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Illinois kicks a FG at the buzzer to win at Maryland.
Illinois kicks a FG at the buzzer to win at Maryland.
Sounds like a Jeff Brohm team. The same year they beat #2 Ohio St. they also lost to Eastern Mich. Brohm has never been consistent. He can shock a really good team and have a bad loss or two in the same season.#14 Louisville got blown out by a bad Pitt team.
There are many different ways to win. You'd never think this game was a monkey stomp by Notre Dame by looking at the top of the stats.
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Looks like ND loves the game and USC just likes it.USC that did everything it could to lose last week vs another team that beat them … at trying to lose.
USC has talent but is also wonky. They had a butt kicking coming.
I bet ND watching film couldn’t wait to play.
Miami also wearing themselves down with turnovers…North Carolina and Maye wearing Miami down, they look good with Tez back
Not training with the turnover chain enough.Miami also wearing themselves down with turnovers…
A former top target for the gophers.
At home evenDamn, Oregon State could use some lube with the screw job they’re getting from the refs.
We respect how they “play not to lose”, but rag on Fleck for it.I'm posting the box score from the Iowa-Wisconsin game.
Iowa 15-6 Wisconsin (Oct 14, 2023) Box Score - ESPN
Box score for the Iowa Hawkeyes vs. Wisconsin Badgers NCAAF game from October 14, 2023 on ESPN. Includes all passing, rushing and receiving stats.www.espn.com
Here's what jumps out, to me:
Iowa had 200 yards rushing on 48 carries. That's 4.16 yards per attempt. But look closer: Leshon Williams had an 82-yard run for a TD. That's the only explosive play, and the only TD scored by either team. Other than that play, Iowa ran for 118 yards on 47 carries — which is 2.5 yards per carry.
Meanwhile, Iowa had 14 total pass attempts for 37 total yards.
Iowa stayed with their game plan, patiently, almost stubbornly, and just kept 'pounding the rock'. They let their all-world punter put their opponent in terrible field position, time after time. They allowed their defense to do their thing.
Iowa had no turnovers. Wisconsin had an interception and lost a fumble. Iowa wins the turnover battle, 2 to 0.
The result: Iowa won a rivalry game by 9 points, on the road... in a game in which they were 8.5 point underdogs!
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This is no fluke. They do it all the time. This is simply what Iowa does, and what Iowa is.
I have to give them respect. They don't get enough credit. They know who and what they are, and they win with it.
They played not to lose apparently!I stopped watching - WTF happened there?
We respect how they “play not to lose”, but rag on Fleck for it.
There is no difference between playing not to lose and playing to win in a game that doesn’t have tiesWe respect how they “play not to lose”, but rag on Fleck for it.
Playing to win is dumb when it doesn’t work tooPlaying not to lose isn't bad when it works. It works for Iowa. Especially against us.
It works for Iowa vs most teams they play.Playing not to lose isn't bad when it works. It works for Iowa. Especially against us.
Arizona's 3 losses were all by a touchdown or less. 2 overtime losses away to USC and Miss St and lost by 7 to Washington. They could go from 1 win to 5 wins to 7 or 8 in the Jedd Fisch era#19 Washington St is getting annihilated by Arizona 44-6.
I think his team is over the salary cap also!A&M goes down. How much longer for the Jimster?
Bucky ended up with 127 on 22 carries - about six per. Also, one TD. Let's kidnap him.Bucky just gave up a sack. No wonder PJ ran him off.....
The conspiracy continuesIllinois decides to get good now that the Gophers are on the horizon.
To me, "playing not to lose" is not the same as simply playing conservative or being run heavy. If your game plan, identity, and personnel make that work for you, go ahead. "Playing not to lose" is when you play one way for most of the game, get a lead, and then call off the dogs under the misguided hope that, if you avoid the big play, the clock will run out before the other team is able to catch up.We respect how they “play not to lose”, but rag on Fleck for it.