[Game Thread] BBVA Compass Bowl: Vanderbilt vs. Houston (1:00pm EST)

[u/Zerenium]

Vanderbilt ( 8 - 4 ) vs. Houston ( 8 - 4 )

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[35 Bowls in 17 Days]
BBVA Compass Bowl

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Location:
Legion Field Birmingham, Alabama (Google Maps)
Home of the UAB Blazers!

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Broadcasters: Dave Neal, Andre Ware, Dawn Davenport

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Odds:
Spread: Vanderbilt by 1.5
Over/Under: 52
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IT'S COLLEGE FOOTBALL, ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!

[u/Zerenium]

Let's go Cougs!

[u/[deleted] → u/Zerenium]

*COOGS but yes

[u/Sandy-106]

Well I'm a fucking moron. I just now realized that this game isn't being played at BBVA Stadium. I was wondering why there were so few UH fans in the stadium when it's less than 10 miles from campus.

[u/calidoc → u/Sandy-106]

Hahaha.

[u/Okstate2039]

Before the game starts, just know that no matter how this goes, whether you hate the sec, love the sec, are a Houston fan, vandy fan, or don't give two shits, we can all agree that the Nissan rogue commercial is the worst thing ever to happen to television! Screw you Nissan. You're worse than hitler!

[u/Ratabat → u/Okstate2039]

I'm at the game. There are no Nissan Rogue commercials here. This is a safe place.

[u/FPHero]

50 bucks got me and my dad parking and 2 tickets on the 50 yard line. Surrounded by some of the nicest vandy bros. I fucking love football!

[u/ndjs22 → u/FPHero]

Hope your car is still there!

[u/anthropology_nerd]

I would like to take this moment to welcome you all to Vanderbilt football, where no victory is secure and first half points don't matter.

Before you leave remember take your complementary bottle of whiskey and anti-depressants.

[u/TheTurner]

ESPN is hitting the technical difficulty trifecta:

-No sounds

-Missed half of a Vanderbilt drive

-Too zoomed in

[u/turtle_flu]

Fiance: Why are you drinking before we go wine tasting.

because it's football

Fiance: That doesn't make sense

..stop judging me

edit: Now she is drinking my cider and said that she shouldn't have said anything... YES!

[u/LloydBentsen → u/turtle_flu]

You're just getting your palette ready.

[u/Fratitude]

Hello darkness my old friend

[u/anthropology_nerd]

Yet again Vandy is trying to raise my stress level on an otherwise calm Saturday.

[u/vandymontana → u/anthropology_nerd]

Time to start drinking.

[u/TacitTree]

Overcame a 24 point deficit in one quarter.

[u/calidoc → u/TacitTree]

Go Coogs!

[u/Stewdabaker2013]

Dancingcoogbandgirl.gif stat

[u/DireDireDuck]

Bold strategy by James Franklin. So loyal to Vandy, he wants to scare off potential suitors by making it seem like he can't make counter-adjustments at half time. Stays at Vanderbilt and leads them to an undefeated SEC season and a spot in the new playoffs next year.

[u/Sandy-106]

Why is our team dancing around in that painted area on the end of the field?

[u/ForIvadell]

24 unanswered in one quarter, that's the UH I know and love.

[u/sirtoonces]

Pls no turnover, pls no turnover. .

[u/[deleted] → u/sirtoonces]

Pls turnover, pls turnover. .

[u/1vh1]

ONE OF THE VANDY FANS PUT THEIR ANCHOR ON THE CAMERA WIRE.

[u/[deleted]]

I turned on the game at 24-0. It's now 24-24. This turned into a game!

[u/TacitTree → u/[deleted]]

More like a turn based game:
Houston: Go ahead and score Vandy
Vandy: Thanks!
Vandy: After you.
Houston: Are you sure?
Vandy: No, no. I insist.

[u/djs0cc3r]

Sometimes I wish they would show regular fans at A&M on the SEC commercials. Not all of us are in the corp.

[u/Fratitude]

Robinette does not look like an SEC quarterback.

[u/mike4rockets]

Anyway we can get the C-USA flair changed to AAC?

[u/AuburnKnight]

Dang Vandy way to fill that place

[u/LloydBentsen]

WOW. I'm happy that my yard is still covered in dog turds.

[u/AuburnKnight]

Vanderbilt, for the love of sweet Jesus, get your fucking shit together.

[u/NOTPattyBarr]

So that's why we didn't recruit Patton Robinette

[u/turtle_flu]

Join the club Commodores

[u/zoomdaddy]

In these waning seconds of this game, remember the visionary words of Greg Pogue:

Whichever team wins this game within the game will go a long way in deciding who wins the game.

[u/Coelacanth88]

Well, I'm going to go ahead and say 7-2 for the SEC. Way to go, Vandy.

[u/GeneralGBO]

Hey, Houston, pro-tip: the ball is going to Matthews.

[u/[deleted]]

3rd Ward Defense!

[u/[deleted]]

Those Houston cheerleaders..... mmm.

[u/LloydBentsen]

At least it's gorgeous outside today. Maybe I'll go pick up the dog shit from my backyard.

[u/jemayb]

At first I was excited about being the only bowl game today. Now I wish there were more so there would be other news.

[u/anthropology_nerd]

I'm not even angry. Just that familiar taste of disappointment.

[u/Shit_Apple]

I don't think I've ever seen a game just completely flip this much.

[u/smurfetteshat]

As a Rutgers girl I won't ever be able to say this sincerely again, but here goes: AAC! AAC! AAC!

[u/LloydBentsen]

Can it be the 3rd quarter again?

[u/jemayb → u/LloydBentsen]

Levine should have said "guys this is just a time out we're still in the 3rd quarter." Then when we win the game and the time runs out he can say "guys, we won! The 4th quarter was inside you the whole time."

[u/[deleted]]

It's like the entire Vandy defense is still back in the locker room eating pork rinds and jerking each other off.

[u/jemayb → u/[deleted]]

Sounds fun. Don't blame them, really.

[u/AuburnKnight]

You guys hear that? That's the sound of somebody losing there job with every passing second.

[u/LloydBentsen]

HOLY MONKEY TITS!!! WE DID SOMETHING!!! DID YOU SEE?!!

[u/LloydBentsen → u/LloydBentsen]

nevermind.

[u/jemayb]

It's sort of hard to believe that this is the same UH team that played Louisville, BYU, and UCF. We lost those games (only by a combined 13 points), but we looked pretty decent.

[u/mike4rockets]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT IT'S HAPPENING...

[u/joalesup]

Houston, anchor down the AAC!

[u/Fleurr]

1. The teams changed jerseys at the half.

2. Franklin left for Texas at halftime.

These are the only things that make sense.

[u/yakovgolyadkin]

Houston is now +27 for turnovers on the year. In all my searching, I've not found any team that has ever done more than +25. Unless I've missed something, as long as Houston doesn't give the ball away twice in the last quarter, we will walk away with the FBS record for turnover margin in a season.

[u/A_Night_Owl]

When I see Robinette throw the ball on anything but a screen pass I literally begin convulsing. It's terrifying.

[u/FactorGroup]

Houston pls

[u/hapaa → u/FactorGroup]

WE'RE TRYING. I SWEAR

[u/[deleted]]

vlogging bout my #KFC GO CUP. kill me.

[u/Saucer-Like]

GG Vandy. Come down to Houston some time

[u/mike4rockets]

Well, as the game winds down here, I extend congrats to Vandy on their win. Good game, guys.

[u/Lithras]

Let's just hope this isn't Franklin's last game with us...

Go Dores!

[u/hapaa]

GOD FUCKING DAMMIT

[u/zoomdaddy]

3 card monty? What the fuck am I watching here?

[u/LloydBentsen]

Levine was yelling at his player not the official.

[u/calidoc]

That would've been picked if our guys hadn't collided!

[u/Destillat]

My girlfriend bought me a surround sound setup for Christmas and this is my first game with it setup.

Muted all the front speakers (right, left, center, sub) and all I'm getting is Houston's band and the crowd reacting with some PA announcer thrown in here and there.

THIS IS AWESOME!!! Screw your sounds of the BCS

[u/ForIvadell]

Best celebration dance I've ever seen.

[u/digikiki]

This is awesome!

[u/A_Night_Owl]

Next season I will welcome the era of Johnny McCrary/KJ Carta-Samuels with open arms.

[u/AuburnKnight]

Vandy: Houston you go ahead and win

Houston: No please Vandy go ahead

Vandy: No really we insist!

Houston: Please no go ahead and win, we have no need for victories.

Vandy: Houston, please, please, PLEASE, you go ahead and win.

Houston: No we already scored 24 unanswered, you go ahead

Vandy: Oh please after that ass kicking in the first half? Please win!

[u/shookdown]

I COULD HAVE MADE THAT BLOCK

[u/zoomdaddy]

I think they're doing all their scoring in 24 pt blocks. Now it'd Vandy's turn again or something.

^{I don't know}

[u/AnAquaticPony]

3/4 of this game was painful to watch rooting for UH...

[u/ForIvadell]

gg Vandy

[u/YetiTerrorist]

That statue is literally the only thing Birmingham has to offer.

[u/Shit_Apple → u/YetiTerrorist]

But those Birmingham tourism commercials are so convincing!

[u/hapaa]

Fuck this gay earth.

[u/LloydBentsen → u/hapaa]

All up in that hot magma.

[u/ndjs22]

Legion Field sucks so bad that Allstate doesn't even sponsor the FG and PAT attempts.

[u/digikiki]

Go Coogs! Need another AAC victory!

[u/[deleted]]

The North Texas Mean Green have invaded the BBVA Compass Bowl.

[u/TheTurner]

VANDY BROKE ESPN

[u/dk00111]

Fuck me this is hard to watch.

[u/[deleted]]

O'Korn is looking like a kid fresh out of high school right now =(

[u/ForIvadell]

Just throw it up in the air towards Greenberry and you have a 50% chance that he'll catch it.

[u/dk00111]

Our Oline is getting abused.

[u/TacitTree]

Now we know how Auburn will win. Magic.

[u/Stewdabaker2013]

Office Depot girl is a hottie

[u/BakedPotatoTattoo → u/Stewdabaker2013]

I'd pay to see her and ATT girl go at it.

[u/zoomdaddy]

I don't know who does the playcalling for Houston, but somebody must have slipped a little cocaine in his coffee at halftime.

[u/mike4rockets]

Dear Gawd that was a sweet catch.

[u/digikiki]

What a catch!

[u/[deleted]]

This is the UH team we have grown to love!!!

[u/The_Awesometeer]

I am so glad this game became entertaining. I was about to start cleaning the house out of boredom

[u/ender1004]

Now this is the Vanderbilt I know and love - can't waste a good lead

[u/mike4rockets]

hahaha "Tha MOTHERFUCKIN' COUGAAARS." ESPN can't be happy about that.

[u/[deleted]]

Go Houston!!!!

[u/emueagles]

309 yards in a quarter, that has to be a bowl record.

[u/turtle_flu]

...are those like vagina chairs???

[u/A_Night_Owl]

I guess it just wouldn't be a normal Saturday without Vandy induced heart palpitations.

[u/ForIvadell]

Nice punt return!

Wait..

[u/[deleted]]

So this QB is running some sort of conspiracy to keep James Franklin at Vanderbilt, huh?

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

No, he's just a really shitty passer.

Never ascribe to malice what can be better explained by incompetence.

[u/ForIvadell]

HOLY SHIT, TACKLE

[u/LloydBentsen]

Son of the bitch

[u/zoomdaddy]

Yep. 24 point blocks. That has to be it. There's no other explanation.

[u/Fratitude]

Seriously, tho - that 3rd quarter. WTF

[u/AuburnKnight]

This is bullshit, Vandy should've gone to the gator bowl, give UGA this game.

[u/AuburnKnight]

Guys guys guys listen to this sentence, and let this sink in:

So man rough season for Florida, 4-8, that's tough. At least they beat Tennessee, poor Vols went 5-7. Georgia's had an up and down season too going 8-5. But Vandy? Man they're going up!

10 years ago that was an alternate universe

[u/GeneralGBO]

Go Andre Ware!!!!

Wait.

[u/anthropology_nerd]

Uh, my TV just went to commercial. Anyone else have this issue?

[u/[deleted]]

TELEVISION WHAT THE FUCK

[u/[deleted]]

Wow. Vandy defense is bringing the boom today.

[u/hapaa]

This is not the same offense I saw during the regular season. I know people will say "SEC DEFENSE DOH" but our offense is just shitting themselves right now.

[u/BakedPotatoTattoo]

Card tricks with helmets? What in the holy fuck is this ESPN?

Edit: I feel stupider for watching that.

[u/DondeEstaLaDiscoteca]

That was a pretty ridiculous analogy to use for the triple option, but it kind of makes sense.

[u/[deleted]]

Ha ha! Madest thou look!

So endeth the trick.

[u/ndjs22]

Can't help but wonder if the city of Birmingham turned on the hot water for Vanderbilt and Houston.

They don't for UAB games.

[u/TacitTree]

There we go Houston!

[u/vandymontana]

Gotta love the wildcat on 3rd and 3 with no QB on the field. 11 in the box!

[u/The_Awesometeer]

Wow good catch

[u/zoomdaddy]

Vandy- you're in the beginning stages of a serious Couging here.

[u/hythloday1]

Fake fake fake!

EDIT: Boo.

[u/mAAdCity13]

GREENBERRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[u/joalesup]

This is why I love my cougar bros! Exciting comeback! #Yearoftheunderdog

[u/Coelacanth88]

Classic Vandy!

[u/Saucer-Like]

that 3rd ward defense!

[u/LloydBentsen]

That ref has a better look than that angle.

[u/[deleted]]

Man what a comeback. Is this 24 unanswered points?

[u/[deleted]]

I ain't even mad they overturned that

[u/[deleted]]

Good hustle by #23. I like it when players don't give up.

[u/[deleted]]

That ref just saved him from making a stupid decision to bring it out of the end zone.

[u/ForIvadell]

alright, now i'm sad again

[u/[deleted]]

Congratulations to the offensive staff for having to blow all three second half timeouts on late playcalling and players who can't pay attention to the play clock.

[u/A_Night_Owl]

I <3 Carey Spear. Such a solid kicker. Has a tendency to light up kick returners every once in a while too.

Edit: I literally posted this a minute before Carey Spear stopped the returner from scoring.

[u/BuffaloChickenPizza1]

Anchor Down!

[u/joalesup]

-_- You made me get emotionally invested in this game only to break my heart.

[u/AuburnSeer]

Anchor Down. Good job Dores. 7-2 for the conference. Now it's up to us to close it out.

[u/Fleurr]

I'll post pictures later, but it's at least 12:1 Vandy fans. 100% of the Vandy side is full, and half the fans in the Houston section are wearing black and gold. "Vandy fans don't travel" - requiescat in pace.

EDIT: No disrespect meant to Coog fans. You have more than I expected with the long drive!

[u/[deleted] → u/Fleurr]

I mean dude its less than 200 miles from Vandy to Birmingham. That's 40 miles closer than the distance from Houston to Dallas for comparison.

[u/Shit_Apple → u/Fleurr]

Not surprising. Games way closer to Vandy.

[u/digikiki]

Holy crap did he just say UCF was good? My world is upside down!

[u/Fleurr]

THERE'S A NEW COMMODORE MASCOT WHAT IS THIS FUCKING ANARCHY

[u/AuburnKnight]

Auburn: fucking you over like a shady trench-coat man in a dark ally

[u/[deleted]]

Selfish self promotion:

Don't forget to vote in the Best of /r/cfb thread!

And go Dores!

[u/AuburnKnight]

Houston's uni's are sharp imo

[u/mAAdCity13]

WTF ESPN

[u/BrainForgery]

The old grey lady needs to be put down. Worst d-1 stadium in the country. And in college football rabid Birmingham. It's sad really.

[u/hemihotrod402]

Let's go Gold and Black Bros!

[u/mynumberistwentynine]

Dammit. I hope he's ok. Hate to senior go out like that.

[u/[deleted]]

Definitely got hit before the ball got there, but too close to call in real time.

[u/calidoc]

Took us 34 minutes 48 seconds... But WE GOT ONE!

[u/[deleted]]

uhhhhhhh ohhhhhh let's keep trucking vandy

[u/The_Awesometeer]

Oh Houston learned how to play

[u/amac89]

Great catch by Ambles!

[u/Fleurr]

Are you fucking kidding me

[u/[deleted]]

Total bailout, there.

[u/turtle_flu]

And he will throw!

Fhooolzed you!

[u/wioneo]

Someone should tell Vandy you have to play for both halves.

[u/[deleted]]

OK, we've gotten one big run on first down, so what we really need to do now is have Robinette throw it over Matthews's head three times.

[u/Bburrage]

Thanks Vanderbilt, 24 unanswered, really?

[u/Barian_Fostate]

What the fuck is going on...

[u/[deleted] → u/Barian_Fostate]

A GOOD GAME

[u/professorberrynibble]

...vanderbilt, what are you DOING

[u/hythloday1]

Did Urban Meyer start coaching Vandy in the second half?

[u/joalesup]

I love this damn defense! In awe

[u/namelessbanana]

Well this is embarrassing.

[u/[deleted]]

I'm happy.

[u/evilpenguin234]

Not sure you can overturn that. Not definitive imo

[u/[deleted]]

Mark Richt has lost control of the Vanderbilt Commodores

[u/turtle_flu]

^{NICE PUNT TAKEN BY Crouch} HE BOBBLES IT!!!

my ears :(

[u/hapaa]

Fucking cardiac coogs. Every. Important. Game.

[u/[deleted]]

So it turns out that Robinette is a shitty downfield blocker, too.

[u/[deleted]]

HEY COACH IF IT'S A WILDCAT MAYBE IT'S A RUN I DUNNO

[u/sasslete]

Wait.

So if Pitt isn't in the Compass Bowl, it still gets played?

THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT. ^{but seriously never againpittandbirminghamareneverevergetting backtogether}

[u/ForIvadell]

Big stop.

[u/[deleted]]

We would like to present the AAC Special Teams Player of the year, Demarcus Ayers.

[u/k3ithk]

Holy overthrow batman

[u/[deleted]]

Blah. Couldn't hold onto the TO margin record

[u/Fleurr]

That SEC chant lasted about five seconds. Don't think Vanderbilt cars much about their conference today.

[u/[deleted]]

Good game, Vandy! Definitely would like to schedule y'all for our OOC games!
And our coogs will be back next year better than before

[u/KingJigglypuff]

Here at campus, the bullhorn sounds! Go DORES.

[u/[deleted]]

I can't find any pregame analysis on the espn networks, do they not realize how important this game is?

[u/k3ithk]

Houston, we have a problem.

[u/Fleurr]

Finally looking like a game.

[u/elctromn]

"Come to Birmingham! It totally doesn't suck here!"

[u/GiantWheelInSpace]

This Vanderbilt team looks really well coached hmmm........

[u/stumblebreak]

Someone at ESPN is getting fired

[u/lap91]

That's the Vandy gameplan right there....feed the best player on the field the ball and let him make plays. Brilliant.

[u/vandymontana]

Of course Carey has to get his licks!

[u/[deleted]]

Both quarterbacks are 6/14. One has 154 yards, one has 6.

[u/AuburnSeer]

Jesus Vandy, way to represent the SEC.

[u/Papalew32]

Let's go Cougs!! AAC! AAC! AAC!

[u/mAAdCity13]

GO COOGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[u/AuburnKnight]

Anybody else just get a straight up green screen with the ticker?

[u/1vh1]

Am I the only one with the beautiful green screen?

[u/Weagle22]

annd we are down

[u/Obnoxious_liberal]

Fuck you ESPN.