He completes a high percentage of throws to first read after ball fake to Kyle that holds the defense, Yet KC insists on running no fake,
First read is covered and play is over.

Sticking with the new format with the grades / snap counts this week, as it makes things a lot easier and personally I feel like it's cleaner looking as well.

With that being said, here are the snap counts and PFF Grades for Rutgers Football's loss versus Nebraska.

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SEC:
Alabama #7 loses to 2-2 Vanderbilt- they slips 6 spots in AP and 5 spots in coaches poll.
Tennessee #8 loses to 3-2 Arkansas and slips only 4 spots in AP 5 spots in coaches poll.
Ole Miss #9- beat South Caroline, up 3 in both polls.
Texas A&M #15 beats Missouri and up 10 spots in AP and 7 spots in coaches poll
Missouri #21 loses to Aggies and down 12 spots in AP poll and 9 spots in coaches poll

ACC:
Miami #6 up 2 in both polls after beating Cal
Clemson #10/11 beats mighty FSU and up 5 in AP and up 3 in coaches poll
Pitt #22/24- up from unranked
SMU #25- beats Louisville, and up from unranked after beating mighty UNC

B1G:
Ohio State #2 up 1 in both polls after beating 3-1 Iowa.
Oregon #3- up 3 in both polls after beating MSU
Penn State #4/5 up 3/2 after beating UCLA
Indiana #18/20- up 5/4 after beating Northwestern
Illinois #23- up 1/2 after being idle
Michigan #24/21- down 14/11 after losing to Washington
USC -NR (26)--down 15/11 after losing to Minnesota


Big 12- ehh, who cares.

Michigan and USC punished severely.
Clemson overranked?

Alabama slips only 6/5 spots????
Tennessee slips only 4/5 spots????

Strong field led by pre-season #8 Tennessee. Also playing are pre-season #20 Washington, #23 Duke, and #26 UCLA. Other B1G teams are Iowa, Indiana, Michigan St, and Purdue. Last time out RU finished 8th in the Canadian Collegiate Invitational which was won by this week's host, Notre Dame.

RU has played in this event a number of times before. The Knights finished 6th last year. Probably most notable was back in 2019 Chris Gotterup shot 14 Under, including a 2nd Round 63 and ran away with the Individual Title by 8 strokes.

Rutgers will go with the same lineup they used previously with Grad Noah Kumar, Senior Weston Jones, Soph Derek Gutierrez, and Frosh Argyle Downes and Bennett Espenshade. Rutgers will be paired in the first 2 rounds with Duke and UCLA.

Thursday, Oct. 3

Texas State at Troy | 7 p.m. | ESPNU
Sam Houston at UTEP| 9 p.m. | CBSSN

Friday, Oct. 4

Jacksonvillle State at Kennesaw State| 7 p.m. | CBSSN
Houston at TCU | 7:30 p.m. | ESPN
Michigan State at No. 6 Oregon | 9 p.m. | FOX
Syracuse at No. 25 UNLV | 9 p.m. | FS1

Saturday, Oct. 5

UCLA at No. 7 Penn State | 12 p.m. | FOX
No. 9 Missouri at No. 25 Texas A&M | 12 p.m. | ABC/ESPN+
SMU at No. 22 Louisville | 12 p.m. | ESPN
Purdue at Wisconsin | 12 p.m. |BTN
UMass at Northern Illinois | 12 p.m. | CBSSN
Boston College at Virginia | 12 p.m. | ACC Network
Pitt at North Carolina | 12 p.m. | ESPN2
Wake Forest at NC State | 12 p.m. | CW Network
Navy at Air Force | 12 p.m. | CBS/Paramount+
Army at Tulsa | 12 p.m. | ESPNU
Auburn at No. 5 Georgia | 3:30 p.m. | ABC/ESPN+
Iowa at No. 3 Ohio State | 3:30 p.m. | CBS/Paramount+
No. 12 Ole Miss at South Carolina | 3:30 p.m. | ESPN
No. 23 Indiana at Northwestern | 3:30 p.m. | Big Ten Network
Temple at UConn | 3:30 p.m.| CBSSN
Virginia Tech at Stanford | 3:30 p.m. | ACC Network
East Carolina at Charlotte | 3:30 p.m. | ESPNU
Rutgers at Nebraska | 4 p.m. | FS1
West Virginia at Oklahoma State | 4 p.m. | ESPN2
No. 1 Alabama at Vanderbilt | 4:15 | SEC Network
Colorado State at Oregon State | 6:30 p.m | CW Network
No. 15 Clemson at Florida State | 7 p.m. | ESPN
Utah State at No. 21 Boise State | 7 p.m. | FS2
James Madison at UL Monroe | 7 p.m. | ESPNU
No. 4 Tennessee at Arkansas | 7:30 p.m. | ABC/ESPN+
No. 10 Michigan at Washington | 7:30 p.m. | NBC/Peacock
No. 11 USC at Minnesota | 7:30 p.m. | Big Ten Network
Baylor at No. 16 Iowa State | 7:30 p.m. | FOX
Nevada at San Jose State | 7:30 p.m. | truTV/Max
UCF at Florida | 7:45 p.m. | SEC Network
Duke at Georgia Tech | 8 p.m. | ACC Network
Kansas at Arizona State | 8 p.m. | ESPN2
Hawai'i at San Diego State | 8 p.m. | CBSSN
No. 8 Miami (Fla.) at Cal | 10:30 p.m. | ESPN
Texas Tech at Arizona | 11 p.m | FOX

SIAP

Is there any info on when tickets become available, and can season ticket holders get early dibs? TIA

Wisconsin is a huge game for us in the Big Ten standings looking forward. We sit at 1-1, middle of the pack. There are 7 teams of the 18 that have 2 losses already. 4 teams are still undefeated, but two of them play this week (OSU-Oregon) so after this weekend there will only be 3 teams with 0 losses.

So, beat Wisconsin and we will be tied for 4th out of 18 in the Big Ten (in terms of losses .. we’ll be technically 0.5 games back from some teams but just bc they didnt have their Bye week yet).

This is the week where the standings will start to show separation. Win, and we’ll be right in the title hunt, especially with UCLA coming up. Lose, and we’ll be in a dog fight in the middle/bottom tier. Beat the Badgers!

1. Massive credit to our defensive staff. Their game plan was elite, and they did it with multiple hurt or missing players. I still wish we made more collision contact when we are in zone, I think we allowed some of those crossers to get up when we could have matched up, contacted, and carried more. But the defense did more than enough to win the game. Their pressure and coverage packages were tremendous.

2. Offense. I think we out schemed ourselves. We are very, very predictable right now. First down Neb brought heat consistently, which is why some of those sideline routes were open. They brought numbers, played man press with little to no help and tried to put us behind schedule. If we got to 2nd and 7+ we rarely if ever ran the ball. This allowed Neb is sit back with 6-7 in coverage and play match up zone. I was begging for a run on 2nd and long all game, but we didnt get it. That being said the Neb defense gave us issues. They brought from depth a lot, their interior DL were animals, but we killed ourselves all game long.

2a. The OL was not ready for the game. Beyond having a new LG we jumped all over the place. We have to get that fixed for when we go on the road.

3. Our young WRs are going to be really good. They made big plays all game long, Black, Duff, and Strong are going to have very nice careers here. I have been a big Long fan since high school, but he still does not squeeze the ball well in contact.

4. Special teams is a roller coaster of emotions. Two blocked punts are awesome but letting the ball bounce and bounce for yards is unacceptable. I also find it completely unacceptable with how we gave up the fake punt. For a coach that micromanages everything, to not be prepared for a fake is unacceptable. I was watching our gun stoppers on blocks earlier this year and we just let the gunners go. That being said it was a nice throw by their punter. The fake FG was terrible (I would have rather we just ran it on 3rd and 4th down) but Schiano said they did not run it correctly and I am going to believe it was player error vs just a terrible call.

5. The goal line series. If I am a coach I am calling a TO and losing my mind. I am not asking the side official if it is a TD I am asking my guys in the box their thoughts and if they even think it is close to a TD I am calling the TO and using it.

6. I would love to hear the rationale of why we went away from the run game directly from the staff. I have some thoughts, we were getting gashed inside, but again on 2nd down Neb was backing way off, but it seems that if we are 2nd and 7+ we will never run the ball. I really feel like, at times, we are running an offense the OC wants to run and not the offense to fit our players.

7. We are using RPOs too much now. at times we just need to run zone or bob blocking and get it to our backs. We were slowing the run plays down with running RPOs and not getting KM or SB going.

8. We are hurt in all 3 phases of the game. Injuries across the board are dangerous. I think we go 2-1 the next three games, but we need that bye week to get here badly.

9. I am still on the 9-2 or 8-3 prediction for the year. We lost a close defensive slugfest in the B10 on the road. We would have paid money to be in games just 5 years ago.

Is Athan's passing splits when throwing from play action and non play action. It's clear he's MUCH more comfortable throwing from PA vs not...

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The more concerning aspect of this is that not only did we abandon the run in the game after the 1st quarter, but we also abandoned the play action game as well:

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There has to be a solution to this if everybody sits down together.

Looking at all the teams in the Big Ten and most of them still have to prove themselves on the road against a quality opponent. Rutgers has one decent road win against a quality opponent in VT , the other teams have yet to win without the luxury of home games . Michigan just lost to Washington on the road and USC lost to Minnesota and Michigan , so let’s see how Ohio State handles Oregon on the road next .

Rutgers Football versus UCLA on October 19th is set to kickoff at 12:00pm ET and will be televised on FS1.

That the following things happened in the game, what would you say Rutgers won by?:

1. Rutgers blocked not one, but TWO punts
2. Rutgers held Nebraska to only 14 points (almost 20 pts below their season average)
3. Rutgers held the Nebraska rushing game to 3.4 yards per carry (excluding sack yardage)
4. Rutgers sacked Dylan Raiola 4 times
5. Rutgers held Raiola to his worst passing game of his career (just 134 yards passing)
6. Rutgers held Raiola to his worst accurate game of his career (48.1%) by far (next lowest was 63%)
7. Rutgers held Nebraska scoreless in the 2nd half
8. Rutgers held Raiola to only 15 yards passing in the 2nd half
9. Rutgers held Nebraska to 1.9 yards per play in the 2nd half
10. Rutgers committed only 4 penalties to Nebraska's 7
11. Kyle Monangai rushed for 64 yards in the 1st quarter
12. Rutgers had 9 possessions that entered Nebraska territory

... What would you have predicted the Rutgers win margin was? 10? 14? 17? 20+?

RU tied for 6th best - 64%.

Badgers - Opponents have scored 100% of the time.

RUTGERS vs. MARYLAND BUS TRIP

32 people have committed. There are 20 remaining bus seats.

Parking North Brunswick Shopping Center - 500 Milltown Road

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16th

6:30 a.m. - BUS LEAVES (based on Noon game time)
8:30 a.m. - REST STOP - $5.00 50/50
10:00 a.m. - ARRIVE AT STADIUM - BYO TAILGATE
12:00 p.m. - GAME TIME (PRESUMED)
5:00 p.m. - BUS DEPARTS FOR HOME
7:00 p.m. - REST STOP
8:30 p.m. - ARRIVE HOME

$80.00 PER PERSON - BUS ONLY
$60.00 GAME TICKET

You can buy your own game ticket or buy through Mike Mahony.

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RUTGERS vs. MARYLAND BUS TRIP

32 people have committed. There are 20 remaining bus seats.

Parking North Brunswick Shopping Center - 500 Milltown Road

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16th

6:30 a.m. - BUS LEAVES (based on Noon game time)
8:30 a.m. - REST STOP - $5.00 50/50
10:00 a.m. - ARRIVE AT STADIUM - BYO TAILGATE
12:00 p.m. - GAME TIME (PRESUMED)
5:00 p.m. - BUS DEPARTS FOR HOME
7:00 p.m. - REST STOP
8:30 p.m. - ARRIVE HOME

$80.00 PER PERSON - BUS ONLY
$60.00 GAME TICKET

You can buy your own game ticket or buy through Mike Mahony.

- BYO TAILGATE -

Contact Mike Mahony (732) 692-0530
Mhmahony325@gmail.com

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As I said last week. We beat a very good Washington team.,and in true BigAl style, I put Michigan on an Upset Alert.

At the end of the season, I think Tech and Washington are going to prove to be very good wins

Washington is 2 mistakes away from being a top 10:team this year