Stream-of-Consciousness Notes
2011 Rose Bowl - 2nd Quarter
By
Pete Fiutak
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2011
Rose Bowl SOC Notes - Pregame
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2011
Rose Bowl SOC Notes - 1st Quarter
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2011
Rose Bowl SOC Notes - 3rd Quarter
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2011
Rose Bowl SOC Notes - 4th Quarter
- TCU's defensive line is on its back. That whole
speedy, aggressive thing isn't working as the Badger
backs are getting ten-mile wide holes to run
through.
- Even so, TCU is doing just enough to force third
downs. Both defenses have been awful, but TCU has at
least been close. Wisconsin's hasn't shown a thing.
- 3rd and 3 and Ball looks like he's a yard short.
If you're Wisconsin, and this is your O line, and
this is your attitude, of course you go for it on
the TCU 45.
- Clay dives over the top and gets it with ease, but
for the first time, TCU wins the battle up front.
- It wouldn't be a bad thing for Wisconsin to slow
things down.
- Oooooooh. Tolzien panicked. He had James White
wide open on a wheel route and over shot him. That
could've gone the distance.
- Yeeeeeeesh. Center Peter Konz just pantsed LB Tank
Carder and Ball wasn't touched for nine yards.
- At this point, TCU has to sell out with the
safeties and take chances. The Badger O line can do
this all day.
- Wisconsin doesn't turn the ball over, but it
almost screwed up with Tolzien dropping the ball.
- Sheer hubris runs amok. On 2nd and 11, the Badgers
run wide and Carder blows the play up forcing 3rd
and 12.
- Interesting. Tolzien hits Isaac Anderson for ten
yards, but Bret Bielema goes for the 39-yard field
goal instead of going for it ...
- Welch yanks it.
- The Badgers are flinching.
TCU on its own 23
- OOOOH. Dalton got away with one. He
had all day to throw and he made a poor decision
trying to put it in between double coverage and it
could've and should've been picks.
- Where's Jeremy Kerley?
- Asked and answered. TCU throws a little screen to
Kerley but the Badgers have it sniffed out.
- A stop? A real, live stop?
- I love Brent Musburger. He almost fired out a "You
are looking liiiiive" at the gut of TCU P Anson
Kenton.
- Crap. My New Year's Resolution to be Kevin James
free has just been broken.
Wisconsin on its own 34
- Ooops. Nice Nike ad for the Cleats
that Slip. TCU has to start taping or has to change
their shoes in a hurry.
- 3rd and 4 and the game is being put in the hands
of Tolzien.
- WR Nick Toon is finally healthy, but he's off. He
should've made the play to get the first down.
- DO ... NOT ... KICK ... THE ... BALL ... TO ...
KERLEY.
- False start on Wisconsin, but it looked like Brad
Nortman was about to fake it. TCU was releasing
everyone, and the Badgers might have just tipped
their hand. Did the TCU coaches catch this?
- Nope. The Horned Frog coaching staff up in the
booth just blew it. The only rushed one guy and he
was a sitting duck as three Badgers erased him.
Nortman rumbled for the first down. Great, great
run. He had to make a move and a hop to get the
first down.
- Does this pump the Badgers back up? The TCU
defense is starting to win its share of battles.
- Tank Carder fought through the trash and blew up
the play. UW offensive coordinator Paul Chryst will
take advantage of this with Kendrick soon enough,
but it's not going to happen on third downs.
- It was called an incomplete pass, but Toon made a
phenomena grab that needs to be reviewed. The ball
did hit the ground but only after he made the grab.
That has to be overturned. The hand hit first.
- The college football version of instant replay is
so vastly superior to the NFL version. They got the
call right.
- Tolzien is waiting way too long for the plays to
develop, and he has got to get rid of that little
ball-pat thing before he gets a look in an NFL camp.
- This is the drive the Badgers need. It's not
exactly rolling, but it's taking time off the clock.
- The Badger O line give Tolzien ten days to throw,
and he lets it rip for a first down play.
- The TCU linebackers are starting to dominate. The
Badger O line is killing the TCU defensive front,
but they're not laying a hat on Carder.
- Don't ignore the length of this drive. The Badger
ran out the clock in the first half with TCU only
getting the ball once.
- Field goal.
SECOND QUARTER SCORE: TCU 14 ... Wisconsin
13