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Game Thread Gator Bowl: tOSU vs. Florida, Mon. Jan 2, 1 ET, ESPN2

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Jake;2057890; said:
I think you're giving Houston too much credit. Southern Miss ran it down their throats and Houston struggled to protect Keenam. I suspect PoSU will be able to exploit both of those areas.

I also think Purdue will have a tougher time with WMU. Don't underestimate the give a [Mark May] factor. WMU will likely be far more motivated to play that game than PU.
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Very true, I just think PSU is worse than their record indicates and Houston's better than that loss to SoMiss. PSU is going to play a very similar gameplan though, so if Houston doesn't learn from that game they'll suffer a similar (if not worse) fate. I think Sumlin is a hell of a coach though and he'll have them ready. This is his audition for a bigger job.
 
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My predictions for the bowl games:

Oregon 35
Wisconsin 28

Michigan 35
Virginia Tech 24

Georgia 35
Michigan St 21

Nebraska 24
South Carolina 17

Penn State 31
Houston 21

Illinois 28
UCLA 24

Texas A&M 41
Northwestern 28

Oklahoma 41
Iowa 17

Purdue 31
Western Michigan 18

Ohio State 24
Florida 17

Big Ten goes 6-4 in bowls.
 
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Mrstickball;2058261; said:
My predictions for the bowl games:

Oregon 35
Wisconsin 28

Michigan 35
Virginia Tech 24

Georgia 35
Michigan St 21

Nebraska 24
South Carolina 17

Penn State 31
Houston 21

Illinois 28
UCLA 24

Texas A&M 41
Northwestern 28

Oklahoma 41
Iowa 17

Purdue 31
Western Michigan 18

Ohio State 24
Florida 17

Big Ten goes 6-4 in bowls.
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The only teams I have faith in to win are us and Purdon't
 
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WyoBuck;2058452; said:
Ahem. 1990 Liberty Bowl.
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That cluster fuck of a cluster fuck never happened.
 
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FYI, reported that Urban and Boom had a less than pleasant phone call about M&M's departure, that resulted in Urban hanging up on him. Don't know if that is true, but several sources are talking about it. I think that Boom might be trying to use the departure of the old Meyer staff as a rallying point for the troops - trying to establish an "us versus them" deal, with Urban and the staff who leave being framed as the bad guys. Not a bad ploy. A "we'll show them! :pissed:" type thing may be what he needs to focus the team and bring them together - a sort of final catharsis of the Meyer era and move on to his.

Or, just more nonsense to try to hype an otherwise lackluster 6-6 bowl match-up.
 
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cincibuck;2057837; said:
1. Dalton was a better QB than most in the Big 10.

2. TCU got on top early, their receivers were often wide open -- speed, fear of speed? Your call.

3. It wasn't until late in the game that the Badger's defense started getting pressure on the QB.

4. For whatever reason the Badgers did seem to go away from their normal offense in the middle of the game. Could that be because a quicker TCU defense was disrupting their normal scheme?

5. If you don't like the use of speed -- which is something Wisconsin is historically short on -- how about just asking, if they couldn't handle TCU last year, how are they going to handle Oregon?
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All this is nice and good, but the only reason they lost the game against TCU was because they chose not to run the fucking ball.
 
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