{"id":29,"date":"2004-09-16T08:29:56","date_gmt":"2004-09-16T13:29:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-02-23T07:17:54","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T12:17:54","slug":"duke-94-14-navy-88-24-ncaa-chronicles-2005-season-1-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2004\/09\/16\/duke-94-14-navy-88-24-ncaa-chronicles-2005-season-1-week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Duke (#94) 14 &#8211; Navy (#88) 24 (NCAA Chronicles 2005, Season 1, Week 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First let me get the preliminary stuff out of the way.  I decided to go with Navy because in all my years of NCAA Football I have never played with them so Navy should be a fresh experience.  Second, I like the idea of an independent school \u2013 I am not tied to a league as I would have been with my traditional NCAA Football favorites \u2013 North Texas, Texas, SMU, and Georgia.  Navy starts the year (in NCAA 2005) ranked #88 \u2013 so there is a challenge.  Finally, Navy runs an option offense, and I love me some option offense.<\/p>\n<p>I am playing on All-American, 6 minute quarters, with heavily tuned sliders.  I will discuss these in a later post.  NCAA 2005 does have a tendency to drop too many passes, but I have found slider settings that compensate well enough to give me an enjoyable gamplay experience.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I am doing different this year is not listing player names for default players.  I will go with number for current roster players, and names for new players.  I can go into reasons in a later post.<\/p>\n<p>Week 1 was a bye week for Navy.  I\u2019ll post recaps every of other games each week to keep the flavor interesting.<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt>Week 1<\/dt>\n<dd>USC 62 \u2013 Virginia Tech 28<\/dd>\n<dd>USC had 511 Total Yards in a total Hokie<\/dd>\n<dt>Week 2<\/dt>\n<dd>Georgia 42 \u2013 Georgia Southern 7<\/dd>\n<dd>LSU 35 \u2013 Oregon State 32<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p>Prior to getting started with my first game I had to take care of some NCAA rules violations.  FS #33 (I cannot list these guys names since they are serving our country) was recommended for a 3 game suspension due to Fraud\/Team Rules Infractions.  At the time I did not realize that he was one of my key players (74 overall rating).  I took the recommendation and told the kid to sit for three games.<\/p>\n<pre>       1st   2nd   3rd   4th   |  Final\r\nDuke   0     7     0     7     |  14\r\nNavy   10    7     7     0     |  24<\/pre>\n<p>Out of the game I dominated with a strong option attack, getting my primary backs (QB, HB, FB, WB) involved quickly.  Duke struggled time and again with the option, and play-action passes were easily setup and completed as Duke cheated against the run.  The option is a beautiful thing when implemented correctly \u2013 truly the option is the great equalizer in college football.<\/p>\n<pre>                   Duke           Navy\r\nScore              14             24\r\n1st Downs          10             15\r\nTotal Offense      160            263\r\nRush-Yards         12-(-5)        38-186\r\nComp-ATT-TD        11-36-2        8-17\r\nPassing Yards      165            77<\/pre>\n<p>Obviously the passing completions to attempts for Duke were not too hot.  I\u2019ll have to give it a few more games to see if more adjustments can be (or should be) made.  I have figured out how to pass, but the CPU just does not put up a good ratio.<\/p>\n<p>I was actually doing very well with my passing attack (7-11) before I started experimenting towards the end of the game.  I was up 24-7 and decided to get creative; I\u2019ll have to be more cautious next time as my excitement got the better of me and resulted in an INT and two wasted series.<\/p>\n<p>There was nothing really exciting to report in the game \u2013 I kept the ball on the ground and pounded the heck out of Duke\u2019s defense.  I completed just enough passes to keep Duke off balance, but I have to get better with third down conversions.  My offensive line can run, but pass blocking was lackluster, as my guys up front gave up 3 sacks.<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt>Other interesting Navy stats\/figures\/numbers<\/dt>\n<dd>1-10 (10%) 3rd down efficiency<\/dd>\n<dd>3-4 (75%) 4th down efficiency<\/dd>\n<dd>4-3-1 (100%) in the redzone (redzone-TD-FG)<\/dd>\n<dd>TOP 7:43 \u2013 16:17<\/dd>\n<dd>Turnovers 1 \u2013 1<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First let me get the preliminary stuff out of the way. 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Second, I like the idea of an independent school \u2013 I am not tied to a league &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2004\/09\/16\/duke-94-14-navy-88-24-ncaa-chronicles-2005-season-1-week-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Duke (#94) 14 &#8211; Navy (#88) 24 (NCAA Chronicles 2005, Season 1, Week 2)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,39],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-football","tag-ps2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2156,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/2156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}