classic B1G fan stuff right here
The West is still winnable
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We also lack solid to good line play on either side of the ball. That’s hard to overcome. They can hide the OL behind CT arm and quick throws, there’s not a lot Mickey can do to quick fix the DL.
but maybe the man can pull off a miracle.
If/when Nebraska becomes relevant again, you will change your tune. If Nebraska was preseason Top-12 and hoping for a Playoff spot...you'd dang-sure be a big Big Ten fan in the non-conference. You'd want all of us ranked highly when you played us.
With a 12 team playoff, that would no longer matter. Boo your team I hope they lose all the games
If Nebraska was on the bubble of being selected for the Playoff, you'd all be hoping the teams on your upcoming schedule were ranked as highly as possible.
And even without the Playoff, it's nice to be ranked as highly as possible. If you guys get back to near Top-25 status, you'll change your tune.
Nope, he’s right
the big ten has a huge advantage in that the media sucks it off every chance it gets
we need no favors from the likes of our conf peers
The west is winnable bc the west sucks. Make no mistake.
However this team has no chance of winning the west, none whatsoever.
Yet average Penn State beat a mighty SEC team. I thought the SEC was supposed to be unbeatable.
Yep! Breaking news in the B1G when a favored team actually wins
The SEC certainly hasn't pulled any upsets.
And they've already been the victims of several colossal upsets and 4th-quarter-trailing scares by small-conference weak teams.
Florida beating a top 7 team as a touchdown underdog wasn’t an upset?
Tennessee visiting the reigning ACC champ as a 6 point underdog and winning wasn’t an upset?
whatever you say, shit for brains
you’re too much of a coward to admit defeat, so I look forward to many and more idiotic posts like this all season long
Eh, gotta be optimistic to not be completely depressed right? With your guys turd of an offense, surely you understand?
You have this incorrect. Tennessee was a bigger favorite at Pitt than PSU was at Auburn.
Many Big Ten teams could beat Utah by 3 at home. And they wouldn't need a 4th-quarter comeback & last-second fumble to beat South Florida at home.
As for Tennessee...they might be good. The jury is still out. They won in overtime at Pittsburgh...which is probably a decent win.
I analyze fairly. But you're the one who has to prove the top-to-bottom dominance of the SEC. And you're failing miserably.
Probably -24 but -18 on the low end
Florida was favored to beat Utah and was very lucky they actually did.
South Carolina is 0-2 in the SEC right now. They would beat the worst team in the B1G (Nebraska) by 100. They would also beat the 2nd worst team in the B1G (northwestern) by 100.
the worst team in the B1G (Nebraska) lost to a team that got beat by both Duke and a winless FCS program at home. We then also got beat as 24 point favorites at home by a sun belt team.
The bottom of the B1G is historically terrible. There is literally no comparison.
this isn’t even mentioning the fact the bottom of the B1G consists of nearly half the league (Rutgers, maryland, Nebraska, northwestern, indiana, illinois, ect)
the middle boasts teams like iowa (could not score a touchdown against an FCS team at home, lost to iowa st), wisconsin (beat at home as a 17 point favorite by wash st), purdue (1-2 this season) and Sparty (lost to unranked pac12 team)
all these teams would be slaughtered by the likes of ole miss, kentucky, arkansas (even if they’re overrated today), and tenn
we don’t need to even mention the top
teams like minn and mich haven’t even started their seasons yet the non-con schedule was so cowardly and laughable
Florida will probably finish as the 6th or 7th best SEC team this year while boasting a win the entire B1G hasn’t had in 10+ years (beating a top 7 non-con team as an underdog)
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It's laughable how you tout Florida's 3-point home win over Utah as a historically great achievement. Ridiculous. If Florida is so great...why did they need a 4th-quarter comeback and last-second fumble to escape South Florida by 3, at home?
And you keep touting Arkansas...the team that needed a 10-point 4th-quarter comeback to beat something called Missouri State, at home. Ridiculous.
it's not a historically great achievement for a middle-of-the-pack SEC team to beat a top 10 team as an underdog. I, of course, have never said such a thing.
a B1G team doing that would be historic, however, since it literally never happens.
UF beating south fl is not worse than wisconsin actually losing to wash st.
arkansas is probably the 5th or 6th best team in the SEC. iowa is probably the 5th or 6th best team in the B1G. they could not score a touchdown against an FCS team, much less muster 10 points in a row, the week before they lost to iowa st.
Purdue beat Tennessee without its two best players last year. Slaughtered is a bit of a stretch. And it was essentially a home game for Tennessee.
since that game (and the additional 100 yards in penalties that helped bridge the talent gap), the two programs have diverted
your team just lost to syracuse & your coach is looking more and more like a dud (he lost to scott frost for crying out loud)
Woah. If you are going to blame penalties as the reason Purdue beat Tennessee, then you better mention the 7 penalties in the final 35 seconds vs Syracuse to setup Syracuse to win.
I also won't consider a last second loss to psu after the most accurate deep ball QB since brees missed a game sealing TD. Purdue is way better than their record shows.
this is the usual B1G mantra
purdue has looked a lot like a 1-2 team to me, making mistake after mistake at the worst possible times
Yes, very fixable mistakes have cost them two games. Yet, they were still in a position to win both. Purdue will be A-ok. They stop the run well enough that they stand a good chance of winning the west. Which, doesn't mean much. Big ten is essentially a 1 team conference.
Just wanted to point out Tennessee lost to Purdue at home.
no need. what happened last year is as inconsequential to this discussion as purdue is to the college football landscape since time in memoriam.
also, that first paragraph sounds a lot like Nebraska fans over the past few years. be careful.
Difference is they are mistakes that haven't been routine to Brohm in the past. Not that they are fixable bur Brohm has never fixed the issue before. Big difference.
The key to Brohms success is keeping Hagen as DL coach. Brohm will always have the office. Having a top tier DL/front 7 will win a lot of games in the big ten. Hagen is good enough to maintain a top 25ish front 7.
If Mickey and Busch can get the D to average we probably still have a puncher’s chance to win the west. The west looks awful this year. The little bit I’ve seen of the dirt rats didn’t impress me
Iowa would easily beat Missouri State. A team that Arkansas struggled mightily against. Most Big Ten teams would beat them easily.
missouri st plays sd state this week, and were better in the missouri valley than sd state last year
it took iowa two 2nd half safeties to beat sd state (perhaps a worse team than missouri st) this year at home. game was tied well into the 3rd quarter. iowa didn't score a touchdown.
"easily". yea, sure.
You know lines move, right? Florida was favored. The line moves based on the money coming in so the house ideally get 50/50 money on both sides and just collects their share. The original line is usually what the analysts actually think.
Yes.
this line closed as utah -3.5 after opening at -6.
if you were laying points with Florida you need a new bookmaker
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