College football friday thread
Iowa vs. Nebraska 12 pm ABC
WMU vs. NIU 11 am ESPNU
South Florida vs. Central Florida 12 pm ESPN2
Marshall vs. WKU 12 pm FS1
Houston vs. SMU 12 pm CBSSN
Arkansas vs. Missouri 2:30 PM CBS
Stanford at UCLA 3:30 PM ABC
Arizona State at Arizona 3:30 PM FOX
Colorado State at Air Force 3:30 PM CBSSN
Virginia at Virginia Tech 8 PM ESPN
East carolina at Tulsa 8 PM ESPNU
November 28th, 2014 at 12:42 PM ^
November 28th, 2014 at 12:44 PM ^
November 28th, 2014 at 1:52 PM ^
We were never even close to getting him.
November 28th, 2014 at 12:48 PM ^
November 28th, 2014 at 12:51 PM ^
I'm really interested to watch the AZ-ASU game. And the UCLA game determines if the AZ-ASU winner claims the Pac 12 south. So lot's of interesting stuff going on.
November 28th, 2014 at 1:44 PM ^
November 28th, 2014 at 12:50 PM ^
November 28th, 2014 at 12:52 PM ^
and one pick 6.
Seems like a typical Iowa vs Nebraska so far
November 28th, 2014 at 1:05 PM ^
November 28th, 2014 at 3:16 PM ^
since we don't deserve to be in the 'Power 5' conferences. We should combine with the MAC to become the Big MAC.
November 28th, 2014 at 12:53 PM ^
Sorry.
hopefully, the busy shoppers don't trample me
November 28th, 2014 at 12:52 PM ^
That was a phenomenal pass by Tommy Armstrong except for the part about it getting tipped, caught by Loudermilk and then returned for a pick six. Other than this, I am sure Nebraska totally meant to do that.
November 28th, 2014 at 1:00 PM ^
November 28th, 2014 at 1:04 PM ^
You can tell that WMU is getting better with each game played.
November 28th, 2014 at 1:38 PM ^
Hopefully they hold on against Northern Illinois because Toledo needs them to win to make the MAC title game.
Still p1ssed that UT had to resort to using a WR as Qb against NIU. Could cost them the conference.
November 28th, 2014 at 1:43 PM ^
I've probably heard Richard Ash's name called ten times in this game. It's good to see him blow it up on the D-line (including a blocked FG). Go Broncos!
If PJ Fleck can keep this up, he'll be a hot name in a couple of years.
November 28th, 2014 at 1:11 PM ^
Wow. 56 total points in the Marshall-WKU game, with 13 minutes still left in the second quarter.
I think Marshall's defensive players are still in a food coma from yesterday.
November 28th, 2014 at 1:45 PM ^
The longest drive (in time used) by either team is a 9 play, 62 yard drive that took 3:02 off the clock. This looks almost like EA Sports kinds of drives.
RSH: 2 plays, 0 yards, 0:26 - Interception
WKU: 1 play, 17 yards, 0:09 - Touchdown
MRSH: 8 plays, 75 yards, 2:27 - Touchdown
WKU: 1 play, 75 yards, 0:11 - Touchdown
MRSH: 5 plays, 68 yards, 1:43 - Touchdown
WKU: 8 plays, 75 yards, 2:53 - Touchdown
MRSH: 4 plays, 64 yards, 1:42 - Touchdown
WKU: 6 plays, 40 yards, 2:35 - Punt
MRSH: 3 plays, 6 yards, 0:00 - Interception
WKU: 4 plays, 31 yards, 1:08 - Touchdown
MRSH: 1 play, 0 yards, 0:00 - Interception
WKU: 6 plays, 63 yards, 2:29 - Touchdown
When I started writng this post: the score was 42-21. In the few minutes it took to write, this happened:
MRSH: 8 plays, 69 yards, 2:47 - Touchdown
WKU: 2 plays, 0 yards, 0:00 - Interception
MRSH: 1 play, 48 yards, 0:07 - Touchdown
November 28th, 2014 at 1:47 PM ^
And it was last year and the year before that.
B1G, baby!
November 28th, 2014 at 1:26 PM ^
It is almost as if the spirit of every Big Ten game ever has converged in Iowa City today...
Tommy Armstrong throws one up and it gets picked off, then Iowa promptly fumbles. The strategic exchange of turnovers as is customary in Big Ten play.
....and Nebraska makes Iowa pay for being all butterfingers. Abdullah nabs one in the back of the end zone, free of the constraints of the Iowa secondary.
November 28th, 2014 at 1:27 PM ^
....sorry. Thanksgiving flashbacks.
November 28th, 2014 at 1:29 PM ^
Pelini sucks. How can a team still be down after the other team turned it over 4 times in one half? If they lose this game I wonder if Pelini gets shitcanned.
November 28th, 2014 at 2:14 PM ^
Though I will miss Faux Pelini. And the 5 Dollar Bits of Broken Chair trophy won't be the same.
November 28th, 2014 at 1:41 PM ^
"Pelini Sucks"
This sort of analysis is what got us where the hell we are today.
Remember: "Michigan needs a new Carr with Les Miles"?
Pelini's got a .710 winning percentage and has gone 66-27 in this time there.
That's not terrible after Bill Callahan, or have people forgotten?
November 28th, 2014 at 1:47 PM ^
Yes he's better than Callahan but no big ten titles or big 12 titles which isn't acceptable at a place like Nebraska. His teams are consistently a 8-9 win team because they feast on Illinois, NW, and Purdue every year. With that being said, I hope they hang onto him and we're not battling them for a coach this year.
November 28th, 2014 at 1:48 PM ^
We are down and out, but that's a battle we still will win.
November 28th, 2014 at 1:51 PM ^
.710 is .710 regardless (ask RichRod and Brady Hoke)
Bottom line, way better than us (until the Harbaughing)
November 28th, 2014 at 2:03 PM ^
In his tenure in the big ten the only big win he has is against MSU 3 years ago. He got walloped the one time he got to the BTCG and it doesn't say much that he's better than us. Rutgers and Maryland are better than us and they're not good either. If you're Nebraska or Michigan you need to win conference championships.
November 28th, 2014 at 2:25 PM ^
Nebraska is in a very tough spot. They have to look at what is happening to the UMs, TNs, Miami FLs, heck even Texas and be frightened. You fire Bo and you could be those programs overnight. Or you are stuck with the "above average but nowhere near great" spin cycle you are in.
November 28th, 2014 at 2:30 PM ^
Nebraska's in a tough spot. Historically, they've been much better than they are now but they have no recruiting base. The don't have the same access to Texas anymore. A bad hire could have Nebraska looking like some of the other plain states schools in a hurry (Kansas State, Iowa, Iowa State, Minnesota, etc)
Without the same access to Texas & Oklahoma talent, you need great coaching to excel. Nebraska should be careful
November 28th, 2014 at 2:41 PM ^
Michigan moved with a view to change/modernize post Lloyd Carr and it just didn't work.
How do Texas fans feel about Mack Brown's legacy now?
November 28th, 2014 at 3:01 PM ^
November 28th, 2014 at 1:54 PM ^
But he's 9-16 against top 25 teams (including 2-9 vs the top 10; 3-10 vs the top 15; 6-15 vs the top 20), which is who he should be evaluated against because Nebraska is historically a top 10 program, and even in today's college football landscape, I'm sure they see themselves as a top 15/top 20 program.
When facing teams that are supposed to be his equal, he has failed.
November 28th, 2014 at 2:01 PM ^
Earle Bruce at Ohio State, .755. But most of those were 9-3 and folks expected more. And we got John Cooper. Earle actually did make a bowl game in his first year that likley would have been an MNC. Outside of that, Cooper had higher highs a few times, but defniitely lower lows and of course and was awful against you guys. The question is are you willing to give up a good thing for perhaps a better thing.
When you are a Michigan or a Nebraska or an Ohio State, I think you do have to take those chances or you have to change your expecttions. Just be willing to pay the price if it doesn't work.
November 28th, 2014 at 2:12 PM ^
Yeah I think you have to take those chances. They do that in the SEC and it pays off sometimes and doesn't other times but they have a lot more national titles than we have in the big ten in the long run. I did like Lloyd Carr. I just know that they aren't going to win a conference championships with pelini if they haven't in 8 years. You may have some rough years like we're having or make a Zook to Meyer type turnaround. Personally, I think that if you're not first you're last so if you're losing 4 games a year it's the same as losing 7 games a year.
November 28th, 2014 at 2:06 PM ^
So you wanted to continue to get owned by Tressel every year? Losing games at home to Appalachain State and Oregon? We had to change something. We failed to find a suitable replacement but that's no reason to use revisionist history. In college football you're either going backward or forward and we were going backward under Lloyd.
Pelini has been there 7 years and has no conference titles because his teams don't win big games. He's 9-17 against top 25 teams.
Since we have you know, 42 big ten titles I kind of think if we had a coach here for 7 years with no big ten titles that would be unacceptable, but that's just me.
November 28th, 2014 at 2:23 PM ^
Did getting owned by Tressel have anything to do with tats, money, blunt and cars? How might that have played out if Lloyd had stayed?
If Lloyd had stayed (vs. the Rod experiement) Michigan would still be winning B1G titles. It's not like 2006 didn't happen or that quality players weren't on the roster. Mallett stays etc. going forward.
Last I looked, Lloyd was carried off the field after shaking Urban Meyer's hand in victory.
"We had to change something"
Yeah, and thanks to that we stopped winning.
November 28th, 2014 at 2:27 PM ^
He retired anyways so this conversation isn't really relevant. We knew this for 2 years before the 2007 season began.
November 28th, 2014 at 2:32 PM ^
I heard from the guy in the seats behind mine.
He has a brother who's cousin's wife's sister's minister knows Lloyd personally.
Apparently, Lloyd is still nefariously pulling all the strings in the AD and is secretly influencing Hackett in the hiring process for the next head coach...
November 28th, 2014 at 2:30 PM ^
How do you figure? OSU won the Big Ten title every year from 2005-10. Twice we played them for it in 2006 and 2007 and were beaten. Tressel had Carr's number because he was a better coach. I'd say 7 big ten titles in 10 seasons vs 5 big ten titles in 13 seasons and a 1-6 head to head record pretty much proves that.
November 28th, 2014 at 1:34 PM ^
Marshall-WKU is infinitely more entertaining than Nebraska-Iowa.
November 28th, 2014 at 1:38 PM ^
Pelini is Nebraska's version of Lloyd Carr except he doesn't recruit as well, doesnt have a national title, and has never won a big ten title.
November 28th, 2014 at 1:59 PM ^
Lloyd Carr deserves more respect. Pelini is a decent coach (.710) but Carr's career achievements are miles better:
1 MNC in 1997, a career .753 winning percentage, 5 B1G titles and 19-8 versus teams ranked in the top 10
If Pelini wins the next 5 B1G titles, throws in a MNC and starts killing it versus the top ten then you'd have a comparison.
Also, remember how it went the last time Lloyd Carr played Urban Meyer...
November 28th, 2014 at 2:13 PM ^
Cool. Carr still underachieved. Most of those top ten wins were from early in his career. We put like the 2nd most players in the NFL of any school during his tenure and besides 1997 and 2006 our ceiling was 3 losses.
That being said he was much better than Pelini is or ever will be.
November 28th, 2014 at 2:17 PM ^
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November 28th, 2014 at 2:31 PM ^
All I'm saying is Carr accumulated a lot of his achievments while Cooper was coaching OSU. When Tressel came in it was game over.
November 28th, 2014 at 1:40 PM ^
Iowa-Nebraska game is one of the most awful things I have ever laid eyes on. It's a contest of impotency. Pelini and Ferentz are trying to up each other on how little they can get out of their offenses.
November 28th, 2014 at 2:26 PM ^
You didnt catch the UM-NW game did you?
November 28th, 2014 at 1:45 PM ^
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