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Gardner literally through that ball right in the safety's numbers.
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[QUOTE="J187Money, post: 1108752, member: 718"Seemingly beat, the favorite wakes up and pummels the challenger. Why does this happen so much in CFB games?[/QUOTE]
Really? Sure there are favorites that fall behind and come back to win but what other favored team that trailed 21-0 on the road to another top 25 team came back to win - this year or any year? Say what you will but FL St is a pretty special team. And Winston, for all his personal shortfalls, is as good as there's ever been in leading and willing his teammates to victory.
Really? Sure there are favorites that fall behind and come back to win but what other favored team that trailed 21-0 on the road to another top 25 team came back to win - this year or any year? Say what you will but FL St is a pretty special team. And Winston, for all his personal shortfalls, is as good as there's ever been in leading and willing his teammates to victory.
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Really? Sure there are favorites that fall behind and come back to win but what other favored team that trailed 21-0 on the road to another top 25 team came back to win - this year or any year? Say what you will but FL St is a pretty special team. And Winston, for all his personal shortfalls, is as good as there's ever been in leading and willing his teammates to victory.[/QUOTE]
Auburn was down 21-0 in the year they won with Newton. It happens more than you think. Maybe it is the youth aspect. Where FSU is really a lot better than LV but they couldn't focus for 60 minutes.
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Football is a game of passion and it's hard for the favorite to get up for every game. But the challenger's passion tends to fade as they get tired, and the favorite gets fired up when they're down.
That at least is the conventional explanation. But a lot of things about college athletics seem to be fixed behind closed doors, like rules that are flagrantly violated by the North Carolinas with never an enforcement action, while upstart programs like UConn are suppressed by newly made up and retroactively imposed rules. It wouldn't be a big surprise if the corruption reached farther down and could impact individual games.
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It seems to happen a lot more in league games where the league has a vested interest in the favorite winning. Non-league games follow a more natural ebb and flow.
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Really? Sure there are favorites that fall behind and come back to win but what other favored team that trailed 21-0 on the road to another top 25 team came back to win - this year or any year? Say what you will but FL St is a pretty special team. And Winston, for all his personal shortfalls, is as good as there's ever been in leading and willing his teammates to victory.[/QUOTE]
its happened to FSU twice this year. NCSt was up 24-7.
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