Congrats to Bill Anderson, the winner of the autographed Pop Super Bowl jersey!

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The Scarlet Ticket winner will be announced Sunday at the football fanfest...

Jon

I couldn’t make it any reports would be much appreciated

I feel like Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park all of a sudden. We were so preoccupied if we could invite Oregon to the B1G, but didn't factor in if we should invite Oregon to the B1G.

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Love to see our guys do well.

He got a big shoutout today on the Move the Sticks podcast for being an innovator on DL drills to bat down passes:

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Heard our guys Knobloch and Scott are doing well for the Chaos. It will be interesting to see how they use Jules, whether that be at attack or middie.

Would be cool to see them playing together on the attack line.

Should be a big year for some of our guys.

Still 3 min left in a very tight game ... USA really struggling. But ... Copper inserted finally, and in the 2nd half has really fueled the USA's comeback from down 10.

Something oddsmakers are factoring in more and more when setting lines and when sharp bettors are placing bets (at least in the NFL) is factoring in net rest advantage numbers. The gist of it is this:

"Net rest is the cumulative sum of individual game rest edges over the course of an entire season.

An example of net rest: this year the Patriots have for games with rest edges of +7, +3, +1 and +1 days of rest edge. But they do not play any games with a negative rest edge, when they would be at a disadvantage. As a result, the Patriots net rest edge for the 2024 season is +12 days (7+3+1+1)."

Even more simply, how many more days of rest do you have than your opponent leading into the game?


Here's a layout of Rutgers' net rest advantage for the entire year. Games highlighted in green are games we have a positive net rest advantage, and red games are ones we have a negative net rest advantage. Bolded games are one where we have a net bye week advantage, aka we have take more byes up to that point in the season than our opponents.


So Rutgers will have a positive net rest advantage in 4 of it's first 11 games and only one game with a negative net rest advantage. We also will not play any teams coming off of their bye weeks and have a +16 net rest advantage on the season. We also play a lot of teams coming off long stretches of games...



What's a very favorable schedule on paper by opponents alone (for B1G standards), is made even more favorable by the net rest advantage Rutgers has in the structure of it's schedule.

Without a doubt the team with the biggest haul in the BIG is Indiana. They grabbed a number of top 100 transfers with their new center Omar Ball, the prize of the class. Not far behind was Luke Goode the former Illini. All in all they grabbed six transfers hoping to elevate themselves once more as a top tier national team. Other Big teams with multiple top 100 transfers were Michigan and Maryland. The question becomes what can these coaches do to blend these players into their existing lineup. Will keeping everyone happy be possible or will a revolving door lineup be the new normal?