November 16th, 2017 at 3:30 PM ^
2007 Stanford-USC was in that neighborhood.
November 16th, 2017 at 3:33 PM ^
Florida was favored against Charleston Southern by 73 points in 2009.
November 16th, 2017 at 4:04 PM ^
"Ummm, okay guys...we're gonna start the second string."
November 16th, 2017 at 4:31 PM ^
November 16th, 2017 at 9:25 PM ^
he didn't actually "see it" (the spread) in the late 60's. So he may be factually correct in the OP.
November 16th, 2017 at 4:38 PM ^
you are spot on that it was a 41 point spread.
It remains the largest upset in CFB history by documented point spread.
November 16th, 2017 at 6:17 PM ^
November 16th, 2017 at 9:00 PM ^
November 16th, 2017 at 3:32 PM ^
Urban always runs the score up in these type of games to overinflate the value of his team. When December comes, the playoff committee will be saying look how much they beat Rutgers, Nebraska, Maryland, UNLV, and Illinois by.
November 16th, 2017 at 3:35 PM ^
would like just one chance to throat punch that punk Urban Liar
November 16th, 2017 at 3:50 PM ^
November 16th, 2017 at 3:56 PM ^
Gordon Gee? Is that you?
November 16th, 2017 at 3:51 PM ^
Don't do that. Either of the things you said there.
Dude is a hell of a coach, as much as I hate it. He's also been fairly classy since coming to OSU. Respect where due, dude. And jouvenile nick names are just that.
November 16th, 2017 at 3:55 PM ^
November 16th, 2017 at 4:33 PM ^
College co-eds anyone?
November 16th, 2017 at 3:59 PM ^
don't feel like I hate Urban Meyer as much as I should based on the way a lot of people seem to feel about him. He just hasn't done anything that I really remember that has personally made me dislike him. I hate Ohio State, so don't like their coach, but nothing more than that. I can't think of one thing he has said or done regarding Michigan that I have found offensive, sarcastic, in poor taste, anything. In fact, he is often very complimentary regarding Michigan (kind of more so than he should be based on the results).
November 16th, 2017 at 4:47 PM ^
November 16th, 2017 at 5:26 PM ^
Agreed. I just get sick of the dumb names that just make us look like cretins.
November 16th, 2017 at 3:41 PM ^
Old school Nebraska would play nobody (Big 8 and Troy) and run up the score to look better than they were. At least Urban plays Oklahoma and the B1G. He still deserves a throat punch.
BTW--change the title to something more appropriate before you get negged for uninformative.
November 16th, 2017 at 3:32 PM ^
November 16th, 2017 at 4:39 PM ^
will play hard. Starters will get an early hook.
November 16th, 2017 at 3:33 PM ^
...we need an over-confident bunch of suckeyes coming to the
Big House.
then we will
...SHOCK THE WORLD !!!!
Go Blue !!
November 16th, 2017 at 3:37 PM ^
November 16th, 2017 at 8:49 PM ^
November 16th, 2017 at 3:46 PM ^
November 16th, 2017 at 3:58 PM ^
He can't help himself. He would write with emojis if he could.
November 16th, 2017 at 6:14 PM ^
November 16th, 2017 at 8:45 PM ^
I think my wife threw it out two moves ago.
November 17th, 2017 at 6:20 AM ^
November 16th, 2017 at 3:39 PM ^
As a better myself, I may bet on Illinois with the points... my theory is OSU will purposely play poorly and not come close to covering, because Urban Meyer (to his respect) has an excellent track-record after bad games where they dominate the following week. ... Let's hope that's not how it plays out, though, of course.
November 16th, 2017 at 3:42 PM ^
November 16th, 2017 at 3:43 PM ^
Bovada doesn't even have one listed.
November 16th, 2017 at 3:46 PM ^
That spread & over/under combination results in a Vegas expected score of about 47-6.
November 16th, 2017 at 3:56 PM ^
November 16th, 2017 at 4:47 PM ^
the spread usually ends up being a highly accurate prediction of how much a given team wins by. So while you are correct that the line is set in an attempt to get equal money on both sides, the results in essentially the same thing.
Hence saying "Vegas expected score" is correct if you consider "Vegas" to be the betting market that bookies simply react to as opposed the bookies setting the lines according to their expectations (which they don't necessarily do in the end, as you point out).
November 16th, 2017 at 4:59 PM ^
about sports gambling. Vegas doesn't really set the line, the gamblers do. So the line really represents the "publicly expected outcome' rather than something driven by bookie opinion or inside knowledge. The margins where you win is where you know better than the informed public.
November 16th, 2017 at 3:46 PM ^
I'd take those points.
November 16th, 2017 at 3:46 PM ^
November 17th, 2017 at 2:32 AM ^
November 16th, 2017 at 3:58 PM ^
Urban can't let the voters see anything other than a total annihilation. This dog might die.
November 16th, 2017 at 3:51 PM ^
Any time you see a spread that enormous, bet on the dog!
November 16th, 2017 at 3:58 PM ^
From the very first moment I heard he'd been hired I thought that it was another stupid move by Illinois, and nothing has happened since to make me think otherwise.
November 16th, 2017 at 9:12 PM ^
November 16th, 2017 at 11:27 PM ^
Dave Wannstedt, Bill Callahan, Jim Mora, Al Groh, Mike Riley are more the rule than the exception. I know Charlie Weis was never a head coach in the NFL, but he tried to position himself as being as knowledgeable as one. The number of NFL guys with little or no college coaching experience who made a successful transition to the college game is extremely small.
Smith hadn't coached in college for twenty years when the Bears hired him, and that means he had virtually no real contacts in high schools for recruiting. He was reasonably successful with the Bears but failed at Tampa Bay, and I don't think his name or reputation was sufficiently golden to automatically make HS kids want to play for him based on his resume. Coaching pros is very different from coaching 19-yr old kids too.
November 16th, 2017 at 4:06 PM ^
November 16th, 2017 at 4:06 PM ^
Predicted score of 48-6, which some nasty shade thrown at Michigan State, claiming that Illinois is better than they are by a field goal.
November 16th, 2017 at 4:49 PM ^
47.25 - 6.25. Even Brian doesn't predict scores that crazy.
November 16th, 2017 at 4:25 PM ^
November 16th, 2017 at 4:40 PM ^
poor thread title. couldn't tell if you meant Rutgers or Ill.