Another interesting week in the Big Ten, there is one solid game out West but the rest are just ok, as programs fight for bowl eligibility.
Rutgers @ OSU (-31.5): What is OSU's best win of the year? Washington on the road? Great job with the schedule Big 10. OSU 45 Rutgers 6
Minnesota @ Northwestern (-3.5): This is is another Wrigley Game and Northwestern would like to get its first win in its home away from home. I wonder what attendance will look like? Northwestern 17 Minnesota 14
USC @ Oregon (-10.5): That seems like a lot of points for this traditional PAC 10 match-up. This might as well be a playoff game, loser is going to a Bowl Game. Oregon 31 USC 28
MSU @ Iowa (-16.5): Iowa plays good football in November. MSU does not. Iowa 24 MSU 10
Nebraska @ Penn State (-7.5): How in the world is Nebraska 7-3? They are also a TD and a hook dog on the road. Neither team has their starting QB and Penn State's head coach is now at Va Tech and Nebraska's head coach was wanted by Penn State. What a mess. Neither coach is any good. Penn State 20 Nebraska 13
Illinois (-7.5) @ Wisconsin: Illinois is the better team but they are not really that good. Wisconsin is really bad but play better at home when its cold. Illinois 21 Wisconsin 17
Washington (-10.5) @ UCLA: Is Nico playing? Both teams had a moment in the mid-Big10 season. Not so much now. 10:30 kick is right. Washington 30 UCLA 22
Basketball:
Dusty clearly doesn't know what his best rotation is yet and continues to tinker with it. Games against Middle Tennessee is a good time to experiment. The team does seem to lack a natural shooter and can get lazy on the boards sometimes. Still they have talent everywhere and maybe too much talent. Loved to see Yax dominating like he can, we need to see a bit more dog in him. He is a great player but also a team player and it might not be in his nature to take control of a game. Mara is a good passer but he also makes too many dangerous passes.
They will be better and can't wait to see when Dusty figures it out.
2 comments:
who's the best team in the B1G? IU or OSU? I guess we'll find out in December, but are any of these teams any good? The bottom of the conference absolutely garbage. Purdue, MSU, Wisky, PSU, Maryland and Rutgers are horrible teams. Iowa, Washington, Minnesota, Illinois, Nebraska and Northwestern are utterly mediocre at best. And what do we know about the cream of the conference in IU, OSU, USC, Oregon and Michigan?
Who have any of them played? IU best win might be Oregon and what do we know about Oregon? Oregon's best win? A dead PSU team? The beat USC that would be there best win, that's how garbage their schedule has been. USC? The lost to an ND team that I don't think is that good cause the ACC is even more ass than the B1G and then lost in conference to the fighting Mumus and Big Bert. Michigan? Lost to the only two teams that on the schedule so far that remotely had a pulse in OU and USC and those games weren't even close. OU powered it down when the realized our offense was so inept.
I'm not one to sit here and try to defend the indefensible, i.e. the B1G, but not really sure how you could make the schedule any better this year with so many bad teams in conference.
On revisiting the trap game mentality. Maryland is not nor should be considered a trap game. Obviously a trap game is where a opponent is being overlooked by wanting to get to the next one. What’s the want? They are probably going to get knee capped by OSU, there is no Big Ten Championship on the line, I can’t imagine there’s a chance of making the playoffs. Even with a win against OSU, OSU is not going to fall out. There would be just a re-shuffling of the top teams. I suppose crazy shit could happen and they would get in, but I highly doubt it. The players have to know this. How could they not? They need to focus on Maryland hard and get that 9th win. While most of those wins were dumpster fires, from 10,000 feet and to the outsider it looks pretty good. Salvage what you can and jettison the rest…
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