It seems counterintuitive but I wonder if no Lan makes it a bit harder for the SD defense in the short term. You've spent all week focusing on containing Lan and all these plays UCD runs for him and now he's out and they're running a whole different set of plays.

Yep, this is huge right here. Even if we can hold them to 3, you get a chance to make it a 3 point game coming out of the half. But stopping them altogether would be huge.

It's a good thing this is a defensive football game OH WAIT South Dakota is on pace to score 42 points today.

No offense, but you're just wrong. NFL teams go for it there and I'm pretty sure they know more about football than you and I do. This isn't a 2010 SEC game or some bad weather game like Rams-Niners on Thursday where it's going to end up 13-10 and points are at a premium. We need touchdowns today.

So we haven't been able to stop them and yet you want to catch up by going for 3 points rather than 7? Makes total sense there.

Again, FG's aren't winning this game. And you have to play to your strengths. We've got one of the best offenses in the FCS and it's four yards. Kicking a FG there says "I'm trying to keep the game close" rather than "I want to win the game".

Because FGs aren't going to win this game, it's only 4 yards and we've got a good offense. Going for the TD was the right call there.

And that ball either got tipped or his arm was hit so I can't totally blame him for that one.

Larison got his ankle rolled up on. That's really bad.

I'd love to know how often Larison hands it off. Seems like he just keeps it every time.

Need 7 here. Got to keep them close.

Somebody blew an assignment there. Can't be having that.

Not sure what else Hastings could have done on that. Has to get out of the pocket to throw it away or else its intentional grounding. And you want him to safely throw it away not just chuck it up to be intercepted. Blocking let him down on that play.

Well that's not good defense.

Bang! Let's go!

Need to get 7 here. Moving the ball well this drive and a quick answer would be huge.

That hurts. Get them to 3rd and goal from the 8 and give up the TD.

No need to throw that ball.

Not watching but based on how the scoring has gone it reminds me of our game last week. 1st quarter was close but once the better team got rolling, it was a wrap.

That got out of hand quickly. Last I saw it was 10-10.

There's not a chance in hell USC and UCLA are leaving the Big 10 unless whatever conference they move to offers a similar amount of TV money, which an all California conference wouldn't come anywhere close to doing.

Cal and Stanford might be different since it seems like their move was more out of necessity and they're not getting anywhere near the TV money that UCLA and USC are. But even then, I doubt and all-California conference would match what they get in the ACC.

Wow. That seems like it came out of nowhere.