CFB 2021 Week "16": Bahamas > Myrtle Beach

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All times ET. Lines from ESPN. Information on SoSH Bowl Pick 'Em is here.

Friday, Dec 17, 2021
12:00 Bahamas Bowl: Middle Tennessee vs. Toledo (-10), ESPN
6:00 Tailgreeter Cure Bowl: Northern Illinois vs. Coastal Carolina (-10.5), ESPN2
9:15 FCS Semifinal: James Madison @ North Dakota State, ESPN

Saturday, Dec 18, 2021
11:00 RoofClaim.com Boca Raton Bowl: WKU vs. Appalachian State (-3), ESPN
12:00 Cricket Celebration Bowl: SC State vs. Jackson State, ABC
2:00 FCS Semifinal: South Dakota State @ Montana State, ESPN2
2:15 PUBG Mobile New Mexico Bowl: Fresno State (-11.5) vs. UTEP, ESPN
3:30 Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl: UAB vs. #13 BYU (-7), ABC
5:45 LendingTree Bowl: Liberty (-9.5) vs. Eastern Michigan, ESPN
7:30 Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl: Oregon State (-7) vs. Utah State, ABC
9:15 R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl: #23 Louisiana (-5) vs. Marshall, ESPN

Monday, Dec 20, 2021
2:30 Myrtle Beach Bowl: Old Dominion vs. Tulsa (-9.5), ESPN
 

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Do we need weekly threads for Bowl SZN? Probably not, but I enjoy making them.

I know everyone is down on bowls, but I love them. The more ridiculous the sponsor the better. The bowls that happen during the workdays especially have my full support.
 

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I love bowls because you get random matchups ... but I must admit players opting out makes them mean so much less. However I fully understand and support them doing it.
 

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Mercedes-Benz Stadium is sold out for the Celebration Bowl for the first time in the event's six-year history. I'm pretty excited to see what that looks like on TV.
 

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Mercedes-Benz Stadium is sold out for the Celebration Bowl for the first time in the event's six-year history. I'm pretty excited to see what that looks like on TV.
They aren't selling tickets in the upper tank. Still should be fun. JSU has a couple of defenders that could get drafted.
 

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NIU got the first down at about the 2 or 3 yard line with 2 seconds to go. The TE didn’t get out of bounds. Not enough time to spike it with only 2 seconds on the clock. NIU didn’t get the snap off on time.
 

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NIU got the first down at about the 2 or 3 yard line with 2 seconds to go. The TE didn’t get out of bounds. Not enough time to spike it with only 2 seconds on the clock. NIU didn’t get the snap off on time.
The TE didn't get out of bounds, but the clock stopped temporarily for the first down. The clock should have stayed stopped until a ready-for-play signal by the officials, I thought, but it started before the ref had even cleared off the ball. I think there should have been time for NIU to snap it with ~1 s left on the clock.

(All of that having been said, I'm not 100% certain it was a good catch.)
 

Ale Xander

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Mr Talbert is Destined to become a 2022 Patriot UDFA I feel

He is a binky now with that one play
 

Humphrey

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Trick play backfired on NIU up 41-39 on 4th and 1 from their own 34. Totally fooled the play by play guy at least.
The play was just run by someone else a couple weeks ago. Someone at Coastal was paying attention.
 

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It is infuriating they arent showing the bands in the Celebration Bowl, other than essentially a 45 sec snip of each.

In fact, it’s infuriating no channel ever shows halftime. They are some amazing bands in college these days.
 

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Any other YouTube TV subscribers here getting hosed by this dispute with Disney? All the ABC/ESPN channels were pulled at midnight. These squabbles get really tiring; I want to watch some football.
 

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Wow, thanks for bringing this to my attention. Not that I'm married to this Lending Tree Bowl, mind you, but that Oregon State/Utah State game coming up is an interesting matchup.

I hope this youtube tv thing doesn't drag on too long, but with Disney presumably angling to force people to Hulu, I don't know that a quick resolution is in the cards.
 

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The TE didn't get out of bounds, but the clock stopped temporarily for the first down. The clock should have stayed stopped until a ready-for-play signal by the officials, I thought, but it started before the ref had even cleared off the ball. I think there should have been time for NIU to snap it with ~1 s left on the clock.

(All of that having been said, I'm not 100% certain it was a good catch.)
MAC going to bat for NIU. But it wasn’t a catch so they would have lost anyways.


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It is infuriating they arent showing the bands in the Celebration Bowl, other than essentially a 45 sec snip of each.

In fact, it’s infuriating no channel ever shows halftime. They are some amazing bands in college these days.
The crowd mikes don't pick up the bands during the game like they used to, either. For the most part, the fight songs, etc. are implanted in my brain from the 1960s and 1970s....if a school wasn't on tv then, I have no clue what their music sounds like
 

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Had a fun time in Myrtle Beach yesterday for the ODU/Tulsa game. Not the outcome I was hoping for but ODU was quite a story this season:

2019: 1-11 and the only coach they've known since resurrecting football is fired--we're long past the heyday of Tayor Heinicke.
2020: did not play due to COVID.
2021: start out 1-6, (with 3 one-score losses), win 5 in a row to qualify for a bowl game, then return opening KO in that game for a TD.


Tulsa is big and experienced (Cincy only beat them 28-20) and ODU made too many mistakes including getting a ball punched through the end zone for a touchback as they were about to cut score to 23-17.

Oh well, tailgating and a bowl game was better than working.