Photo Attribution: US Presswire
Winners: Stillwater Medical accounts receivable (x-rays are expensive), JW Walsh, the potential of #Walsh2Stewart, hype for OSU-Texas, Fox Sports Southwest viewers (unintentional comedy was high), redheads (the sun never shone), nearly deaf people (speakers on GIA at 100,000 decibals), and Todd Monken (you could put a neanderthal behind center and he’d hang fiddy on anybody in the country (except Arizona)).
Losers: Wes Lunt fans (OSU folks have only seen him take 26 snaps at home…), tailgaters, Gundy’s haircut, Shaun Lewis (0 tackles?), Robert Allen (he cried on the sidelines when Hedgepeth got injured?), and Louisiana’s Sun Belt title chances (they’ve got multiple squads that are rolling through the SEC, I saw none of that from them yesterday).
Best play: The first Walsh to Stewart TD was pretty special. Video below…
Worst play: Yeah…duh.
Best player: Daytawion Lowe isn’t getting any credit and he was awesome (4 tackles | 1 TFL | 1 sack) but I gotta go Walsh — he was everything you want a back QB with a chip on his shoulder to be, and for a running QB he had quite a game in the air1. Also, Kye Staley played really well.
Worst player: I didn’t feel like Jeremy Smith played his best game. Only averaged 5 yards per carry with no touchdowns and never really made you feel like he was going to bust one.
“God, why?!” moment: Well…this.
Uniform Heisman: Shaun Lewis — I liked the white cleats and the neck/head pad thingy. He always looks sharp. The black-orange-orange grew on me as the game went on too. Our old orange-orange combo was just horrendous but this one wasn’t too bad because of the white/black accent and the sick black helmet. B- overall.
Quote: “I got no idea. I didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night, I don’t know.” – Monken on Lunt’s injury (via @benallenkosu)
Other quote: “Walsh was ready and even though he is a freshman, he ran the offense like a pro. He had a great game.” – Mark Hudspeth (Louisiana coach)
Photo of the game: Joe Randle’s Simba impression.
Other photo of the game: Why was Walter White coaching for Louisiana?
U mad bro?! photo of the game: Here.
Twitter account: Yes, we have a @WesLuntsKnee. Oh my, and this one too.
- Zac Robinson only had five career 300+ yard passing games. Walsh already has one in two appearances (zero starts). ↩
Shaun Lewis may not have had a stat line, but he may have had the hit of the day. On louisiana’s first play after the attempted onside kick Lewis read a bubble screen play and fought through the block of a slot receiver and absolutely blew up the receiver trying to catch the ball simultaneousl with the ball. That doesn’t show up as a tackle (or pass breakup?) but it was a very nice play.
You gotta be kidding me,Jeremy Smith the worst player,well when you limited to less then ten Carries a game so a certain runningback can get his 20 touches and a touchdown,against a less then importabt opponent then,I guess you have to give the worst player to someone
(Typo)Important opponent
I almost cried when I saw Hedgepath go down because I feared what it was right away. I ruptured my Achilles five months ago, and let me tell you, it’s a horrible injury to go through. 6 weeks in a cast, 6 weeks in a boot, and learning to walk again… I’m pretty far ahead of schedule, but I’m nowhere near where I was athletically before the injury. I can’t imagine going through that injury three times… feel so bad for the guy. When the awesome announcers were joking about “the turf monster” getting him, I was sold on the idea that they are idiots.
In the “Player of Game” Verizon vote deal in the stadium, Lowe won like 70-30 over JW. So he is getting some(?) credit.