01-15-2011, 11:41 PM | #151 |
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2013 Week 13 - Rice
My final rivalry game, my final Battle for the Bayou Bucket. I knew growing up around my dad how intense rivalry games could get, but I didn't know how bad they were when you play in them.
Last season Rice played us very tough, but some key injuries to them this season I do not think they will. Prophetically they didn't as we practically scored every time the offense touched the ball. We punted twice all game and missed 1 FG. Rice could not generate anything against us offensively. We shut them out and did it in dramatic fashion 55 - 0. My Stats: 6 Tackles, 2 Tackles for Loss, 1 Sack
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01-15-2011, 11:50 PM | #152 |
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2013 Week 13 - Top 25
1. LSU
2. Penn St 3. Miami 4. Oklahoma 5. Alabama 6. Houston 7. West Virginia 8. Boise St 9. Iowa 10. Michigan 11. Texas 12. OSU 13. UCLA 14. Notre Dame 15. USC 16. Tennessee 17. Nebraska 18. Michigan St 19. Wake Forest 20. Stanford 21. Florida 22. Virginia Tech 23. TCU 24. Washington 25. Oregon We sit at 6 and have a 1 loss Oklahoma and Alabama ahead of us and an undefeated Boise St. BYU moves to 8-3 with a win over Ball State. UNLV shocks Utah and moves to 5-6, a win over ULM next week and they are bowl eligible.
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01-16-2011, 12:06 AM | #153 |
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2013 Week 13 - Bowl Projections
New Mexico Bowl - Utah vs Fresno St
St. Petersburg Bowl - UAB vs Arkansas St New Orleans Bowl - Memphis vs UL Lafayette Las Vegas Bowl - California vs TCU Poinsetta Bowl - Temple vs BYU Hawaii Bowl - Tulsa vs Western Kentucky Little Caesars Pizza Bowl - Rutgers vs Western Michigan Meineke Car Care Bowl - Florida St vs Toledo Emerald Bowl - San Jose State vs Washington Music City Bowl - Louisville vs Duke Independence Bowl - Wyoming vs Clemson EagleBank Bowl - Kent State vs Navy Champs Sports Bowl - USF vs Georgia Tech Roady's Humanitarian Bowl - UConn vs Nevada Holiday Bowl - Missouri vs Stanford Brut Sun Bowl - Oregon vs Virginia Tech Armed Forces Bowl - Marshall vs San Diego St AutoZone Liberty Bowl - North Carolina vs UTEP Texas Bowl - Illinois vs FIU Insight Bowl - Oklahoma St vs Michigan St Chic-fil-A Bowl - Ole Miss vs Wake Forest Outback Bowl - South Carolina vs Michigan Capital One Bowl - Florida vs Iowa Gator Bowl - Auburn vs OSU Rose Bowl - Oklahoma vs USC Fiesta Bowl - Texas vs Boise St Alamo Bowl - Texas A&M vs UCLA Orange Bowl - Miami vs Houston Sugar Bowl - Alabama vs West Virginia GMAC Bowl - Central Michigan vs Notre Dame AT&T Cotton Bowl - Tennessee vs Nebraska Papajohns.com Bowl - North Texas vs Eastern Michigan BCS National Championship Game - LSU vs Penn St Bowl games in italics means their projection has changed We are still sitting at the Orange Bowl and Boise is in the Fiesta..
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01-16-2011, 12:42 AM | #154 |
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2013 Week 14 - Idaho
Senior day. My last day playing at home, in front of this crowd. I have been here for four years and the emotions I am feeling today are crazy. I want to perform, I want to play well. I want this game to be the best game I have ever played.
Idaho comes out running and throwing away from me. I could not become part of the play. I was getting frustrated, angered almost. It was the right thing to do for them though. Our offense again, nothing. In fact we went in at halftime down 3-0. It wasn't until late into the 3rd qtr when they decided to string some plays together to score. We then tacked another TD on in the 4th qtr and held on to this game to win 14 - 3. It was a win, but a disappointing one for me. My stats: 6 Tackles, 1 Tackle for Loss.
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01-16-2011, 12:47 AM | #155 |
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2013 Week 14 - Top 25
1. LSU
2. Miami 3. Oklahoma 4. Houston 5. Alabama 6. Boise St 7. Iowa 8. Penn St 9. Michigan 10. Texas 11. OSU 12. USC 13. Tennessee 14. Michigan St 15. West Virginia 16. Wake Forest 17. Stanford 18. Florida 19. UCLA 20. Oklahoma St 21. TCU 22. Washington 23. Oregon 24. Notre Dame 25. Central Michigan Central Michigan makes it back into the Top 25 while Penn St loses and drops themselves out of the National Championship. We move up to the 4 spot. LSU and/or Miami have to lose in order for us to get in. BYU ends up 8-4 with their last game being a loss to Central Michigan. UNLV finishes the season at 6-6 and they are bowl eligible, I hope they get an invite.
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01-16-2011, 12:54 AM | #156 |
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2013 Week 14 - Bowl Projections
New Mexico Bowl - UNLV vs Nevada
St. Petersburg Bowl - UAB vs North Carolina New Orleans Bowl - Memphis vs UL Lafayette Las Vegas Bowl - Washington vs TCU Poinsetta Bowl - Temple vs BYU Hawaii Bowl - Tulsa vs Western Kentucky Little Caesars Pizza Bowl - FIU vs Western Michigan Meineke Car Care Bowl - Florida St vs Toledo Emerald Bowl - Fresno State vs California Music City Bowl - Pittsburgh vs Duke Independence Bowl - Wyoming vs Clemson EagleBank Bowl - Kent State vs Navy Champs Sports Bowl - Louisville vs Georgia Tech Roady's Humanitarian Bowl - Utah vs San Jose State Holiday Bowl - Missouri vs UCLA Brut Sun Bowl - Oregon vs Virginia Tech Armed Forces Bowl - Marshall vs San Diego St AutoZone Liberty Bowl - Maryland vs UTEP Texas Bowl - Illinois vs USF Insight Bowl - Oklahoma St vs Michigan St Chic-fil-A Bowl - Ole Miss vs Wake Forest Outback Bowl - South Carolina vs Michigan Capital One Bowl - Florida vs Iowa Gator Bowl - Auburn vs OSU Rose Bowl - Penn St vs USC Fiesta Bowl - Texas vs West Virginia Alamo Bowl - Texas A&M vs Stanford Orange Bowl - Houston vs Alabama Sugar Bowl - Oklahoma vs Boise St GMAC Bowl - Central Michigan vs Notre Dame AT&T Cotton Bowl - Tennessee vs Nebraska Papajohns.com Bowl - North Texas vs Rutgers BCS National Championship Game - Miami vs LSU Bowl games in italics means their projection has changed Bring on Alabama...but I would like to end my career in the National Championship. Also, it looks like UNLV will more than likely get the invite!
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01-16-2011, 12:59 AM | #157 |
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2013 Week 15 - Top 25
1. LSU
2. Miami 3. Houston 4. Oklahoma 5. Boise St 6. Alabama 7. Penn St 8. Iowa 9. Michigan 10. Texas 11. OSU 12. USC 13. Tennessee 14. Michigan St 15. West Virginia 16. Wake Forest 17. Stanford 18. Florida 19. UCLA 20. Oklahoma St 21. Washington 22. Notre Dame 23. Central Michigan 24. Nebraska 25. Fresno St Wow, we just hit #3...We play Marshall for the conference championship while LSU plays Florida for the SEC Championship and Miami plays Wake Forest for the ACC Championship. If one of them lose, we are in the National Championship game if we win against Marshall.
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01-16-2011, 01:03 AM | #158 |
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2013 Week 15 - Bowl Projections
New Mexico Bowl - UNLV vs Nevada
St. Petersburg Bowl - UAB vs FIU New Orleans Bowl - Memphis vs UL Lafayette Las Vegas Bowl - Washington vs TCU Poinsetta Bowl - Temple vs BYU Hawaii Bowl - Marshall vs North Carolina Little Caesars Pizza Bowl - Wisconsin vs Western Michigan Meineke Car Care Bowl - Florida St vs Western Kentucky Emerald Bowl - Fresno State vs California Music City Bowl - Louisville vs Duke Independence Bowl - Wyoming vs Clemson EagleBank Bowl - Kent State vs Navy Champs Sports Bowl - Pittsburgh vs Georgia Tech Roady's Humanitarian Bowl - Utah vs San Jose State Holiday Bowl - Missouri vs UCLA Brut Sun Bowl - Oregon vs Virginia Tech Armed Forces Bowl - Tulsa vs San Diego St AutoZone Liberty Bowl - Maryland vs UTEP Texas Bowl - Illinois vs USF Insight Bowl - Oklahoma St vs Michigan St Chic-fil-A Bowl - Ole Miss vs Wake Forest Outback Bowl - South Carolina vs Michigan Capital One Bowl - Florida vs Iowa Gator Bowl - Auburn vs OSU Rose Bowl - Penn St vs USC Fiesta Bowl - Texas vs West Virginia Alamo Bowl - Texas A&M vs Stanford Orange Bowl - Oklahoma vs Boise St Sugar Bowl - Houston vs Alabama GMAC Bowl - Central Michigan vs Notre Dame AT&T Cotton Bowl - Tennessee vs Nebraska Papajohns.com Bowl - North Texas vs Rutgers BCS National Championship Game - Miami vs LSU Bowl games in italics means their projection has changed I like Boise in the Orange, we move to the Sugar and play Alabama...I hope LSU loses...
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01-16-2011, 01:34 AM | #159 |
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2013 Championship Week - CUSA Championship Marshall
Not much to say here. Win and you are in a BCS game. Win and LSU or Miami loses and you are in the National Championship game. We know what we have to do.
1st qtr - Not much to say here, we were able to score a FG and hold them scoreless 2nd qtr - We go off for 21 points, unfortunately Marshall goes off for 13. 3rd qtr - we are both scoreless in the third 4th qtr - We add another TD for a 31 - 13 victory My Stats: 5 Tackles, 1 Tackle for Loss Not a great game again, but that is what happens when they run and pass away from me.
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01-16-2011, 01:39 AM | #160 |
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2013 Championship Week - Top 25
1. Miami
2. Houston 3. Boise St 4. Oklahoma 5. Alabama 6. LSU 7. Penn St 8. Iowa 9. Michigan 10. Texas 11. OSU 12. USC 13. Tennessee 14. Michigan St 15. West Virginia 16. Florida 17. Stanford 18. UCLA 19. Oklahoma St 20. Washington 21. Wake Forest 22. Notre Dame 23. Central Michigan 24. Fresno St 25. Georgia Tech OMG! LSU drops the game to Florida! WE ARE GOING TO THE BCS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME! WE MADE IT! We ran off the field and watched the LSU/FLORIDA game from the locker room. When the game ended we went wild. The chant of BCS! BCS! echoed throughout the locker room. Not one of us could walk anywhere on campus after the games or we were mobbed by everyone, even professors. I am elated, shocked, surprised and excited all wrapped up into one...this game is big time and will determine my draft status for the NFL, not to mention set history here at Houston and for the conference, this is major.
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01-16-2011, 01:44 AM | #161 |
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2013 Bowl Games
New Mexico Bowl - UNLV vs Nevada
St. Petersburg Bowl - UAB vs FIU New Orleans Bowl - Memphis vs UL Lafayette Las Vegas Bowl - Washington vs TCU Poinsetta Bowl - Temple vs BYU Hawaii Bowl - Tulsa vs North Carolina Little Caesars Pizza Bowl - Wisconsin vs Kent State Meineke Car Care Bowl - Florida St vs Western Kentucky Emerald Bowl - Fresno State vs California Music City Bowl - Pittsburgh vs Duke Independence Bowl - Wyoming vs Clemson EagleBank Bowl - Western Michigan vs Navy Champs Sports Bowl - Louisville vs Wake Forest Roady's Humanitarian Bowl - Utah vs San Jose State Holiday Bowl - Missouri vs UCLA Brut Sun Bowl - Oregon vs Virginia Tech Armed Forces Bowl - Marshall vs San Diego St AutoZone Liberty Bowl - Maryland vs UTEP Texas Bowl - Illinois vs USF Insight Bowl - Oklahoma St vs Michigan St Chic-fil-A Bowl - Ole Miss vs Georgia Tech Outback Bowl - South Carolina vs Michigan Capital One Bowl - LSU vs Iowa Gator Bowl - Auburn vs OSU Rose Bowl - Penn St vs USC Fiesta Bowl - Texas vs Alabama Alamo Bowl - Texas A&M vs Stanford Orange Bowl - Boise St vs Oklahoma Sugar Bowl - Florida vs West Virginia GMAC Bowl - Central Michigan vs Notre Dame AT&T Cotton Bowl - Tennessee vs Nebraska Papajohns.com Bowl - North Texas vs Rutgers BCS National Championship Game - Houston vs Miami UNLV makes a bowl game and will play their rival, Nevada. And if you haven't heard by now....the 2013 HOUSTON COUGARS are going to the BCS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP!
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01-16-2011, 01:49 AM | #162 |
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2013 Award Winners
The following Houston Cougars have brought home some hardware:
Bednarik OLB Nicholas Thomas Nagurski OLB Nicholas Thomas Lombardi LE Lee Nance Best LB OLB Nicholas Thomas That's three straight seasons of winning the awards for me! It's a historic achievement and has never been done before, the press won't stop blowing my phone up. The agents won't quit and everyone is starting to bother me. I have a game to focus on.
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01-16-2011, 01:51 AM | #163 |
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2013 Bowl Game Results
New Mexico Bowl - UNLV vs Nevada
St. Petersburg Bowl - UAB vs FIU New Orleans Bowl - Memphis vs UL Lafayette Las Vegas Bowl - Washington vs TCU Poinsetta Bowl - Temple vs BYU Hawaii Bowl - Tulsa vs North Carolina Little Caesars Pizza Bowl - Wisconsin vs Kent State Meineke Car Care Bowl - Florida St vs Western Kentucky Emerald Bowl - Fresno State vs California Music City Bowl - Pittsburgh vs Duke Independence Bowl - Wyoming vs Clemson EagleBank Bowl - Western Michigan vs Navy Champs Sports Bowl - Louisville vs Wake Forest Roady's Humanitarian Bowl - Utah vs San Jose State Holiday Bowl - Missouri vs UCLA Brut Sun Bowl - Oregon vs Virginia Tech Armed Forces Bowl - Marshall vs San Diego St AutoZone Liberty Bowl - Maryland vs UTEP Texas Bowl - Illinois vs USF Insight Bowl - Oklahoma St vs Michigan St Chic-fil-A Bowl - Ole Miss vs Georgia Tech Outback Bowl - South Carolina vs Michigan Capital One Bowl - LSU vs Iowa Gator Bowl - Auburn vs OSU Rose Bowl - Penn St vs USC Fiesta Bowl - Texas vs Alabama Alamo Bowl - Texas A&M vs Stanford Orange Bowl - Boise St vs Oklahoma Sugar Bowl - Florida vs West Virginia GMAC Bowl - Central Michigan vs Notre Dame AT&T Cotton Bowl - Tennessee vs Nebraska Papajohns.com Bowl - North Texas vs Rutgers BCS National Championship Game - Houston vs Miami Teams in bold are the winners of their bowl game.
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01-16-2011, 12:32 PM | #164 |
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2013 BCS National Championship - Miami
What a feeling, the National Championship game is at the Rose Bowl this season. I thought it was loud when we have played there in the past, this was deafening. There was a constant hum all night and it was basically earth shaking when anything big happened.
I feel surprisingly at ease, I talked coach into letting my brother on the sideline for the game and he was able to get the pass, I think it helped to have someone that had been in this situation before next to me. Coach didn't say much before the game other than he was truly proud of us and how we came together as a team and didn't let adversity get in our way this season. I grabbed Pedro, Lee and Anthony and pulled them aside. These three are brothers to me. The bond we created over the past two years has been amazing. We talked about how awesome it would be to win this one. We know it's a battle and then them carrying on the legacy for the next few years and relaying that to the incoming freshman. We run out on the field and the crowd erupts, Boise set the precedence for non-aq schools we are going to perfect it. 1st QTR - Miami is in control on defense as they shut our offense down. Their first series they march down and score a TD on us with me blowing my coverage, I bit on the play action. Miami is up 7-0 2nd QTR - Just after the second quarter begins we punt it. I am breaking down the field at full speed and their return man catches it without a fair catch signal and I smile as I unload on him. He fumbles the ball and Scott scoops it up and runs the 10 yards into the end zone for a TD. 7-7 3rd QTR - It's back and forth for most of the qtr, then our offense takes advantage of a few mistakes and ends up scoring a TD through a nice march down the field with two deep attacks. 14 - 7 4th QTR - Miami comes out in the 4th with a solid attack and quickly ties the game up. We take the kickoff and move the ball down the field scoring on a deep attack taking the lead 21-14. Miami starts from their 15 and we stuff their first play, Second down they run a draw play and gain six yards. Third down I blitz from the outside and get the critical sack and setting them at a 4th and 15. There is a trade of punts and then Michael Hartman breaks a 60 yard TD run for us with a minute left in the game basically securing the win as we move to 28 -14. We play a prevent defense holding them, but they do manage to score a TD as time almost expires. We win! WE WIN! 28-21 The field is chaos and everyone and their dog swarm it. Pedro and I give coach a Gatorade bath and he hugs me and says he can't wait to watch what I do in the NFL. My brother and I hug and he pushes me out to the field and sits on the sideline like this is old hat for him. I run out with my team mates and we celebrate. The trophy presentation was amazing, holding that crystal egg and hoisting it in the air. The other shocker was the announcement of the MVP. I don't know what the committee was smoking but naming me MVP of the game was crazy I thought. But watching Erin Andrews and Herbstreit talking about my play later that night, I don't think it was far fetched. Hoisting that trophy up was an amazing feeling. My Stats: 12 Tackles, 2 Tackles for Loss, 1 Sack, 1 Forced Fumble My 2013 final stats 92 Tackles 25 Tackles for Loss 16 Assisted 12 QB Sacks 1 Interception 0 TD 1 Pass Deflection 8 Forced Fumbles 1 Fumble Recovery
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01-16-2011, 12:32 PM | #165 |
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2013 Final Top 25
1. Houston
2. Oklahoma 3. Alabama 4. Miami 5. Iowa 6. Boise St 7. Penn St 8. Michigan 9. LSU 10. OSU 11. Texas 12. Tennessee 13. Florida 14. Oklahoma St 15. USC 16. Wake Forest 17. West Virginia 18. Notre Dame 19. Michigan St 20. TCU 21. Florida St 22. San Diego St 23. Clemson 24. Missouri 25. Central Michigan
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01-16-2011, 12:44 PM | #166 |
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The Career and The Future
What now? I think we all pretty much know I am going to the NFL, right now I am projected as a top 10 pick and some of the pundits imagine me starting as a rookie as well. I do not have that much faith, I watched my brother play and saw what he had to do.
Take what we went through in college and crank it up about two to three times more and we have the NFL. In fact, he was talking about retiring already due to the demands it calls upon his body. As I sit back and think about how fortuitous we have been as a family and how much football has meant to us and what it provided has been pretty amazing. Looking back at my career in college I wouldn't change a thing, not even what school I went to. I know my dad wanted me to go to BYU but they showed zero interest in me and I didn't want the family to pay for school. My career achievements have been thrown around for the past few weeks as we lead up to the combine. My Career Stats 3 INTs 2 PD 321 Tackles 65 Assisted 34 Sacks 91 Tackles for Loss 3 time Nagurski, Bednarik and LB of the year award recipient...
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01-16-2011, 12:46 PM | #167 |
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That concludes this dynasty, I am more than likely going to get Madden 11 and port Nicholas over to it and will continue Nicks career into the pros.
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01-16-2011, 08:30 PM | #168 |
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This was a fun read, thanks for doing it
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01-16-2011, 09:42 PM | #169 |
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Fantastic finish. Sweet way to end the senior season.
I'm proud of UNLV for making a bowl game, even though we lost to those asshats from Reno.
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Thanks for reading...I truly enjoyed it.
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The finish was awesome, seeing the other players on the team with me as award finalists were cool. The championship to be honest was unexpected. I was slowly rooting for UNLV and may coach them in the game...
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This was a fun read; thanks for writing it. What a storybook finish!
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