Afternoon Game Thread

Submitted by alum96 on

2 really good games on tap - the big one down south and we should have a very good game up in Madison.   Time to see if Nebraska is a fraud.   Would be nice if NW could make ND sweat for a half or something.

alum96

November 15th, 2014 at 5:00 PM ^

Why is why the maginifcent "press quarters" defense of MSU looks so great.  The only teams that are competent (Wiscy, Neb, OSU) all are running run based offenses where pushing both safeties within 10 yards of the LOS doesnt hurt you.  Well until OSU got a guy who could actually passs.  But the point stands.  MSU D would be hurt in Pac 12 or Big 12 ...

alum96

November 15th, 2014 at 5:01 PM ^

Announcer says Gordon does not have top end speed.  I am watchng him and comparing to our RBs and going...damn wonder what they think of ours.

B-Nut-GoBlue

November 15th, 2014 at 5:09 PM ^

Right! I don't get the comments like that on RBs these days though, as very few of them are really the fastest of the fastest (Chris Johnson, AP is an all-around freak, and not many more) so it's a moot point. And Melvin Gordon is actually pretty damn fast in his own right.

alum96

November 15th, 2014 at 5:11 PM ^

Life is ridiculous in the SEC.  It truly is another league.  I read somewhere that LSU was hosting 15 five stars for the Bama game last week.  That's LSU.  I assume Saban hosts 20 when he wants... and there are only like 35 or so a year! 

I mean it's just a different world and we can make fun all we want but we have 4 on our entire roster.  I think Bama got 7 last year alone.

LSAClassOf2000

November 15th, 2014 at 5:12 PM ^

Wisconsin just ran a nice blitz against Nebraska - Abdullah whiffed on a block and Marcus Trotter more or less picked up Tommy Armstrong, who is a bigg-ish dude, and tossed him down. In furious reply, Nebraska gets off a nice run which gets the first down and it promptly moved back for unsportsmanlike conduct.