Purdue 35. Missouri 3

Submitted by MichiganMan14 on
Big challenge next weekend in West Lafayette. This Purdue team is damn good and they have a coach in Brohm that was lighting it up last year at WKU. The red zone issues need to get fixed in the next 6 days.
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Wolverine862

September 16th, 2017 at 7:33 PM ^

I am first and foremost a Wolverine fan, but as an alumnus of Mizzou, i root for them too. they are trash this year. Defense is bad terrible. so dont read too much into it. that being said, UM is definately gonna need to clean up on offense

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Wolverine862

September 17th, 2017 at 8:41 AM ^

really i think mizzous issues are twofold, one they lost Pinkel who was a great talent evaluator and developer. allowing mizzo to turn generic 2 and 3* kids into very solid players. Second, i always thought the move to the SEC would doom them to tmwhat they are now. I always hoped they wouldve joined the B10 with KU or Iowa St, during the reallignment a few years ago. Mizzou will never be able to out recruit Georgia, SCar, Florida, but against Purdue, Illinois, Northwestern, they couldve carved out a solid mid tier place in the B10, but SEC got what they wanted Academic boost, B10 got what they wanted in the NYC market and Mizzo got what they wanted at that point which was cash.

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LabattsBleu

September 16th, 2017 at 7:33 PM ^

I wasn't worried about this game at the start of the season, but Brohm has that team way in front of the learning curve it seems like... If Michigan gets FGs and not TDs they could easily lose. My guess is that they will need to score more than 21 to win the game

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DCGrad

September 16th, 2017 at 7:37 PM ^

MUCH better than they were a few years ago but Missouri is Nebraska/Rutgers level bad. I think our offense will actually score a few points next week.

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MichiganTeacher

September 16th, 2017 at 7:42 PM ^

To me, any road game is worrisome (except Rutgers), and technically going to West Lafayette is a road game.

And yes, Missouri is terrible, but Purdue's blowout win in Columbia is still impressive. 

Fortunately, Purdue's strength seems to be aimed squarely at our strength, and I think ours is considerably stronger.

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Franz Schubert

September 16th, 2017 at 9:21 PM ^

Struggled mightily last week against Pitt but the media didn't focus on it. Mcsorley played terrible, Barkley was neutralized and they were actually out gained by a terrible Pitt team. OK Stste obliterated Pitt today. PSU has played no one.

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J.

September 16th, 2017 at 11:37 PM ^

I can give you a few reasons:

  1. They have James Franklin as their coach.
  2. They have James Franklin as their coach.
  3. James Franklin was out-coached by Brady Hoke in clock management.
  4. They lost by 39 points to Michigan last year.  The last time Michigan lost by 39 or more points was the 1935 Little Brown Jug game (40-0 Minnesota).
  5. PSU got outplayed by OSU and got lucky to win.  They have up 31 points to non-chaos-team Indiana in a game that was in doubt well into the fourth quarter.  They only scored 39 in Piscataway.
  6. Wisconsin fell asleep in the Big Ten championship game, and the "vaunted" PSU defense gave up 52 points in the Rose Bowl.
  7. They have James Franklin as their coach.

PSU's supposed talent is a combination of media hype and their irrational, JoePa-worshipping fanbase, plus Saquon Barkley is really, really good -- against everyone except Michigan.

I'm not saying that winning at Happy Valley will be a cakewalk -- it won't.  Winning a game on the road is difficult, especially at night.  Michigan may very well lose.  But that doesn't mean Penn State is for real.  It just means that Michigan doesn't seem to play well on the road.

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I Like Burgers

September 16th, 2017 at 10:44 PM ^

Last year was the alternative to the all cake schedule.  They had to play some tough teams (everyone eventually does) but they played all of them but Michigan at home (Ohio St, PSU, Nebraska, and LSU -- which I know was at Lambeau...but c'mon...that's a home game).

They either get a cake schedule or a schedule where all of the tough games are home games.  For as long as I can remember. Alvarez da god.

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ThadMattasagoblin

September 16th, 2017 at 8:14 PM ^

Well peters was better by a mile when they were both on the field at the same time. If he doesn't have command of the team, you would think they could find someone like mason Cole to fill that role for the offense. I've only seen 5 good games from Speight when he's started. Hawaii, ucf, illinois, msu, and maryland.

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I Like Burgers

September 16th, 2017 at 9:13 PM ^

Almost the entire offense is filled with "he's the best option we have" kinds of guys.  Cole is probably the only exception to that rule and even he is playing tackle because "he's the best option we have" at that spot.

They're not starting a bunch of freshman and sophomores for shits and giggles.  Its because that's all we've got and they are the best options.  It really shouldn't be surprising that the offense has gone backwards a few steps...yet here we are: people arguing for putting a redshirt freshman at QB to lead an offense full of underclassmen because he looked OK (9-17, TD/INT...basically the same as what Speight is doing now) against a split squad defense in a spring game.

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