NCAA commentary: Winston made official contact but it’s all good; Oregon offense plowing to success; Alabama can’t be contained

by Michelle Richardson

Florida State 20 (11-0) vs. Boston College 17 (6-5): The field was soaked and the game was tied and on the line but the Florida State Seminoles pulled out the rabbit and traveled 66 yards down field to give their kicker Roberto Aguayo reasonable distance to convert a 26 yard field goal for the game winner with just three second left on Saturday to just get by BC 20-17.

Still this is not the Florida State of last season, this is not the National Championship team of 2013 so people really need to let it go. Half of those Seminole players have graduated and are playing the NFL. Calvin Benjamin is in the pros with the Carolina Panthers and rightfully so let it go.

Even though if this is not that team this team continues to win, it doesn’t matter if it’s ugly or if it’s a blowout the bottom line is they win. Their 26-0 with a ten game win streak, they haven’t lost in 26 straight games and this next game they need to get past Florida and it doesn’t matter how poorly either team is playing.

Oregon 44 (10-1) vs. Colorado 10 (2-9): The Oregon Ducks didn’t disappoint but they also didn’t shock anyone either with a healthy 34 point win over the Colorado Buffaloes on Saturday. Ducks quarterback Marcus Mariota threw for 323 yards, completing 24 passes in 32 tries, with three touchdown passes Mariota also carried for a touchdown.

There was not too much expectation out of the Ducks, the Buffaloes came to Oregon and the Ducks took care of business. Mariota and Oregon will win the Pac 12 Championship I don’t see how they can’t and most likely they’ll play UCLA (9-2) to find out whose the overall Pac 12 Champions. The bottom line is Oregon took care of Colorado.

Alabama 48 (10-1) vs. Western Carolina (7-5) 14: This was the final game of the season for the Western Carolina Catamounts and this was another game that had no surprises as the Alabama Crimson Tide did what they were suppose to do and win and win big. The Crimson did what they were suppose to do in this game and they won by 34 points.

The games scheduled for the SCC on Saturday were pretty bad, for the most part with the exception of Arkansas over Ole Miss, there wasn’t a lot of great games going on. Next week all the big rival big games will be going on. Once again Alabama did what they were suppose to do. Western Carolina who plays in the Southern Conference got soaked and Alabama they did what they were suppose to do.

The Crimson Tide cruised past the Cats on offense even before the first half was over, Western Carolina played hard football, they didn’t give up and it’s hard to ask a football team to come and show up at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa and win there. With that crowd and all of that noise there.

Michelle Richardson does NCAA commentary each week on http://www.sportsradioservice.com

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