Future Victims Unit: Too Much Icing, Not Enough Cake
by Run Up The Score on Sep 8, 2008 10:03 AM EDT
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(Defensive grades will be up tonight or tomorrow morning, after some semi-sober DVR analysis.)
A quick look at how Penn State's past and future opponents made out on Saturday:
Coastal Carolina (0-2) took a 19-3 lead into the fourth quarter against Colgate and gagged it away, giving up 20 points in the final period to lose 23-19.
Syracuse (0-2), you truly suck. The Orange fought back to tie Akron at 28 in the fourth quarter, but couldn't stop QB Chris Jacquemain (20/26, 260 yds, 3 TD) when it counted. Akron wins 42-28. Syracuse is in for an ass whooping of Biblical proportions next week.
Temple (1-1) once again fought the good fight against UConn, this time with monsoon conditions in Philly, but couldn't hold a 6-0 second half lead. UConn kicked two field goals to send it into overtime. Temple kicked a field goal in OT, UConn finally cracked the goal line for the win. The Owls travel to Buffalo next week.
The Fightin' Zookers (1-1) easily handled Eastern Illinois, 47-21. They take on the Ragin' Cajuns at home next week.
Purdue (1-0) opened the season against the Stabbin' Punters of Northern Colorado and won easily, 42-10. Slight upgrade in competition next week, as they host #16 Oregon. (Purdue vs. Oregon? Weird.)
Snooze On, Wisconsin (2-0)! They obviously got a late wake-up call against Marshall and fell behind 14-0 early in the second quarter. The BadgerBadgerBadgers responded by putting up 51 consecutive points. Fun statistical note for those who appreciate rushing game bludgeoning -- six of Wisconsin's seven touchdowns were scored on running plays of five yards or less. Long flight for the BadgerBadgerBadgers next week. They're at Fresno State. Intriguing.
Michigan (2-0) (1-1) stalled and sputtered, but did enough to beat Fake Miami, 16-6. I have nothing interesting to say about this game, other than to bring up two notes from the box score -- Michigan only allowed 47 rushing yards and did not turn the ball over. They play at Notre Dame next week.
You likely already know about Ohio State (2-0) doing their best to put the "turd" in "Saturday" against the Ohio Bobcats. The game was an utter mess for the Buckeyes, and not a particularly encouraging effort heading into next week's GAME OF THE CENTURY OF THE WEEK against Southern Cal.
Iowa (2-0) had their way with Florida International. Annnnnd, done.
Extra icing for Indiana (2-0), who devoured their Murray State cupcake, 45-3. They take on Ball State next week, and as we all know, "I'd rather Ball U. than IU."
Michigan State (1-1) trounced Eastern Michigan 42-10. They have a relatively tricky game against Florida Atlantic next week before a showdown with Notre Dame on 9/20.
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Michigan is 2-0?
Time to party in Ann Arbor likes its 2003!
by The IC Lion on Sep 8, 2008 10:13 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Funny, I just noticed that myself
About five second before reading your comment. And then I saw “5 comments, 5 new” and knew I was busted.
by Run Up The Score on Sep 8, 2008 10:35 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
And by previews
I mean post-game reports/previews.
by GreatScawt on Sep 8, 2008 10:14 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Great. . .but. . .
One thing is missing. . . ARE THERE ANY AUDIO LINKS TO COASTAL CAROLINA’S POST GAME PRESSER?
by The IC Lion on Sep 8, 2008 10:22 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Is any game with ND this year really a showdown?
Will the real Derrick Williams please stand up?
by ReadingRambler on Sep 8, 2008 10:27 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Nope...not this year.
Could ND have sucked any more on Saturday? Not likely…took a questionable fumble at the goal line to beat SDSU, who, coincidentally, lost to FCS team Cal-Poly the week before. And Chuck Long is now my favorite coach:
He was asked which team was better? Cal Poly or Notre Dame?
“That’s a tough question,” Long said. “Each week is different. It’s hard to say who’s better. They’re two completely different schemes…. It’s hard to say who’s better, they both beat us.”
Hahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!
by immikefazz on Sep 8, 2008 11:58 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
In the minds of Notre Dame fans
Every game is a showdown because all those other teams are just jealous, don’t have Notre Dame’s academic standards, wish they were on NBC every week, loving admirers of college football tradition and Touchdown Jeebus.
by Run Up The Score on Sep 8, 2008 10:37 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
because everyone knows that
they could win with thugs tomorrow. End quote. Because they don’t recruit all of the exact same players that USC, Michigan, Ohio State, Alabama and Penn State all recruit.
Kevin @ Black Shoe Diaries
by Kevin HD on Sep 8, 2008 10:41 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Polls/ ECU...
Gotta hand it to them – Beating VT and WVU. Now they slot in at #14 in the polls. Looking at their schedule they have OOC games vs. UVA and NC State – both of whom have barely woken up this year and then the Conference USA run. Could easily be 12-0.
I like the optimistic talk, so I’ll throw this out. Come the end of the season and PSU is also 12-0, do we leap frog ECU somewhere along the way or are we victims to early season polls?
check out pinkertonpark.com you owe yerself a laugh.
by rahpsu92 on Sep 8, 2008 11:04 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
depends on how VT and WVU fair, I think
but if we beat Wiscy and OSU in october, that’s probably when you’ll see PSU make a move…especially if ECU has a close one in-conference.
Lot of things matter, however. Wiscy has to beat FSU this weekend, and OSU has to keep it close against USC…that line opened a couple weeks ago around 3.5, now USC is giving 10 points.
Kevin @ Black Shoe Diaries
by Kevin HD on Sep 8, 2008 11:16 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
AP is not associated with the BCS....
ECU only jumped us in the AP poll. They are only ranked 20 in the coaches poll, about 150 pts behind PSU. The season is way to long to talk about anyone going undeafted, but if PSU does run the table we will not get shut out of the NC game by ECU. Now…..if USC and either Oklahoma/Missouri/Georgia/Florida go undefeated…..then it is a completely different ball of wax. …….ESPECIALLY with OSU bombing in the past two NC games.
I thought only safeties played 15 yards off the ball?
by pic15 on Sep 8, 2008 12:21 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I don't think it matters how VT and WVU fare
If we go undefeated through Big Ten play, even if ECU dominates C-USA, we will leapfrog them in the polls. There’s just that much voter confidence in the superiority of the Big Six conferences.
by pjk on Sep 8, 2008 11:27 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Yeah but
You know the media loves an underdog, and if they jump on the story of the little guy getting shafted and keep reminding us about teams like Boise State that should have had a chance at the national championship they can sway the voters to make history.
The media always has their darlings, and Penn State is never one of them.
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries
by BSD on Sep 8, 2008 11:34 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
We have bigger fish to fry...
than to worry about ECU running the table. I mean, great, they beat an uninspiring VaTech team and an obviously struggling WVU team under Stewart. They didn’t have a walkover with FCS Villanova last week at home.
If PSU goes 12-0, we will NOT have to worry about ECU.
by Kunk on Sep 8, 2008 12:05 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'd like to have that problem.
If PSU makes it to 12-0, the team will almost certainly be media darlings. “Strength through adversity, undefeated teams in 5 different decades” and all that stuff.
East Carolina skips Tulsa, but their schedule is pretty competitive for a Conference USA team with Houston, Southern Miss, Virginia and NC State still on the schedule.
by Cairo on Sep 8, 2008 1:00 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Agreed, the media will love ECU
Just like they loved Hawaii last year. Then the 12-0 warriors got whooped by UGA. That set the little guy back a few years. Boise State and Utah gave gave examples of how those teams can win a BCS bowl, but the NC game is, at this point, too big for a C-USA team. Especially a newcomer like ECU which doesn’t have the rep of a BYU or Boise St.
by pjk on Sep 8, 2008 12:04 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
There's definitely a glass ceiling for non-BCS teams.
There’s still an enormous gap between Hawaii’s 10th place finish last year and 2nd in the BCS formula. 2006 Boise State, ostensibly a better team than 2007 Hawaii, only got enough love for an 8th place BCS finish prior to their bowl game. The closest analogue to ECU is Utah’s 2004 campaign where they whupped on BCS team after BCS team and still finished 6th. The computers are really harsh on strength of schedule and you need everything behind you for a top two finish. I don’t think the voters could get them in if they tried.
A title is a pipe dream for ECU this year, having started from the same depths those teams came from — they’ll need everyone in front of them to lose twice, and wake me up when that happens. It doesn’t mean they can’t spoil someone else’s fun, though. I could see a 5th or 6th place finish paired with a Rose Bowl trip for 11-1 Ohio State keeping a second Big Ten team out of the BCS.
by gumbercules on Sep 8, 2008 2:45 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Just FYI….“Fake Miami” was established before Miami, FL and other than the name the 2 schools have absolutely nothing else in common. I’d take Miami, OH over Miami, FL anyday in reputation and overall school quality.
by mes on Sep 8, 2008 12:50 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I actually knew that about Fake Miami
That nickname’s a little nod to the supremely awesome Iowa blogger and an old internet friend, Mark Hasty.
by Run Up The Score on Sep 8, 2008 2:17 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Also know for....
An unbelieveably high ration of HOT chicas!
I thought only safeties played 15 yards off the ball?
by pic15 on Sep 8, 2008 2:48 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Mes...
You’re quite wrong on that idea of school quality and reputation. U of Miami is ranked 51 in USNaWR, whereas Miami U is just #66. We, by the way, are #48.
by DevonEdwards on Sep 8, 2008 12:54 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
DevonEdwards...
Not sure where you got your stat….http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college/national-top-public…has Miami, OH at 26 (psu at 15) and “the U” is no where to be found on the list. I was not referring to rankings anyway. I have been to both universities and as an overall assessment of my own Miami, OH is a better quality school (even if it is in the state of OH).
Run Up the Score….that’s cool, I get a lot of ribbing from friends about Miami, OH…I’m familiar, just couldn’t let it go :-).
by mes on Sep 8, 2008 2:36 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Here's the overall list...
http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college/national-search
I have the Big Ten seperated out in my post below.
by BSM PSU 93 on Sep 8, 2008 2:39 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Dude
Miami and PSU are public universities. Miami isn’t thus “nowhere to be find”
Use the national search below and you’ll see where I came up with the rankings.
U of Miami is a much tougher school to get into and has an infinitely better reputation. Sorry, mes.
by DevonEdwards on Sep 8, 2008 4:11 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
One 2nd......
http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college/national-search/page+3
I think this is really where you want to look. Forget public vs. private………you need to be looking at National Univerisity’s.
For example, my Alma Mater, Allegheny College, is considered a “National Private Liberal Arts College” or sometihng like that and is thusly categorized in the rankings. A school like Grove City or Westminister or Gannon Univerisity (similar private schools in Western PA) are ranked regionally, but aren’t considered top in the nation. If you were to just look at the regional rankings you wouldn’t see Allegheny ranked regionally so you might be inclined to think that Gannon or Grove City or Westminster were ranked higher than Allegheny in the region. But that isn’t the way the rankings are laid out.
Eric Watters Atlanta, Ga.
by ech2os on Sep 9, 2008 12:05 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
How many colleges are there in the country?
Assume there are 5,000 (there are a lot more).
That would mean that Penn State, Miami (Oh), Miami (Fla), Michigan & Ohio State and everybbody else that is a part of this discussion are all essentially in the top 1% of colleges in the country. So what’s the difference, besides bragging rights?
I am pretty sure the laws of physics are the same at Penn State as they are at Harvard.
"I honestly think the "Spread HD" is going to work pretty well, and we’ll be just fine this year". - 8-27-2008
by jesse. on Sep 9, 2008 12:12 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
You're the Lawyer....
I thought you people thrived on aruging semantics, nuance, and minutia :) lol.
Eric Watters Atlanta, Ga.
by ech2os on Sep 9, 2008 12:15 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Just reread your post......
acceptance rate…….sure. I am not sure acceptance rate is the way to gage the standing of a College or University.
Eric Watters Atlanta, Ga.
by ech2os on Sep 9, 2008 12:12 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
#47, actually...
12. Northwestern
26. Michigan
35. Wisconsin
40. Illinois
47. Penn State
56. Ohio State
61. Minnesota
66. Purdue
66. Iowa
71. Indiana
71. Michigan State
by BSM PSU 93 on Sep 8, 2008 2:36 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Stabbin Punters
of Northern Colorado…still laughing…. RUTS, you’ve still got the gift….
Convivite Nudem!
by jtothep on Sep 9, 2008 6:29 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
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