B1G elites getting pushed around
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Scarecrow teams - too many missing players - games unwatchable imo
What’s the difference from not having a player available due to injury versus a player opting out or entering the portal?
Not a damn thing. Either you have talent and depth , or you don‘t. It’s a game. Play it.
Not a damn thing. Either you have talent and depth , or you don‘t. It’s a game. Play it.
So they have elite starters, but ho-hum backups is the takeaway? I guess we aren't all that far behind, if we could scoop up a gamebreaker or two on O and D. Easier said than done, I know 😆
Their backups are doing better than our first would against these opponents. We played both OSU and PSU at what point in those games did you think we were just a player or two away from victory?
B10 teams only pass when they need to while the SEC teams like to pass. I watched several Ohio State games where they can’t score and are forced to pass. B10 teams try to control the game with defense and running, passing is secondary.
9-7 at the half?
New Mexico State manhandled Auburn at Auburn...worth noting
Missouri knew that they could rush seven or eight the entire game and stopped the Ohio State run game. I think Ohio State still wins had 33 not gotten her early.
Marilyn is obliterating Auburn. I think we’d beat Auburn, however, easily as well.
PSU was def missing their D studs.
At the start of the 4th quarter of both games.
Down 13-6 and 21-16 with blown opportunities galore in both games to have leads or two score leads. What games did you watch?
Sure thing - but Miami isn't a top 25 team.
Some good teams are missing good players but top teams are missing good players who are also playmakers. I always differentiate playmakers since some guys consistently pull stuff out of thin air to make things happen. The top teams have them and when they go missing the serendipity goes with them. I dont see missing Miami and OSU players on same level
Ok, so now we are just a few plays away from beating both OSU and PSU, you guys crack me up, too funny.
It used to be a couple of injuries, now it is a lot more players not playing
Did you not watch the games this year against those teams?
Shut down Harrison Jr and that 19 pt game is a 5 point game. Now if we had a red zone offense worth a squirt turn our first half FGs into TDs and we're up 3.
It isn't too hard to see if you take your head out of your ass
Bowl games have to change the structure now due to the new landscape of transfers . There’s too much of a gap between the final regular season game and the bowls.
It won’t happen until the tv dollars start shrinking from bowls
My prediction is that the 12 team playoff becomes a huge tv success and we start dropping a lot of these fringe bowl games .
I’d like to see changes to bowls to keep the games relevant .
You said, "just a player or two away from victory". Give that Rutgers team a good QB and good WR and suddenly it's not so funny for PSU/OSU or you.
Oh my, this is why sports boards are so fun and at the same time so ludicrous and silly. I can't wait for the annual rutgesral thread of how we were only 5 plays aways from going undefeated and making the playoffs.
What does that have to do with the RU-OSU score at halftime 8 weeks ago?
It's a shame the way the transfer portal and leaving early for the NFL have ruined the bowl season..
Try watching those games without glasses with scarlet lenses and you would see how many big plays OSU and PSU left on the field. The outcome of both of those games was never in doubt and if it had been it was very evident sitting in the stands that OSU and PSU could have kicked into a higher gear. If you are going to play that game then the same logic applies to the Temple game. The score was only 13-7 going into the 4th quarter, but again anybody who stayed around and watched the game in person knew we were a much better team and the outcome of the game was never really in doubt. Temple was not one or two players away from competing with us and we were not one or two players away from competing with OSU and PSU.
Good for Temple, but we're not talking about them, though you are enjoying the thought of more RU losses.
If you can't see that we couldn't shift into another gear without a big time playmaking receiver/TE, and how that could get us to knocking off one of the big dogs, you're lost. Unless you truly believe OSU and PSU just decided to play like crap and toy with us. We need fewer fans with your attitude.
You mean a fan and his family that have attended Rutgers games for decades, who get to their seats early and don't leave until the end of the game no matter the score and weather, we need fewer of those types of fans? If you are going to say that we are only a few playmakers away from beating PSU and OSU then you have to be consistent and look at the Temple game and in fact the MSU game as well. Our current roster is not one or two players away from being at the top tier of the B1G, we won 3 B1G games this year, not 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9. We are not even a consistent middle of the pack B1G program yet, maybe one day, but not yet. I am optimistic on our future, but not delusional.
Ignore the helmets. We were up with I believe 6 minutes to go in the 3rd against Ohio State. We were driving in the red zone with a chance to push it to two scores right before the pick 6.
I was getting texts from plenty of non Rutgers fans telling me they were pulling for the upset. We aren’t imagining this.
FSU is missing 14 kids that most has significant time and contributions to the team where GA is missing 1 back up. Imagine if we played without half our key starters. I don't find this game an indictment on fsu as much as the difference in abilities from 1 to 2
And Temple could have been up going into the 4th, not just down 13-7, if they had converted in the red zone on multiple attempts. It goes both ways during the course of a year, Temple was clearly inferior to us and not one or two players away from winning and we were clearly inferior to OSU and not just one or two players away from winning even though the score was close at one point in the game. I was at both games, and yes, I was rooting for an upset in the OSU game, but at no time did I believe the rosters were equal but for a few players in either game.
The big problem was FSU missing their injured, starting QB.
The FSU back-ups for last two games were terrible.
GA won 29 straight and I think only Bama could beat them.
GA is much better than FSU imo - they might have handled Oregon and Wash. well also.
AAC is invisible to me.
Brock is currently 7-23 in the 3rd
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And a week later, in the last game of the regular season, Alabama needed a miracle play (4th and goal conversion from the 31 yard line) to beat Auburn. Worth noting.
Yes, our roster is inferior to tOSU, but if we had Tyreem Powell healthy and a really good passing QB, I could see a different outcome to that game. We would still likely lose 9 out of 10 to tOSU, but that game could have been the one.
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