Northwestern making Buckeyes look like a mediocre MAC team through three quarters. Amazing!
True. But the weather is a great equalizer. But NW outplaying OSU.
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A lot of appreciative Randy Walker talk by broadcasters.
OSU up 21-7 now. Running much better, but could drop a notch in the rankings.
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If Georgia Tennessee is close, OSU could be third, fourth or fifth depending on Clemson and Michigan results.
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Rutgers leading Michigan at half.
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So much for Rutgers. Freshman QB looked good for a half. Weird day in college football. Norte Dame throttling Clemson, NU gave Ohio State all they wanted, Mich. St. upsets Illinois. That’s why I love it though.
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Clemson is a great example of a big program living on past reputation and not deserving of being ranked anywhere in the playoffs picture
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But at least the recent past.
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Yeah, for a lot of years, Clemson fans were living off the past of the 1980 season. At least living off of 2015-2020 is a bit more understandable.
How about Leipold and what he’s doing at Kansas? Some coaches just “have it”, and some are mediocre.
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Agree that they were way worse than their ranking suggested, but at the end of the day they were 8-0 before yesterday. Underperformed against a pretty meh schedule yes, but an 8-0 P5 team is naturally going to get a lot of love even before you add the halo of Clemson’s recent success.
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Speaking of living off a past record of accomplishments, take a look at Michigan. They’ve been national champs in football 16 times, but only once in my 73 year lifetime - 1997. Could this be the year that the Wolverines win their first title in 25 years?
The road to the CFP runs through Athens, and not the toilet that we’re playing on Tuesday. Methinks it’ll be another SEC rematch in the CFP championship, UGA opponent to be determined.
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Well, technically, this is the ONLY year they can win a title for the the first time in the past exactly 25 years.
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Indeed.
Watching Georgia Southern at Louisiana. Cajun Field is about 20% full. Flipped over to Tulsa at Memphis - same situation in the Liberty Bowl. When the only mid-week games were MACtion the near empty stadiums looked weird. Now that someone is playing nearly every week night from late October through November, the empty stadiums aren’t as startling. I’m thinking the public is getting used to them - as essentially made for TV events. It doesn’t reflect as badly on the MAC when the viewer sees empty stadiums on Sun Belt, CUSA and AAC campuses.
Even P5 Washington State barely drew 20K for a Thursday night game against ranked Utah earlier this year. Pullman is in the middle of nowhere, but still.
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Pullman is in the middle of nowhere, but still.<
And Oxford isn’t? Two lands and 45 miles of corn and beans (and a Mount Garbage Rumpke Waste mountain) between the closest part of Cincy and Oxford and about the same (except the land monster land fill) to Dayton. Columbus is good two hours. Indy, Lexington, Cleveland & N.W. lots longer still.
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That would be “Two lanes” not “two lands”. Need to proofread better!
Pullman is 90 miles south of Spokane. And most of a day’s drive from anywhere else. Seattle has suburbs further from downtown than Oxford is from Cincinnati.
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