Just got back home, definitely see a bunch of different things re watching the game on TV versus live. Just a couple hot takes that really stuck out.
All those false starts were just really freaking bizarre... no idea what was going on there. NINE of them? The ones where JT moved before snapping the ball, I just really can't wrap my head around that. How does that happen? He also snapped it when he shouldn't have a couple times? One last point on all this, the last one called, against Zimmer, was absolutely a ghost call, unless I am completely out of my mind. I re watched it several times, in slow motion, did not see anything. Weird. If not for all those, and some other fluky plays that didn't go our way, this game could have been a blowout, despite what all the dark pinkers are saying.
Last annoying takeaway for now, the announcer (Not sure if it was Brock) said it was our SECOND national Championship. Do some research. It's NUMBER FOUR!
Re: Finally Just Watched The Entire Replay
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2026 5:34 am
by AFCAT
Second FCS championship. I don’t get why they are making that the mark, but I see gris fans doing the same thing. Like the other championships didn’t count somehow. It’s just stupid.
Just got back home, definitely see a bunch of different things re watching the game on TV versus live. Just a couple hot takes that really stuck out.
All those false starts were just really freaking bizarre... no idea what was going on there. NINE of them? The ones where JT moved before snapping the ball, I just really can't wrap my head around that. How does that happen? He also snapped it when he shouldn't have a couple times? One last point on all this, the last one called, against Zimmer, was absolutely a ghost call, unless I am completely out of my mind. I re watched it several times, in slow motion, did not see anything. Weird. If not for all those, and some other fluky plays that didn't go our way, this game could have been a blowout, despite what all the dark pinkers are saying.
Last annoying takeaway for now, the announcer (Not sure if it was Brock) said it was our SECOND national Championship. Do some research. It's NUMBER FOUR!
JT had the yips, i guess, or was getting messed with by their shifts and jumps toward the line maybe coupled with some simulating by them that wasn't getting called. I agree i think we get at least one more score in the middle stretch of that second half and the game never gets close, if we don't false start so much.
Just got back home, definitely see a bunch of different things re watching the game on TV versus live. Just a couple hot takes that really stuck out.
All those false starts were just really freaking bizarre... no idea what was going on there. NINE of them? The ones where JT moved before snapping the ball, I just really can't wrap my head around that. How does that happen? He also snapped it when he shouldn't have a couple times? One last point on all this, the last one called, against Zimmer, was absolutely a ghost call, unless I am completely out of my mind. I re watched it several times, in slow motion, did not see anything. Weird. If not for all those, and some other fluky plays that didn't go our way, this game could have been a blowout, despite what all the dark pinkers are saying.
Last annoying takeaway for now, the announcer (Not sure if it was Brock) said it was our SECOND national Championship. Do some research. It's NUMBER FOUR!
Just got back home, definitely see a bunch of different things re watching the game on TV versus live. Just a couple hot takes that really stuck out.
All those false starts were just really freaking bizarre... no idea what was going on there. NINE of them? The ones where JT moved before snapping the ball, I just really can't wrap my head around that. How does that happen? He also snapped it when he shouldn't have a couple times? One last point on all this, the last one called, against Zimmer, was absolutely a ghost call, unless I am completely out of my mind. I re watched it several times, in slow motion, did not see anything. Weird. If not for all those, and some other fluky plays that didn't go our way, this game could have been a blowout, despite what all the dark pinkers are saying.
Last annoying takeaway for now, the announcer (Not sure if it was Brock) said it was our SECOND national Championship. Do some research. It's NUMBER FOUR!
Was it on YouTube?
Yes.
Re: Finally Just Watched The Entire Replay
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2026 7:10 am
by lutecat
I don't get why people care what griz fans say. We won a natty fellas. And any rival wanting to minimalize it is just little brother energy. Its in the books and noone can take it away. They're hurt because we beat then twice, we had college game day a few years ago, theyre 2-8 in the last 10, and we just won a natty. I could care less what any griz fan says if they aren't saying congratulations.
Re: Finally Just Watched The Entire Replay
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2026 9:54 am
by msugr8
Exactly! Here’s a challenge for everyone. Let’s see how long we can go without mentioning them.
Second FCS championship. I don’t get why they are making that the mark, but I see gris fans doing the same thing. Like the other championships didn’t count somehow. It’s just stupid.
Griz fans have no problem tossing aside our D2 and NAIA championships but absolutely love pounding their chests about their wins over us from when they were in a higher division than us
I don't get why people care what griz fans say. We won a natty fellas. And any rival wanting to minimalize it is just little brother energy. Its in the books and noone can take it away. They're hurt because we beat then twice, we had college game day a few years ago, theyre 2-8 in the last 10, and we just won a natty. I could care less what any griz fan says if they aren't saying congratulations.
This.
I usually scope out egriz once or twice in the middle of the season and of course the week of cat/griz. It’s always fun to see the coping on there after a Cat win in Cat/griz.
But that’s where leave it. I haven’t been on there since a couple days after our semifinal win. Why? Because it’s a sh*t show. It’s pretty predictable what it’d look like after our close win on Monday, I’m sure it’s full of the Cats are lucky, etc.
It’s all just sour grapes at this point. Two things are true about this year that will never change, no matter how much some griz fans whine about it:
The Cats went 2-0 against the griz this year and;
The Cats are the 2025 National Champs
Let them whine, let them cope with it, let them make excuses, nothing changes those two facts.
Second FCS championship. I don’t get why they are making that the mark, but I see gris fans doing the same thing. Like the other championships didn’t count somehow. It’s just stupid.
Griz fans have no problem tossing aside our D2 and NAIA championships but absolutely love pounding their chests about their wins over us from when they were in a higher division than us
The funny thing is, the D2 championship in 76’ was during the Big Sky era. The griz were D2 at that time too.
So that one absolutely counts just as much as the two FCS wins in this argument.
Since 1963, in the time we’ve been the same level, the Cats have 3 National Championships and the griz have 2. Period, end of story.
Re: Finally Just Watched The Entire Replay
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2026 10:04 am
by VimSince03
Biggest takeaway defensively in the 2nd half: sure would've been nice to have a healthy Caden Dowler. Petre battled but it was tough out there for the back end of our secondary. However, that's why it's a team game where you have to MAKE PLAYS to win these games and we made a few more.
I don't get why people care what griz fans say. We won a natty fellas. And any rival wanting to minimalize it is just little brother energy. Its in the books and noone can take it away. They're hurt because we beat then twice, we had college game day a few years ago, theyre 2-8 in the last 10, and we just won a natty. I could care less what any griz fan says if they aren't saying congratulations.
JP addressed this in his pregame interview with Colter. Cat fans should not care at all about what's happening over the hill, let them be them and do what they want. Obviously it's a HUGE in state rivalry, so we are interested in what's happening over there, but likely too much. We hardly spend any time discussing PSU, ISU, NAU, etc, unless it's before we play them or something earth shaking happens, like a coaching change.
Let them do what they do. They're losers, literally and figuratively. Nothing they say or do will take away the Bobcat successes of this year, or frankly, the last 10. Let them rot in their misery.
Biggest takeaway defensively in the 2nd half: sure would've been nice to have a healthy Caden Dowler. Petre battled but it was tough out there for the back end of our secondary. However, that's why it's a team game where you have to MAKE PLAYS to win these games and we made a few more.
Biggest takeaway defensively in the 2nd half: sure would've been nice to have a healthy Caden Dowler. Petre battled but it was tough out there for the back end of our secondary. However, that's why it's a team game where you have to MAKE PLAYS to win these games and we made a few more.
I’m glad the Cats are as deep as they are and Petre played solid, but when you don’t have the Big Sky Defensive player of the year on the field in the National Championship, that’s not a good thing.
They did enough to hold on, but a healthy Dowler back there absolutely helps….a lot.
Last annoying takeaway for now, the announcer (Not sure if it was Brock) said it was our SECOND national Championship. Do some research. It's NUMBER FOUR!
I think it was in the ESPN pregame but they also numerous times said that FCS/I-AA began in 1984 and that MSU won the first ever I-AA championship. C'mon guys, it's not that hard to fact check something like that.
Re: Finally Just Watched The Entire Replay
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2026 10:23 am
by aucat
two things: 1. I have never looked at Egriz because I don't care what they are talking about there.
2. Frankly I think it's stupid to chant "ESG" when we are NOT even playing the griz? It's like admitting that the griz
are inside our heads and we can't get rid of them. I don't care if we chant it WHEN we are actually playing them (maybe not
in a volleyball game or women's basketball game--JMO) but why do it when we are playing Illinois State for the damn NC??
Exactly! Here’s a challenge for everyone. Let’s see how long we can go without mentioning them.
According to timestamps, less than 60 seconds.
Re: Finally Just Watched The Entire Replay
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2026 11:05 am
by seacat85
Help me out here. Didn't their LT get away with hands to the face multiple times or was I seeing things? One the announcers caught on the replay when the Bobcat player got called for it but the LT did it first during the same play.
Re: Finally Just Watched The Entire Replay
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2026 12:57 pm
by lutecat
Lets just be honest, the grizLLies wouldn't have even had a game against ISU. ISU had the best o-line we've seen all year.
Just got back home, definitely see a bunch of different things re watching the game on TV versus live. Just a couple hot takes that really stuck out.
All those false starts were just really freaking bizarre... no idea what was going on there. NINE of them? The ones where JT moved before snapping the ball, I just really can't wrap my head around that. How does that happen? He also snapped it when he shouldn't have a couple times? One last point on all this, the last one called, against Zimmer, was absolutely a ghost call, unless I am completely out of my mind. I re watched it several times, in slow motion, did not see anything. Weird. If not for all those, and some other fluky plays that didn't go our way, this game could have been a blowout, despite what all the dark pinkers are saying.
Last annoying takeaway for now, the announcer (Not sure if it was Brock) said it was our SECOND national Championship. Do some research. It's NUMBER FOUR!
On the last penalty, the only thing I could pick out was that it looked like Zimmer was sucking air, and just breathing heavy. We looked so shaky at times but pentalties was a trend all year we just never really dealt with it.
I really thought that we would be the better prepared team this year given our experience, but you have to give it to ISU as they executed almost flawlessly. They certainly had some studs that showed up for battle. I really think the special teams play seemed to be the biggest difference maker. Other than that we were really well matched. From coverage, returns, and obviously the two of three blocked kicks on the year when it mattered most, swung the game in our favor.
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C'mon guys, it's not that hard to fact check something like that.