B16 Week #3 Thread...

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Here we are, already onto Week #3 in what is an odd start to the season for this conference.

I will admit that I saw only about 3 of the conference games this week... in the opening recap I will be pointing out a few nuggets from the boxscores...


Wisconsin loses at Camp Randall to Wazzou...

How? Well, both teams had 3 turnovers and Wisconsin had 11 penalties. That is a start. This snippet from ESPN sure sums it up...

This game featured two separate plays in which one team intercepted a pass and then fumbled the ball away, creating a first down for the team that threw the pick.

Wisconsin (1-1) trailed 17-14 and faced third-and-6 from the Washington State 9 midway through the fourth quarter when defensive tackle Christian Mejia picked off a Graham Mertz pass before losing the ball. Mertz recovered the fumble at the Washington State 20, but a personal foul on tight end Clay Cundiff pushed Wisconsin back to the 35.

Cundiff then caught a 24-yard pass, but Quinn Roff forced a fumble that Sam Lockett III recovered at the 12 with 5:14 left.

Washington State never gave up possession the rest of the way.
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The Badgers outgained them 401-253 and had the ball for 38 of the 60 minutes. Wisconsin was also efficient on 3rd down (8-15) while Wazzou was now (2-11). Penalties and turns... name of the game...



Ohio State took care of Arkansas State, but maybe not as convincingly as some would hope. ASU had 4 different semi-long drives that resulted in field goals. They were not exactly tearing it up but played some keep-away. Ohio State had some patented quick scores in this one. No JSN in this game, as they did not need him. I didn't take much else from this contest to be honest...


Penn State took care of Ohio pretty methodically... Clean game here with good passing stats and what you would expect from their run game versus a MAC team...Allar in backup duty with a pair of TD's. This kid is going to be good...


Michigan State took care of the Zips. Akron had no chance to even score after the injury. Irons had been moving the ball a bit, so I am sure he was dissapointed. Sparty has to be happy with their newest transfer RB's. Thorne is what he is... can make some great plays and will throw some picks... you get some great and some frustrating all in one game. I am trying to find an update on what exactly is bothering Reed. So far, nothing concrete...


Minnesota rolled and right now is the favorite in the West. All I can take from here is that Tanner is sharp, and Ibrahim is back to his usual self so far this year. Row the boat can coach, no doubt...


Northwestern passed the ball 60 times and had over 500 yards of offense, and still lost the Academic Bowl. The early deficit and turnovers were too much to overcome. Obviously, their win versus Nebraska keeps losing value. I am not sure what to think of Pat's team this year... Duke's first 3 TD's were all very quick drives (2min or less)... almost 1000 combined yards here...Cats fumbled in RZ to effectively end the game...


Maryland absolutely jail-sexed Charlotte in likely the best game of Taulia's career... Over 1000 yards in this game with 617 coming from the Terps... this is the kind of offensive game I have been waiting to see from the Terps...consistent... the next few games will tell us if they have a say in what happens in the East...


Iowa is taking offensive football back decades at this point. The coach may want to evaluate his OC, right? (lol) I mean, 150 total yards is ridiculous, even in a game we all expected to be a low scoring affair. The Clones had the ball over 38 minutes. Petras is brutal... not much more to say here. The defense will keep them around a lot of games, and they will steal 1-2 they should not....


Illinois was the favorite and took care of business. This was a much different result for Armstrong this year... saw none of this but this reads like a Wisconsin-lite box from the glory days...


Purdue and Rutgers took care of patsies...


Indiana scored all 35 of their points in the 2h versus Idaho... The first half saw a missed FG, turnover on downs, fumble and an interception... a dominant 3rd quarter made up for all of that and they were able to coast in the 4th quarter...


Nebraska, just wow. The era has ended, and a few weeks earlier than expected. As Cub said, this had to happen sooner rather than later. Oklahoma comes to Lincoln for the first time in a minute and that may have influenced things a bit as well...(imo)... Huskers gave up 642 yards to Georgia Southern. That is simply unacceptable... This game had 68 first downs! That is nuts. Nebraska seemingly played very well on offense. The game-tying FG at the end though was not to be... and here we are... Frost-less...


Michigan started JJ McCarthy at QB this week and he was very good vs a bad Hawaii team. Michigan ran the ball well enough, although they lost stud Edwards to an injury in the 2nd quarter. I think they played over 80 guys this week overall and that showed with some of the 2h defensive breakdowns. Davis Warren is a walk-on that THEY love. I wouldn't be surprised if he transfers at some point. Remember that name if he ends up on the right team. I'll have more UM thoughts in post #2 or so in a bit... a few good things and a few bad things...




ONTO THIS WEEKS SLATE!


Here we are with the second part of this Nebraska and Oklahoma series. I remember this game all too well from last year. I was pre-season confident of Oklahoma crushing these guys and bet it early. Obviously added some TT's and settled into the sportsbook with @cubsker and @carolinablue wearing a 13.00 OU shirt I had gotten off Amazon days earlier ready to celebrate. Nebraska played their buts off that day and with a few breaks may have won the game. That was a costly exercise and I believe that when I ditched the shirt that afternoon that @Joe Public used it as a napkin for cleaning up after eating some wings. Ah, memories...

Now, this year we get an embattled team with their coach gone at home catching DD's... on one hand, many have wondered why the spread is low, and on the other many will play the intangibles angle (coach gone, emotional team etc). This is such a fun, yet frustrating cap to be honest. I cannot imagine a pre-game play here. Oklahoma struggled in the 1h last week before waking up. Lookahead? Dunno....

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Northwestern gets the Salukis at home. I have zero interest here unless Southern Illinois is playing basketball...

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Purdue and Syracuse is a VERY interesting game. Most of us watched the Boilers blow that season opener to a good Penn State team. They took care of business last week, as they should. The Orange have had two convincing wins so far, albeit versus some hot garbage in Louisville and Uconn. I wasn't too high on them pre-season, so I will defer to others here. High noon game at the Dome, should be fun. These are the types of games that the Boilers need to win in order to take that next step as a program.

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Indiana hosts the Hilltoppers in Bloomington. I know many were not high on WKU entering the year. Our data on them isn't the best, due to the opponents so far (Hawaii and Austin Peay). Despite a sporadic offense, this feels like a game the Hoosiers get theirs on offense.

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Rutgers heads to Philly as heavy chalk to face Temple. You know the respect I have for their staff and team. They simply play hard. A convincing win here heading into B16 play would be huge. Tell me about Temple! They got shutout by Duke and recorded a win versus Layfayette.

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Penn State heads down to the plains to fulfill the 2nd half of their series with Auburn. The Lions enter as a short favorite. Last year's game was excellent. We know Auburn is down this year, but at home in front of their crowd I would not count them out. The Tigers handled Mercer but struggled with SJSU last week, trailing at halftime. This will be a fun one. The Lions already have a big win on the road this season, can they do it again?

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Minnesota finally plays a team with somewhat of a pulse. They are 4 touchdown favorites for a reason though, as Colorado isn't very good. I'd expect the stars to shine again in a 38-10 type of game here.

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Wisconsin should be able to rebound versus perennial patsy NMSU. This has all the makings of a shutout. I mean, the NMSU TT is looking like it will be 3.5. That is just absolutely nuts. The Badgers will look to get their lead and play a short 2h where the clock just runs and runs and runs. Unders here, live, will be my personal angle.

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Ohio State hosts Toledo in a battle to retain Sandusky(no clue, first dumb thing that entered my head). The Rockets have played LIU and Umass. I had a 2h bet on their LIU game (push) and was not that impressed at all. Obviously Umass is hot garbage. On the other side, my interest in this game is to gauge the OSU offense for upcoming games. That is about it. A TT around 45-46 will be present. I'll give this a live look perhaps.

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A very interesting game out in Seattle this week with MSU visiting the Huskies. I would love to get some @jimmymo thoughts on his Huskies. The offensive numbers look great the first two games, but that is versus horrible competition (Kent up-tempo helped in 1h of Week 1, no doubt). Michigan State has also played garbage so far. I guess my cap here would be MSU run offense vs Washington run defense. This game will tell us a lot about both teams. Feel free to chime in @Jeffeo on your Spartans as well.

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Iowa hosts Nevada in Iowa City. The -23/40 line is making me chuckle a bit. The Pack have already played 3 games, so we have some extra data here. Now, looking at these boxes you get the 'wtf' thought in your head...

We all remember that 'tussle' with NMSU in week 0. The next week, Nevada beat Texas State 38-14. The yardage was identical, but a 4-0 turnover margin explains the blowout. These clowns then follow that win up by losing to Incarnate Word. IWU had OVER 600 yards in offense!!

This is a game for Iowa to find SOMETHING on offense. Do we dare look at a TT??? This feels like 38-0, doesn't it?

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Last game is Maryland hosting SMU in a night game. Word to the wise, the Terps open BT play at Michigan on a Big Noon telecast next week. You would think that is in the back of their heads slightly. The Mustangs have blown out N Texas and Lamar so far. This total is pretty high, but this figures to be a bit of a shootout. This will be a good live-betting game imo.




Alright, excited for the start of B16 play next week. One, the opening post will be easier as we have more familiarity. Also, we will have had much better data after this week's game for the most part...


Looking at next week...conference matches...


Maryland @ Michigan
Minnesota @ Michigan State
Iowa @ Rutgers
Wisconsin @ Ohio State

All are pretty significant games for September...
 
Alright, lets talk UM now...


JJ's first start was a success, and he was named the starter for this week. In a perfect world, he stays healthy and is starting the next 25+ games at Michigan. I have been watching him since high school and feel he is a special talent that will end up as one of the greats at Michigan. We are early, but he's shown the flashes.

Overall, the offense did what they should and looked crisp. The rain delay to start had the potential to muck things up but luckily did not. When you can get double-digit pass catchers, that is a good thing and keeps guys happy.

Hawaii is awful, and they were shut out in the first half like you would expect. They made some plays in the 2h and got on the board a few times. The 37 pass attempts and only one sack are concerning though. Yes, the strength of the Hawaii team is their OL, but still... meanwhile, Colorado State gave up a bunch of sacks again in their game. So, we have some inconclusive results from the first two games. Take away the broken TD run and Hawaii ran for 86 yards in 31 carries. That is a much better effort than last week for UofM.

The bad news from this game? Don Edwards is 'working through something' (Jim speak there). The rumor going around isn't bad but not great either. Hopefully he can rest up this week and be ready to torch Maryland like he did last year.

The other issue was our newly minted back-up QB, Cade McNamara....

Let me preface this... Cade is a Big Ten Championship winning QB. He had some impressive throwing games last year as well as many well executed 'game-manager' outings. He works as hard as anybody in the sport. He is limited in many ways, but generally gets the most out of his ability. We saw in the Orange Bowl that he simply cannot be the QB of a team wanting to compete with a powerhouse like Georgia.

Now, Jim has said since the spring this was an open competition. JJ was out in the spring with the injury occurred during the Orange Bowl. He had a lot of catching up to do. Meanwhile, Cade had a damn good summer and excellent camp. The players respect him and did name him a captain. All reports with two weeks left had him as the clear-cut starter. JJ was playing well, but still making too many mistakes. At some point late in camp, things "clicked" for JJ and that is when Harbaugh announced that each would start a game and they would go from there...

I am not sure what happened here, but this has messed with McNamara big-time. He seemed like he was pressing a bit in the opener (drops didn't help) and was just lost out there on Saturday night. I honestly thought he would play very well Saturday night, to make his case. I was wrong. He got sacked a few times and threw a pick -- VERSUS frickin HAWAII. they eventually went to Davis Warren who made a few very nice throws (kid has potential).

So, this is the conundrum we are in... JJ hopefully thrives but with his style is an injury risk. You need a good back-up here. In an ideal world, this is a great set-up with a vet like Cade that knows the offense and knows how to win. Can he turn it around mentally? That is a HUGE question that needs to be answered. I'd assume that this week is another blowout. Cade desperately needs a few solid scoring drives to get his mojo back. That is essential for the team. This team has the potential for another playoff run... hopefully the chemistry remains solid, and the injuries stay to a minimum...


As far as plays on this game, I doubt you see me post any in my thread (lol). I did take the 1h at 33.5 last week about two hours before the game. I was able to juice out on the match overall. I honestly was close to middling at halftime sensing a blah 2nd half and never did.

Weather will be sunny and 80's it looks like. Uconn is known to get a few garbage tuddy's to kill spreads... maybe some overs? We'll see...
 
Rutgers heads to Philly as heavy chalk to face Temple. You know the respect I have for their staff and team. They simply play hard. A convincing win here heading into B16 play would be huge. Tell me about Temple! They got shutout by Duke and recorded a win versus Layfayette.
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I had 4 separate bets on the Lafayette - Temple game so I had an eye on it. I targeted this game because how bad I assumed Lafayette was going to be where Temple should have rare and decided advantages. I also played Overs because I thought Temple could maybe cover the Overs themselves despite being shut out week 1. Lafayette was bad, but Temple O didn't just completely have their way in the fashion I thought they would. The biggest thing was how much pressure they got on Lafayette's QB which I put completely on the Lafayette OL and is not some kind of praise for Temple's DL. Temple D lived in the backfield most of the game. So they were very disruptive, which was expected. However I expected Temple to be equally dominant with their OL vs them and I didn't think Temple ran it as well as they should've given the opponent. Kurt Warner's son came in and QB'd most of the game. He was pretty good, but it was vs Lafayette. Both of Lafayette's TDs came after Temple fumbles which I 100% needed for the Overs. I thought that Temple would've been better on O and scored those points rather than having to rely on Lafayette to pull some weight. Lafayette really could've or should've been shut out otherwise.

I anticipate playing both Rutgers against Temple this week and William and Mary against Lafayette depending on the line.
 
In piecing the game back through the play-by-play, for Washington State the most critical time for them was early in the game. WSt threw that INT in scoring territory on their first drive and I was like "oh no here we go" but fortunately the WSt D held strong early on and the Wisconsin O wasn't great off the bat. 0-0 to end the 1st Q was a huge win for W St. Wisconsin's drives were a missed 51y FG and then they stopped Wisconsin runs on 2nd-short and 3rd-short before a 4th down incompletion. There were a lot of penalties against Wisconsin some taking away good plays and some just creating long down-and-distance, but a big one against WSt hurt them as they were lined up to go for 4th-1 from inside the 5, but a false start forced them to kick a FG instead. And they had a D PI that gave Wisconsin a FD on 3rd-10 in the 4th Q. So that could've been really big. But Wisconsin wasn't able to capitalize. On Wisconsin's final drive when they fumbled, there were 5min left and Wisconsin had 2 timeouts, but WSt got a couple FDs and was able to kill all the clock on 10 plays and not give Wisconsin the ball back. I was pretty pleased with the WSt D and especially their DL. They were not overpowered and got some negative plays and pressures on Mertz. All those rush yards by Wisconsin came on 44 carries, so it ended up being a manageable average yards per rush that WSt limited them to. I'm not sure who's turnovers hurt more, they each had one in opposing territory trying to score. The penalties certainly contributed. Wisconsin couldn't sustain drives when it mattered though. They missed two FGs. Keep those drives alive and make for shorter FGs or potentially TDs instead.
 
New Mexico State was shut out in the 1H vs UTEP. 170 of their 298 total yards came on the final 3 possessions. They were able to have a shot at the win and cover ATS because the UTEP O continues to be so bad this year compared to last. NM St might luck their way to one TD on some gaff somewhere, but yeah, I would think Wisconsin gets into the 40s pretty easily. However, I thought that week 1 for Wisconsin also and they only led HT 17-0 won 38-0. Minny beat NMSU 38-0, Min led 24-0 HT. New Mexico State O has been shut out in the 1H of every game this year (they did have 2, a safety, vs Nevada).
 
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I had 4 separate bets on the Lafayette - Temple game so I had an eye on it. I targeted this game because how bad I assumed Lafayette was going to be where Temple should have rare and decided advantages. I also played Overs because I thought Temple could maybe cover the Overs themselves despite being shut out week 1. Lafayette was bad, but Temple O didn't just completely have their way in the fashion I thought they would. The biggest thing was how much pressure they got on Lafayette's QB which I put completely on the Lafayette OL and is not some kind of praise for Temple's DL. Temple D lived in the backfield most of the game. So they were very disruptive, which was expected. However I expected Temple to be equally dominant with their OL vs them and I didn't think Temple ran it as well as they should've given the opponent. Kurt Warner's son came in and QB'd most of the game. He was pretty good, but it was vs Lafayette. Both of Lafayette's TDs came after Temple fumbles which I 100% needed for the Overs. I thought that Temple would've been better on O and scored those points rather than having to rely on Lafayette to pull some weight. Lafayette really could've or should've been shut out otherwise.

I anticipate playing both Rutgers against Temple this week and William and Mary against Lafayette depending on the line.
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Great info!
 
Minnesota with a look ahead this week. They are sadly playing the best team they have faced this season. They dont do that great laying so many points. They rarely have a QB that can light up the board. I think +28 is too many here. I hate Sanford as a any kind of coach (Colorado OC/QB) but he did coach Minnesota OC/QB last season.

This is a bookie set up game in my opinion (from what I know from the past) With MSU on deck this is a spot laying too many makes one think twice next week when matching up with MSU. A poor showing here will do that and I kinda expect that. Sure Minnesota is a straight forward team.

After laying -36 to NMXST and -41 to WIU this is a nice dog line.

Since 2006 Minn has been <-17 favorites 9 time lost 2 of those game and only covered 3 of those 9 games. 2 of those covers = NEW MEX ST

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You could be right on this inflated Minny line Spottie.

I had the misfortune of watching and losing money on CU last week. I will say that AF was superior no doubt and in hindsight CU did not have much of a chance, with that said the weather negatively impacted CU pretty hard. Fumbled snaps, numerous passes dropped by receivers. I bit on the 18 there and now here we have what 28? Just how high will these Buffs lines go? Danger danger playing bad teams, this we know. Min is good but maybe it will be easier for CU to handle defensively what Gophers be cooking. TCU killed them with speed. I doubt that be the case here. AF killed them with execution and the uniqueness of the option. What is Min's O going to do that they can't handle? Unless Min expects to just over power them which I doubt. Now, on the other side, I worry about this Colorado O and coaching staff. Hold nose and take the 28? Maybe.
 
Indiana scored all 35 of their points in the 2h versus Idaho... The first half saw a missed FG, turnover on downs, fumble and an interception... a dominant 3rd quarter made up for all of that and they were able to coast in the 4th quarter...
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Bazelak was just 6-of-17 in the 1H, missed an open receiver that instead was an INT. It was raining throughout. The mobility of the Idaho QB was an issue for IU D.

After halftime the rain stopped and Bazelak was 10-fo-12 passing in the 2H.
 
Northwestern gets the Salukis at home. I have zero interest here unless Southern Illinois is playing basketball...
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Southern Illinois is a strange case. They were a 4-5 pt road fav at Incarnate Word, probably shouldn't have been a road fav there even without the benefit of hindsight, but they lost that badly 29-64. Then last week they're at home and a 14-16 pt fav vs SEMO and lost that one 31-34. Big trouble in Salukis ville.
 
Colorado sucks we all know this but any given Saturday> Minnesota has terrible opponents so far and what do we know about the Gophers so far? All we know is what has been served. Bad opponents with a look ahead game. whats the motivation here?

I most certainly could get blown away here. I am in and we will see what happens
 
From what I saw of wazzu, they were the better team. Wisky OL is down and those must not have been Barry's hand picked big ten crew doing the game as they called at least 3 holds on Wisconsin, which is usually a season's worth for them.

Georgia Southern was also the better team. Helton found two guys to pick on and just beat them over and over again. It seemed like he called a screen every time we blitzed as well. Wouldn't rule out them having picked up something there in our signs. Been without Henrich the last two games at ILB (broke a metacarpal, had surgery right after returning from Ireland), which has resulted in us playing a true frosh, Hausman, at that spot. It has not gone well. Gifford at nickel was just awful. Unreal that they didn't give someone else a go, they couldn't have possibly been worse. My source says Henrich is trying to play this week if the doctors will let him, which hopefully would help stabilize the D a bit.

The Iowa OL is unreal bad. Petras is absolute dogshit still, but man, they don't give him any help. I thought Nebraska's OL wasn't good, but somehow, Iowa's is even worse. Can't run it and can't block for two seconds to throw it. Until they fix it, Petras will continue to be awful. They're probably better off going with the noodle armed backup because he can at least move a bit. ISU should have won that game by 2 or 3 TDs, but their qb is also a weak armed dogshit player.
 
Rumor has it Mich starting defense will play much more this week, likely into the 3rd quarter.
 
B.A.R. said:
A very interesting game out in Seattle this week with MSU visiting the Huskies. I would love to get some @jimmymo thoughts on his Huskies. The offensive numbers look great the first two games, but that is versus horrible competition (Kent up-tempo helped in 1h of Week 1, no doubt). Michigan State has also played garbage so far. I guess my cap here would be MSU run offense vs Washington run defense. This game will tell us a lot about both teams. Feel free to chime in @Jeffeo on your Spartans as well.

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At this point, I think the number feels a bit high, but I really do think the UW will win this game. The offense with Coach K and Penix is really like night and day from last year -- I think the UW will score 30 here. The UW defense did not look good at times against Kent State, but much much better last week against Port State (yes, Port State isn't much, but they have some players and took SJSU to the wire in week 1). So, while I do worry a bit about the big, bad B10 run game pounding at us, I really do not believe that State has the O to really, really expose the UW D.

I am actually "guessing" that this line collapses a bit on Saturday morning as the sharps line up to fade the apparent over-reaction -- as such, I currently have two units on MSU +3 1/2 and plan to "buy" UW on Saturday morning (-1 or PK would be very nice). I do think the UW wins this game, but do not feel super strongly. Can't wait to watch.......
 
Penix has always loved playing Sparty.

We shall see what happens... Just a very interesting game...
 
B.A.R. said:
Rumor has it Mich starting defense will play much more this week, likely into the 3rd quarter.
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On offense, expect vanilla again for 3rd straight game. Sounds like the wrinkles come into play for Maryland and Iowa.
 
SMU DT vs Maryland

DeVere Levelston, a first-team all-conference selection by Phil Steele, was called for targeting in the third quarter and disqualified for the rest of the game. Because of the targeting call, Levelston will also miss the first half against Maryland unless a potential appeal by SMU rules otherwise.
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Wow. I just looked at the Purdue receivers, Charlie Jones - 21 catches, next highest receiver has 6! And I think he’s done that in just 6 quarters this year. 21 is as many catches as he had last year in 14 games for Iowa
 
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Wow. I just looked at the Purdue receivers, Charlie Jones - 21 catches, next highest receiver has 6! And I think he’s done that in just 6 quarters this year. 21 is as many catches as he had last year in 14 games for Iowa
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Brohm has damn near adopted the kid. They love him and for good reason. Yeah just 6 quarters I think…pretty sure he wasn’t out there at all the 2nd half of Indy st.

They need Durham to get going and someone like Sheffield to step up. Broc Thompson out again this week.

Also hearing to expect to see more and more of Tyrone Tracy (the other Iowa transfer). Should see 5+ touches including some carries out of the backfield especially with Doerue out.
 
s--k said:
You could be right on this inflated Minny line Spottie.

I had the misfortune of watching and losing money on CU last week. I will say that AF was superior no doubt and in hindsight CU did not have much of a chance, with that said the weather negatively impacted CU pretty hard. Fumbled snaps, numerous passes dropped by receivers. I bit on the 18 there and now here we have what 28? Just how high will these Buffs lines go? Danger danger playing bad teams, this we know. Min is good but maybe it will be easier for CU to handle defensively what Gophers be cooking. TCU killed them with speed. I doubt that be the case here. AF killed them with execution and the uniqueness of the option. What is Min's O going to do that they can't handle? Unless Min expects to just over power them which I doubt. Now, on the other side, I worry about this Colorado O and coaching staff. Hold nose and take the 28? Maybe.
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No discussion of the Gopher defense? They have the best secondary in the B1G West and probably in the entire B1G. They also shut out CU last year 30-0 in Colorado, and the Gophers upgraded their offensive scheme massively by getting Cirocca back. Sanford is a joke of a coach and you can bet the MN defense (who practiced against his shitty scheme every week last year) will have a pretty good idea what to expect tomorrow.

I have no idea if they can cover the 28,, but I certainly wouldn't back a lousy CU squad here. Possible look-ahead spot with scUM on deck as this has been a problem for the Gopher teams as long as I can remember, but I don't think there's a single matchup that doesn't favor the Gophers here, and decidedly so. Just my (homer) opinion.
 
I saw that line and had me wanting to take Corn as well….I wouldn’t have thought that to be the number.

@cubsker you think Mickey has a shot at the job? I’d have to think it would help recruiting some, but I never pegged him for a HC(at least yet)
 
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I saw that line and had me wanting to take Corn as well….I wouldn’t have thought that to be the number.

@cubsker you think Mickey has a shot at the job? I’d have to think it would help recruiting some, but I never pegged him for a HC(at least yet)
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He has a shot. He was basically hired to be the interim coach, I have no doubt about that. Let's see how they do. He gets a free pass tomorrow. They then have a bye week and get a chance to reset. Those 8 games will tell the tale. Tomorrow is a freeroll.
 
@cubsker what is Albert's personality like these days? I remember when he played and when he went into media after football he had a reputation of being kind of a dick and people didn't like him. I'm sure he has turned professional as an administrator and everyone changes and matures (well, most do). But I'm just wondering behind closed doors, what people say he is like, if people say anything
 
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@cubsker what is Albert's personality like these days? I remember when he played and when he went into media after football he had a reputation of being kind of a dick and people didn't like him. I'm sure he has turned professional as an administrator and everyone changes and matures (well, most do). But I'm just wondering behind closed doors, what people say he is like, if people say anything
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I haven't heard anything negative as far as that goes. My neighbor relayed a story from a few years back when he was AD at Nebraska-Omaha. Very gracious, showed my neighbor around the facilities, talked to him for 15 minutes and asked about neighbors daughter who had formerly been on the volleyball team there.
 
P-Unit said:
No discussion of the Gopher defense? They have the best secondary in the B1G West and probably in the entire B1G. They also shut out CU last year 30-0 in Colorado, and the Gophers upgraded their offensive scheme massively by getting Cirocca back. Sanford is a joke of a coach and you can bet the MN defense (who practiced against his shitty scheme every week last year) will have a pretty good idea what to expect tomorrow.

I have no idea if they can cover the 28,, but I certainly wouldn't back a lousy CU squad here. Possible look-ahead spot with scUM on deck as this has been a problem for the Gopher teams as long as I can remember, but I don't think there's a single matchup that doesn't favor the Gophers here, and decidedly so. Just my (homer) opinion.
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Peek that schedule again sir.
 
s--k said:
@cubsker what is Albert's personality like these days? I remember when he played and when he went into media after football he had a reputation of being kind of a dick and people didn't like him. I'm sure he has turned professional as an administrator and everyone changes and matures (well, most do). But I'm just wondering behind closed doors, what people say he is like, if people say anything
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he would be one of the talking heads at espn saying "you can't win at nebraska anymore" like he did about notre dame. "nobody wants to play in lincoln nebraska they are too far from talent" media didn't give him any tough questions about why nebraska has fallen behind at his frost firing presser

seems very political and good communicator, praised frost tons of time after firing him and could of saved money by not waiting.

personally don't get the nebraska love this week
 
twinkie13 said:
You all make lines way better than me so if it was in Norman it’s 17’ish or 21’ish?
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I'd say right in the middle. Both stadiums and crowds worth a little more than the average HF.

As for the sentiment on playing Nebraska, I do lean that way. Although fundamentally OU is the play. I would take Nebraska because college football happens. Things that shouldn't happen happen a lot in this sport. Of course the smart thing to do is try and predict what should happen and if you're good at that then you should win more than not. I'm not good at that, I'm better trying to find the what shouldn't happen but sometimes does. Defense is a lot effort. That was some piss poor effort out of them last week. Embarrassing. They going to give embarrassing piss poor effort again in this stage vs this opponent in this stadium here? I can't stop thinking that Nebraska O was getting conflicting leadership. Is Whipple the OC or is Frost influencing what he wants. They need one leader. Frost was an albatross over this team, remove the noose of impending doom and see how these guys play. There is no way any mid tier Big Ten team should have North Dakota and Georgia So have the success they had in your home stadium. They can't be that bad, but they did in fact play that bad. Can they correct that in one week with a different coach, method and message? The most college football thing to happen is Nebraska wins this game today because they shouldn't but when shit like that does it's why the sport is so great and it happens often enough to make people believe. Xs and Os - OU covers. This "whatever" I'm talking about, Nebraska covers. People come down on one side or the other or they just watch.
 
Low on time ...

As far as BIG plays...

Stalking over in Cuse...

Have Indiana in a ML parlay...

Nothing on Nebraska game ...

Nothing yet on UM UConn...

Waiting on OSU and Toledo...

Interested in Iowa game...

No clue out in Seattle... Over perhaps in some way....
 
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