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Title: 11-12 college football live thread
Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 08:11:03 AM: I'll try to do better this week, than I did last week. Blame "recovery" for the stunted thread last week.

Rice-Northwestern
Ohio State-Purdue
Michigan State-Iowa
Nebraska-Penn State
Wisconsin-Minnesota
Michigan-Illinois

Oklahoma State-Texas Tech
Texas-Missouri
Baylor-Kansas
Texas A & M-Kansas State

And today's big game:

West Virginia-Cincinnati

Most of the above start at 11:00 a.m. central time, 10:00 a.m. mountain time.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 11:03:23 AM: Rice-Northwestern now underway.

Ohio State-Purdue now underway.

Michigan State-Iowa now underway.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 11:08:26 AM: Texas-Missouri now underway.

Nebraska-Penn State now underway.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 11:09:34 AM: Oklahoma State-Texas Tech now underway.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 11:10:11 AM: Ohio State 0, Purdue 3, first quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 11:11:22 AM: Michigan State 7, Iowa 0, first quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 11:15:36 AM: Oklahoma State 7, Texas Tech 0, first quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 11:18:26 AM: Michigan State 13, Iowa 0, first quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 11:19:47 AM: Michigan State 14, Iowa 0, first quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 11:24:10 AM: Rice 0, Northwestern 6, first quarter.

Texas 3, Missouri 0, first quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 11:25:00 AM: Rice 0, Northwestern 7, first quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 11:28:24 AM: Ohio State 0, Purdue 10, first quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 11:32:26 AM: Oklahoma State 13, Texas Tech 0, first quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 11:33:42 AM: Oklahoma State 14, Texas Tech 0, first quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 11:42:21 AM: Michigan State 14, Iowa 7, second quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 11:44:36 AM: Oklahoma State 21, Texas Tech 0, first quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 11:45:50 AM: Ohio State 7, Purdue 10, second quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 11:54:15 AM: Oklahoma State 28, Texas Tech 0, second quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 11:56:07 AM: Well, the guy who punches in the numbers for the Oklahoma State-Texas Tech game must be stoned.

He just took it back; Oklahoma State 21, Texas Tech 0, second quarter.

How is it possible to screw up in a job like that, simply sitting in a cubicle watching a television game and punching in numbers as they happen--and the numbers don't happen that often.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 11:57:27 AM: Now he played with the numbers again.

Oklahoma State 28, Texas Tech 0, second quarter.

He must be playing with something else besides the keyboard.
Title: Re: 11-12 college football live thread
Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 11:58:34 AM: Nebraska 3, Penn State 0, second quarter.

I'm sure there's things going on at that game that aren't showing up on the scoreboard.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 11:59:26 AM: Oklahoma State 35, Texas Tech 0, second quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 12:00:16 PM: Michigan State 17, Iowa 7, second quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 12:01:14 PM: Texas 3, Missouri 7, second quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 12:12:23 PM: Ohio State 7, Purdue 16, second quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 12:13:12 PM: Texas 3, Missouri 14, second quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 12:15:09 PM: Rice 0, Northwestern 14, second quarter.

Ohio State 7, Purdue 17, second quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 12:19:24 PM: Oklahoma State 41, Texas Tech 0, second quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 12:20:39 PM: Rice 0, Northwestern 21, second quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 12:22:05 PM: Michigan State 24, Iowa 7, second quarter.

Oklahoma State 42, Texas Tech 0, second quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 12:26:35 PM: Nebraska 9, Penn State 0, second quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 12:27:40 PM: Nebraska 10, Penn State 0, second quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 12:29:11 PM: Michigan State 31, Iowa 7, second quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 12:32:22 PM: West Virginia 17, Cincinnati 7, second quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 12:33:40 PM: Oklahoma State 49, Texas Tech 0, second quarter.
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Post by: Revolution on November 12, 2011, 12:36:20 PM: Lot of talk about the PSU program at the half. Go Cornhuskers!!!

What's the over/under on extracurricular activity after the game?
Title: Re: 11-12 college football live thread
Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 12:47:25 PM: Quote from: Revolution on November 12, 2011, 12:36:20 PM
Lot of talk about the PSU program at the half. Go Cornhuskers!!!

What's the over/under on extracurricular activity after the game?

I have no idea what sorts of activities after the game, but win or lose, Penn State fans are likely to be sore.

When we played there in 2003, it was disgraceful, the way those assholes were.

And they won that game.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 01:03:35 PM: I should point out Penn State's sorry-ass attitude about Nebraska's based upon two things: a guilty conscience and the national championship of 1994--not to mention their usual eastern establishment elitism.

In 1982, both Nebraska and Penn State were highly ranked (Nebraska number two, Penn State something like number six or eight) when they met. Near the end of the game, a referee (from Penn State) made perhaps the grossest, most erroneous, call in the history of college football, saying a Penn State player was still in bounds when he caught the football, when he had at one foot about 2' out of bounds.

Everybody caught that; television cameras, reporters, fans, television viewers.

Everybody caught that.

Penn State won the game because of that out-of-bounds catch, and went on to win the national championship that year.

So there's that Freudian subconscious guilty conscience with Penn State; they know they cheated.

And then twelve years later--I was wandering around the socialist paradises of the workers and peasants at the time, far removed from any news--apparently Nebraska and Penn State were running neck-and-neck in the polls for number one. Nebraska was willing to settle the matter by playing Penn State in a bowl game, but Penn State was too enamoured of the Rose Bowl.

Nebraska couldn't play in the Rose Bowl; Penn State, the then-Big 10 champion, could "buy" its way out of the Rose Bowl, if they wanted.

So both teams played two other teams in two different bowl games.

I dunno who Nebraska beat, or who Penn State beat, but they both won.

The national championship was given to Nebraska.

Oh my, how the Penn State fans bitched and whined and moaned, alleging "favoritism" in the voting.

Bullshit.

Nebraska has zero, zilch, influence in the polls, while Penn State has always been the darling of the television talking faces.

It's not our fault we ended up being number one, although Penn State fans think it was.

As I said, I don't know the whole story. The bowl games were played, I assume, on January 1, 1995. It was not until May 12, 1995, when I was way out in the empty steppes of southern Russia that I learned that (a) the Republicans had taken, for the first time in my life up to then, the House of Representatives the preceding November and (b) Nebraska had won the national championship in college football.

I still rank May 12, 1995, as the happiest day of my life, for those two reasons.

Believe it or not, franksolich actually did cart-wheels across the Russian steppes, causing the local workers and peasants to think he'd gone mad.
Title: Re: 11-12 college football live thread
Post by: Revolution on November 12, 2011, 01:04:14 PM: Well, I expect the Huskers to win. Also, I expect firewords, and Breaking News alerts. Sad, but I saw, and heard about the violent activity this past week on campus, so, I think it's a reasonable expectation. Wasn't into CFB as much in '03, so I don't know about what you speak there. I just feel an animosity building here, now, today.
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Post by: Revolution on November 12, 2011, 01:07:55 PM: Knee wasn't down. TD Nebraska! :hyper:
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 01:14:42 PM: Ohio State 14, Purdue 17, third quarter.

Nebraska 17, Penn State 0, third quarter.

Oklahoma State 56, Texas Tech 6, third quarter.

Texas 3, Missouri 17, third quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 01:17:20 PM: Michigan State 34, Iowa 7, third quarter.
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Post by: Revolution on November 12, 2011, 01:18:51 PM: Penn State just scored their first points. :censored:
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 01:19:56 PM: Baylor-Kansas now underway.

Baylor 0, Kansas 3, first quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 01:21:13 PM: Nebraska 17, Penn State 7, third quarter.

Texas 5, Missouri 17, third quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 01:23:21 PM: Rice 0, Northwestern 28, fourth quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 01:26:00 PM: Michigan State 34, Iowa 14, third quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 01:33:33 PM: I need to add regarding the piss-poor attitude of Penn State "fans"--after Penn State "won" the national championship in 1982 because of that erroneous call, the next autumn they faced Nebraska again, the first game of the whole college football season.

There used to be something called the "Kick-Off Classic," and Nebraska and Penn State played in the very first one, in 1983.

Penn State came into that game heavily favored.

We kicked their asses, and good.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 01:35:34 PM: Oklahoma State 63, Texas Tech 6, third quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 01:38:35 PM: Michigan State 34, Iowa 20, third quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 01:44:04 PM: Michigan State 34, Iowa 21, third quarter.

I need to add Nebraska and Penn State haven't played each other enough times to decide who "owns" who; usually circa at least 25 games.

By that criteria, only Oklahoma and Minnesota (!) "own" Nebraska.

As of this moment, Penn State is 8-7 against Nebraska.

During the 1920s, Nebraska sought games with eastern teams--Michigan, Notre Dame, Penn State, Pittsburgh--because there still weren't many teams here on the Great Plains. We played the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame two times. We were the only team ever to beat the Four Horsemen. Both times.

We played these other eastern teams a couple of times each, and said, "Hey, let's get something going here, like some annually-scheduled games."

But no.....the eastern teams preferred playing eastern colleges. Probably because we hammered them.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 01:48:46 PM: Rice 6, Northwestern 28, fourth quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 01:51:45 PM: Interestingly, the reason Nebraska always wanted to play eastern teams was because of transportation.

If one examines a railway map (roads weren't too good in the 1920s), one finds it was much easier to go east (or west), than to go south. Very few rail lines ran north-to-south.

When the Nebraska-Oklahoma series started in 1912, it took four days for Oklahoma to get up here.

At the same time, eastern teams, even though further away, were just a day-and-a-half away via train.
Title: Re: 11-12 college football live thread
Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 01:53:39 PM: Oklahoma State 66, Texas Tech 6, fourth quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 01:55:48 PM: Whoa.

It looks like Missouri's going to spoil Texas' season.

A great spoiler, Missouri; always messes somebody up.
Title: Re: 11-12 college football live thread
Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 02:03:30 PM: Speaking of Missouri, they played us Thanksgiving week 1978, our last game of the regular season.

We'd played Oklahoma the week before, and upset them 17-14, in probably Nebraska's greatest game of the century, putting the so-called "Game of the Century" of 1971 in the shadows.

Up until then, we'd played Oklahoma as the last game of our season (usually though Oklahoma played its little brother Oklahoma State the week after), Thanksgiving week.

But during the mid-1970s, Colorado began whining about Big 8 schedules. The real reason Colorado was whining was because they were always losing to just about everybody. They bawled because in a typical Big 8 season, they had to play Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma three consecutive weekends, and thought it'd be fairer if there were some "easy" games for them in between.

Never mind that other cellar-dwellers such as Iowa State or Kansas State usually had to play the big three other consecutive weekends.

Well, Colorado got its way, which messed up the schedule.

Nebraska-Oklahoma was no longer on Thanksgiving week.

Nebraska-Oklahoma was no longer the season-ending game for Nebraska.

Missouri, our oldest rival, was okay, but Missouri was not Oklahoma.

So, in 1978, Nebraska had beaten Oklahoma, and was on top of the polls, headed towards another national championship.

Missouri in 1978 was having a lousy year, a crummy year.

Missouri pounded us.

It was so bad Missouri never beat us again for 24 years.
Title: Re: 11-12 college football live thread
Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 02:05:05 PM: Nebraska 17, Penn State 14, fourth quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 02:05:36 PM: Baylor 0, Kansas 10, second quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 02:07:14 PM: Rice 6, Northwestern 28, final.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 02:12:17 PM: Ohio State 20, Purdue 20, fourth quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 02:15:20 PM: Texas 5, Missouri 17, final.

Well, Missouri spoiled somebody's season. Again.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 02:17:30 PM: Oklahoma State 66, Texas Tech 6, final.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 02:19:51 PM: Michigan State 37, Iowa 21, fourth quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 02:25:01 PM: Ohio State 23, Purdue 20, overtime.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 02:29:09 PM: Nebraska 17, Penn State 14, final.

Thank you, God.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 02:30:09 PM: Baylor 0, Kansas 17, second quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 02:37:29 PM: Ohio State 23, Purdue 26, final.

Baylor 3, Kansas 17, second quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 02:38:40 PM: Michigan State 37, Iowa 21, final.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 02:39:53 PM: I suppose I'll have to wait and read about it in the newspapers tomorrow morning, but if anyone can give me any insight on why Nebraska collapsed the second half, I'd appreciate it.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 02:41:21 PM: West Virginia 24, Cincinnati 21, fourth quarter.

This is the game of the week, by the way.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 02:42:43 PM: Texas A & M-Kansas State now underway.

Michigan-Illinois now underway.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 02:46:36 PM: Wisconsin-Minnesota now underway.

Michigan 7, Illinois 0, first quarter.

Hmmmm. No evening games today.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 02:52:05 PM: West Virginia 24, Cincinnati 21, final.

franksolich improves to 2-2 against the primitives, who don't know anything about college football other than what the talking faces on television tell them.
Title: Re: 11-12 college football live thread
Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 02:52:53 PM: Wisconsin 7, Minnesota 0, first quarter.
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Post by: Revolution on November 12, 2011, 02:59:33 PM: Badgers eat Gophers. It's a well known fact. ;)
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 03:01:13 PM: Quote from: Revolution on November 12, 2011, 02:59:33 PM
Badgers eat Gophers. It's a well known fact. ;)

Well now, remember that Minnesota beat Iowa.

I think Minnesota's underestimated.
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Post by: Revolution on November 12, 2011, 03:05:17 PM: I guess we'll see... OSU losing surprised me too. I guess that quote "Any Given Sunday" works for CFB Saturdays too.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 03:07:21 PM: Quote from: Revolution on November 12, 2011, 03:05:17 PM
I guess we'll see... OSU losing surprised me too. I guess that quote "Any Given Sunday" works for CFB Saturdays too.

Of course Wisconsin's probably going to beat Minnesota, but being a Nebraskan, I like putting in a good word for any underdog unless it's a Democrat candidate for something.
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Post by: Revolution on November 12, 2011, 03:14:31 PM: We need a "chuckling" smilie for when a statement doesn't merit a full blown laugh, but is still funny. I would use it here, and say: Minnesota is going down. You're right. Today, and ESPECIALLY ~~tomorrow~~Monday.
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Post by: Revolution on November 12, 2011, 03:20:58 PM: Touchdown Badgers! Nick TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 03:22:08 PM: Okay, Nebraska has its annual game against soreheads all over and done with.

Next week we play Michigan in Lansing, or wherever Michigan's at.

It's going to be a relief to get back to playing football with class fans.

Nebraska and Michigan haven't played each other much; Michigan's 3-2-1 against Nebraska.
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Post by: TVDOC on November 12, 2011, 03:45:01 PM: Quote from: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 03:22:08 PM
Okay, Nebraska has its annual game against soreheads all over and done with.

Next week we play Michigan in Lansing, or wherever Michigan's at.

It's going to be a relief to get back to playing football with class fans.

Nebraska and Michigan haven't played each other much; Michigan's 3-2-1 against Nebraska.

Ann Arbor......

doc
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 04:00:22 PM: Quote from: TVDOC on November 12, 2011, 03:45:01 PM
Ann Arbor......

doc

I know, I know, but it's just my perverse sense of humor, giving the wrong location.

It's a subtle jab at states that have more than one college football team.

Back when I was younger, I once introduced a guy from Mississippi, one of the first authentic southerners I'd met in my life (I was a teenager then), telling others he was a graduate of the University of Mississippi.

He actually got somewhat offended (but not irretrievably so), as he was a graduate of Mississippi State University, which he insisted was superior to the University of Mississippi.

You got Florida, you got Florida State.....you got North Carolina, you got North Carolina State.....you got Kansas, you got Kansas State.....you got Michigan, you got Michigan State.....you got Iowa, you got Iowa State.....you got Oklahoma, you got Oklahoma State.....geezuz, you even got South Dakota and South Dakota State, and North Dakota and North Dakota State, a couple of small states with barely enough resources to finance one major academic institution, much less two.

I dunno why other states just can't combine all together, for a single "University of ....."

It's just my sense of humor, mostly in real life, to deliberately confuse a "University of ....." and "..... State University," just to see what sort of reaction it elicits. One after all is sometimes starved for diversion and amusement.
Title: Re: 11-12 college football live thread
Post by: Duke Nukum on November 12, 2011, 04:19:09 PM: I'm about 50 minutes behind real time. Gophers just got their first first down. Go! Badgers! For Paul Bunyan's Axe!
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 04:28:29 PM: Quote from: Duke Nukum on November 12, 2011, 04:19:09 PM
I'm about 50 minutes behind real time. Gophers just got their first first down. Go! Badgers! For Paul Bunyan's Axe!

Wisconsin 35, Minnesota 13, third quarter.

Michigan 14, Illinois 0, halftime.

Baylor 31, Kansas 30, final.

Texas A & M 14, Kansas State 14, third quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 04:53:40 PM: Texas A & M 20, Kansas State 14, third quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 04:54:35 PM: Texas A & M 21, Kansas State 14, third quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 04:56:14 PM: Michigan 17, Illinois 0, third quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 05:00:14 PM: Why is Wisconsin stalled against Minnesota?

They've been at 35-13 since forever.

That is, unless the guy in the cubicle watching the game and punching in the numbers is asleep, and not updating.

Such a posh, easy job, and so no reason for anything less than perfection.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 05:06:11 PM: <<writing e-mail to stats.com to kindly inquire how their scoreboard thing works.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 05:07:53 PM: Wisconsin 42, Minnesota 13, fourth quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 05:10:39 PM: Michigan 17, Illinois 7, third quarter.

Texas A & M 21, Kansas State 21, fourth quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 05:29:41 PM: Michigan 24, Illinois 7, fourth quarter.

Texas A & M 28, Kansas State 21, fourth quarter.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 05:31:42 PM: Wisconsin 42, Minnesota 13, final.
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Post by: Duke Nukum on November 12, 2011, 05:50:07 PM: It was a good game.
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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 05:50:46 PM: (http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g419/Eferrari/stats1.jpg)

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Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 05:51:41 PM: Quote from: Duke Nukum on November 12, 2011, 05:50:07 PM
It was a good game.

Yeah, congratulations, you're headed to the Rose Bowl.

But why did Wisconsin seem to stall about halfway through the third quarter?
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Post by: franksolich on November 13, 2011, 07:07:01 AM: Well, unhappily, Oregon beat Stanford 53-30 last night.

I say "unhappily" because I was hoping the Rose Bowl would have in it two teams with a history, tradition, and who've played top-notch football for a very long time. Oregon's simply a nouveau riche while Stanford's won its stripes through the years, decades, generations.

Up until I checked the standings in both divisions of the Big 10--I'm a little slow catching on; this is our first year there, after all--I'd thought Wisconsin had a clear path to the Big 10 championship game and the Rose Bowl, but apparently not.

The contest for top in both divisions of the Big 10 is muddled; it appears three teams in each of the six-team divisions has a shot at it, and Wisconsin needs to have some other things happen, to end up on top.

Even Nebraska stands a chance to win its division.....if Northwestern beats Michigan State.

But it's silly for Nebraska to cheer for Northwestern in that contest; better that one come out on top on one's own merits, rather than what other teams do.

As of right now, it looks as if Penn State and Michigan State are leaders in their divisions, readying for the Big 10 championship game to determine who goes to the Rose Bowl to play flash-in-the-pan Oregon.
Title: Re: 11-12 college football live thread
Post by: JohnnyReb on November 13, 2011, 07:39:23 AM: I only worry about football games that affect my life in some way.

University of South Carolina beat Florida = wife happy = good for me.

Georgia stomped Auburn = wife unhappy = reduces USC's chances at something or other? = oh whoa is me and my good Sunday lunch is now in question... :-) .

USC only plays one very important game per year....that's Clemson...If USC wins that one, all is forgiven and wife will be happy for another year...GO CAROLINA ... BEAT CLEMSON...my happiness depends on it... :rotf:
Title: Re: 11-12 college football live thread
Post by: franksolich on November 13, 2011, 11:26:43 AM: Quote from: JohnnyReb on November 13, 2011, 07:39:23 AM
Georgia stomped Auburn = wife unhappy = reduces USC's chances at something or other? = oh whoa is me and my good Sunday lunch is now in question...

Yeah, I wasn't too happy about that myself.

Excepting when Auburn plays Alabama, I'm always for Auburn, a team with years, decades, generations of playing major college football; a team with a history and tradition.

Nothing negative about Georgia, not at all; it's just that Auburn's my sentimental favorite.
Title: Re: 11-12 college football live thread
Post by: Duke Nukum on November 14, 2011, 10:37:23 PM: Quote from: franksolich on November 12, 2011, 05:51:41 PM
Yeah, congratulations, you're headed to the Rose Bowl.

But why did Wisconsin seem to stall about halfway through the third quarter?
I think it is a Wisconsin thing. Packers seem to do it too.