Misery Loves Company: Who had the worst night (B1G edition)
"Big Ten Goes Bust" is the headline on ESPN.
As bad as last night was for Michigan, did some of our conference brethren have a worse night?
* #7 Spartans lose high profile game at Oregon.
* #8 Buckeyes lose at home to unranked VT.
* Unranked Michigan humiliated at ND.
* Northwestern loses to N. Illinois, already 0-2 at home.
* Perdue blown out at home to C. Michigan.
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My thoughts: Sparty had the worst night. No shame losing at Oregon, but goodbyle aspirations of a national championship. No chance B1G gets a playoff spot now. Whats worse is "little brother's" perpetual inferiority complex seems to have accepted they needed the Oregon game to somehow justify winning the Rosebowl. If they had won this game, I think they would have had a real shot at a national title. Oh well!
Michgan and OSU's night was about even. Both losses were humiliating - BUT. They were just non conference losses and both teams get a couple weeks to fix their issues (obviously, that is a loaded statement about Michigan).
NW's night is just the reailty that has become wildcat football. Its sort of surreal. Hard to call yesterday even a bad day for them at this point.
Perdue's shame is the B1G's shame, and their loss is our loss.
September 7th, 2014 at 4:06 PM ^
Where your team might wind up this season versus the direction of your program.
In terms of this season, State lost the most, because it will be a difficult road to go where they had aspirations of going - a national title. And no matter what aspirations we had, surely no one thought we were going that far, did they? Therefore, I put to you that a season cannot end better than a national title. So MSU lost the most.
On the other hand...in terms of the direction of the program, UM lost the most by far. We showed last night that we have not improved. It looks like our program is stuck idling as maybe the country's 35th to 40th best program. This is bad. Very bad. Sparty showed they could play with the country's elite, but aren't quite there yet. They did this with a talent level that is somewhat below that of the competition they are going up against. Their program is in great shape. Now they need the talent level to improve to get there. A few more seasons like those they have been having lately might help with that. This is also bad for us and could make our road back that much harder to travel.
September 7th, 2014 at 4:07 PM ^
Agree with the consensus- our loss was the worst.
MSU actually looked alright, and from my vantage point are the only respectable team in our crappy conference. Sorry, hate to say it, but it is true.
Our loss is about even with Ohio States except that we had it happen against a rival, in perhaps the last UofM-ND game some of us will get to see.
Brutal.
September 8th, 2014 at 8:28 PM ^
And a reasonable expectation that things will improve, if not this year, maybe next. Whereas we are staring at our 8th season in that mode.
September 7th, 2014 at 5:54 PM ^
ND did lay the smackdown on you jabronis
