NCAA Football 2006 Thread
 

Kickoff is soon, so lets discuss potential favorites to win it all. I like Notre Dames chances to win the championship.

Athlon Sports magazine has Oklahoma going all the way. After reading up on them watch out, they got Bomar coming back after his first year as the starter and they still got Peterson. Don't forget they have been stealing all the talent from Texas for the last few years, seeing how Texas always lost to them in the Red River Shootout (up until last year that is)

Personally I can see Ohio State taking it. They lost a lot on D but they bringing A LOT back on offense (QB, RB, WR, a lot of Olineman) and they are always a strong team anyways. Post W's againest Michigan and Texas and they should run the table. Don't see how they could be kept outta the National title game if they do that. Although, you could see 3 teams go undefeated this season. ND or USC (depending who wins on Nov 25), Oklahoma (outside of Texas, they should go right through their schedule) and Ohio State. Obviously one of those teams could slip up, but I could definetly see that happening. A team like Cal might even be able to win out, they open up againest Tennesse but if they win that game they could be crusing into the USC game.

If you can't tell, I love college football

I was never really a big college football fan untill a few years ago.

But I hear that Arizona isn't going to be the doormat of the Pac-10 anymore.

HUGE dissapointment last year.

kickoff is soon? wow

don't really have a team, i mean i guess i like NC State but that's kind of just a basketball thing.

It would be cool if Okalahoma won it all because then I would have seen the National Champions two years in a row. Don't think they will though.

It is hard to say who is going to be the team this year, especially since ESPN has been signing about West Virginia all summer. I think Notre Dame is going to slip up somewhere along the way and it will end up being an SEC team vs. either a Big 12 or ACC team.

I can definetly see 3 teams going undefeated this year, hopefully it does happen so everyone can see that the BCS is retarded.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOfOU...ege%20football
Only thing that could stop Frazier was blood clots :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaDUe...ege%20football
Greg Jones

rofl I never knew it was Dexter Reid that got run over though, he played for the Patriots for a few seasons and was involded in the Superbowl (aka getting burned) but now he plays for the Colts (what a fag)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI1lZ...ege%20football
:love:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isZdt...=fiesta%20bowl

IS IT FOOTBALL SEASON YET

Yeah a 16 or 32 team NCAA fb tourney would rock.

I think everyone knows the BCS is retarded as is, don't need a 3 team playoff to do it. But I do see your point.

Well it has been shown time and time again that is stupid, but when it does work it seems to gain so much more strength (last year, 2003 when it was Miami vs Nebraska) so it kind of cancels out the times when it didnt work out, even though failures happen a lot more than successes.

Nah, that would be too much, but a tournament involving all of the BCS teams might be able to be pulled off.

some images to get used to this year

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http://images.usatoday.com/sports/co...side-smith.jpg

beautiful

Can someone confirm that U of A not being a doormat comment?

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Truckin nukkas

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SIIIIIIIIIIICK

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TGII

Never been a big Ohio State fan, but you can ask my friends. I'm always tellin' em about the Ted Ginn Show

Good thing the Boilermakers dont play Ginn this year.

Don't you go to University of Cincinnati

that'd be a negative, kemosabe

Iknow someone here goes to cincinnati, Anybody Thrilla I think

ND's Green jerseys are sick, too bad they never win in them.

Maybe they should wear them when they play Syracuse and Navy or the rest of their cupcake schedule instead of against USC.

Cupcake schedule? I don't really like ND but I dunno if I'd call their schedule cupcake.

<table class="tablehead" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tbody><tr class="stathead" bgcolor="#313a98" valign="top"><td width="125"> Date </td><td width="125"> Opponent </td> </tr> <tr class="oddrow" valign="top"><td class="">September 2</td><td class="" width="200">at Georgia Tech </td></tr><tr class="evenrow" valign="top"><td class="">September 9</td><td class="" width="200">Penn State </td></tr><tr class="oddrow" valign="top"><td class="">September 16</td><td class="" width="200">Michigan </td></tr><tr class="evenrow" valign="top"><td class="">September 23</td><td class="" width="200">at Michigan State </td></tr><tr class="oddrow" valign="top"><td class="">September 30</td><td class="" width="200">Purdue </td></tr><tr class="evenrow" valign="top"><td class="">October 7</td><td class="" width="200">Stanford </td></tr><tr class="oddrow" valign="top"><td class="">October 21</td><td class="" width="200">UCLA </td></tr><tr class="evenrow" valign="top"><td class="">October 28</td><td class="" width="200">at Navy </td></tr><tr class="oddrow" valign="top"><td class="">November 4</td><td class="" width="200">North Carolina </td></tr><tr class="evenrow" valign="top"><td class="">November 11</td><td class="" width="200">at Air Force </td></tr><tr class="oddrow" valign="top"><td class="">November 18</td><td class="" width="200">Army </td></tr><tr class="evenrow" valign="top"><td class="">November 25</td><td class="" width="200">at USC </td></tr></tbody></table>

Really wouldn't call that a cupcake schedule.

So what would you call it? I know I'd shit myself thinking about those games against the dreaded armed forces trio of doom.

Okay, I'm a new (British) fan of the sport and know nothing yet of college football other than this years draft class. Outlaw, who the hell was that in your video and what the fuck is he doing playing quarterback? Can he even throw? I'm sure he can but why bother when you can run like that???? I'm gonna have to look up some info on that kid when I find out who it is. Very impressive!


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Alright I clicked the link, Matt Jones who now plays wide receiver for the Jaguars. He's some athlete!

They got some pretty good oppopents lined up, it isn't the toughest schedule in the world but I wouldn't call it cupcake.

Everyone loves ND though so they'll be playing in a BCS game even if they lose 3 games, so I don't think they have much to worry about.

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CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- Four Miami Hurricane players, including running back Tyrone Moss and receiver Ryan Moore, were suspended for the Sept. 4 season opener against Florida State because they violated team policy.

Linebacker James Bryant and receiver Rashaun Jones also were suspended, coach Larry Coker said Tuesday.

Moore's suspension will include the second game of the season against Florida A&M. He was suspended for the Peach Bowl at the end of last season.

Coker declined to say what prompted the punishment.

"It's all the same incident," he said. "The message is pretty clear -- we have high standards here. We're a program of quality kids. And these kids are good kids. They're not bad kids. But we've got to get this message across."

The suspended players will continue to practice with the team.

"These players are going to come back," Coker said. "They're going to have outstanding years. I believe that. But it won't be the first game."

Moss, a senior, rushed for 701 yards and 12 touchdowns in eight games last year before a knee injury sidelined him for the rest of the season. He'll be replaced by junior Charlie Jones, who rushed for 507 yards last year.

Moore, a senior, started nine games last season and caught 28 passes for 464 yards and four touchdowns. Bryant and Jones played mostly on special teams in 2005.

"When you lose good players, obviously it has an effect," Coker said. "But our expectations haven't diminished."

The suspensions are the latest blow this summer for a program accustomed to contending for the national title and trying to rebound from disappointing 9-3 records the past two years.

Former top recruit Willie Williams has been seeking to transfer. Reserve safety Willie Cooper was shot in the buttocks by an unknown assailant but escaped serious injury.

"It has been a tough offseason," Coker said. "There are some things that always go on with a major-college program that you have to deal with. But the key is to deal with them. That's what I want to do."
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Fucking idiots, I hope they lose to FSU now. Gonna be all on Kyle "Mr. Untapped Potential" Wright lol good luck with that. Kid shoulda just stayed in Cali and went to a weak pac10 school, he'd prob be tearing it up in every game (Except for when his team played USC) Why can't these Florida schools get better QBs? Brock Berlin? Kyle Wright? Chris Rix?

Kyle Wright will probably end up being good but I can't stand when players coming out of high school are really hyped up, I already hate that Clausen kid going to Norte Dame.

Yeah, he's a freak of nature. Some of those clips were against my team, but I don't really care, I'm a fan. He can throw it pretty well, so he had three threats. Run, pass, and catch. They lined him up split out quite a bit. Oh yeah, he can also ball.

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I thought it was 9 wins in a season? I could be wrong about that but even so, that just gives them an automatic bid. They can still get into a BCS game as an at-large bid even without hitting that mark.

A look at ND's schedule

September 2 at Georgia Tech - They are ranked around 35th in most pre-season shits, it is the first game of the season tho so they could be better than expected but I'd assume an easy win for the Irish here. I'd wouldn't call this game a cupcake game.

September 9 Penn State - Bringing in a new QB so I think ND should handle this game, if this game was happening towards the end of November I'd think it'd be a lot tougher. ND should definetly win this game. Same goes for this game tho, definetly wouldn't call it a cupcake. PSU has a lot of dudes coming back.

September 16 Michigan - Don't really know where to go with this game, Michigan didn't play up to their potential at all last season but this year could be different, right now it looks like ND should handle this game but that could change. Definetly not a cupcake.

September 23 at Michigan State - I'd say ND should win this one, I've seen Michigan State projected as low as 7th in the Big 10 but they are returning Drew Stanton as well as all of their LBs and CBs but ND should definetly win this one. Still wouldn't call this one a cupcake, atleast not yet lets see how Michigan State pans out this season though

September 30 Purdue - I'd think ND should win this one as well, although I wouldn't be surprised to see Purdue finish up in the top 25 when all is said and done...no Ohio State for Purdue this year plus Wisconsin and PSU on their homefield.

October 7 Stanford - Could probably call this one a cupcake, Stanford lost to a 1AA team last season, so yeah.

October 21 UCLA - Wouldn't call this one a cupcake, although UCLA did get routed last season by Arizona so who knows. ND will undoutbly be the favorite here but UCLA is another team that could possibly be in the top 25 once this game rolls around. UCLA started out 8-0 last year, so this could be a match up of 2 undefeateds when its gametime.

October 28 at Navy - Should definetly win this game, at this preseason ranking sheet I got infront of me Navy is at #42 - I dunno if I'd consider them a cupcake opponent since they've showed to be a strong team in the past.

November 4 North Carolina - Ehhhh, easy win here, probably call it a cupcake

November 11 at Air Force - Cupcake

November 18 Army - Cupcake

November 25 at USC - Could be a match up between 2 undefeateds to see who goes on to a BCS title game to face Ohio State.

Rhett Bomar suspended for the season, there goes Oklahoma's chances.

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They did have that clause, not sure if they still do though.

ND plays teams that tend to be tough each year, with a few that are pushovers every year. But how is that different from any other team in the country? Every major program in the country schedules some pussy D-1A or D-1AA teams that they can beat the shit out of every single year. So I don't wanna hear an shit about ND having a cupcake schedule, they're no different than any other team in the country.

lol Auburn played the biggest cupcake non-conference I've ever seen a few years ago. Then all the fans where upset when they didn't get into the National Championship game, they probably did deserve to be there cuz they went undefeated in the SEC but when you schedule the Citadel and like Midwest Southern Tennesse State it is kinda hard to complain.

SEC fans have also had an attitude tho "This league is so much tougher than all the others!" Not really, all the BCS conferences are pretty tough, some a little bit more than others. I wouldn't saying going undefeated in the SEC is anymore challenging then the Big 12 though.

Big East Champ did beat the SEC Champ last season as well.

Yeah, everyone is always on the SEC's nuts about being such a tough conference. Its divided into East and West, and don't the teams only play within their half of the conference anyways?

I mean each half has a few teams that have been powerhouses in the past, but now a days not every one of those teams is always at the top of the nation in ranking, so its not like it matters.

Still though, going through the SEC is tougher than what ND has lined up for next season.

#1 Ohio State vs. #2 Texas on September 9th

I turn 21 on September 9th. It's going to be a glorious day.

A lot of anyalists are saying Iowa is the sleeper team this year.

Some guy on ESPNNEWS said he actually sees ND losing 4-5 games this year.

West Virginia vs. Ohio St. is what my NCAA 07 dynasty predicts.

Lol @ Bomar, dumbass. Either Texas or OU was going to be top four at season's end. I don't forsee any Big 12 team that will beat either team, but Oklahoma and it's inability to close things out just took a big hit.

As for Notre Dame, they will not win the national championship. BCS bound I would think, but they will have to go undefeated (obviously), and if more than one other team goes undefeated, Notre Dame is going to have to win all of it's games with authority. Join a goddamn conference.

Also, what happened to ESPN ranking West Virginia No. 1 in the winter. That was stupid. I think the top four teams, in no order, will be Texas, Ohio State, a mid-ranked team that will be better than expected, I'll say Georgia, and then a really random team, like Oregon. I don't think USC can remain top five, even if they do have good recruits coming in or what not, they just lost two of the best college players of all time.

But I am saying that Notre Dame, should they even lose one game, will probably be out of it a lot faster than a team from say the SEC or Big 12 that loses a game. That might not be fair, but I think that is the perception of Notre Dame. Because they don't play in a conference and their schedule always turns out to be weaker than it was preseason, one loss to any of those teams would kill Notre Dame long before Texas is killed by losing to Oklahoma or Auburn is killed by losing to Alabama.

No. We played Florida last year and play them again this year. West vs. East. Like that every year. We always play Tennessee and they are in the East. Vandy is in the east, we play them this year. South Carolina is in the East and we played them last year. If we only played within our own section, we would have 5 division games which would make no sense.

How many SEC teams are in the top 10 this year? Top 25? I wouldn't say we are the dominant overpowering conference that we once were with Alabama being loaded down with sanctions, injuries, and everything else and Tennessee having a down year last year, but I think we are still the strongest conference. Most teams have a few teams on their conference schedule who are no-doubt wins. They probably don't look at it that way obviously, but everyone knows it. We don't have that. Even with teams like Ole Miss, Vandy, and Miss. State looking like "cupcakes", they are upcoming teams I think. They always have good athletes and give good games. I think Ole Miss is going to have a pretty good year. Weakest teams I see in the conference is probably Vandy and State probably. Florida, LSU, Auburn, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina - six good solid teams in one conference. Not many conferences like that. Maybe I am biased though.

Anyone?

The SEC probably does the same thing the Big 12 does. There are two divisions of six, and each year you play your other five division opponents and three from the other division. Then the other division teams switch up every two years.

As for the SEC being the toughest conference, there is no doubt that it is. In the East, Georgia, Florida and Tennessee are three of the nations premier programs. At any given year, at least one of those teams should be in the top 10, and when the others aren't, they are rarely bad. South Carolina won seven games last year and bring back Sidney Rice and a second year under Spurrier. They could be the next big team (although Brad Smith owns them). Kentucky isn't good, but they have had a few decent seasons, and Vanderbilt is probably the worst team in the conference. The West is equally as scary. LSU, Auburn and Alabama are arguably bigger national powers than the ones in the East. Arkansas is always a solid program, held back by the other powers. Ole Miss had one of the nations top recruiting classes, which most of should be redshirt freshman next year, and I don't know much about Mississippi State.

Think about the other BCS conferences.

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Big Ten:
National Powers:
Ohio State
Michigan

Solid, usually ranked programs:
Wisconsin
Iowa
Purdue
Penn State

Average Programs:
Michigan State
Minnesota

Generally, ass:
Northwestern
Indiana
Illinois

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Big 12:
National Powers:
Texas
Oklahoma
Nebraska (to an extent)

Solid programs, usually ranked:
Texas A&M
Texas Tech
Colorado (for some time)

Average Programs:
Missouri
Iowa State
Oklahoma State
Kansas State

Generally, ass:
Kansas
Baylor

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Atlantic Coast Conference
National Powers:
Florida State
Miami (FL)
Virginia Tech

Solid Programs, usually ranked:
Virginia
Clemson
Boston College

Average programs:
Maryland
North Carolina State
Georgia Tech
North Carolina

Generally, ass:
Wake Forest
Duke
(I would say the difference between the solid and average programs in this conference is pretty small, you could almost combine them and meet in the middle)

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Big East
National Powers:
None

Solid programs, usually ranked:
West Virginia
Louisville
Pittsburgh

Average programs:
South Florida
Connecticut
Syracuse

Road Doggy Dog, awful:
Cincinnati
Rutgers
(To be honest, I don't know how good those two teams are, but I am pretty sure they are the worst programs in easily the worst BCS conference. Also, the Miz isn't that bad)

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Pacific 10
National Powers:
USC

Solid programs, usually ranked:
Oregon
Cal
Arizona State
UCLA

Average Programs:
Stanford
Oregon State
Washington

Generally, ass:
Arizona
Washington State

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Southeastern Conference
National Powers:
LSU
Georgia
Auburn
Florida
Tennessee
Alabama (to a certain extent)

Solid programs, usually ranked:
South Carolina
Ole Miss (to an extent, though not lately)

Average programs:
Kentucky
Arkansas
Mississippi State (I think?)

The Outlaw could play for 'em:
Vanderbilt

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So this isn't misinterpreted, the "National Powers" isn't a list of teams that are contending for the national championship year in and year out. It is a list of teams that have very strong programs, always have great recruiting, and are bound to challenge for a national title at some point within about a 10 year period. By challenge for, I don't mean they will be in the game, but at least ranked top 10 or higher at some point.

Also, this isn't a list based on what is going to happen this year. Tennessee was 5-6 last year, and might not be better than 7-6 this year, but within the next five years, if Tennessee doesn't crawl it's way back to the top 10 at some point, I would be shocked. Same goes for Ole Miss, who I could have placed worse because of recent years, but as a whole, that is a solid program that is held down by the powerful teams on top. They look to have a very prosperous next couple of years. The only team that I left out of the national powers that very well could have been there is Penn State, in my opinion, but the last couple of years really took them down.

The other thing about "National Powers", I listed 15. Of those 15, probably one or two will miss out on a bowl, maybe nine or ten more won't be ranked, and maybe five will be in the top 10, but besides a few random poor seasons, these teams are always good. How good, it just varies on the year. And that is why the SEC is so hard.

Yeah exactly. Vanderbilt is a joke though. They don't even have an Athletic Director. Pretty sad. They are all about the academics though, it's really tough to get into Vandy. Seems like they always have good athletes but they can never get over the hump. Especially lately.

But my question was are we going to be "generally ass" THIS year?

I don't follow Pac-10 football enough to know for sure, but USC is going to be ranked, maybe top 10, I would expect UCLA, Cal, Arizona State and Oregon to all be competing for Bowl bids, and one would think that Washington is better than they were last year, so I would expect Arizona to be in the bottom third of the conference, probably pretty low.

lol Kentucky is not an average program. They're as bad if not worse than Vandy and they don't have any academic excuse either.

PS Kentucky has had 2 winning seasons since 1990 and they were both 7-5 years. Kentucky has won more than 7 games a grand total of ONE TIME since 1978.

In fact, looking back at their history, they've won more than 7 games in a season a whole 10 times. UK has had a team since 1881. They are pathetic in every sense of the word.

2005: 3-8
2004: 2-9
2003: 4-8
2002: 7-5
2001: 2-9
2000: 2-9
1999: 6-6
1998: 7-5
1997: 5-6

So yeah, it would probably be safe to say that they might be ass.

They'll be better than the last few years, no chance of competing in the Pac 10 though. Good receivers and line, no running game, and a vastly improved D. I think they'll breakout in 07.

Looking at their schedule:
BYU (L)
at LSU (L)
Stephen F. Austin (W)
USC (L)
UW (W)
at UCLA (L)
at Stanford (W)
OSU (W)
at WSU (W)
Cal (L)
at Oregon (L)
ASU (L)

5-7 (4-5). Who the fuck's idea was it to schedule BYU and LSU in September?

As for the rest of the league, I predict:
1. California
2. USC
3. Oregon
4. Arizona State
5. Oregon State
6. UCLA
7. Arizona
8. Washington
9. Washington State
10. Stanford

Yeah I know, when I saw that game on my Dynasty I was like "lol what?".

I won 6-3 :o

UCLA, CAL, and ASU could be wins.

lol Stephen F Austin

haha do you guys remember when UNH beat Mississippi State like 2 years ago? WOOO NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOTBALL POWER HOUSE

That was the game I changed to BC :cool:

Mike Bell, undrafted rookie running back out of the UofA, just got promoted to starter for the Broncos

So atleast they got that goin for them.............which is nice.

Gotta watch out for Florida if not this year than in the future, I was down in FL this weekend so I got to check out the local sport pages and they had a story about how 3 or maybe even 4 true freshman wideouts could be getting some serious playing time. Pretty sure most people already know about Tebow so their offense could be pretty ridiculous.

I am still disappointed that you didn't go to UF, Stima. Aren't you?

Yeah I wanted to go to school somewhere in Florida but oh well

Also, I don't really agree with your "National Powers" thing, if you are going to list Alabama and Tennesse as national powers I'd think Penn State would be one.

Stone Cold Stephen F. Austin

Harrison Beck left Nebraska after coming in as one of the most highly recruited 'Billy Callahan era' players.

I just looked at the records and I did overestimate how bad Penn State was. They were pretty bad for a few years, but not as many years as I thought it was.

lol Norte Dame's starting linebacker could be last year's second leading rusher. They got Brady Quinn though!

You mean Maine right? lol was pretty terrible. That was Sly's first year. He's got it heading in the right direction I think though.

Oh it was Maine? WOW That is even worse, atleast UNH is usually pretty good in D1AA - I haven't heard much about Maine doing anything the D1AA Playoffs recently.

You mean Division One - Chamipionship Division? Not to be confused with the Bowl Division

..What?

I forget the exact terminology, but the Division-1AA football coaches think that the AA makes them sound bad and unappealing, so they are pushing to get it changed to the Bowl and Championship divisions instead of A and AA.

So then I ment what I said then, since if they are "pushing" for something to get done then that means that it has not yet happened.

Boston College vs Central Michigan on Thru Aug 31 at the Heights. Definetly gonna try to get tickets, gotta go see my boy rep for Woburn haha

Go rep for Florida

I don't go to Florida, I don't know anyone who goes to Florida (or the state of Florida) and I'm not from the their either plus I hate Florida..I like Florida State........so how I would rep?

Why is their an association between me and Florida anyway? Second time you've brought this up in the last few days.

Like you visited Florida State and I have been mislead for all these years. Florida is way better.

Florida > Florida State > Red Sox > Woburn > AssMan's Mom > The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim

Florida is my least favorite out of the 3 big Florida sucks "TBH"

ment to say "schools" instead of "sucks" but ya Florida sucks

FSU is my least favorite

Yeah, then MSU beat Florida. Shows you how good the teams are down here. Can't really take any team for granted.

FSU + Miami = Thug U.

Yeah you can't take Maine for granted either, Maine is known for its great football.

Oh yeah anyone hear about Oregon this season? (I might have actaully heard it on here who knows) They are gonna have a different uniform every game and I guess 3 different helmets lol

Pretty sure State had its whole offense injured that game lol. Might explain how they only scored 7 points. Like I said, Sly has the program going in the right direction. '04 was his first year and he came in and kicked off some of his best players. He isn't going to take their BS like Sherrill did.

http://static.flickr.com/67/171277505_38ad397e95_b.jpg

ROFL

lol god i hate Oregon

Thats not bad but those shoes are killer.

The green helmet with the black inside pads/black chin strap is the best, I dunno why would they try any others. I think it is the best helmet in college football. (The yellow with the grey facemask is probably the ugliest helmet I've ever seen)

Whats the deal with the 1 on the white jersey? Looks more like a 7 to me, I am just assuming its a 1 since I don't think that dude is a lineman.