re: CFB various games thread Friday 9/25/26

Cignetti after the game “look how deep the Big 10 is.”

I do like Northwestern though

Why did NW not call TO after 2nd down? Either way they will need a TD and time on the clock.

Not ready to call Indiana garbage, they lost the #1 overall pick, but everyone ready to lift cignetti into Saban tier looks like an idiot.

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Indiana’s offense sucks. They are missing all the skill guys from last year

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They have 2 WRs who are projected first rounders

I worried he would bounce outside with it.

They got away from the run after Turbo went down and Hoover is pretty average. If they would have stayed committed to the run I think they would have won more comfortably

Beautiful play, sadly.

What a joke that this wasn’t ruled out of bounds

There is no video evidence to overturn that my man. Zero

That is a joke ya know

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2 minute "timeout" sounds funny since we've heard 2 minute "warning" our whole lives, but in actuality, "timeout" sounds more appropriate than some "warning". Who are we warning? Why are we warning

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I asked ChatGPT about the origin of the two minute “warning”:

The “two-minute warning” got its name because, originally, it really was a warning to the teams that roughly two minutes remained in the half.

In the NFL’s early decades, the official game clock was kept by an on-field official, while stadium clocks weren’t necessarily considered authoritative. So the referee would stop play near the two-minute mark and notify both teams how much time officially remained. That became known naturally as the two-minute warning.

As stadium timing became standardized and everyone could clearly see the official clock, the warning was no longer necessary as an actual time notification. But the NFL kept the stoppage, and it evolved into an important strategic break—and, eventually, a convenient television commercial break.