Anyone watching this ending? USC scores to take the lead, 35-34. Stanford driving right down the field .... .08 seconds to go...on USC 10yd line.

yep

Stanford for the win! 37-35! Guess "all that talent" some thought USC had isn't coming through. Two weeks in a row USC loses on final seconds!

Harbaugh is doing a great job at Stanford. Luck might be best QB in country. Nice game ending drive with about 1 min to go.

Anyone else notice the clock snafu that helped Stanford out tremendously?

Kiffin will be out of there in 3 years...

What happened to that stable of RB's USC had and all those recruits? I looked at the stats for the game and there was nothing resembling a running game.

Oh well.

Once USC fires Kiffin and is no longer on probation they will build it back up.

Footwedge;514275 wrote:Anyone else notice the clock snafu that helped Stanford out tremendously?

Helped stanford out? Huh? It almost gave USC a last ditch return chance. The clock stopped early for no reason at all, stanford was prepared to call the time out at 4... but it stopped at 7 after only taking off 1 second for a play.

The clock snafu was weird, but it wasn't in Stanford's favor.

Footwedge;514275 wrote:Anyone else notice the clock snafu that helped Stanford out tremendously?

Which one? When the clock didn't run on the play where Luck centered the ball? Stanford had a timeout left, it didn't help them tremendously.

Footwedge;514275 wrote:Anyone else notice the clock snafu that helped Stanford out tremendously?

WTF are you talking about? lol Nothing helped out Stanford "tremendously".

Could be when USC was driving for the go ahead touchdown and they reviewed the spot on Bradford's run to the 3 yard line. When they came back they didn't start the clock, and USC scored on the next play, so it saved Stanford a good 20-30 seconds.

I don't remember seeing the clock not moving. Was it possible USC took a timeout so the booth had more time to look at it before calling for the official review of the spot?

The original spot gave them a first down, so I don't know why USC would want them to look at it and take it away.

Cleveland Buck;514295 wrote:Could be when USC was driving for the go ahead touchdown and they reviewed the spot on Bradford's run to the 3 yard line. When they came back they didn't start the clock, and USC scored on the next play, so it saved Stanford a good 20-30 seconds.

This. CBF wasn't paying attention.

karen lotz;514299 wrote:I don't remember seeing the clock not moving. Was it possible USC took a timeout so the booth had more time to look at it before calling for the official review of the spot?

I double checked the ESPN play by play for the 4th quarter before I posted. Neither team called a time out after this play. The refs never started the clock and it was a bad snafu. With that said, Kiffin deserves part of the blame here for not alerting the officials.

A team with a good sense of time management would have allowed a full 25 seconds to run before snapping the ball. The reason was 2fold...

1. USC had plenty of time to run 4 plays...even after running the clock down to 45 seconds.

2. Giving Luck a minute plus was asking or a loss...given the nature of the game.