Second half blog: 9-0 Ball State at Miami Ohio

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We will host you a live blog for the second half of the Ball State-Miami OH game as the Ball State Cardinals look to continue their undefeated season they are 9-0 as Miami Ohio keeping it close. Nate Davis the great Ball State quarterback is in for another great day of passing. For some reason coveritlive live blog wont post on here we will keep you updated with play by play stats

8:18: After consective timeouts called by Miami Ohio, Ball State hits a 46 yard field goal as the first half ends its a good one 17-13 9-0 Ball State leads the Hawks. A very fast paced first half only lasting litte over 70 minutes

8:38: Ball State gets ball first here in second half with Nate Davis and Lewis to take the ball.

8:42: FUMBLE Miami Ohio recovers can this be the spark they needed?

8:44: screen play to Andre Blatton short of the first 34rd and about 1 to go…

8:45: Chris Givens rushes first down not by much as they dont even measure it

8:46 another Miami OH line man goes out second on this drive and the Hawks are banged up a couple of red shirted freshman’s come in for replacement.

8:47 big run Merriweather gain of 19 down to the Ball State 16 14 carries for 55 yards so far in this game

8:49 a costly time out used by Miami of Ohio with 11 mins left in the third quarter

8:51 Pass incomplete on third and eigth and another field goal try to come for Red Hawks

8:52 MIAMI FIELD GOAL IS GOOD 17-16 Ball State 10:48 left in third quarter

8:55 Miquale Lewis 40+ yard rush and Ball State is moving the ball after being pinned into own 12 yard line to start the drive.

8:56 Long Pass Nate Davis to Ors big gain to the 1 yard line first and goal.  They will review to see if he was in for the touchdown the call wathe knee hit the ground at the 1 yard line

8:57 Call Stands first and goal at the 1 yard line for Ball State

8:58 Lewis on the call is pushed back 2nd and goal as Miami U calls their 2nd time out very costly with 1 to go and a big half yet to go

9:01 Miquale Lewis takes it in 1 yard out for his 16th rushing touchdown for the season TOUCHDOWN BALL STATE PAT GOOD 24-16 CARDINALS. Lewis has scored at lease one TD in 8 straight games.

9:04 Daniel Raudabaugh who has been accurate tonight screen to Jamal Rogers first down and few mroe yards on the play.

9:06 Raudabaugh was benched three weeks ago in favor of freshman QB Clay Belton has completed 19 of 28 passes tonight.

9:07 Bad call a run on 3rd and a long 9 by JR taylor goes no where a punt coming up

9:16 Davis and Ball State on the move again after a big 3rd down covers ion from Davis to Daniel Ifft they are in Red hawk Territory.

9:17 Davis rushes on third down and gets over the first down marker and takes a pop after a big conversion

9:18 Nate Davis is picked off! Joey Hudson returns it inside  the 45 first down Miami U!

9:21 Miami U does nothing after the itnerception they lost two yards and went three and out and has to punt it away bad break.

9:24 Thats the end of 3 from Oxford 9-0 Ball State leads Miami Ohio 24-16 as they quest for 10-0 record.

9:30 Nate Davis completes pass to Myles Trempe on 3rd and long first down keeps the drive going. Ball state 5 of 6 on third downs tonight.

9:33 Lewis carry goes no where  now another third down situation 3rd and 2

9:33 and… another third down conversion first and goal as Ball State looks to pull and put this game away.

9:35 Miquale Lewis takes the pitch right and powers it in.

9:35 Touchdown Miquale Lewis 31-16 Ball State  

9:38 Dont count Miami out only down by 15 a TD with PAT and need a defensive stop and a score with 2 pt conversion would tie this baby up.

9:41 Ball State getting ready for big showdown against Central Michigan enxt week but they gotta keep the focus as Miami OH is still in it with 8:07 left inthe game

9:44 4TH down and a very long 6 inside the 35 of Ball State no Timeouts

9:44 They go for it blitz pick up Raudabaugh pass to wide open Armand Robbinson who bobbles and drops it in the endzone that could wrap it up…

4TH DOWN PLAY DROPPED IN THE ENDZONE 1ST AND 10 BALL STATE TAKES OVER LEADING 31-16 WITH LESS THAN 7 minutes LEFT IN THE GAME. Remember MIAMI U has no TO’S LEFT they used them all early in the third quarter.

9:51 Ball ST gets stopped and their punt is Partly Blocked

9:53 Raudabaugh pass to the tight end Jake O’Connell complete over the middlemedium gain first down

9:56 Run with Merriweather is stopped no gain 4th and 1 3:15 mark left in game.

9:57 Raudabaugh pass is off the hands of Jamal Rogers falls incomplete and Ball State takes over on Downs and that will wrap it up 10-0 for Ball State. The throw was very catchable.

Nate Davis takes a couple of kneels and this one is over Ball State staretd slowy but found it late and goes to 10-0 on the season with a 31-16 win voer 2-7 Miami OF OHIO Red Hawks. Good night as we shut it down. Check back Thursday live blog of ACC showdown Virginia tech battles Miami Canes in the Orange Bowl.

 

College Gameday to be at Hampton-FAMU game

ESPN College Gameday will be televised at the FAMU campus starting at 10 AM before the FAMU Rattlers 1 PM game against Hampton University. FAMU will become the first black school to host the program. The game has been changed from 3:15 to 1 due to Women’s Basketball game on Saturday.

There could have been lots of games to cover for College Gameday like ACC battles Maryland vs North Carolina ,Boston College vs Florida State and Florida vs South Carolina and Navy-Notre Dame

Penn State loss forces shake up in BCS Standings

Heres the BCS Standings that were released Sunday afternoon looks a bit diffrent after Penn State’s 24-23 upset loss in Iowa City Saturday:

1. Alabama 10-0

2. Texas Tech 10-0

3. Texas 9-1

4. Florida 8-1

5. Oklahoma 9-1

6. USC 8-1

7. Utah 10-0

8. Penn State 9-1

9. Boise State 9-0

10. Georgia 8-2

11. Ohio State 8-2

12. Missouri 8-2

13. Oklahoma State 8-2

14. Ball State 9-0

15. Michigan State 9-2

16. North Carolina 7-2

17. BYU 9-1

18. TCU 9-2

19. Florida State 7-2

20. LSU 6-3

21. Pitt 7-2

22. Cincinnati 7-2

23. Tulsa 8-1

24. Wake Forest 6-3

25. South Carolina 7-3

Newly looked Poll released (AP poll)

AP Top 25 Poll:

1. Alabama (44) 10-0 1,604

2. Texas Tech (21) 10-0 1,574

3. Florida 8-1 1,467

4. Texas 9-1 1,437

5. Oklahoma 9-1 1,375

6. USC 8-1 1,311

7. Penn State 9-1 1,161

8. Utah 10-0 1,157

9. Boise State 9-0 1,110

10. Ohio State 8-2 1,009

11. Oklahoma State 8-2 963

12. Missouri 8-2 913

13. Georgia 8-2 880

14. Ball State 9-0 677

15. TCU 9-2 623

16. Brigham Young 9-1 602

17. North Carolina 7-2 597

18. Michigan State 9-2 584

19. LSU 6-3 552

20. Florida State 7-2 380

21. Pittsburgh 7-2 318

22. Cincinnati 7-2 269

23. Oregon State 6-3 124

24. South Carolina 7-3 117

25. Tulsa 8-1 84

Iowa tops Penn State,Tech blasts Oklahoma State,Bama survives Lsu,will meet Florida in Sec championship game

Week 11 of the College Football season is in the books and a dream for PSU has died after a upset in Iowa City. Texas Tech proved their selves again crushing Oklahoma State 56-20 in Lubbock and Bama survives LSU in a OTthriller in Baton Rouge to secure the top spot.

Early games: Michigan vs Minnesota for the little Brown Jug, Michigan played their best game all season long when they kept Minnesota to kick only two Fields as Michigan retained the brown jug in a 29-6 win over the Gophers. Michigan is now 3-7 on the season and Minnesota has fallen two weeks in  row now a 7-3 record and have Wisconsin and Iowa on the schedule to end the season they could finish with A 4 game losing streak and a small bowl game.

Ohio State vs Northwestern at Ryan Field, This was like a home game for Ohio State because 2/3 of the stands was Buckeye faithful. Buckeyes rolled over the Wildcats 45-10 as Beanie Wells had a nice day rushing.

Georgia Tech at North Carolina a great ACC game both teams are still in the race and UNC played great defense as they beat the Yellow Jackets 28-7 Tobacco road.

Penn State has their NC wishes burned when Iowa kicker Murray legged a 31 yard Fg to win the game and shock the Lions 24-23 in Iowa City.

Alabama survives as #1 when they beat LSU in an OT thriller 27-21 when John Parker Wilson sneaked in from 1 yard out to win in Saban’s return to Baton Rouge.

Texas Tech crushed oklahoma State 56-20 as Graham Harrell completed 40-50 passes as they may jump Bama  the # 1 spot.

Thursday night recaps: Evans rushes for school record in VT 23-13 win,Late TD seals Utah 13-10 victory

   In Blacksburg Thursday night the Virginia Tech Hokies hosted the streaky Maryland Terps who has been horrendous in one game and great on the following week. Virginia Tech beat Maryland with the effort of tailback Darren Evans who rushed for a school record with 253 yards on the ground while scoring a touchdown. Virginia Tech also played tremendous defense holding the terps to 13 points on the night. Hokies came into the game without deciding who their starting quarterback would be but it ended up being Sean Glennon who was also great 14 of 20 on the night over 100 yards of passing 1 TD pass.

Hokies struck first after a missed FG by Maryland when Greg Boone took a 5 yard pass from Sean Glennon into the end zone for the first points of the game. After Maryland connected with a 41 yarder to cut the lead to 7-3 Evans responded with a 1 yard plunge to put VT up 14-3 a later FG would put them up 17-3 heading to the break.

With Virginia Tech leading 20-3 the momentum suddenly changed in the second half. Maryland got right back into the game when Chris Turner hit Darrius-Heyward-Bey for an 63 yard TD pass they got an Field goal from 27 to cut the Hokie lead to 7 points. Dustin Keys put the game away with a field goal as Virginia Tech beats NO.23 ranked Maryland Terrapins. One of the reasons that MD did not win this ball game was because they Had negative 12 yards of rushing WOWZER! _________________________________________________________________________________________________

10-0 Utah Utes survive TCU with a late TD pass with 0.48 ticks left in the game from Salt Lake City in Utah. Utah # 8 spoils a great season by TCU # 12 by a score of 13-10. Two missed field goals by Ross Evans in the second half  hurt the Horn frogs. Tcu came out gunning with Dalton as they jumped on BCS busting Utah Utes with a 10-0 lead on a Evans FG and a 3 yard TD run by Ryan Christian to top the Utes 10-0. Utah connected with a FG late in the first and another as time expired at the end of the first half to trail 10-6 into half time.

The pair of missed field goals of the boot of Ross Evans came back and stung them when Brian Johnson led Utes to a big drive to win the game. TCU gave Utah free yardage after a pass interference of 15 yards to keep the hope alive. Frogs nearly had stopped Utah facing a fourth and 5 as time ticking under a minute Brian Johson completed pass to Brown for 11 yards converting the huge fourth down play. On the 15 of the Frogs Johnson found Brown again in the end zone for the go-ahead and finally the winning touchdown.

Tcu was left with 47 seconds to go down 3 need a FG to tie TD to win. Dalton completed a few passes to drive up field but than was sniffed out on Fourth down Dalton threw a long pass down field which was picked off by Robert Johnson the fine Utah safety to seal up the victory 13-10 Utah the winners

Ball State remains undefeated with 45-14 rout on Huskies

Ball State remained undefeated when they rolled over Northern Illinois last night in Munchie they are one of six remaining undefeated teams left in the FBS. Nate the great Davis had another super night for the Cardinals as he ripped up the Huskies defense. He only attempted 22 passes but completed 18 of the 22 for 300 yards and 4 TD thrown on the night WOW! The touchdown pass he has thrown a touchdown pass in 25 of last 26 games played.

Ball State also was successful on the ground Miquale Lewis took the ball 19 times and pounded out 119 yards on the night and had a total of 191 rushing yards. He is now over 1,100 yards of rushing on the long season.

Ball State had the game in hand with three touchdowns in the first half to take a lead of 21-0 into the break. They continued to roll IN the second half to put up 24 more points to go on and clobber Northern Illinois by a score of 45-14 Wednesday night. As the air raid of Nate Davis was to much for a banged up Husky defense Nate Davis added “The biggest thing is we’ve got to keep our heads straight.”

Ball State will look to continue for their undefeated BCS hopes when they play their second of four straight mid week games when they face Miami of Ohio who is 2-7 on the season.

                            *** Akron 47 Toledo 30**

The other game was a MAC conference matchup very queitly played 47-30 Zips topped Toledo in a slugfest.

Bill Stull likely to take over for Bostick vs Louisville

The return of Bill Stull who is coming off an concussion will probably start vs Louisville on Saturday which means  that Pat Bostick will be the backup quarterback once again. Bostick the sophomore quarterback out of Lancaster Pennsylvania led Pittsburgh to their two biggest wins in last two seasons at #2 WVU last season and at Notre Dame last week. Of course he wasn’t the player that won the game in South Bend but he didn’t lose the game either. Bostick was 14 for 27 in the Pitt 36-33 4 OTin last week vs the Fighting Irish.

Bill Stull commented that he is cleared to play and he will be the guy taking the snaps when Pittsburgh hosts Louisville Cardinals 12 o’clock at Heinz Field. Bill Stull is only a Junior and he has been injured twice in the last two seasons.

Willy,Starks lift Bulls to third consective win

Buffalo Bulls rid the legs of tailback James Starks and the arm of Quarterback Drew Willy to win their fifth game of the season and is now the favorite to win the MAC East and meet Ball State in the conference game in December. Buffalo beat Miami of Ohio 37-17 on Tuesday night in UB Stadium Amherst,NY.

Tailback James Starks carried the ball on the ground 26 times and gained 177 yards on the night and scoring two touchdowns. Including a 62 yard scamper that capped the win for the Bulls. Drew Willy UB QB made history completed 18 of 29 passes threw two touchdown passes to tie  Marty Barrett for the Buffalo all-time record with  his 44th career touchdown pass

Buffalo struck first after Willy scored on a 1-yard plunge set up by a 36-yard completion to Roosevelt that was first ruled a touchdown. Miami of Ohio responded quickly with a Nathan Parseghian field goal to make the score 7-3. But Buffalo struck back when Drew Willy connected with target receiver Naaman Roosevelt  for a 34 yard score 14-3 Bulls lead.

The Red hawks didn’t go down without a fight they trailed the Bulls 21-10 at half. Miami’s Clay Belton was 17 for 30 for 178 and ran for a TD in the game before leaving the game with an injury. Back up quarterback for the Red Birds came in to finish the game and completed 8 of his 14 passes in the game.

A interesting note of the game was Both teams were given an NCAA exemption to wear their home colors for the Election Night game. Miami donned its home reds and Buffalo its traditional royal blues to reflect the 2004 election results of both school’s home states.

Phil Fulmer steps down,Will not coach Tennessee in 2009

  Tennessee head coach Phil Fulmer,58 steps down today after several weeks of being on the hot seat. Fulmer the same coach who a decade ago won Tennesse their first ever National championship in 47 years previous. The report broke out late this morning that he will not return to coach the volunteers in 2009 season. Fulmer has won 150 games in his coaching career  with Tenneesse. Fulmer and Volunteer officals and agreed to setp down from the job.

Phil Fulmer had a speaking conference with his wife by his side the broken-hearted Phil Fulmer commented by saying  love Tennessee too much to let her be that divided,” Fulmer said, “therefore I accepted Tennessee’s decision that this be my last season as football coach.”

It’s about our energy, the looks in our eyes, our demeanor and how we approach it in meetings and film sessions,” Fulmer said about his coaching staff, according to the Tennessean. “We’re professionals and we have and we will continue to be looking forward to playing.”

We wish the best of luck to Phil Fulmer and his Family