Gameday and early games open thread

Submitted by One Inch Woody… on

College Gameday is at Evanston today for Northwestern v. Ohio State at 8 PM on ABC tonight

It looks like the Northwestern crowd is up and into this game, which should lead to a great atmosphere tonight.

Some highlight-ish games for the noon slate:

MSU v. Iowa - 12 PM on Espn 2

  • Iowa looks to be vastly improved from last year and their defense should be enough to stall the MSU offense. The question is whether Rudock can have time in the pocket to find his tight ends.

Maryland (25) v. FSU (8) on Espn

  • Is Jameis Winston for real? Maryland has not yet played a good team and could be used to wipe the floor. On the other hand, Florida State is seemingly slow to start and struggled defensively against Boston College and Nevada to start that game. 

Illinois v. Nebraska on Espn U

  • Nebraska's defense always seems to turn a corner midseason... is this the game where they do that? If not, it's going to be a long day for the Huskers as Scheelhasse in Cubit's offense seems to have found a groove and the Illinois defense can probably do enough to stall the Huskers.

Wolverine In Iowa

October 5th, 2013 at 12:35 PM ^

Jordan Cotton (the kid who just got overthrown by Rudock) is the son of Marshall Cotton, who played at Iowa in the 80's.  Marshall is also a football and basketball HS ref here in Iowa.

Dominic Alvis, #79 (Iowa d-line) - his uncle works with my wife in the school district.

Feel free to ask me about other useless information.

LSAClassOf2000

October 5th, 2013 at 12:37 PM ^

All of you who bet on the first quarter of Michigan State - Iowa being a scoreless quarter with barely 100 yards of offense between both teams (granted, nearly all of that is MSU) were correct indeed. That would be most people, I would think. 

LSAClassOf2000

October 5th, 2013 at 12:47 PM ^

Not a terrible exchange rate for the 103rd best offense in Division I football - it took 127 yards of offense to get three points. That being said, it might be next week before Iowa gets 127 yards of offense at the current rate.