Other Games Thread Weekend of October 12

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Over 4 hours now and Michigan and Penn State are STILL playing! Pass Interference in the End Zone my change that.
 

"Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!" :clap:
 

Kind of surprised Stanford didn't try to get a first down at 3 and 2. Big win for Utah.
 

43-40 in four overtimes? Wow. And I thought the Stanford game was exciting.
 

Gold Vision said:
NW is extremely overrated. Should be able to run on them.
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Yup. They'll move the ball, no doubt about it. Hopefully they can stop NU. It would be an amazing stroke of good fortune if Mark and/or Colter couldn't go next week. Tough break, but hard to feel sorry for NU when last year they had the fewest games lost to injury in the entire B1G. Maybe that catches up with them this year
 


Wiscondin was under-rated IMO. They lose the fluke game to Ariz St and are an easy dropped int from beating Ohio St. Their OL is 6'5" 320 with 2 lightening quick RBs plus Abredaris. Their DL is very good and Borland will be a 2nd round pick. I shudder when I think of them playing the Gophers.
 

gopherMD said:
Wiscondin was under-rated IMO. They lose the fluke game to Ariz St and are an easy dropped int from beating Ohio St. Their OL is 6'5" 320 with 2 lightening quick RBs plus Abredaris. Their DL is very good and Borland will be a 2nd round pick. I shudder when I think of them playing the Gophers.
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They did open as 10 point favorites over NU. Someone in Vegas liked them.
 

Men's hockey starts season 2-0, after victory over pesky New Hampshire team tonight.

(Oops, wrong forum.)
 







Nice botch job by Michigan coaches - play ultra conservative in OT and put pressure on your own kicker to make 40 yard field goals..
 



book said:
Nice botch job by Michigan coaches - play ultra conservative in OT and put pressure on your own kicker to make 40 yard field goals..
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But short FGs are automatic. Just ask whiskey. They were screwed in Arizona because there is no way to miss a FG inside 40 yards.
 

Coolew01 said:
I was going to post the same thing, Cheers.

Sorry Deltahog nothing against Arkansas just the coach.
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Ha. All good. We suck. John L killed us last year. Oh. I am hammered. Great sports day. I love VO on the rocks.
 

gopherMD said:
Wiscondin was under-rated IMO. They lose the fluke game to Ariz St and are an easy dropped int from beating Ohio St. Their OL is 6'5" 320 with 2 lightening quick RBs plus Abredaris. Their DL is very good and Borland will be a 2nd round pick. I shudder when I think of them playing the Gophers.
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Ditto. They looked really, really, really fricken good, and I was both shocked and dismayed to see how thoroughly they whomped NU. Heading into that game, Northwestern was one of the nation's leading and most efficient offenses, to the tune of 474 yards and 39 points per game, but they just got absolutely steamrolled yesterday: outscored 35-6, outgained 527-241 yards, held to an obscene 2-17 on third down, and with the Badger defense forcing 11 NU punts, with the majority of those coming after 3 and outs, and all while Northwestern's defense couldn't manage to force a single Wisconsin punt. That was a clinic put on there by Sconnie, which I found to be completely disgusting, especially since I had hopes that maybe they'd fall back a bit in the period of adjustment after Bulimia's departure, but apparently, no such damned luck, as they seem to have hardly missed a beat, and yeah, we are going to have our freaking hands full and then some when we play them.

However, the obverse side to that whole trainwreck of a beat-down is that all of a sudden NU is looking really beat up physically, which is probably not all that surprising given the fact they've gone up against Ohio State and Wisconsin in consecutive weeks. Physically speaking, Cain Colter is looking like a serious question mark, but the biggest thing so far as we are concerned might well be the health of Venric Mark, as he absolutely tore us to pieces last season, but he is not the same player this year as injuries have sapped him....and I kind of wondered about that coming into this season, just how well he was going to hold up, simply given his diminutive size (5'8, 175), and the fact he was coming off a 220+ carry season, and the answers so far have not been positive for him, and he left this game early in the second quarter with an apparent ankle injury, and to this point in the season, he's looked like just a shell of the player he was last year.

And of further relevance to our game next weekend is the fact that NU looked absolutely dreadful on special teams, their offensive line looked about as permeable as a sieve, and they just looked like one of those Northwestern teams of old, the one to which you could almost mark as being an automatic W on the schedule, simply by virtue of the fact they were that terrible year after year after year.

Pat Fitzgerald is a master motivator, but Fitz is going to have his work cut out for him this week, as his was a beaten and downtrodden looking team virtually from the moment they stepped out on the field yesterday, and I simply refuse to believe that Wisconsin is *that* good (though they are very good, don't get me wrong).

Anyhow, it's a new week, and the bottom-line is Northwestern is 0-2 in conference and suddenly looking highly vulnerable, just the same as us.
 

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