Lose and play the victim.

Rhule just finished his quick presser ahead of the Northern Iowa game. I'm starting to write the story now, but he provided a couple updates on two players:

> Rhule said ILB Javin Wright could return for Purdue week
> Mac Markway, a transfer TE from LSU who joined the team the week of the season-opener, tore an ACL and is out for the season. Markway was already likely headed for a redshirt year, but will have to rehab season-ending knee injury now.

Edit: I'll add the full breakdown from Rhule in this thread.

I think tiers is better than a power rating for so many teams, especially early in the season.

Title contenders - tOSU

Playoff contenders - Penn St, USC, Oregon

Top 25 teams - Michigan, Nebraska, Iowa

Bowl teams - Illinois, Indiana, Rutgers, Washington, Wisconsin, Purdue, Maryland

Losing teams - UCLA, Minnesota, Northwestern, Michigan St

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Getting a lot of positive pr after last night.

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I'm sure it's completely out of my league like Dismal, SandHills, Landman, Caprock, and Prairie Club but I've never even heard of this place. Why no pub??

https://www.dormienetwork.com/graybull

Go to the 33:30 mark. Shirts just blocked a sCUm FG attempt. A jubilant Hutmacher is skipping off the field and a coach goes to chest bump him.

CU’s DBs we’re leading with their helmet the entire game…could have easily been four or five ejections Saturday night:









Missed an incredibly obvious intentional grounding call (inside the tackle-box, ball never made it to TLOS:

Travis Hunter was seriously frustrated:




I wanna party with these guys:






There was blatant holding on virtually every play, but was seldom called. This crew was freaking awful:












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Talk about bold 👀

I went “all-out bold” with my Bold Prediction in our BP article and “very-specific bold” in our BP video/podcast. Hit that link to check out this week’s BPs from @Steve Marik, @TimVerghese and me:


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GREAT watch:

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Prude was one of my favorite recruits in the 2024 class. Has the measurables and athletic ability to be a chess piece for the defense in future years. For mods or anyone else that has seen practice or heard tidbits, does Prude project to being an LB as he gains weight? IIRC, they moved Gradney to LB before he got hurt - seems like Prude would be a likely candidate for a position change - especially with the success that Rhule's had in moving players around.

Did he reach the end of the line playing-wise? Does anyone know anything?

1) 49ers - didn't even have to suit up McCaffrey to put a casual whooping on the Jets ... this Niners team is absolutely LOADED & it is truly now or never for Kyle Shanahan with Trent Williams at his literal final peak years

2) Chiefs - Andy Reid is that dude, Mahomes is that QB

3) Eagles - Saquon and Hurts together are going to create amazing throwing lanes for that offense

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I'm stumped after the above 3 ... Packers but now Love is hurt ...

Chargers probably 4th

So, this happened today as SpaceX tested their spacesuits. Fellow space nerds here is their coverage on X this morning. They get the go for the walk at the 1 hour 22 min mark so you can start around there if you want to. As you know if you follow these things there is just a lot of talking going on in these broadcasted missions.

Go to open hatch all the way at the 1 hour 53 minute mark watching the astronauts inside the capsule as he does it.

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I didn't even watch it, I just enjoyed the fact that iowa and cu were both mentioned re: being The Fake ID of College Football in the same post...CU shares it with those turds at least until Prime's day is done in Boulder, then Squawkeye may once again retain sole ownership of the crown.

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“Pro Football Hall of Fame QB and Super Bowl champion Kurt Warner played college football at Northern Iowa, the Huskers’ opponent on Saturday. True or false: Warner and the Panthers lost to Nebraska when the two teams met in the early 1990s.”

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Answer:

False.

Saturday’s game will be the first-ever all-time meeting between the two programs. It will also be Nebraska’s first-ever opponent from the Missouri Valley Conference.

Because if not, I'll take every last drop you got. And I'll lick the carafe it was served in.

Seriously, you can all fvck straight off with all this negativity. It was one game. Our first fvcking game. If we'd have won the exact same game by 1 point, you'd all be here sucking Rhule's dick for such a tough win, such a hard win, so much fight, blah, blah blah.

It didn't work out. Lots more games to play. I saw improvement over the last 2 regimes. And if you didn't, you suck at watching football.

Do we have some very serious roster weaknesses? FVCK YEAH!!! Did we have some serious coaching question marks? Oh, hell yeah!! Including Matt Rhule? You're damn right! There's room for improvement, for sure. But, give Rhule some time. It's headed in the right direction.

How long has the stripper's husband been coaching that gopher team? How long have those guys been playing together? How long have they all been in that PROGRAM? We don't have that...YET.

Expect some extreme roster turnover, expect some coaching turnover, expect some tough losses, but you damn well better expect this thing to get turned around, because it will. And Matt mother fvcking Rhule will be the guy to do it.

Rhule's got this shit! Maybe the wins don't all come this year, but it's a marathon, not a sprint. We'll see improvement and changes across the board (coaches and players) and get back to who we are. Get on board or get the fvck out of the way...and I'll take your leftover Rhuleaide.

Outside of hiring Deion Sanders, Matt Rhule is the best hire we could have possibly made. (I just threw this last part in to see guys like @headcard 's head explode 😂 )

Woodhead told me yesterday that he was on the sideline of the Husker game on Saturday and that the game was the 2nd best football atmosphere he’s ever been at with #1 being the Super Bowl he played in.

A lot of people have said something similar but coming from a guy that played in a lot of big games in the NFL I was very surprised and excited to hear that. Being a Nebraska kid growing up here obviously he seemed filled with joy that Nebraska was playing well. Just a great overall dude for those that know him or have gotten a chance to meet him.

September 12

1609 - Henry Hudson began his exploration of the Hudson River.

1857 - The S.S. Central America (also known as the "Ship of Gold") sank off the coast of South Carolina after sailing into a hurricane in one of the worst maritime disasters in American history; 425 people were killed and thousands of pounds of gold sank with the ship to the bottom of the ocean.

1940 - The Lascaux cave paintings, estimated to be more than 17,000 years old, were discovered in southwestern France.

1953 - Future President John F. Kennedy married Jacqueline Bouvier.

1958 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Cooper v. Aaron that Arkansas officials who were resisting public school desegregation orders could not disregard the high court's rulings.

1959 - The Soviet Union launched its Luna 2 space probe, which made a crash landing on the moon.

1962 - In a speech at Rice University in Houston, President John F. Kennedy reaffirmed his support for the manned space program, declaring: "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."

1977 - South African black civil rights leader Steven Bilko died while in police custody, triggering an international outcry.

1992 - Dr. Mae Carol Jemison became the first Black woman in space board the space shuttle Endeavor.

1994 - Truck driver Frank Eugene Corder piloted a stolen single-engine Cessna airplane into restricted airspace in Washington, D.C. and crashed it into the South Lawn of the White House.

1999 - Indonesia announced it would allow an international peacekeeping force to restore order in East Timor.

2003 - In the Iraqi city of Fallujah, U.S. forces mistakenly opened fire on vehicles carrying police, killing eight of them.

2008 - A Metrolink commuter train struck a freight train head-on in Los Angeles, killing 25 people.

2008 - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who was under investigation for corruption, resigned as prime minister.

2013 - Voyager 1, launched 36 years earlier, became the first man-made object to ever leave the solar system.

Birthdays
20 - Jayla Walton (actress)
27 - Sydney Sweeney (actress)
28 - Janessa Gornichec (model)
31 - Kelsea Ballerini (singer)
35 - Freddie Freeman (baseball player)
38 - Emmy Rossum (actress)
38 - Alfie Allen (actor)
43 - Jennifer Hudson (actress/singer)
44 - Yao Ming (basketball player)
46 - Ruben Studdard (singer)
50 - Jennifer Nettles (singer)
55 - Angel Cabrera (golfer)
57 - Louis C.K. (comedian)
60 - Greg Gutfeld (TV host)
67 - Rachel Ward (actress)
73 - Joe Pantoliano (actor)
82 - Maria Muldaur (singer)
84 - Linda Gray (actress)

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Today in Sports History - September 12

1976 - The Seattle Seahawks play their first NFL regular season game, a 30-24 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals.

1979 - Carl Yastrzemski of the Boston Red Sox became the first American League player to get 3,000 career hits and 400 career home runs.

1984 - Michael Jordan signs a seven-year contract to play for the Chicago Bulls.

1984 - Dwight Gooden of the New York Mets set a rookie strikeout record with his 251st strikeout of the season.

1992 - At the U.S. Open tennis tournament, Stefan Edberg defeats Michael Chang in a match that lasted 5 hours and 26 minutes.

2002 - A judge announced that a jury would have to decide who would get the ball that Barry Bonds hit for his record 73rd home run. The ownership of the ball, with an estimated value of $1 million, was being disputed between two men that had been in the bleachers.

2004 - The Detroit Lions defeat the Chicago Bears 20-16 to snap an NFL-record 24-game road losing streak.

2005 - Mark Messier announces his retirement from hockey.

2006 - Rick DiPietro (New York Islanders) signed a 15-year contract worth $67.5 million.

2011 - Novak Djokovic defeated Rafael Nadal to win his first U.S. Open.