Rough Weekend for the B1G

Submitted by Geaux_Blue on
Snapshot at 6 pm EST:
Maryland trailing USF
Iowa trailing Ball State

Northwestern leading N Illinois by 4
Minnesota beating Middle Tennessee

Illinois escaped W Kentucky 42-34
Nebraska escaped FCS McNeese St 31-24
Penn St struggled badly against Akron 21-3
Rutgers beat Howard 38-25

Purdue got pasted by CMU 38-17

FGB

September 6th, 2014 at 6:25 PM ^

The B1G really needs to bottom out.  It wasn't that long ago the Pac 10 was a joke.  You've got to get these B1G schools to learn to take a chance on innovative coaches to modernize football in the conference.  But the ADs will never take the risk until their teams are so bad that the risk is quite low.

OR, alternatively, the B1G will never be good again because the base of recruits has shifted into every other conference and you just can't get SoCal kids to come to Iowa.

I don't know which, i'm hopeful it's the former.

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mGrowOld

September 6th, 2014 at 6:26 PM ^

And yet when we appear on the schedule the injuries heal, the trick plays are revealed and the team plays at an emotional level that resembles nothing like the shit-storm we are watching today.

Sigh....

Except Purdue.  They will suck and look horrible no matter what.

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turtleboy

September 6th, 2014 at 6:43 PM ^

I really can't tell the difference between our middle of the pack and, say, the big east middle of the pack. Yhey have to fight and claw and scrape to beat their cupcakes right now, and some of them are looking like the cupcakes for the MAC schools.

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RagingBean

September 6th, 2014 at 6:54 PM ^

Today has just made the distance in coaching talent between the Big Ten and its peer leagues all the more apparent. The Pac-12, for example, is ridiculously stocked with coaches that have lots of wins and championships from all across the country The Big Ten hires MAC coaches after they have 1 good season. 

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TheRonimal

September 6th, 2014 at 6:57 PM ^

The top few teams are unproven at this point, but the rest of the conference is pretty freakin bad. It's sad to see how these teams are playing right now. Here's hoping Michigan can carry the conference flag tonight.

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Blarvey

September 6th, 2014 at 7:12 PM ^

Every year we say "the B1G sucks" or "is down" and that is only half true. Last year MSU only beat WMU by 13 to open the season, the same week Buffalo hung with OSU, Nebraska squeaked by Wyoming, and Iowa lost to NIU. Week 2 sucks across most of college football so there will probably be some relatively close games but I honestly have no reason to think that Purdue should beat CMU and Akron playing PSU close does not surprise me given how they played against Michigan last year.

The real truth is that across major college football, any game against what we consider inferior teams or conferences has few benefits beyond money and since it is now the Big 5 and everybody else, the MAC is pretty close to the top of the everybody else.

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