Well, we managed to get over the MSU hump this year and now sit rather pretty, if you will, at 8-0 and definitely in control of our own destiny in the Big Ten East at this point in the season.

We didn't do it without having some harried personal moments during the game, of course, and just to give you an example of how that is, we gave 507 fucks in this game, whic decisively beats the season record to date of 422 fucks given during the Wisconsin game, which is really the only other end-to-end stressful game we have had as fans in 2016. 

Now, was the game really THAT stressful? I argue not, except the 4th quarter perhaps, but that's me. What is apparent is that we were invested and we were not terribly thrilled with the quality of many of the things going on, even with the typical rivalry game "you might never see this performance again this year" caveats in place. The advanced stats here bear that out:

FART (Fucks Adjusted For Real Time): 2.817 per minute of airtime. Season high.

FAP (Fucks Adjusted Per Play): 3.701 per snap. Also, a season high)

SHART (Shits Adjusted For Real Time): 0.722 per minute of airtime. Season high.

SQUIRT Number: 3.900, not a season high, but kind of high all the same.

YTD tracking is below:

Another thing of note - this was this first thread in a while that broke the 3,000 post mark, but barely at 3,013 post. Still, one thing that makes the the thread size all that more remarkable is the amount of tracked instances we were able to fit into it. 1,328 total instances, in fact, which makes for an overall efficiency of 2.27, which is still not quite as high as Rutgers, but then the nature and context of the Rutgers stuff was different and that thread was a lot smaller as well, and that affects results. 

Here's the tracking for that versus relative contribution of instances by thread. Here's another great rivalry thing that often happens here - we're through 8 games, but yesterday's game accounts for 22.10% of all instances for the season so far. See below:

Also, we can see in MSU how one game skews averages and distributions. With a season high in shits as well as a season high in damns and a few other words which we track, you get this revised normalization of the Original Six:

We were hyped, we were in the moment, and we spent a lot of time being stressed out about run defense and penalties, particular in the fourth quarter, were about 30% of the fucks and damns actually came from. It was not an easy finish for us as fans by any means, but in a fitting way, Peppers added the appropriate amount of karma at the end - hopefully we will never hear about That Which Did Not Occur ever again. 

So, on to Maryland. We're in the driver's seat, I would say. Let's stay there.