One of the top five games of the year.

Supposedly back in two weeks. 5'11, 185. Is he a pass???

7-5 was my prediction as well. The first 2 games will tell a lot.
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Player of the Week
G - Caitlin Clark, Iowa (SR)
- Contributed 27.3 points, 6.6 assists, 4.6 rebounds and 2.0 steals per game in three Hawkeye wins last week, including a victory over No. 16/22 Kansas State to claim the Gulf Coast Showcase title
- Named Most Valuable Player at the Gulf Coast Showcase after tallying 29 points, eight assists and three steals in a Nov. 24 win over Purdue Fort Wayne and 21 points, six assists, and six rebounds the following day in a triumph over Florida Gulf Coast.
- Chipped in a game-high 32 points, six assists, five rebounds and three steals against Kansas State
- Earns her 20th career Big Ten Player of the Week award (second-most in conference history)
- Last Iowa Player of the Week: Caitlin Clark (Nov. 13, 2023)

Freshman of the Week
F - Natalie Potts, Nebraska (FR)
- Averaged 14.0 points while hitting 12-of-16 shots from the field (.750) as Nebraska split its week against Lamar and TCU
- Erupted for a career-high 22 points on 9-of-10 shooting in 25 minutes in a Nov. 23 win over Lamar
- Added six points against TCU on Sunday
- Nabs her second Big Ten Freshman of the Week honor
- Last Nebraska Freshman of the Week: Natalie Potts (Nov. 13, 2023)

Player of the Week
OH - Sarah Franklin, Wisconsin (SR)
- Averaged 5.00 kills/set, totaling 30 kills on 70 attempts for a .329 hitting percentage, helping the Badgers to a 2-0 week with wins over No. 1 Nebraska and Iowa
- Franklin added 15 digs, three blocks and 31.5 points for an average of 5.25 points/set
- Tallied her seventh double-double (16 kills, 12 digs) of the season on Friday vs. the Huskers
- Last Wisconsin Player of the Week: Sarah Franklin (Oct. 30, 2023)

Defensive Player of the Week
MB - Savannah Kjolhede, Indiana (SR)
- Totaled 16 blocks in Indiana's 2-0 week at Michigan State and Michigan, helping Indiana limit both opponents to a .130 hitting percentage or less
- Tallied nine blocks (seven assists, two solo) in a 3-1 victory at Michigan State
- Also recorded 15 kills in the two matches, finishing with a .393 hitting percentage on 28 attempts
- Helped the Hoosiers match the program's regular season wins record with 21
- Last Indiana Defensive Player of the Week: Paula Cerame (Nov. 21, 2022)

Setter of the Week
S - Taylor Anderson, Purdue (FR)
- Led the Big Ten in Week 14 with 11.50 assists per set, guiding Purdue to a .348 attack percentage at Michigan and a .324 mark at Michigan State
- Tallied 33 assists at Michigan and 36 assists at Michigan State in a pair of Boilermaker sweeps
- Tallied 10 total blocks and finished the week third in the conference with 1.67 blocks per set
- Last Purdue Setter of the Week: Taylor Anderson (Sept. 11, 2023)

Freshman of the Week
S - Mia Tuman, Ohio State (FR)
- Averaged 10.86 assists/set and 2.29 digs/set this past weekend to conclude the Buckeyes' season
- In the 3-1 victory over Rutgers, Tuman totaled 54 assists, seven digs, two kills and an ace
- Nearly finished with a double-double in three sets at Penn State with 22 assists and nine digs
- Finished her freshman season with 963 assists, which ranks 16th overall in the Buckeye record book among career assist leaders
- Last Ohio State Freshman of the Week: Mia Tuman (Nov. 6, 2023)

Osborne forgot to tell them you have to have a boring, run oriented offense in bad weather.

IU passed for 230. KSU passed for 288. Total yards ISU/KSU 488/497

There was between 4-6 inches of snow on the ground.

ISU fumbled twice.

KSU threw a pick.

ISU won 42-35

Worst franchise in pro sports?

James Madison and Jacksonville State will be taking 2 of the 3 remaining bowl bids since there aren't enough qualifying 6-6 teams this season. There was an avenue for Nebraska to back into a bowl at 5-7 based on APR scores. But because the pain of this year insists upon itself, that final spot goes to...

Minnesota

Army and Navy are both 5-6 ahead of their Dec. 9 game. Both have APR scores that are the same or better than Nebraska's. So that means there will be six 5-7 teams* with the same or better APR than Nebraska, so it was a longshot to back into a bowl anyway. Minnesota just provides the extra knife twist.

*Minnesota (T-8 in APR nationally), Mississippi State, South Carolina, Florida, loser of Army/Navy and Nebraska. Navy is tied with Nebraska at No. 65 in APR.

A little disappointing this year. Was he playing with an injury?

Iowa State runs 31 offensive plays to 102 for Kansas State and wins the game. 5 (five) long touchdowns. I know most of you aren't interested but I found it so. Sometimes the hare beats the turtle.

This was the last season for awhile without EA Sports College Football!!!

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So far

Browning Hoodie

Dewalt drill combo

79 teams finished with 6 wins

82 bowls

2 New FBS teams got in since there were 3 spots.

KICK IN THE NUTS - Minnesota is the one team gets in at 5-7 due to APR

Welp.

Selection show getting ready to kick off on ESPN....I'll post updates here as I'm watching

NCAA Women's Volleyball Tournament Selection Show is currently airing on ESPN (first time the Selection Show has ever been shown live on ESPN). The top four seeds for the tournament were just revealed:

Nebraska is officially the No. 1 overall seed (as expected), and the Huskers are joined by Stanford, Wisconsin and Pitt (in that order) as the other No. 1 seeds.

The Huskers' first-round matchup and potential second-round matchup are also set:

No. 1 Nebraska (28-1) vs. Long Island University (13-18) at 7 p.m. CT on Friday. Huskers will face winner of
Delaware (24-4) vs. 8 Missouri (17-12) – Friday at 4:30 p.m. – in the second round if they advance past LIU.

More info here:


The rest of the tournament will be unveiled soon. The team is watching at the Devaney Center right now. John Cook and one or two players will meet with the media shortly to discuss their path forward. We'll have those presser videos on our YouTube channel and I'll drop them ITT.

Offensive Player of the Week
QB - Taulia Tagovailoa, Maryland (SR)
- Completed 24-of-31 passes for a season-high 361 yards, accounting for four touchdowns (three passing, one rushing) in a 42-24 win at Rutgers
- Became the Big Ten's all-time leader in passing yardage, surpassing Purdue's Curtis Painter (11,163) ending the game with 11,256 career passing yards
- Saturday was Tagovailoa's 15th career 300-yard passing game
- Last Maryland Offensive Player of the Week: Taulia Tagovailoa (Oct. 2, 2023)

Defensive Player of the Week
LB - Aaron Casey, Indiana (SR)
- Finished with 11 tackles, including nine solo stops, to move his season total to 109, the first Hoosier to post a 100-tackle season since Tegray Scales (126) in 2016
- The 11 stops mark his 11th career double-digit tackle game and sixth of 2023
- Credited with the lone sack of the game for Indiana and also forced a fumble
- Tied a career-high with 4.0 tackles for loss. Casey's 4.0 tackles for loss moved his career total to 36.0 and into No. 8 overall in program history
- Last Indiana Defensive Player of the Week: Aaron Casey (Oct. 6, 2023)

Special Teams Player of the Week
K - James Turner, Michigan (GR)
- Converted field goals of 37, 38 and 50 yards, tying his season and Michigan career-best with the 50-yard field goal, his second field goal made of 50-plus yards this season
- Set a new Michigan best with 12 points scored in the game
- Last Michigan Special Teams Player of the Week: Jake Moody (Nov. 20, 2022)

Freshman of the Week
DB - Dillon Thieneman, Purdue (FR)
- Made two interceptions to set a new school record for interceptions by a freshman in a single season with six, helping Purdue to a 35-31 win over Indiana
- Led the Boilermaker defense with a team-high eight tackles, all solo, breaking Rod Woodson's school record for solo tackles in a single season. Woodson had 67, Thieneman finished the season with 74.
- Recorded his first multi-interception game of his career and the first for any Boilermaker this season
- Last Purdue Freshman of the Week: Dillon Thieneman (Nov. 13, 2023)

Brutal. Hit the link.

November 27
1841 - Thirty-five Amistad survivors return to Africa.

1852 - Lord Bryon's daugther Ada died; she had assisted Charles Babbage with his "analytical engine" and is credited with inventing computer programming language.

1895 - Alfred Nobel signed his last will, which established the Nobel Prize.

1901 - The U.S. Army War College was established in Washington, D.C.

1910 - New York's Pennsylvania Station opened.

1924 - Macy's first Thanksgiving Day parade — billed as a "Christmas Parade" — took place in New York.

1942 - During World War II, the Vichy French navy scuttled its ships and submarines in Toulon to keep them out of the hands of German troops.

1962 - The first Boeing 727 was rolled out at the company's Renton Plant near Seattle.

1970 - Pope Paul VI, visiting the Philippines, was slightly wounded at the Manila airport by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest.

1973 - Gerald R. Ford was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to become Richard Nixon's new vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew.

1978 - San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, were shot to death inside City Hall by former supervisor Dan White. (White served five years for manslaughter; he took his own life in October 1985.)

1998 - Answering 81 questions put to him three weeks earlier, President Bill Clinton wrote the House Judiciary Committee that his testimony in the Monica Lewinsky affair was "not false and misleading."

2000 - A day after George W. Bush was certified the winner of Florida's presidential vote, Al Gore laid out his case for letting the courts settle the nation's long-count election.

2003 - President George W. Bush secretly flew to Iraq to spend Thanksgiving with the troops.

2008 - Iraq's parliament approved a pact requiring all U.S. troops to be out of the country by Jan. 1, 2012.

2015 - A gunman attacked a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing three people and injuring nine. (The prosecution of suspect Robert Dear stalled in state court, and then federal court, after he was repeatedly found mentally incompetent to stand trial.)

2020 - President Donald Trump's legal team suffered another defeat as a federal appeals court in Philadelphia roundly rejected the campaign's latest effort to challenge Pennsylvania's election results.

2021 - The new potentially more contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus popped up in more European countries, just days after being identified in South Africa.

2022 - Protesters pushed to the brink by China's strict COVID measures in Shanghai called for the removal of the country's all-powerful leader and clashed with police as crowds took to the streets in several cities.

Birthdays
22 - Zoe Colletti (actress)
36 - Lashana Lynch (actress)
38 - Alison Pill (actress)
47 - Jaleel White (actor)
52 - Kirk Acevedo (actor)
54 - Elizabeth Marvel (actress)
59 - Robin Givens (actress)
60 - Fisher Stevens (actor)
63 - Michael Rispoli (actor)
67 - William Fichtner (actor)
68 - Bill Nye (TV host)

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Today in Sports History - November 27
1870 - The New York Times dubbed baseball "The National Game."

1940 - Tom Harmon of Michigan wins the Heisman Trophy.

1956 - The Green Bay Packers select Paul Hornung of Notre Dame with the first pick in the NFL Draft.

1960 - Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings scored his 1,000th career point.

1965 - The Atlanta Falcons select Texas linebacker Tommy Nobis with the first pick in the NFL Draft.

1966 - In the highest-scoring NFL game to date, the Washington Redskins defeat the New York Giants 72-41.

1980 - Dave Williams (Chicago Bears) became the first player in NFL history to return a kick for touchdown in overtime.

1994 - Joe Montana of the Kansas City Chiefs became the fifth quarterback in NFL history to throw for more than 40,000 career passing yards.

2013 - Tiger Woods is named the PGA Tour's Golfer of the Year for the 11th time.

2016 - The Ottawa Redblacks upset the heavily favored Calgary Stampeders 39-33 in overtime to win their first Grey Cup.

Minnesota - offense and defense shits the bed in the last 2 offensive/defensive moments.

Illinois - tried to give it away with a missed FG, 2 fumbles and an interception to end the game.

NW - Punt, punt, punt to end 1 score game.

Purdue - 14 unanswered points by Purdue, 7 courtesy of Sims to make things interesting.

MSU - 2 fumbles in the last 3 minutes. Sketchy officiating as well.

Maryland - Interception in the redzone, defense folds.

Wisconsin - Offense and defense shits the bed in OT.

Iowa - Offense and defense shits the bed in last minute.


It seems psychological as they don't have the confidence or the players to go make a play and win.

Wisconsin def. Indiana (25-19, 26-24, 25-14)
Nebraska def. Iowa (25-21, 25-21, 25-15)

Standings
1. Nebraska (27-0, 18-0)
2. Wisconsin (24-3, 15-3)
3. Penn State (19-8, 13-5)
3. Purdue (19-8, 13-5)
5. Illinois (16-12, 11-7)
5. Minnesota (15-11, 11-7)
7. Indiana (19-12, 9-9)
7. Michigan State (17-12, 9-9)
9. Northwestern (13-15, 7-11)
9. Ohio State (10-17, 7-11)
11. Maryland (16-14, 6-12)
12. Michigan (7-20, 5-13)
13. Rutgers (10-18, 2-16)
14. Iowa (8-22, 0-18)

Nebraska has clinched the Big Ten Championship

Matches for Wednesday, November 22
Penn State at Maryland

Matches for Friday, November 24
Indiana at Michigan State
Nebraska at Wisconsin (3:00 PM - BTN)
Rutgers at Maryland
Purdue at Michigan
Illinois at Minnesota
Penn State at Ohio State
Iowa at Northwestern

Matches for Saturday, November 25
Purdue at Michigan State
Indiana at Michigan
Iowa at Wisconsin
Rutgers at Ohio State
Illinois at Northwestern
Nebraska at Minnesota (8:00 PM - BTN)

Nfm

I know we haven’t played anyone really..buttttt. I will bite on this team. I think this should be the best Fred team we’ve seen, combined with a relatively soft B1G schedule.

They just don’t make the amount of stupid mistakes we’ve seen in the past, even against worse teams. They’ve gone ice cold from 3 in this game but it hasn’t mattered. They’re finding other ways to score. They’re not flashy, they share the rock very well. You never know who is going to lead in scoring between 4-5 different guys. Free throws are night and day better and we get to the line due to nice passing and inside scorers.

They obviously won’t look this good in a week and I believe we lose to Creighton at PBA, but I think we’ll eek out some surprises along the way and continue to handle the teams we should, provided we stay healthy.

Going to be 7-0 today, GBR

4* 6-2 220 lb RB/LB previously committed to Utah. Puhlease land this guy. Early contributor.

1st play - The targeting play on Iowa that was reviewed and not confirmed. Before targeting ever came about, the penalty used to be called spearing. Which was outlawed in 2006. You cannot lead with the crown of the helmet. Which is exactly what the Iowa player did. Don’t understand how on review they didn’t call that.

The 2nd play was the challenge Rhule did for short of the first down. Now if a play is ran you can’t go back and challenge, which is what happened and we were assessed a false start penalty. But then the officials went back and said they were reviewing the previous play. Regardless of the ruling the next play should never have existed and it should have been 2nd and 1 not 2nd and 6.

Am I missing something?

Bauserman at QB today? Not looking too good, more Nebraska like. Ouch.