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  1. 5 hours ago, TXSooner518 said:

    Man, you have a different type of butthurt than Penn State football usually creates, but it is significant.

    Yep, I did make an error, Penn State did come back from 3 TDs down to beat a Wisky team that beat literally no one else all season after a Week 1 two point win over LSU in Green Bay.

    But let's look at those five AMAZING wins that Penn State had that led you to say they got better over the season after luckboxing that win over Ohio State:

    62-24 vs Purdue - Purdue finished 3-9 that season, including losses to Cincy 38-20, Maryland 50-7, and Northwestern 45-17.

    41-14 vs Iowa - Iowa finished 8-5 that season, including losses at home to North Dakota State and Northwestern, and a 30-3 beatdown by a meh Florida in their bowl.

    45-31 at Indiana - Indiana finished 6-7 that season, including a home loss to Wake Forest. Five of their six wins were Ball State, Florida International, Purdue, Maryland, and Rutgers. Penn State trailed this game with 5:00 to go.  Indiana outgained PSU, but had 5 turnovers, including 2 in the last 3 minutes. Improvement as the season goes on, though!

    39-0 vs Rutgers - I could just say "lol Rutgers", but Rutgers finished 2-10 with wins over Howard and New Mexico. The other 2 top B1G teams that year beat them 58-0 and 78-0.  Michigan State's only B1G win of the season was over Rutgers 49-0.  This game was 9-0 at the half.

    45-12 vs Michigan State - Michigan State finished 3-9 that season, with 2 of those wins being Furman and Rutgers. Nonetheless, Sparty led this game 12-10 at half. 

    So PSU's last 3 regular season games included trailing a sub-500 Indiana team with 5:00 left in the game, leading a historically woeful 2-10 Rutgers team 9-0 at half, and trailing an awful 3-9 Sparty team 12-10 at half.  Wow, those dominating performances at the end of the season!!

    Maybe watch more games, champ. 

     

      Remember last year when the Borg won a bunch of bowl games?  How about the year before when the lost a bunch?  But does anyone want to remember how Wisconsin's won  the Cotton Bowl?

  2. 1 hour ago, Wally Fairway said:

    Meh

    fuck'em, they had their chance to join the B1G but their ego couldn't give up the NBC contract. So now they are mired in with the ACC and make $15 million annually from their football contract, while the B1G schools are each making around $50 million
    (caveat - I have no idea how the ACC splits their football & hoops conference revenue - especially with a nominal member

    We could join the EU if we would just give up our Constitution. 

     

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  3. On ‎9‎/‎24‎/‎2018 at 8:52 AM, JBJ said:

    Undefeated ND or assuming 1-loss to Stanford? Both probably make it, but undefeated is a no-brainer.

    It would probably come down to the beauty contest of our best win, ugly loss, and market value of the other contenders.

  4. 8 hours ago, Turkleton said:

    Not really. Us beating you in 1/1/70 and you beating us in 1/1/71 had no bearing on the outcome of the NC.

    I read once on Huskerboard once that the 70 title was argued by Texas, but otherwise not much.

    We remember 70 as a wouldabeen national title that ended in Pasadena the final week, as happened so often in the Ara-McKay era.

  5. 6 hours ago, tantric superman said:

    If they are getting exposed, I think Oregon does it this week.

    UO is changing coaches, again.  LSJU has been running the same system for a decade.  Advantage ex-Indians.

  6. 18 hours ago, JBJ said:

    Underground?  Trinity Highschool might be edging them.

    But seriously:

    UTEP/Texas St/UTSA tier.

    But they've been a dumpster fire for so long those schools might find that offensive.

    There's the rub.  To the outsider those schools are indistinguishable;

  7. 12 hours ago, WBT said:

    Edit - I was mistaken.  It is now illegal to lead with the crown even when the player is not defenseless (I think this was added a year or two after the original targeting rule?).  I do not think that applied in this case but they may have been the interpretation.

     

    7 hours ago, Mileslong said:


    It was targeting by rule but he didn’t launch himself as you said. The USC guy launched himself. Foster hit QB with the side of his helmet, not really the crown but close enough, Foster never left his feet, that’s not launching

    They clarified the crown starts just above the facemask.  I don't know there is an imaginary line going all the way around the helmet, but there probably is. 

  8. 3 hours ago, BigHorn'13 said:

    How do you determine leading with your head vs. leading with your shoulder? Whichever makes contact first?

    And since he really didn't hit armoral's head, but his chest, where is the appropriate tackle zone supposed to be?

    Yes leading with the crown is always targeting.  And it's a judgment call when a player tries to lead with the shoulder, because his head is necessarily sticking out from there.

  9. 1 hour ago, Walden Ponderer said:

    When was the last time (if ever) that North Texas received votes?

    And for anyone peeing in their panties over aggy, relax. Their life in the top 25 is severely limited.

    It's only week 3 with most teams having 2 decent games so the pre-season bias is strong (Michigan State).  

     

    Whereabouts does North Texas sit in your state's football totem poll?

  10. On ‎9‎/‎13‎/‎2018 at 11:00 AM, UTEX_ME said:

    ND has really plummeted. I guess 30 years of meh football with spots of brilliance will do that. We could very well be 7th or 8th very quick if things stay the same. I think we are around there on the win % rankings. 

    Does that list need an asterisk for 'vacated' wins?

  11. 8 hours ago, Forty Acres said:

    People who say preseason polls don’t mean anything are on crack.  Clemson looked like shit last night.  Their secondary is atrocious.  However, at this point they don’t play a ranked team the rest of the season so a shitty showing in week #2 against unranked A&M is all they had to get past to coast to the playoffs.  If they didn’t start at #2 they would be more correctly ranked around #15 based on performance and would have trouble getting in because their resume will end up sucking. 

    A 12-0 Clemson!?

     

    Maybe an 12-1 squad that lost to another bball school and beat a 7 win team for the conference title.

  12. 6 hours ago, chainsaw said:

    To be honest, that probably also goes for all time except I'd say Texas and maybe KState are more accomplished by that metric.  Nebraska certainly was, too.  What I don't want is for Texas to become the next ND, having to point to the past consistently because of a downward turn in quality that hasn't been corrected.

     

     

    It happened to all northern schools with depleting local talent pools except Ohio State.  I doubt UT needs to worry unless the campus moves to Missouri.

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  13. On ‎9‎/‎4‎/‎2018 at 11:46 AM, Loco said:

    Why Stanford get two spots @ #10?

     

    On ‎9‎/‎4‎/‎2018 at 1:39 PM, tantric superman said:

    Because they're so fucking good, that's why.

    I don't know if you suffered through either of the SDSU games but Stanford just never looks good in the opener.  I think they ex-Indians are getting expectancy points for how their seasons tend to turn out. 

  14. On ‎9‎/‎5‎/‎2018 at 5:20 AM, Doc Sam Beckett said:

     

    It's one of the most mind bottling situations that I have seen in a long time. When I think of Michigan, I think of a solid QB, a stud OL, a great TE and usually a tall sure handed (not talking about you Braylon) WR. It's just about the perfect place for Harbaugh to run his smash mouth pro style offense, and I think college football is ripe for a change of pace. You have all these defenses evolving to stop the spread offenses, so a smash mouth offense should be able to exploit that. 

    But Harbaugh can't get his QB, the OL is a mess, and the offense looks vanilla as anything I've ever seen. It's very surprising. It's showing on defense as well. You have "can't miss" recruits like Rashan Gary who hasn't come close to reaching his potential. He was the #1 or #2 recruit, and is projected to be a top 5 draft pick, but you wouldn't know it by watching him play. 

    Can't figure it out.... 

    I heard Gary was hurt in the week before the game and agree with everything else.  I cannot fathom why Harbaugh is having trouble with Michigan's traditionally best positions.  UM boards say they lost key OT to discipline and another to Smart's bag men.  But that doesn't explain why they didn't have OGs except as backfield carpeting.

  15. 6 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    It still amazes me that it's year four of the Harbaugh era and Jim is starting a grad transfer QB, and one who doesn't appear to be that good. I figured the first thing he would do would be to recruit an elite QB to run his pro-style offense with the promise of preparing him for the next level. That hasn't happened. And now he's running the shotgun? I have no idea what's going on up there but it's not what I expected at all.

    Patterson is  a 21 yr old JR/Red Shirt Sophomore.  Probably was distracted by being the first season where he can drink after the game. 

  16. 9 hours ago, Macanudo said:

    What the fuck is Detroit style pizza?  void of any ingredients?

    Seems a Freedom Fries diss of what is otherwise Chicago Deep Dish.

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