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Balogun was in on goal. He beat the defender and was about to score.
No red card. No penalty. No yellow card. No foul. No review.
The bizarre thing is that Fox Sports showed a replay that began just AFTER the defender let go of the arm. So weird. How could the officials miss this? And how could the TV crew miss it as well? @USMNT
Top 15 QBs in Heisman odds - CJ Carr has the most 90+ QBR game performances so far (4 of 5 games). Keelon Russell and Julian Sayin both have three. Carr is also the only QB that is among the leaders in Passing TDs, Interceptions and Sacks per game. See the Per Game "green cells". Key: Green-Excellent. No Color-Good. Yellow-Not great. Red-Bad. @NDFootball @AlabamaFTBL @OhioStateFB
Last season, Notre Dame was way up on Pitt in November. Pete Narduzzi kept his starters in and threw five times on the last possession. They scored a long passing TD with 0:00 on the clock. ND won by 22, rather than by 29. Then Miami played Pitt. Miami had a big lead. Did they rest their starters? Nope. Carson Beck was slinging it until the end. Miami scored on a long Beck throw on 2nd and 3... with 21 seconds to go...winning by 31 rather than by 24. Then, ESPN and the rest of the media went to work...chanting that Miami had beaten Pitt by more than Notre Dame did.
ND is not taking their foot off anyone's neck this season. Sorry, but not sorry.
I remember Colin Cowherd, for example. He was saying the ND and Miami had 4 common opponents, but Miami had outscored the other team by more in 3 of 4 games. Well, ND blew out all 4 of those teams by margins of 22, 29, 29 and 63. But Pitt scored with 0:00 on the clock. Otherwise, it would have been 2-2 rather than 3-1. Keep in mind that these were all blowouts AND ND's total margin of victory across those games was 15 points MORE than Miami's... I know it seems ridiculous, but this stuff matters in today's environment... in a sport where there is so much money at stake and the Committee members have huge interests in supporting teams in their own conferences.
The key objective for Notre Dame last night was limiting big runs by their QB, Colton Joseph. Joseph rushed for more than 1,000 yards last season. He had 179 yards on 10 carries (2 TDs) against Indiana. ND held him to 3 yards on 12 carries last night… total deletion of Wisconsin’s key weapon. @NDFootball
No FCS team has beaten a ranked FBS team in 5 years. They are, effectively fake games. Should FBS teams be punished for playing these games? Ban them from the playoff? Disallow them from qualifying for their conference's playoff auto-bid? The auto-bid justification has been that "they had to play an extra game". Well, there are 17 Power 4 Top 25 teams with fake games on the schedule this season. In addition, there are two ranked teams (USC and Penn State) with THREE Group of 6 games on their schedules. Should they be punished? How?
Note that 7 teams in the Top 25 have not scheduled FBS teams. They should be commended (as long as they didn't schedule a slew of Group of 6's).
Notre Dame is on the most dominant high school recruiting run of any team over the last decade. NIL has changed things. Teams like Alabama and Georgia can no longer land the #1 or #2 classes year after year. The playing field has been leveled. What matters now (for high school recruiting) is which teams can sustain the best recruiting relative to the others. I think you should look at teams over a 2-year stretch. Why? Some programs have an an "NIL push" for a year but a drop off the next season. Take USC. Their 2026 class was #1, but they are #13 for 2027. Or A&M. They are #1 in 2027 but they were #8 in 2026. The picture shows all the teams that averaged 10.0 or better for any 2-year period over the last 10 years. Notre Dame's performance over the last 2 years (compared to the 2nd place team over the same period) is the largest margin for any #1 over #2 in the last decade. @NDFootball @NDrecruiting01
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FYI for Norway supporters - don’t get excited about any goal on a corner or that is scored in traffic. It will be overturned. Norway needs to score on a long strike or a 1v1.
And there is zero chance you will get a pk in this match. Forget about that.
FIFA controls the video feed. When a play like that happens and they don’t show the replay in live-speed, it means the call will go in favor of the preferred team…every single time.
The VAR official and the referee are supposed to use live speed video, not slow motion. Slow motion accentuates contact like this - there is always pushing on a corner. The English player was attempting to draw the foul. No full-speed video means England, France, Spain or Argentina is about to get a call.
Confirmation. FIFA waits until after the half and shows the play from the end of the pitch and zoomed way out. Now, they can say they showed the love-speed video when they really didn’t. It didn’t matter what they showed on our screens there. Why not show the closeup you showed repeatedly but in real speed? Huh FIFA? In recent years, it has become obvious that FIFA places their toe on the scale for a select group of teams.