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An Ezekiel Elliott TD has the Buckeyes up 10, and that's probably going to be enough to put them in the clear today.
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Illinois and Iowa look as though as they'll hang on. Purdue is still in a dogfight with Western Michigan, if that's any kind of surprise.Comment
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The Buckeyes close out Navy with a strong fourth quarter.Comment
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You're conference is rated imo by your top 3-6 teams, not your 8th - 14th teams... Even then, it's WHO you play as much as teams don't play everyone in their conference other than the Big XII.Comment
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All I ask out of teams like Purdue and Illinois is that they don't lose to the shitball teams on their schedule. Looks like everyone will win this week except possibly Northwestern & WisconsinComment
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Northwestern is getting run out of their own home. They look terrible. Based solely on Week 1 the East is looking a lot stronger than the WestComment
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Which is shocking.Comment
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Wisconsin really blew that game last night. Have to blame the coaching staff first and foremost, but McEvoy did not look good.Comment
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Miles > Anderson ..... For now.
Didn't see any of the game, just the final and that Wisconsin blew a 17 point lead.
Was Anderson trying to protect a lead with that stupid sort of 70s shell defense? If he was he should have gotten burned for that. Modern, tempo offenses are going to eat it up.
Read a good piece today about the time it took to move M from the college football world of dinosaurs to one slightly more evolutionarily advanced (slightly). Lloyd Carr's last year (2007) saw old school fotball get completely dismantled when his team faced App State and Oregon in back to back losses, the last to Oregon a blow out loss. After that game, there was no chalking those two losses up to anomalies. M football as it had been played for more than three decades was dead.
Then came Rodriguez. Right idea that got squandered for the reasons we all know about. Maybe the most important though was the insistence by the old school followers of LC that a Michigan man be the HC. That has persisted but it is possible that Mattison has gone to school again and for an old dog learnd some new tricks. Hoke? Doubt it but it seems he has the common sense to hire someone like Nussmeir who, it would appear, knows how to run a new school offense in a fashion that pleases the old school.
Well see.Mission to CFB's National Championship accomplished. But the shine on the NC Trophy is embarrassingly wearing off. It's M B-Ball ..... or hockey or volley ball or name your college sport favorite time ...... until next year.Comment
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It was Appy State for Christ sake! I have them losing two of the next three games.Comment
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True.
But my comments, taken from a diary post at mgoblog, has to do with the appearance of fundamental changes in the way M plays the game. It appears to me, to some extent, that the coaches have a clue about modern football .... the kind played by today's elites.
Lloyd, like Bo, would have been happy with 28 points and sat on it employing a shell defense ........ do you remember the number of games that Hermann did that? I do and it made nail biters out of games that didn't need to be. Why? Because offenses were emerging and advancing while M's philosophical approach to football remained stagnant.
This team scored 52 points and kept the pressure on Appy State before the second and third stringers entered the game. Sure, it's appy state so the results of that pressure are a relative thing. I understand that. But my point remains. There is evidence of a shift in the way M sees how the game is played and plays it. It's taken nearly 40 years to get there.Mission to CFB's National Championship accomplished. But the shine on the NC Trophy is embarrassingly wearing off. It's M B-Ball ..... or hockey or volley ball or name your college sport favorite time ...... until next year.Comment
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I will say it was a pleasant surprise to see our corners pressing Appy State receivers at the line and what coverage they showed on TV the corners were blanketing the receivers downfield.Comment
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That, Stan, is a HUGE departure from years gone by. Taking away the 'dink and dunk' from the opponent should help us immensely.“Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.” - Groucho MarxComment
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You have to blame the coaches for McEvoy being in there. He was playing at safety last year and they benched a returning starter. Bad doesn't begin to describe McEvoy. He was Nick Sheridan wearing a red shirt.Originally posted by Dr. Strangelove View PostComment
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1. Wisky lost their entire front 7 to graduation, and during the game their starting nose tackle and a DE got hurt. They just couldn't hold up at the point of attack by the end of the game.Originally posted by Jeff Buchanan View Post
2. LSU figured out that Wisconsin had Nick Sheridan Jr. playing QB, so after giving up over 250 yards rushing in the first few quarters they finally starting packing the box and Wisconsin couldn't move it anymore.
Exhibit A for why recruiting matters. Although Wisky probably would have won with Stave playing.Comment
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