If you're that pile of turds up north who think they're a team, you should expect to make the playoffs 3 years out of 5, and at least 1 of those 2 years you missed it, it should be close. Like, you're not top 12 but you're top 15.
Win or lose against the Broncos, you can probably only lose 1 more game if you want to make the playoffs this year. I can't imagine them taking a 10-2 team that should have lost to WMU over a 10-2 team that lost to a couple of top-10 teams.

My point is that in Year 3 of this expanded playoff, you're on the edge of going 0-fer. That should be the real concern for them - not trying to argue that their opponent was super awesome last year, after scoring 6 points in 2 games against the Big Ten.

buckeyemania11 said:

Being the best MAC teams means literally nothing these days

WMU last year also lost 23-6 to Michigan State, a bad B1G team and 38-0 to Illinois a middle of the road B1G team.

We've seen way more talented G5 teams get completely embarrassed in the playoff the last 2 years.

Basically no top 25 team should have any trouble with the "best" MAC team.

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So you’re telling me they suck dick?

9 here too.

pnuts34 said:

I’ve been laughing all day at my scUM co-workers who have twisted themselves into knots trying to justify that Western sUM was “actually a really good team, and won the MAC last year” as their justification for the game. I would just tell them that no MAC team should push around a B1G school who hangs their hat on strong OL, heavy RB usage and just as strong DL play. ScUM is one of the last teams that should get outmuscled at the LOS, that’s a bigger problem than an incompetent Underwood. They had Jake Rudock and Wilton Speight who were pretty much 3star corpses and they got them 10 wins. The 5star “generational wunderkind “ may only get 7 or 8 wins this year

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Being the best MAC teams means literally nothing these days

WMU last year also lost 23-6 to Michigan State, a bad B1G team and 38-0 to Illinois a middle of the road B1G team.

We've seen way more talented G5 teams get completely embarrassed in the playoff the last 2 years.

Basically no top 25 team should have any trouble with the "best" MAC team.

Steve19 said:

I see the glint in his eye and I am running like hell...

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Imagine the first person to be executed that way. There’s no way that there wasn’t something that didn’t go well, and you’re probably going into it like “wait how am I going to die?”

Ah damn I knew that 1992 graduate of Texas was a trap.

Anyway, I’m fascinated to see what the offense does. Are we aggressive? Do we get Bey involved early? Is Jeremiah able to get open? Are we doing things to help the OL out?

buckeyemania11 said:

I'm assuming he left Texas because they didn't see enough out of him to assure him more money, he went to scUM 100% to secure another pay day.

I think the OL is a legit issue for scUM. They got pushed around all game by WMU. I know we had some struggles with Ball State but at least we were able to open it in the second half, scUM was getting dogged by WMUs DL all 4 quarters. It's going to be hard to get the running game going with a struggling OL when defenses can just tee off in the box because Underwood is of zero threat to beat them with his arm or legs.

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I’ve been laughing all day at my scUM co-workers who have twisted themselves into knots trying to justify that Western sUM was “actually a really good team, and won the MAC last year” as their justification for the game. I would just tell them that no MAC team should push around a B1G school who hangs their hat on strong OL, heavy RB usage and just as strong DL play. ScUM is one of the last teams that should get outmuscled at the LOS, that’s a bigger problem than an incompetent Underwood. They had Jake Rudock and Wilton Speight who were pretty much 3star corpses and they got them 10 wins. The 5star “generational wunderkind “ may only get 7 or 8 wins this year

Dont really get the players saying they weren't locked in last year b/c of the schedule. Even if it's true after the Indiana game they should have locked in---and they played probably their worst game of the year against Miami

Wofford

“Stable”

I laughed.

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I see the glint in his eye and I am running like hell...

Oklahoma State

gmen6981 said:

Back when the B1G still had divisions and was adding members, I advocated for changing the name to the Conference of Northern Aggression and naming the divisions the Grant and Sherman divisions. Came up with a logo and everything. I posted it on here somewhere.

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From August 4, 2023:

gmen6981 said:

I still vote for "The Conference of Northern Aggression" and we can have the Grant and Sherman divisions.

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From August, 2021:

gmen6981 said:

Two divisions. The Sherman division and the Grant division.

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I found this for your logo:

Aggression!

buckeyebri said:

Did you tell her that’s why you had big feet….

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and big hands

OREGONSOCKPUPPET said:

I can see them going 6-6 or 10-2. I really don't know.

Loss to Miami is a given, but I think Duke and VA Tech can win those games and don't sleep on Syracuse (They seem to struggle with them for whatever reason), and Florida State.

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Have you seen Florida State yet?

ok….once again, i’m not a conspiracy theory guy.

but someone recently asked it like this.

IF let’s just say the NCAA and the SEC wanted to try to somehow force the hands of congress into passing legislation over all of this bullshit, what would they need:


a school big enough to draw national attention (LSU)? yeah
a coach that seemingly gives exactly zero shit about what people say about him (Kiffin)? sure
a league desperate to try to “reclaim their superiority” (SEC)? of course
a governor that has zero clue what to shut the fuck up (Jeff Landry of Louisiana)? that would help for sure.
maybe have this all revolve around the home state of a prominent congress member (Speaker of the House is a rep from Louisiana)? god dammit, not you have me acknowledging it’s at least “possible”

Bestbuck36 said:

Lmao, they said that scums longest run of the game vs Western was called back due to holding.... by Bruce fucking Underwood! What other QB is so inept and selfish that he can even ruin his RBs best play of the day.? Shitbag.

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You didn't see that play?

They had him lead blocking.

He obviously has no experience at it so he fucked it up. He's lucky he didn't get killed, he went right at the guy.

To be fair, there was no selfishness that I could see, just plain, old fashioned ineptitude.

No one on earth hates corporate life more than I do but this isn't one of those mind numbing, pointless meetings for the sake of a meeting.

The key words are "conference expectations and responsibilities"...they just set a member school straight on that, and got ahead of the B1G imo, in terms of showing that they can run a league like the NFL/NBA/MLB which is what this was really about (if I had to take a wild guess at it).

Meanwhile in the other camp, you have the B1G embarrassing itself to accommodate tsun's bullshit. The inmates may be more "gentlemanly" but they run the B1G, not the other way around.

Mike80 said:

"This meeting should have been an email."

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i unfortunately have had the displeasure of attending too damn many corporate meetings over the years.

this statement sounds like it was prepared after one of those meetings.

It’s easier to compensate for a bad tackle than an interior imo. See how Daniels does and if it’s an issue then just give him a bit of help.

1926Buckeyes said:

Guy owns at least 3 katanas, 5 restraining orders, and refers to himself as a ‘mentalist’.

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He seems like the kind of guy where you wonder what that 5 minutes involves

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"This meeting should have been an email."