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NE Football said:
BCU is a guaranteed win. That program is a total mess. It would not surprise me to see them go 0-12. I’m not kidding, they are horrible!
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Fun to see the Beagle who had spent the spring pretending to be a UConn fan have a meltdown on our board.
 
It will be interesting to see what the CFP committee does with some of these FCS opponents when they are selecting the field. They should have no choice but to penalize an SEC team like Georgia for playing UT Martin when they pick the field. We will see.
 
College football officiating may be the most openly biased officating of any major sport. There are bad refs in all sports, but I never get the vibe that the refs are clearly in the bag for the favorite in any sport like I do with college football.

Texas Tech's receiver caught the ball on his knees, got up, ran 7 yards, and the officials gave him the extra 7 yards.
 
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nelsonmuntz said:
College football officiating may be the most openly biased officating of any major sport. There are bad refs in all sports, but I never get the vibe that the refs are clearly in the bag for the favorite in any sport like I do with college football.

Texas Tech's receiver caught the ball on his knees, got up, ran 7 yards, and the officials gave him the extra 7 yards.
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Officials let a blatant targeting by TT against Wyoming’s QB go, and let a tackle of an open Wyoming receiver in the end zone go. Tech is just a dirty team. Nice win by the Cowboys.
 
noeynox said:
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Call it what it is and always has been. The NFL‘s minor league. But now players can get paid and can trade themselves from team to team. It’s about time that the players had some control over their own destiny.
 
Bomber36 said:
Call it what it is and always has been. The NFL‘s minor league. But now players can get paid and can trade themselves from team to team. It’s about time that the players had some control over their own destiny.
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I'm here for it.
 
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noeynox said:
Wyoming was on CBS prime time tonight. Good crowd and good game

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Good game to watch. I hope to be there in 2026 for UConn game. Sounds like they are improving War Memorial Stadium in the next two years.
 


-> Four more in misery​

Boston College​

They were a pandemic sensation, somehow navigating the entire 2020 season with just one case of COVID-19. Back then, it seemed almost impossible and worthy of recognition, as strange as it may seem now. But it also might help explain how the Eagles overachieved in Jeff Hafley's first season as head coach by going 6-5, including a strong 5-5 record in the ACC.

In retrospect, a lot of the sports anomalies from 2020 might well be explained one way or another by looking through the COVID prism. It’s possible Boston College won a few extra games because it had healthy players while most football teams were struggling to put their full teams on the field week in and week out, much less trying to navigate practice.

Either way, the Eagles have dropped off a cliff since then. They went 4-12 in the ACC in 2021 and 2022, won just three games last season and opened 2023 with a ghastly 27-24 overtime loss to a Northern Illinois team that also went 3-9 last year.

Hafley, the 44-year-old former Ohio State offensive coordinator with an NFL background, came out of the pandemic looking like a future star. Now he looks like a guy struggling to keep his career afloat in an impossibly difficult job. <-
 
CTFAN4LIFE said:
Based on yesterday's results of our upcoming opponents, still pretty confident we'll get 7 or 8 W's.
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We need to go 8-4. The only games left that will probably be losses is Duke, Tenn and JMU. Going less than 8-4 with this schedule would not be good.
 
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JMick said:
If Rhule can't turn Nebraska around, they are some of the biggest dead weight around.
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Some takes from Huskerland:

Same old, same old. Snatch defeat from the jaws of victory

Coaching staff gaffes: 1) Not asking for a review of the non-TD at the end of the half A) giving them time to get to the line and set up for a QB sneak with their big QB, and B) have the ball placed at the 1" line in the likely event that the replay official would call the TD a non-TD. 2) put in a RB that has been fumbling all summer long late in the game when they're controlling the game and burning clock

Player gaffes: 1) the aforementioned fumble by Grant 2) Sims making ill advised throws all game long and missing a wide open receiver that had 5 yards on the defenders on a post pattern.

What surprisingly isn't being talked about is the line judge totally missing an obvious illegal motion by the Minn left tackle on the 4th down game tying TD. I think it's because the TV replays (of which there were a dozen or so) only showed the catch. Live, I was saying don't worry , it's coming back for the penalty, but it was drowned out by the replays

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Husker Husky said:
Some takes from Huskerland:

Same old, same old. Snatch defeat from the jaws of victory

Coaching staff gaffes: 1) Not asking for a review of the non-TD at the end of the half A) giving them time to get to the line and set up for a QB sneak with their big QB, and B) have the ball placed at the 1" line in the likely event that the replay official would call the TD a non-TD. 2) put in a RB that has been fumbling all summer long late in the game when they're controlling the game and burning clock

Player gaffes: 1) the aforementioned fumble by Grant 2) Sims making ill advised throws all game long and missing a wide open receiver that had 5 yards on the defenders on a post pattern.

What surprisingly isn't being talked about is the line judge totally missing an obvious illegal motion by the Minn left tackle on the 4th down game tying TD. I think it's because the TV replays (of which there were a dozen or so) only showed the catch. Live, I was saying don't worry , it's coming back for the penalty, but it was drowned out by the replays

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The Big 10 refs are biased towards Minnesota. Got it.
 
On the subject of former Huskies, Steve Kajewski was 19-33, 334 yards, 2 TD’s, 1 interception in his debut in Wagner’s loss to Fordham, 46-16.
 
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Tdaley said:
On the subject of former Huskies, Steve Kajewski was 19-33, 334 yards, 2 TD’s, 1 interception in his debut in Wagner’s loss to Fordham, 46-16.
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Watch him pull a Boyle and end up in the NFL, I'm only half kidding. I wish him, Rosebud and his other hometown fan poster (whose boneyard name I can't remember) the best of luck, I'm glad he is getting a chance to play.
 
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I look forward to streaming when we won't all have a crappy game like LSU/FSU shoved down our throat in prime time just because ESPN said so.
 
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