Thoughts on Oregon State's win over BSU

Photos from the game

Wow. I finally got my voice back. That was an amazing college football game. Great comeback. The hail, driving rain, and general wetness certainly made it a memorable game. I thought the turning point was when the hail started to come down in the second quarter. It sort of slowed the Broncos down a bit and let us get our feet under us. Even so, the weather almost hurt us more than it helped us. Missed tackles for loss in the backfield and fumbles can be at least partially attributed to the weather. Such a great win and great game.

I'm happy with Matt Moore at quarterback. I think he has won over Beaver Nation and his teammates. Good job Matt. I think Yvenson Bernard had a good game. He rushed hard and well all game. I think if we called more running plays, Bernard would have more running yards and the running game would be average at least. Bernard really helped us today with his long run, the 5 yard touchdown run where he wouldn't be denied, and the end of the game getting a consistent 3 yards every time we handed it off to him. Finally, the recievers did very well today. Mike Hass is always awesome. Hawkins was great. And AWB did well even with his injury from last week lingering.

The defense was having trouble this game tackling and covering the wide recievers pretty much all first half. They figured it out in the 4th quarter though and that's all that mattered. They will have better games than they had today, but they did enough at the right time to get a win. Keenan Lewis is solid at CB. He made some very good plays swatting the ball away in the end zone twice. Lawson is a work in progress, but I think his toughest problem is his height. He needs to get more physical on the line to slow the recievers down to make up for his height. The D-line was better this game as we pressured the QB as the game went on.

The special teams were about as bad as it could get. Coverage problems, snaps, and fumbles, oh my! Nice job to Alexis and Sam for getting the good done in less than ideal conditions.

The crowd finally figured out how to be loud in the second half. The students were jumping on the stands, people were standing and yelling (mostly), and BSU was rattled! They got a false start, which I'll take as directly attributed to the crowd. Zabransky looked rattled. Man, we were loud. We need to be like that at the start of the game next game to really get things started off right.

On to Louisville! Go Beavs!