Honestly... Hill is no worse an option for Iowa than McNamara. McNamara's stats are awful.
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KidSilverhair
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“Clemson losing to Duke wasn’t really an upset in hindsight”
Man, you can’t judge upsets in hindsight! That’s not what makes an upset! Duke was unranked, Clemson was a favorite for the ACC and CFP candidate … the fact that Clemson has stumbled since that game and Duke is a whisker away from beating Notre Dame and being undefeated doesn’t erase that upset. Good grief … should we just skip the entire season and put our personal top four into the playoff in September, it seems that’s the only way to make people happy who are fans of the playoff but not actually fans of college football.
Man, you can’t judge upsets in hindsight! That’s not what makes an upset! Duke was unranked, Clemson was a favorite for the ACC and CFP candidate … the fact that Clemson has stumbled since that game and Duke is a whisker away from beating Notre Dame and being undefeated doesn’t erase that upset. Good grief … should we just skip the entire season and put our personal top four into the playoff in September, it seems that’s the only way to make people happy who are fans of the playoff but not actually fans of college football.
We needed that one to stay in the playoff race but there's still a lot of challenges left including purdue's quarterback next week. You probably remember him at Texas. I could see him being a late day 3 type pick in the NFL when his college days are done
They had 38k there. Im guessing this was taken when Indiana scored with less then 1 minute left in the game.
You mean the guy that could not keep the job at Texas and left? How many QB's that played in the Big 10 will I see starting today in the NFL? I count three, Cousins for the Vikings and Wilson who played one year at Wisconsin after leaving NCS, the kid for Houston. It's beyond laughable to think the Big easy conference is producing high quality QB's other than Ohio State.
It's an old-timey, bitter SEC Rivalry.
Ole Miss is still smarting from the 1959 Halloween punt return by Billy Cannon - which ultimately cost Ole Miss the National Championship!
KidSilverhair
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Yeah, I get it, it’s also a trophy game, right? The way it ended, field-storming is just fine, IMO. Let the conferences get all cranky about it, it’s supposed to be fun.
KidSilverhair
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Technically winning the booby prize that’s the B1G West in order to get to the CCG is “staying in the playoff race,” so he’s technically correct. Which is the best kind of correct.
Fields for the bears as well. Also possible weirdly enough that Hoyer is playing today. But your point stands big ten hasn’t produced QB’s lately, been a real issue for a couple years.
KidSilverhair
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Really not fair to judge attendance by how the stadium looks at the end of a blowout, particularly at a non-traditional-power school like Maryland
TCU is a good team. They averaged 40 points a game and have the big 12's leading rusher.
Losing to WVU doesnt make them "not good."
WVU has the best oline in the big 12, and has as good a dline as anyone not named Texas.
I think TCU will win 8 games. Not CFP good, but 8-4 isnt "not good."
WVU was picked last in the big 12, but theyve actually won 8 of their last 10 games and 5 of their last 6 against TCU. WVU just seems to play a style of football TCU has trouble with.
Evers is a stud in his own right no shame in losing that competition. Did you count Aidan O'Connell from next week's foe and Big Ten rival Purdue?
He almost has to be IMO. It was not good.
But as I said in another post... I don't think it will affect Iowa's season at all one way or the other. McNamara wasn't very good at all... and neither is Hill. But they don't have to be for Iowa to beat the remaining teams on their schedule, with the exception of Wisky maybe. I think they could win all of their remaining games, except Wisky, with Hill at QB. McNamara's stats sucked bad.
I forgot about Fields, but every Big Easy fan has to admit, outside of OSU, the league in not producing QB's at a high level. The guy for MSU last night that I saw was below average at best. What I have seen from Nebraska, Illinois and NW seems to be the same.
Just a horrible league for QB's, compare that to the B12, and you have a lot of QB's that can at least throw the ball down the field at a decent rate.
