stable of RB's USC had and all those recruits? I looked at the stats for the game and there was nothing resembling a running game.
  
  Oh well.
  
  Once USC fires Kiffin and is no longer on probation they will build it back up.
• Fly4Fun

  

  Footwedge;514275 wrote:Anyone else notice the clock snafu that helped Stanford out tremendously?

  
  Helped stanford out? Huh? It almost gave USC a last ditch return chance. The clock stopped early for no reason at all, stanford was prepared to call the time out at 4... but it stopped at 7 after only taking off 1 second for a play.
  
  The clock snafu was weird, but it wasn't in Stanford's favor.
• karen lotz

  

  Footwedge;514275 wrote:Anyone else notice the clock snafu that helped Stanford out tremendously?

  Which one? When the clock didn't run on the play where Luck centered the ball? Stanford had a timeout left, it didn't help them tremendously.
• centralbucksfan

  Footwedge;514275 wrote:Anyone else notice the clock snafu that helped Stanford out tremendously?

  
  WTF are you talking about? lol Nothing helped out Stanford "tremendously".
• Cleveland Buck

  

  Could be when USC was driving for the go ahead touchdown and they reviewed the spot on Bradford's run to the 3 yard line. When they came back they didn't start the clock, and USC scored on the next play, so it saved Stanford a good 20-30 seconds.
• karen lotz

  

  I don't remember seeing the clock not moving. Was it possible USC took a timeout so the booth had more time to look at it before calling for the official review of the spot?
• Cleveland Buck

  

  The original spot gave them a first down, so I don't know why USC would want them to look at it and take it away.
• Footwedge

  Cleveland Buck;514295 wrote:Could be when USC was driving for the go ahead touchdown and they reviewed the spot on Bradford's run to the 3 yard line. When they came back they didn't start the clock, and USC scored on the next play, so it saved Stanford a good 20-30 seconds.

  This. CBF wasn't paying attention.
• Footwedge

  karen lotz;514299 wrote:I don't remember seeing the clock not moving. Was it possible USC took a timeout so the booth had more time to look at it before calling for the official review of the spot?

  I double checked the ESPN play by play for the 4th quarter before I posted. Neither team called a time out after this play. The refs never started the clock and it was a bad snafu. With that said, Kiffin deserves part of the blame here for not alerting the officials.
  
  A team with a good sense of time management would have allowed a full 25 seconds to run before snapping the ball. The reason was 2fold...
  
  1. USC had plenty of time to run 4 plays...even after running the clock down to 45 seconds.
  
  2. Giving Luck a minute plus was asking or a loss...given the nature of the game.