Night Games Thread

Submitted by ThadMattasagoblin on October 22nd, 2022 at 7:11 PM

Alabama vs Mississippi State 7 PM ESPN 

Minnesota vs. Penn State 7:30 PM ABC 

TCU vs. Kansas State 8 PM FOX

 

duffman is thr…

October 22nd, 2022 at 9:55 PM ^

Stroud would be such a weak heisman. Some of these QB’s on these stacked teams are so overhyped. They might as well be splitting the trophy with the whole offense and to some degree even the D for the complementary help they provide. We see it all the time when they get to the NFL and struggle. This is when we all agree they had inflated stats because of all of the talent around them. If that’s the case that should come into consideration when giving out the heisman. Receivers and excellent game changing defenders should get way more love. Smith at Bama was the first receiver to win since our very own Desmond Howard. 

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LSAClassOf2000

October 22nd, 2022 at 8:28 PM ^

At the moment, Minnesota / Penn State is testing the theoretical limits of a Big Ten game, right down to the field goals and inconsistent execution on even the simplest of things.

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m1jjb00

October 22nd, 2022 at 8:38 PM ^

To be fair, they're generally not playing Temple.  Instead, a lot of Michigan and Ohio State.  Here's from the Wikipedia article:

YearOpponentPenn State result

2004No. 9 PurdueL 13–20

2005No. 6 Ohio StateW 17–10

2006No. 4 MichiganL 10–17

2007Notre DameW 31–10

2008No. 22 IllinoisW 38–24

2009IowaL 10–21

2010MichiganW 41–31

2011No. 3 AlabamaL 11–27

2012No. 9 Ohio StateL 23–35

2013No. 18 MichiganW 43–40 (4OT)

2014No. 13 Ohio StateL 24–31 (2OT)

2015No. 14 MichiganL 16–28

2016No. 2 Ohio StateW 24-21

2017No. 19 MichiganW 42–13

2018No. 4 Ohio StateL 26–27

2019No. 16 MichiganW 28–21

2020No White Out game due to COVID-19 pandemicN/A

2021No. 22 AuburnW 28–20

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Brhino

October 22nd, 2022 at 8:41 PM ^

Mohamed Ibrahim is great but I think we're seeing the answer to the question "Why can't they just build the whole plane out of the black box?".  

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Brhino

October 22nd, 2022 at 9:29 PM ^

Aircraft contain "black boxes", devices intended to record flight data.  They're very durable, intended to survive in the event of a plane crash so investigators can study the recorded behavior of the plane and crew and determine what caused the crash.  This leads to smartasses suggesting that you build the whole plane out of whatever the black box is made out of, presumably so it too will survive a crash.

Mohamed Ibrahim is a weapon but as of my post Minnesota had one completed pass, and were using every other down to just feed him the ball to the tune of 2.something yards per carry.  You can't build a whole plane out of a black box and you can't build a functional offense out of one good running back.  

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M-Dog

October 22nd, 2022 at 8:49 PM ^

We will learn absolutely nothing about how good or not good Penn State is from this game.  Minny is completely handcuffed at QB.  They are not any kind of test at all. 

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urbanachiever

October 22nd, 2022 at 8:59 PM ^

PSU could give OSU a game next week. Good corners matches up with OSU's strength, and I think PSU has enough talent on the D line to stop the OSU ground game (UM's ground game is way more schematically involved than OSU's)

The question is can PSU score any points, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a competitive game. When OSU WRs aren't getting embarrassingly wide open on every play, that offense looks a lot less intimidating as we saw today

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