College Football 2005 Flashback: #9 Notre Dame vs. #1 USC Trojans

Jeff has made about $9 million over the last 3 years while not getting his head beat on like a drum.

He had a pretty good season last year for the Cubs and earned a spot in the starting rotation this season. Seems like no one is playing well for the Cubs this season, though.

 

Love it!

 

I remember that game clearly. That was one of my favorite all-time years for college football. That was the 2nd best game of the year. I really thought Weis was the real deal.

 

I was a High School Football official in San Diego that year and one of our association members was doing this game in his first year as a Pac-10 official. He got so much crap the rest of the year because of the no call on Reggie Bush illegally shoving the QB into the end zone ... lol

 

Wow, that's crazy. Nobody would have called that though.

 

You are right about that ... I'm not sure if I've ever seen that called

 

The fluky thing about that ending was the technicality Leinart used to keep the game alive. When he scrambled left on the 1st and goal with 15 seconds left... I'm fairly certain he extended/dropped the ball on purpose. The logic being that he wasn't out of bounds and USC had no timeouts left, so he had to either score a TD or have something wacky happen on a "fumble" (such as it popping out of bounds).

I'm not blaming the officials, because the rule is what it is. But to me, it's a loophole that needs to be addressed - much the same way that a penalty in that situation would result in a 10-second runoff.

 

With what we know know now and its either baseball or football as your 2 options, you'd be almost foolish to not go the baseball route.

I wonder if Ricky Williams was better in baseball while at UT, if he'da gone that route professionally instead of football lol.

I was a Leinart & Bush believer after ND game, even if that was a flukey win. I thought Maurice Jones-Drew that year was the "same thing" as Reggie Bush, but in the UCLA/USC game, Bush absolutely dazzled and made MJD look regular in comparison.

That was a very good football year. College BCS got a "EWBTE" meme face for that season.