B1G Standings (Wk 1)
While the standings matter every year, this season brings in Champions Week, which will match-up the #1 East vs #1 West, #2 vs #2, and so on.
WEST
Purdue (1-0)
Northwestern (1-0)
Wisconsin (1-0)
Illinois (0-1)
Iowa (0-1)
Nebraska (0-1)
Minnesota (0-1)
EAST
Michigan (1-0)
OSU (1-0)
Indiana (1-0)
Rutgers (1-0)
Maryland (0-1)
PSU (0-1)
MSU (0-1)
Just as everyone predicted, Purdue, Northwestern, Indiana, and Rutgers are among teams tied for first in their divisions. What?!
It's too early to forecast actual matchups, but hoo boy, that was an interesting week one.
Week two pits MICH vs MSU, OSU vs PSU, IND vs RUT
October 26th, 2020 at 10:31 AM ^
It...
(Edit by rob f: I'm taking the rare step of editing out a post ONLY because it it's clearly a "bait-and-switch" situation. He posted nonsense and then, to avoid scrutiny, edited out his original highly-questionable post and replaced it with one that actually made some sense.
I'm also looking into whether there's more than one account involved here.)
October 26th, 2020 at 10:51 AM ^
I'm sorry. I apologize. I need to stop.
October 26th, 2020 at 10:57 AM ^
You now answer your own posts?
October 26th, 2020 at 11:06 AM ^
s/he edited the post. before it was some bizarre, inappropriate meme. obviously thought the better of it and took it down, put in something nearly as inappropriate.
EDIT: and has now edited it down to an apology. PQ, i don't know what the deal is but my guess is you are lonely. time to go get some friends, join a real, in-person group, or sports team, or business venture, or church/temple/etc, or whatever, and get out in the world. guessing you might have a lot to contribute if you'd let yourself do so.
October 26th, 2020 at 11:52 AM ^
Just wanted to say: this was a nice sentiment. I hope he listens to your sage advice...
October 26th, 2020 at 1:08 PM ^
i have had the privilege of meeting a number of mgobloggers over the years and invariably am better for their friendships. i try (imperfectly) to treat folks on here like they really might be the next one to visit the farm and sit at our kitchen table.
October 26th, 2020 at 7:09 PM ^
Wait, PQ posted a meme? Whoa that's really upping his game from jibberish to memerish!
October 26th, 2020 at 11:53 AM ^
Providing “life lessons” to a blog personality has so many issues
October 26th, 2020 at 11:20 AM ^
He is Gollum....and Smeagol.
October 26th, 2020 at 10:58 AM ^
Get help.
October 26th, 2020 at 10:59 AM ^
Technical impossibility, I'm afraid.
October 26th, 2020 at 11:00 AM ^
......with keeping track of which account he's using.
October 26th, 2020 at 11:04 AM ^
Busted AGAIN. Dude, you need to keep better track of which tab you have open.
October 26th, 2020 at 11:12 AM ^
This.
October 26th, 2020 at 1:32 PM ^
Did I miss something? What was originally posted? What other user is he?
October 26th, 2020 at 4:33 PM ^
The content of his posts made it clear that he intended to use a different account. His first post, which is reasonable, is still there. The second post, made very soon after, was critical of the reasonable post, and thus, likely to have been intended to have been made using an alternate troll account. Basically, a round-about way of garnering sympathy for upvotes.
October 26th, 2020 at 11:44 AM ^
Haven’t we banned this troll yet?
October 26th, 2020 at 12:05 PM ^
Pony boy should have an automatic ban at the end of every month. Then let the troll decide if it’s worth using his allowance every month to sign back up.
October 26th, 2020 at 12:08 PM ^
Pony Conquerer: Warning issued.
I'll refer you to the full warning further downthread. I meant to post it here but didn't post it as a reply, my mistake.
October 26th, 2020 at 11:07 AM ^
I'd be willing to ignore this slip if it produced humor. But it didn't.
October 26th, 2020 at 12:50 PM ^
PQ - you should look at your MGoPoints deficit like a sane person looks at school loan debt and see how quickly you can erase it.
October 26th, 2020 at 10:32 AM ^
I went over to the sparty blog for some schadenfreude. One of the posters had a pretty good comment: "If you had told me back in February that we'd be going into the Michigan game at the end of October with one loss, one game out of first place, I'd have been ecstatic. Now, not so much."
October 26th, 2020 at 11:30 AM ^
I know it's only been one game, but Tucker seems remarkably like a Brady Hoke analogue:
- dubious qualifications
- his contributions in-game seem to be mostly relegated to clapping
- hired by a reportedly-awful Athletic Director
- ridiculously overpaid (to be fair, I'd coach MSU for $30 million... I bet I could manage to lose to Rutgers too)
I don't blame people for taking jobs they aren't qualified for when offered a ridiculous sum of money to do so. I don't blame people for failing upwards, or parlaying, say, an interim head coaching gig into various large contracts. I DO wonder at the people who hire those kinds of people.
October 26th, 2020 at 12:25 PM ^
MSU clearly thought Fickell was coming, and perhaps his agents communicated as much in order to get a better contract at Cincy. Once that fell through they really didn't have a backup plan, and it showed in how they chased a bunch of guys with dubious credentials and settled on Tucker.
To Tucker's credit, he seems like a decent guy. He didn't throw his players under the bus like Dantonio did, and it's impossible to judge a hire after a year, even though my guess is he'll ultimately be a bust. But he absolutely didn't show anything at Colorado to give one the impression that he could lead an upper-tier P5 program to consistent success.
October 26th, 2020 at 12:31 PM ^
On the other hand, Hoke did finish his first year at 11-2. Tucker has some work to do...
October 26th, 2020 at 12:53 PM ^
As someone who has been underpaid many times in my career, I'd gladly accept a gross overpay for a few years. Wouldn't mind one of those fancy golden parachutes you get too when you mess up so bad they just pay you the money without having to work. Charlie Weis was getting paid by three teams at one point.
October 26th, 2020 at 11:32 AM ^
I love seeing MSU lose but their splatter to reality takes away from some of the razzing I can give my friends and neighbors. I mean I squinted at our Halloween matchup and it reads Rutgers.
I still feel Mork somehow sold his soul to the devil for that 5 year run they had. Urban Meyer should have nightmares over that game they lost to Sparty in CBus with Tyler O'Connor as the starter.
October 26th, 2020 at 3:19 PM ^
We all still have nightmares about that loss to Sparty in CBus that year. The 2015 OSU team was better than the 2014 team, but that one loss kept OSU out of the playoff.
October 27th, 2020 at 12:03 AM ^
That game was the first and last time I rooted for OSU to win because it would have set up a chance for Michigan to win the Big 10 title the following week.......
October 26th, 2020 at 5:06 PM ^
Not to sober things up, but Dantonio didn't pay the devil with his soul. His football team was allowed to rape their way across campus for YEARS at a time. Assault victims were intimidated and silenced. Players who should have been in jail were suiting up against us (didn't what's-his-face get caught for drunk driving SEVEN times, with six of those coming on a suspended license?). Hard-r spewing racists were reinstated. Physical violence, against each other and others, was encouraged. Any position coach who raised an eyebrow was scapegoated.
No, Mork sacrificed *everyone else* for his victories. Anyone who could do that never had a soul to begin with.
October 26th, 2020 at 11:57 AM ^
i had a similar sentiment as the detroit tigers entered september
October 26th, 2020 at 10:32 AM ^
I recognize OSU has reached Juggernaut status. I have hopes, but I'm not letting them get too high.
HOWEVER, I'm fully aboard the high hopes train for MSU to be playing in the first ever B1G Last Place game at the end of the season!
October 26th, 2020 at 10:34 AM ^
Rutgers vs Indiana playing for first in their division. Like we all expected.
October 26th, 2020 at 10:43 AM ^
I think that IU-PSU game says a lot more about Penn State than it does Indiana. OSU is probably going to walk on the Fightin' Franklins
The whole West division will be interesting to watch now that Graham Mertz got the 'rona. Is anyone in that division any good? It wouldn't shock me if Minnesota is just kinda bad
October 26th, 2020 at 10:58 AM ^
My hope is that Minnesota is really good, which made Saturday an even better win for Michigan. Also, hope that IU isn't that good and PSU just flat out sucks.
October 26th, 2020 at 11:11 AM ^
I hope that IU is actually really good and we curb stomp them like we did Minnehaha.
Could not agree more about PSU, though. They're so annoying.
October 26th, 2020 at 12:00 PM ^
IU really didn't look that great against PSU. They were outgained by a significant margin. It had the feel of one of those games where the favorite keeps tripping over its own feet before finally getting it together and winning . . . but PSU decided to keep on tripping to the end.
October 26th, 2020 at 12:07 PM ^
I think Minnesota is going to end up with only 2 losses, us and Wisconsin.
From all the B10 games I watched this weekend, ours was the only one that looked like it should’ve been a late October game. Every other game looked like week 1, or maybe -2, at least for one team.
October 26th, 2020 at 12:18 PM ^
I'd hope for the same but it seems like most years our maybe nice early season wins turn out unexciting (various ND wins, Florida, etc). Only time recently we've had a non-con win turn out to be a bigger win later was 2016 Colorado I think. Time will tell, but I hope you're right
October 26th, 2020 at 11:46 AM ^
The West division is usually interesting and unpredictable. With Wisconsin's QB situation the only true upsets in their division games would involve Illinois. It looks like 3 of the 4 bottom teams are in the East.
October 26th, 2020 at 1:42 PM ^
My impression of the first week is that the West is wide open. Mertz made a difference for Wisconsin, but with him out for 3 weeks, that blows everything up. I am pretty sure he wont be the last key player to get COVID (although Im pretty sure that Fields has some secret immune system that will prevent him from getting COVID)
Without Mertz, I could see up to 5 teams (WIS, NW, Iowa, Minny, Purdue) in the west fighting for the top. The winner will have a 5-3 record and the difference will be which team out of the 5 have the easiest (ie Sparty and Maryland) cross over games to the East.
October 26th, 2020 at 10:49 AM ^
Whisky looks good.
I feel much better about playing PSU, we shall see how they respond to their "loss"
I'm trying to send "stay focused" vibes to UM and to not look past an enemy who would rather beat Michigan then loose every other game by 1000 points.
October 26th, 2020 at 10:53 AM ^
"loss"?
did Michigan "win"?
Edit: Maybe unintended snark. I just don't like feeding into the PSU rolodex. That one will probably be right next to Lloyd Carr's extras seconds.
October 26th, 2020 at 12:05 PM ^
I've never understood how PSU fans can think that it was OK for Paterno to get time added to the clock on PSU's last drive, and then think it was a huge travesty for Carr to ask for the same.
October 26th, 2020 at 11:09 AM ^
Personally as someone whose only alcohol consumption is Bud Light I hope “whisky” doesn’t look good to me until December 12 (when it inevitably will).
October 26th, 2020 at 11:13 AM ^
Sorry. I intended "whisky" to me Wisconsin - a little slang from the redrum
October 26th, 2020 at 11:43 AM ^
We got what it was slang for. But its "Wiscy" not "whiskey"
8.5.2October 26th, 2020 at 11:47 AM ^
Yea I go with Wiscy.
October 26th, 2020 at 11:28 AM ^
Regardless of what sparty does and doesn't want they are not going to tight very many games this year, including the one this weekend.
October 26th, 2020 at 10:56 AM ^
Purdue played surprisingly well. They might come out of the West if Mertz misses three games.