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The Power Five => Big Ten => Topic started by: MaximumSam on September 09, 2019, 11:48:16 AM
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Slate of games not quite as entertaining on the whole, and nationally not much going on, but there are some to pay attention to.
Noon
Ohio State at Indiana, FOX: OSU and Justin Fields go on the road. Most impressive thing from Fields has been his accuracy - completing 76% of his passes, many of them out past the hash marks. He's still pretty deliberate in his reads, but having a big arm and being able to get the ball where it needs to go are jumping off the screen. Indiana is a bit of a cipher - they have a new offense and we'll see what they look like against what has been a strong OSU defense.
Pitt at Penn State, ABC: PSU was shaky until the second half against a good Buffalo team. They nuked Pitt last year, though Pitt turned out to be a competent team. Pitt lost to Virginia and had a fairly dominant win over Ohio on stats, though not on score.
Maryland at Temple, CBSSN: The B1G's top offense and the nation's #21 team goes on the road to take on the Owls. Temple won their first game against Bucknell - they are still a bit of a mystery. Remember they whipped Maryland last year, though, so revenge may be on the menu.
Eastern Michigan at Illinois, BTN: Illinois with an excellent chance to get to 3-0.
3:30
UNLV at Northwestern, BTN: Northwestern looks to get in the winning column against a UNLV team that just got obliterated by Arkansas St.
Georgia Southern at Minnesota, BTN: Let's hope the Gophs can win going away.
4 pm
Arizona State at Michigan State, FOX: MSU trying to exact revenge on last year's loss. ASU has looked fairly lethargic in wins over Kent State and Sacramento State, so this is a great chance for MSU to show they are back in the thick of things.
Iowa at Iowa State, FS1: Iowa has looked pretty strong, and ISU really struggled with Northern Iowa, but this game always tends to be pretty fun lately.
7:30
TCU at Purdue, BTN: This could be a pretty fun game, and an excellent shot for Purdue to reverse the mojo of their opening loss. TCU is still a mystery having only played one game against Arkansas Pine-Bluff.
8 pm
Northern Illinois at Nebraska, FS1: Nebraska in another game that could go sideways if they aren't on the ball. NIU played Utah pretty competitively, as least for a half, and won't be showing up for a paycheck.
Nationally, bleh. Alabama goes to South Carolina, Florida goes to Kentucky. Clemson going to Syracuse was supposed to be a game until Maryland murdered the Orange.
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Temple worries the piss out of me.
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Temple worries the piss out of me.
Revenge minded Terrapins keep the offensive juggernaut rolling. 52-10
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Revenge minded Terrapins keep the offensive juggernaut rolling. 52-10
They have a very good front 7 on defense, and a few grad transfers themselves. Their QB is pretty good too.
Plus, they've had a week off to prepare.
Crazy though, Shaq Smith sat out the entire Syracuse game with a groin injury.
Hope he's back for Temple. Then, a week to prepare for PSU.
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Gameday doing the Iowa game
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On Friday there's a trio of games. N Carolina @ W Forest, Kansas @ BC, and Wazzou @ Houston.
On Sat there is the dueling "victory bell" games; Miami @ Cincy, and Ohio U @ Marshall. Yep. Two identically named trophy games separated by only about 150 miles of the Ohio river.
Also Tennessee vs Chattanooga, which could be a legendary upset... but probably won't.
Overall kind of a slow week.
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Gameday doing the Iowa game
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it's the Iowa State game
since it's in Ames
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Lol , it's funny how that trophy only lasted about 1 week, but its legacy lives on for years.
Its also funny how it's kinda grown on me over the years to point where I actually prefer the precious moments corn worshiping farmer family over the actual trophy they use for the Cy-hawk game, even though its has nothing to do with football.
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Initially it was sorta meh.
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Then they had the "interim" cyhawk trophy after the farm one was rejected.
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And then finally the settled on this thing.
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none of the 4 are impressive
could they just had a jug, or axe, or plow, or cornstalk or tractor or hog or combine or windmill or something?
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Should be a golden cornstalk, I think.
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The dueling victory bells
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Noon
Ohio State at Indiana, FOX: OSU and Justin Fields go on the road. Most impressive thing from Fields has been his accuracy - completing 76% of his passes, many of them out past the hash marks. He's still pretty deliberate in his reads, but having a big arm and being able to get the ball where it needs to go are jumping off the screen. Indiana is a bit of a cipher - they have a new offense and we'll see what they look like against what has been a strong OSU defense.
This is the second and last week of just one conference game. As we get further into the schedule this post of mine will be more complete. For now, the only conference game this year, based on our current Power Rankings, is #1 tOSU at #11 IU. That just doesn't generate a lot of interest. Next week we will see:
- #2 Wisconsin vs #5 Michigan
- #6 Michigan State at #9 Northwestern
- #10 Nebraska at #12 Illinois
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if bama beats usc this week, like they should, bama will have a current win streak over every sec team.
last win vs each sec team:
auburn - 2018 (streak - 1)
lsu - 2018 (streak - 8)
msu - 2018 (streak - 11)
ole miss - 2018 (streak - 3)
aTm - 2018 (streak - 6)
arky - 2018 (streak - 11)
tenn - 2018 (streak - 12)
vandy - 2018 (streak - 22)
uga - 2018 (streak - 5)
uf - 2016 (streak - 6)
kentucky - 2016 (streak - 6)
mizz - 2012 (streak - 4)
usc - 2009 (streak - -1 lost in 2010)
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I thought it had to be three in order to qualify as a streak? At least that's what Major League told me.
"Lou Brown: We won a game yesterday, if we win one today that's two in a row. If we win one tomorrow that's called a winning streak. It has happened before. SO LET'S SEE SOME HUSTLE! SO LET'S JACK IT UP A LITTLE!"
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I thought it had to be three in order to qualify as a streak? At least that's what Major League told me.
"Lou Brown: We won a game yesterday, if we win one today that's two in a row. If we win one tomorrow that's called a winning streak. It has happened before. SO LET'S SEE SOME HUSTLE! SO LET'S JACK IT UP A LITTLE!"
ha. maybe streak was the wrong word. is "most recent game was a win" better?
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Maybe Iowa & Iowa St can play for the Golden Tractor as a trophy.
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ha. maybe streak was the wrong word. is "most recent game was a win" better?
Another way of saying that is "scoreboard."
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ha. maybe streak was the wrong word. is "most recent game was a win" better?
Yeah. So if your math is correct, you need to win the next two Iron Bowls and three straight against South Carolina, without tripping over any of the other road apples in the meantime, in order to have a winning streak going against every SEC team simultaneously.
SO LET'S SEE SOME HUSTLE! LET'S JACK IT UP A LITTLE!
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Really the South Carolina thing kills it. After this year they won't play the second game until 2024. They don't play in 2025, and the SEC hasn't posted their schedule beyond that. So it's conceivable that the third game would be another five years after the second game. So Bama would have to sweep out the SEC East for the next decade. They would obviously have room to drop an early West division game or three, and still build those series back up to three game winning streaks before that third Gamecock game takes place. But they'd have to pretty much dominate the SEC for another decade, give or take.
Now maybe South Carolina can win the East here and there, and bulk up the series with a few SEC CCGs. But barring that...
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Really the South Carolina thing kills it. After this year they won't play the second game until 2024. They don't play in 2025, and the SEC hasn't posted their schedule beyond that. So it's conceivable that the third game would be another five years after the second game. So Bama would have to sweep out the SEC East for the next decade. They would obviously have room to drop an early West division game or three, and still build those series back up to three game winning streaks before that third Gamecock game takes place. But they'd have to pretty much dominate the SEC for another decade, give or take.
Now maybe South Carolina can win the East here and there, and bulk up the series with a few SEC CCGs. But barring that...
And although Saban may scare the pants off of Father Time, I'm pretty sure Saban isn't going to be coaching 'Bama after 2025.
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They have a very good front 7 on defense, and a few grad transfers themselves. Their QB is pretty good too.
Plus, they've had a week off to prepare.
Crazy though, Shaq Smith sat out the entire Syracuse game with a groin injury.
Hope he's back for Temple. Then, a week to prepare for PSU.
And apparently, the coaching staff doesn't adjust at halftime.
Another long season.
Just hope to go bowling.