Who else turned off the Iowa/PSU game last night?
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Well every offense Nebraska faces might as well start with a 7-0 lead because of the inevitable pick-6. That won't help once they actually start playing good teams.
Not me. I knew Iowa was fully capable of giving it away, and I knew that blasted PSU was fully capable of some unlikely miracle.
I shudder to think about Nebraska's offense against those two defenses.
I shutter at Barkley. Thank goodness our run defense has looked pretty good. If this was last years defense it would be a Melvin Gordon situation again.
PSU seems to be highly dependant on Barkley. Outstanding player. The backups are decent also.
They rode him most of the game. If that becomes a trend, which I doubt will be the case in all games, it may be long season.
Heck of a game.
PSU began to depend on more players on last series. I believe TD pass was first in young career of PSU WR.
Long B1G season.
Crushing loss for the Hawkeyes, they played hard until the last tick of the clock. They will win their share of games this year as they normally get better as the season progresses.
It seems to me like Iowa has a lot of just plain football players that may or may not be great athletes. Other schools put more of a premium on athletes that may or may not be great football players. 40 times - cone drills - performance in shorts. They excel in high school simply because they are better athletes than most and when they get to college these athletic advantages are nullified and we get to find out just how good of football players they are.
Of course the elite teams get great football players who are also great athletes.
Just an observation - maybe I'm way off.
Ferentz has a system and
Looks for players that fit his system. This is why Iowa is consistent every year and always looks the same. Different players yes, but the system remains the same.
This habit of giving away points has to stop. This offense has enough problem out scoring the opponent, let alone giving them 10-20 points. That said, I have a small ray of optimism if we can stop giving away points and make teams actually beat us.
They just kept banging the ball in there waiting to pop a long run or play action pass. They run the style of offense we really probably should be running with our team right now.
great game.. S Barkley got my vote for heisman. Both defenses are really good. Their practices must be bloodbaths!?!
I shudder to think about Nebraska's offense against those two defenses.
Psu had 300 yards rushing and 40 mins TOP. Almost 600 yards total. They dominated. Should have blown Iowa out.
But they didn't. Iowa (as much as I loathe Iowa) did what they've always done and it almost worked against a team who IMO has better talent at most positions.
Lots of ways to play a game. Most interesting stat to me was average Yd per offensive play...not what one would expect...essentially identical. One played high risk, high reward on D. The other low risk, contain.
Death by a thousand paper cuts
Death by a thousand paper cuts
The game I was watching was one in which Penn St had to score with 4 seconds left to win the game, it was not close to a blow out at any point during the 60 minutes of game time. Hats off to a really good Penn St team.
Show me one statistic that iowa won.... i agree with jd.. it should have been a blowout.. for cryin out loud it was midway thru the 2nd quarter when iowa caught a pass for only its 2nd first down of the game and the crowd sarcastically cheered.. did you watch that part? Hats off to iowa for keeping the score close and thats what counts but they lost in all aspects of the game.. the better team absolutely won.. they will no doubt have a ring ceremony for the moral victory!
Oh the triplets (woulda, coulda, shoulda), 21 - 19 is not a blow out, I could give a crap about stats.
Isn't this why a BD defense was defended to start this season? Bend, but don't break....make a team beat you with field goals? It damn near worked against a team with the best player in the country.
stop it with the calling out of hypocrisy
If we a Nebraska fans want to show we understand the game like we think we do, perhaps an understanding of different philosophies, approaches, field position, etc should be displayed a bit more regularly. Both of those teams played at high levels on both sides of the ball for significant stretches of the game. Both showed healthy amounts of respect for how the opponent could hurt them, adjusted to dynamics of the game, and it resulted in a very competitive game.
