I mean, I get what you're trying to say. Really though there is only one team that outright beat us this year- Ohio State. The rest took advantage of our self implosions. They didn't do anything themselves to beat us.
Its like winning a game of pool with 4 balls on the table, when the better shot scratched on the 8 ball. Sure you get the W. but you didn't do anything to earn it.
Man this statement is dense as hell. Common man, we trailed in like the vast majority of the games we lost. I grow tired of this whole 9 losses by single digits Bs- we were down double digits to both Purdue and Minnesota and last second scores brought it to single digits- those games were over welll in advance of the final whistle.
lastly, “only Ohio state outright beat us.” Man maybe I was just too drunk from the booze I needed to consume to drink away the pain of ineptitude I was witnessing cause I recall it wasn’t only Ohio state, it was also-
-Illinois capitalizing on our turnovers and inability to control time of possession
-Oklahoma not allowing us to do s#!t offensively
-Michigan state capitalize on our poor special teams and taking advantage of a team with no offensive identity in overtime
-Michigan, coming to our house in a raucous environment, they earned that W
-Purdue, once again, stifling whatever u wanna call our offense
-Minnesota- for what feels like the 10th year in a row beat us by being both more physical and sound in their approach
-Wisconsin- ran the ball right down our throats
-Iowa- Got the W on the road by playing some pretty clean football and capitalizing on what’s given to them, something this program seems to have been lacking since Bo’s top secondary units of 09.
I get it, we could have won the majority of the games had we not had some self inflicted BS, but at some point a random occurrence becomes a trend and the trend is we are inept at taking advantage of others team mistakes and we are beyond inept at playing a clean game on our side. At some point we gotta be accountable
