Penn State Schedule
In checking some fantasy teams I noticed that Penn State is playing the Eastern Illinois Panthers. Is playing Akron, Syracuse, and Temple to start the season so difficult that they needed to slide in Eastern Illinois into the schedule to give themselves a breathers? I normally don't notice one blanket cupcake game on a team's schedule, sometimes I'm even okay with two a year. But when the best team you play in the non-conference is....ahhh.....Temple?....something just isn't right with the system. Last year they played Oregon State, in 2007 and 2006 they played Notre Dame. None of these teams upset Penn State, so why wuss out this year?
Try harder Penn State.
October 8th, 2009 at 3:06 PM ^
but you could look at our non-conference schedule and outside of ND, you've got Western Michigan, Eastern Michigan and Delaware State.
Is ours really that much stronger than their schedule?
October 8th, 2009 at 3:09 PM ^
ND > Temple, in both name and talent. So yes, I think our schedule is more respectable.
October 8th, 2009 at 5:22 PM ^
Their schedule seems a little soft for sure. They duck Wisconsin this year. We'll see what they're about when they welcome Minnesota and we host them then they get OSU at the end of the year. In theoverall scheme of things, yeah, they have a soft schedule and likely only play two ranked teams and already lost to one.
October 8th, 2009 at 3:08 PM ^
schedule
It can be proved mathematically:
Michigan: 1/4 good teams
Penn State: 0/4 good teams
(1/4)/(0/4)=1/0=oo
October 8th, 2009 at 3:15 PM ^
BOOM BOUJE'D!
Which means something completely different than it would have a couple months ago.
October 9th, 2009 at 8:02 AM ^
I was referring to the fact that a while ago you got one of the greatest neg bangs of all time, but have since redeemed yourself.
Thus the old definition of bouje would have been negative, but is now positive.
October 8th, 2009 at 3:28 PM ^
Division by zero is undefined -- not the same thing as infinity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_by_zero
October 8th, 2009 at 3:37 PM ^
If you want to talk in actual terms... but what is 1/.0000000000000001=oo. The limit approaches infinity.
Whatever now you're just arguing semantics.
October 9th, 2009 at 11:19 AM ^
"A house divided by 0 cannot stand, because it cannot exist"
October 8th, 2009 at 4:23 PM ^
some one failed calculus...
October 9th, 2009 at 11:18 AM ^
...bouje?
October 8th, 2009 at 3:10 PM ^
I think part of it is insuring Paterno can hold onto the all time wins record. Since him are Bowden are having a deathmatch to get the all time wins.
Schedule cupcakes until he retires insures 4 free wins. Bowden doesn't have that luxury, they will play Florida every year in the non conference and usually schedule another decent game.
October 8th, 2009 at 3:12 PM ^
PSU has a home and home with Bama starting next year, then with Virginia and Rutgers. They're taking our non-conf approach to 1 BCS team and 3 cupcakes. Albeit Virginia and Rutgers can hardly be considered BCS teams.
October 8th, 2009 at 3:14 PM ^
be considered then?
October 8th, 2009 at 3:16 PM ^
Very very bad BCS teams. Like B-level BCS teams...like UCONN. Oops!
October 8th, 2009 at 3:32 PM ^
But Rutgers has been more than respectable the last 5 years. Stringing together winning seasons, going to bowls, and winning a few of those.
October 8th, 2009 at 3:44 PM ^
Other than '06, Rutgers loses 5 games every year. They play two FCS teams, the Big East and the service academies. They have an inflated record (which is still crap) based on mediocre scheduling. If they had Michigan's schedule this year, they'd beat EMU, Del St., WMU and maybe Purdue. That's it.
October 8th, 2009 at 6:01 PM ^
... fair enough.
However, I do think Rutger's OOC scheduling is a little better than you may be giving the credit for. They've played some 1-AAs over the last five years, yes. And two this year is a joke, also agreed. But they have played home and homes with Maryland, Illinois, and North Carolina (splitting each) and a couple of MAC schools. They've also played Fresno (and lost). Army is weak, but beating Paul Johnson's Navy teams (as they did in 05, 06, 07) are good Ws. Is this great OOC scheduling? No. But it's not shameful.
They're a decent BCS program. No more no less. They've beaten some Top 25 teams, but have no major OOC victories over elite programs. "Very very bad BCS team" over the last 5 or so years? I just don't see it.
October 8th, 2009 at 7:45 PM ^
Please dont hate on Rutgers, Schiano is a great coach, and he is building a program that has been relevant for 5 or so years, and will be for as long as he is at the helm. Being a lifelong Michigan fan and now student, but being born and raised in New Jersey, I will always wonder how we would be with Schiano as a coach. Dont get me wrong I am 100% all in for michigan and rodriguez, but I still am insulted that everyone has written off Rutgers as a program not only for the year but for eternity. Yea Im rambling I know but I grew up 10 miles from Rutgers campus, and some of my earliest memories are going to RU football games with my mom, who by the way was captain of the first Michigan varsity womens bball team.
October 8th, 2009 at 3:22 PM ^
Sometimes these holes in the schedule happen, as the big non-conf games are not exactly easy to schedule. I give them credit for going out and getting Bama to restart the old rivalry. I wish we would pursue better non-conf teams for the schedule as opposed to continuously settling for just ND.
October 8th, 2009 at 3:12 PM ^
It may not have been an upset, but ND did kick the snot out of Penn State in 2006.
October 8th, 2009 at 3:25 PM ^
you don't complain about other teams' schedules. People in glasshouses, yada yada yada.
October 8th, 2009 at 3:49 PM ^
Because Eastern Illinois and Akron are power houses...
Eastern Illinois = Deleware State
Akron = Eastern Michigan
Syracuse = Western Michigan
Temple ?=! Notre Dame?
October 8th, 2009 at 3:56 PM ^
was supposed to start this year but got rescheduled and Syracuse was good back when they added them to their schedule.
October 8th, 2009 at 4:22 PM ^
since 2001, unless the game was scheduled then......
......but PSU should be playing the better Northeast programs (Syr, BC, Rutgers, Pitt, Uconn, WV) .....notice I did not include Temple
Personally I think soft scheduling has hurt Penn State when they enter Big 10 play, they aren't ready for the heavier hitting.
Did you know that since 1998, Penn State has dropped 9 of their 12 Big 10 openers. In that list includes 3 losses to Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan and 2 to Ohio State.
...since joining the Big 10 in 1993, PSU is 7-10 in Big Ten openers.
October 8th, 2009 at 8:45 PM ^
so why are they recruiting the hell out of us right now. Our recruiting class next year is barely a third of theirs!