10/26: Night Games Open Thread
A very good slate of games tonight...
7:00 PM | No. 12 UCLA at No. 3 Oregon | |||
7:00 PM | No. 21 South Carolina at No. 5 Missouri | |||
7:00 PM | No. 8 Baylor at Kansas |
8:00 PM | Penn State at No. 4 Ohio State |
10:30 PM | No. 6 Stanford at No. 25 Oregon State |
Also...Oklahoma/Texas Tech had a hour and a half delay so they're only in the 3rd quarter. However, they'll be switching the game to FOX News because the World Series at 7:30p.
October 26th, 2013 at 9:58 PM ^
October 26th, 2013 at 10:02 PM ^
I haven't found any. I just see teams running shit up and blow outs by halftime. College football is becoming increasingly depressing to watch
October 26th, 2013 at 10:05 PM ^
No kidding. College football is little more than arena football blowouts these days. Even close games are always 56-53. The sport just isn't that fun to watch right now.
October 26th, 2013 at 10:15 PM ^
barely wins against national powers like Akron, UCONN, and Indiana.
October 26th, 2013 at 10:04 PM ^
October 26th, 2013 at 10:14 PM ^
October 26th, 2013 at 10:01 PM ^
I'm a little more worried about how Indiana was held in check against MSU two weeks ago and then went crazy a week later in Ann Arbor.
October 26th, 2013 at 10:01 PM ^
The Baylor-Kansas game could easily reach 1,000 yards even now with 75% of those yards belonging to the Bears. Even at this point in the game, they are still getting slightly over 9 yards per snap, and of all those yards, 437 of them air are through the air.
October 26th, 2013 at 10:02 PM ^
No doubt OSU has better and more experienced players than Michigan, but if anything this game just shows how much better OSU coaches at working with their current roster.
October 26th, 2013 at 10:07 PM ^
OSU has a proven coaching staff at being elite. We have a proven coaching staff at being good. It could become elite down the road but we wont know for a few more years when their "elite" recruiting classes turn into upperclassmen. OSU had all of 3/4s of a year of downtime during Fickell era... not even 1 full class and I doubt they took even a minor hit in recruiting or defections like UM did during RR. That was 3 full years and a late start on the 2011 class for Hoke. So to be FAIR he started in more of a hole but I dont like to hear empty cupboard excuses by anyone - it is never empty at UM. But it is not as OSU's level. The last 2 classes UM and OSU have gone head to head and it will be up to the coaches to develop players (something potentially lacking at UM for years, incl the end of the Carr era) and get them up to snuff to have similar spectacular showings on TV down the road. It wont be in 2014 due to our OL and breaking in a whole class of WRs but it needs to be 2015. Until then the 2010 and 2011 classes (the latter on offense) will continue to haunt. We just lack depth in the junior and senior classes that other teams have. I get that some teams play well with freshman and sophomores sprinkled in but it can't be the core of your team. Our stars are all upperclassmen save for Blake and maybe Funchess slowly becoming one... JMFR, Devin, Gallon. There is a reason for that.
October 26th, 2013 at 10:11 PM ^
Best post of the thread.
October 26th, 2013 at 10:23 PM ^
Aren't you somewhat of an OSU fan? Honest question.
Alum, is Alum Creek, right? You're from Columbus?
October 26th, 2013 at 11:47 PM ^
Hell no
Alum = Alumnus lol
October 26th, 2013 at 10:23 PM ^
October 26th, 2013 at 10:29 PM ^
Ask me again next year.
October 26th, 2013 at 10:09 PM ^
Dileo vs. PSU: 1 catch, 13 yards.
October 26th, 2013 at 10:06 PM ^
October 26th, 2013 at 10:11 PM ^
Michigan 23. State 13. Book it.
October 26th, 2013 at 10:15 PM ^
October 26th, 2013 at 10:24 PM ^
BKFinest it, ok.
October 26th, 2013 at 10:15 PM ^
This is a common trend with Michigan fans.
"Look at Team A beating up on Team B. My GOD, Team A would beat the crap out of us. Team B would beat us too. It's really sad too because the only teams with a pulse Team A has beaten are Teams C and D. We beat Team C already but if we played them again, Team C would destroy us. We don't play Team D this year but they would kill us too!"
Let's just end the football program today so we never have to watch them again.
October 26th, 2013 at 10:21 PM ^
Seriously. The comments people are making about MSU are insane. We have one common opponent. We won by 11, they lost by 4. Yes, they killed a terrible Illinois team. We killed a much better Minnesota team. Both teams are mediocre, and it will probably be a close game.
October 26th, 2013 at 10:53 PM ^
They both played Indiana at home, in back to back weeks.
Indiana 28 @ MSU 42 in week 7
Indiana 47 @ Michigan 63 in week 8
While the comments saying "State will KILL us!!!" are insane I don't think they are any more insane than dumping on MSU schedule. It's not as if Michigans is any more impressive.
October 26th, 2013 at 10:32 PM ^
October 26th, 2013 at 10:45 PM ^
Nobody is saying that OSU isn't better running the ball than UM; UM has been historically bad for the program for most of the year. But saying "different days and different games" are minimally relevant (which seems to be the insinuation) is also not fair. PSU was playing at home, at night, for their biggest game of the year. This is 2 weeks later, on the road, at night against OSU. OSU's offense is better than UM's be a fair bit, but at the same time nobody knows how it would look against a competent defense because they really haven't played one save Iowa and Wisconsin (though both have question marks), and in both of those games they struggled to move the ball for large swaths.
October 27th, 2013 at 12:46 AM ^
4/5 are seniors, and 3/5 are 5th year guys.
October 26th, 2013 at 10:18 PM ^
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October 26th, 2013 at 10:27 PM ^
October 26th, 2013 at 10:39 PM ^
October 26th, 2013 at 10:46 PM ^
Calm down. Wisconsin, Northwestern and Iowa all took them down to the wire. This is the first time in league play they've actually looked like a top 10 team, and it's a home night game.
October 26th, 2013 at 11:45 PM ^
October 26th, 2013 at 11:45 PM ^
October 27th, 2013 at 8:02 AM ^
October 26th, 2013 at 10:29 PM ^
October 26th, 2013 at 10:31 PM ^
I learned from many a contentious MGoBlog thread during the RR era that:
1. spread offenses will never work in the B1G, because defenses are too physical
2. running spread will make your defense soft and sucky
Given that Urban runs a spread at Ohio, I assume they must be struggling. Not only will they have difficulty scoring points, the defense will stink. Urban, freshen up that CV, you're on the hot seat my man. Presumably. I only watch Michigan, so I haven't been following. Are they sucking really bad, or really really bad?
October 26th, 2013 at 10:48 PM ^
The bellyaching about RichRod is the worst. The dude went 15-22 and couldn't field a defense. That Urban Meyer runs a vaguely similar scheme does not make the Richrod years some kind of retrospective success.
October 26th, 2013 at 11:31 PM ^
His comment isn't rewriting history. He is saying that a bunch of idiots used to say that the spread will never work in the B1G.
October 26th, 2013 at 11:53 PM ^
Maybe it is the Jimmy and Joe's, not the X's and O's. We fielded the awesome Threet and Sheridan tandem, followed by 2 true freshman RR's first 2 years. Surrounded by an indept defense. I think scheme helps but people give too much credence too it, or too much blame. It can hurt you when for example you run into a wall of defenders 27x a game when you have a bunch of freshman and RS freshman type in your OL so yes dont do stupid things with your scheme but in the end its about talent.
I for one am glad PSU was destroyed tonight because maybe it will make the offensive coach in AA look in the mirror and see what a stupid game plan he had late in that game. Or if it was Hoke's philosophy maybe he will look in the mirror and see how far we are from where we want to be.
Our 2 rivals were absolutely dominant today and I dont give a damn about who the opposition was - one decimated a team at home and one decimated a team on the road. We are playing patty cakes with the Akrons and UConns of the world... who by the way was destroyed by U-Central Florida today by 50ish.
October 26th, 2013 at 10:33 PM ^
October 26th, 2013 at 10:35 PM ^
Hackenberg is done for the night with a shoulder. Good luck PSU.
October 26th, 2013 at 10:38 PM ^
October 26th, 2013 at 10:44 PM ^
Why are Mizzou's sidelines so crowded?
October 26th, 2013 at 10:48 PM ^
56-7 is manball.
October 26th, 2013 at 10:50 PM ^
October 26th, 2013 at 10:50 PM ^
October 26th, 2013 at 10:50 PM ^
October 26th, 2013 at 10:50 PM ^
OK we get it, you won't let the PSU game die. It's probably not healthy for you to have that attitude. All teams have bad games.
More importantly, you seem to be missing a great game in Mizzou-SCar.
October 26th, 2013 at 10:54 PM ^
If rather watch this.
October 26th, 2013 at 10:55 PM ^