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I don't know how to embed tweets but I thought this was hilarious

 

https://twitter.com/DevinKCBD/status/916750484681216000

 

EDIT: I'm learning sort of

 

Ignore, thought I was posting in a different thread

3 hours ago, BIGREDIOWAN said:

The blueprint for success is what Wisconsin modeled their program after...............the old us. Powerful lines, power football, we're gonna run it down your throat and there is NOTHING you can do about it. That's not Mike Riley, that's not Langsdork, and to give up that much on the ground defensively...........it's ain't Diaco. 

 

Well there's one coach I can think of that knows how to do that, has a proven record of winning in the Big Ten, has cost Wisconsin many big games, and will more than likely be on the market this offseason (almost definitely by the next offseason):

 

Bert Bielema

 

Hiring him would kick this "rivalry" of ours up a few notches. I don't hate you guys. I respect the way you used to play ball and the influence it's had on teams like us, Michigan State, Stanford, etc...and I think you're generally cool people, but if you got Bert I'd root for you to lose every single game. 

 

Someone else said it on here and I definitely agree with them...the model you're talking about doesn't win National Championships, it can get you 10-11 wins in a good year, a conference championship here and there, but it isn't the greatest. Someone else said something like "can you imagine what Nebraska would look like if they had Wisconsin's O-Line and a mobile QB" and I think that's the key and why we've never gotten over the hump. The closest we had was Wilson in 2011 and while it was magical it just never panned out. I was alive for your NC runs in the 90s but not paying attention, didn't you also win those with speed and somewhat mobile QBs? So kind of a break or variation from that model?

 

Anyhow...This Wisconsin team is good but I am worried about Michigan and don't see us winning the CCG unless we show some improvements on defense. 

I really don't like Baker Mayfield so it was nice to see this. Hopefully he's learned some humility. I hate Ohio State as much as anyone but I thought planting the OU flag at midfield was classless. 

 

I hate the trophy. It's corny and generic. There is nothing unique about it, any two schools could have it. 

 

I wish they'd used the same concept and had like one head but each side gets a face, one for Barry Alvarez and one for Bob Devaney and somehow make it red tinted. 

 

Or better yet make it a three headed bust with Devaney, Alvarez, and Hayden Fry. If one team (Iowa/Wisconsin/Nebraska) beats the other two in a year they get the trophy. 

HISTORY

All Time Head to Head: Wisconsin leads 7-4

 

Trophy: The Freedom Trophy

 

Previous Matchups:

11/2/1901: Nebraska 0, Wisconsin 18 - Milwaukee, WI

10/9/1965: Nebraska 37, Wisconsin 0 - Lincoln, NE

10/8/1966: Nebraska 31, Wisconsin 3 - Madison, WI

9/29/1973: Nebraska 20, Wisconsin 16 - Lincoln, NE

9/21/1974: Nebraska 20, Wisconsin 21 - Madison, WI

10/1/2011: Nebraska 17, Wisconsin 48 - Madison, WI

9/29/2012: Nebraska 30, Wisconsin 27 - Lincoln, NE

12/1/2012: Nebraska 31, Wisconsin 70 - Indianapolis, IN

11/15/2014: Nebraska 24, Wisconsin 59 - Madison, WI

10/10/2015: Nebraska 21, Wisconsin 23 - Lincoln, NE

10/26/2016: Nebraska 17, Wisconsin 23 - Overtime, Madison, WI

 

COACHES

Paul Chryst: Born in Madison, WI, native of Platteville, WI. Played QB at Wisconsin '86-88. Previous jobs of note: Oregon State OC/QB 1997-1998, San Diego Chargers TE 1999-2001, Wisconsin TE coach 2002, Oregon State OC/QB 2003-2004, Wisconsin co-OC/TE 2005, Wisconsin OC/QB 2006-2011, Pittsburgh HC 2012-2014. 

Overall Record: 44-25

At Wisconsin: 25-6

Record against unranked while ranked: 16-4

Record against uranked while ranked in top 10: 11-0

 

Mike Riley: Born in Wallace, ID, native of Corvallis, OR. Previous jobs of note: Oregon State HC 1997-1998, San Diego Chargers HC 1999-2001, Oregon State HC 2003-2014

Overall Record: 111-93

At Nebraska: 18-13

Record against Ranked: 18-46 (2-3 at NU)

Record against Top 10: 7-23 (1-1 at NU)

STATS

 

OFFENSE:

Total yards: Wisconsin 1839 (#62), Nebraska 1925 (#54) --- Throw this out, NU has played one more game

YPG: Wisconsin 460 (#35), Nebraska 385 (#87)

PPG: Wisconsin 40.8 (#22), Nebraska 30 (#65)

Rushing yards per game: Wisconsin 233.8 (#23), Nebraska 156.2 (#73)

Passing yards per game: Wisconsin 226 (#71), Nebraska 228 (#66)

Sacks allowed: Wisconsin 6 (#33), Nebraska 8 (#54)

Interceptions thrown: Wisconsin 3 (#43), Nebraska 9 (#126)

Completion percentage: Wisconsin 66.3% (#17), Nebraska 54.7 (#98)

 

DEFENSE:

Total yards allowed: Wisconsin 988 (#4), Nebraska 1669 (#59) --- Throw this out, NU has played one more game

YPG: Wisconsin 247 (#4), Nebraska 334 (#34)

PPG: Wisconsin 13.5 (#8), Nebraska 24.4 (#54)

Rushing yards allowed per game: Wisconsin 74.3 (#4), Nebraska 105.8 (#22)

Passing yards allowed per game: Wisconsin 172.8 (#23), Nebraska 228 (#65)

Sacks: Wisconsin 16 (#9), Nebraska 8 (#80)

Interceptions: Wisconsin 7 (#11), Nebraska 6 (#20)

 

NOTES:

The last time Nebraska lost a night game at home was 2008 against Missouri. 

The last time Wisconsin won a night game on the road was 2013 at Illinois, Wisconsin has never won a game on the road, at night, in front of a crowd of more than 50,000 fans unless you count 1995 Penn State which would have ended around 8PM.

The last time that a top Ten Wisconsin team lost to a non-ranked opponent was 2008 @ Michigan. 

What's going on with Tanner Lee? Is it an Offensive Line or Receiver issue or is it him?

2 minutes ago, Whistlepig said:

One exception on the Frost comparison: Frost wasn't a walk on

 

Ah yea but I'm just saying, generally speaking, they're similar figures for both fan bases. Chryst has a similar story as well but I'm partial to Leonhard because he's from my part of the state.

29 minutes ago, BIGREDIOWAN said:

Obviously your defense is salty as usual, but how's your secondary? Tanner can make a secondary look like the second coming of the Legion of Boom, but he was smarter with the ball against Illinois so there's a glimmer of hope he's improving with his decision making. 

 

All but two are new but they've played very well up until the last ten minutes of the Northwestern game. That's Leonhard's bread and butter and I'm confident he will have them ready. Our Pass Defense was #10 in the country by yardage and #1 by TDs allowed this morning, and while that was against bad teams, they will still be the best you guys have yet to face, as you will be for us. If we lose it will be because we can't get our Offense clicking which I could see happening, it's already happened in the 1st halves of our Northwestern and Utah State games. This game is going to be close which is good, close night games are always fun. 

 

PS: I cannot sing Leonhard's praises enough, you all may be aware of him from a few media spots but the dude is legit. He's sort of Wisconsin's version of Scott Frost I guess. A walk-on with a successful NFL career and extremely high football IQ. He is the future of our program from a coaching perspective.

 

They only thing I can think of that would explain it is the Chicago Mob needed a 9 point win. 

It's going to be a really great game, the last two times we've gone to Lincoln it's been close. I think your QB is going to have a tough time.  

3 minutes ago, observer3 said:

 

That perfectly describes several teams' series with the Wildcats, for whatever reason....

Yep, it's because they play really intelligently, until they don't. 

 

https://cf-e2.streamablevideo.com/video/mp4/lgull.mp4?token=1506817476-egKEJPOMRsHJhhWV6z%2BLWrGbGeOh4vAj6UZwQlVTNWw%3D

 

I forgot how to inbed stuff in to posts...but anyhow, if some team could somehow poach Fitzgerald out of the Big Ten that'd be just swell though that will never happen.

Penn State is scary, I think they may drop a game in their Michigan, @ Ohio State, Michigan State run but they'll win the conference.

I don't know what to make of this game because we have yet to play a good team,  Northwestern doesn't count because we always have really wacky, twilight-zone type games with them. I think Hornibrook was a little rusty from the bye and was lost without Fumigalli, he had impressed me up until this point but we haven't played anyone decent. I think he'll do better against Nebraska with Fumigalli back and facing what looks like a bad NU pass defense.

 

If we lose it will be because of turnovers and failing to get the passing game going. I have confidence our defense can rattle Lee and cause him to make a key mistake. I think this game will be close and low scoring, I'll pick UW 21, NU 17.

 

I say all of that without having watched a full Nebraska game this year so I could definitely be wrong.

 

 

1 hour ago, Whistlepig said:

I hope it was SE's way of putting out his own resume to Wisconsin

 

Don't you dare wish that evil on us. 

 

Arkansas is going to need a new guy soon, send him there.

 

Twitter was pretty wonky this morning, just about exactly during the Inauguration. Maybe that's nothing, maybe someone thought a DDOS attack at that time would be funny. But I noticed it was slowing everything down.

 

How are DDOS attacks done? With botnets? I imagine it would take a pretty big operation to take down a service the size of twitter.

Politics aside I really enjoyed the parade. I don't remember the last ones, maybe I didn't watch them, but I'll be watching them from now on.

 

My favorite feature:

 

I'm a Sagittarius so naturally I don't believe in Astrology.

So what's everyone doing with their newfound treasures? I know Purdue is investing heavily in their Football program.

Thought you guys might like this video of Nebraska NG Soldiers working with 1ID as part of CJTF-OIR:

 

"Great video showcasing the amazing #Soldiers from the Nebraska National Guard who are assigned to the 1st Infantry Division's headquarters as part of Combined Joint Task Force - Operation Inherent Resolve - عملية العزم الصلب.

These professionals represent the best of the National Guard, and we're very fortunate to have them as members of the #OneTeam #Coalition in #Kuwait and #Iraq.

Duty First!"

- MG Joseph Martin, Commanding General, 1st Infantry Division

 

https://www.facebook.com/1IDdanger6/videos/1795248697391950/

 

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It's the same old draw...games against better teams in their own backyards, then we take crap for struggling.

Maryland could take BC. that one is even. Picking Iowa might be a stretch.

 

Yea, agreed. None of these games are easy to pick. As a conference we could go 8-2 or just as easily go 2-8. These are close.

My Picks:

 

Maryland vs. Boston College (toss up)

Minnesota vs. Washington State

Northwestern vs. Pittsburgh

Indiana vs. Utah - won't be close

Nebraska vs. Tennessee (toss up)

Michigan vs. Florida State - won't be close

Ohio State vs. Clemson - close, turnovers will be key

Iowa vs. Florida - toss up but Iowa is trending up and UF is trending down

Wisconsin vs. Western Michigan

Penn State vs. USC

 

5-5

Data dump of a preview:

 

Strength of Schedule rankings are from here: http://sagarin.com/sports/cfsend.htm

Stats from ESPN

 

Not sure if either are updated since yesterday's games.

 

Average Sagarin rank margin: +6, on average, Big Ten Teams are facing a team that is ranked six places above them

Average SoS rank margin: -1.7, Big Ten teams had an average SoS that was 1.7 ranks tougher than their opponent

Average travel distance of Big Ten Teams: 1454.87 miles

Average travel distance of Opponents: 693.26 miles

Average travel margin: 761.61, on average, Big Ten teams will have to travel 761.61 miles farther than their opponents

 

Maryland (6-6) vs Boston College (6-6)

Quick Lane Bowl - 1:30 PM CST, Monday, December 26th

Ford Field, Detroit, MI

Vegas line: TBD

 

BOWL/TEAM HISTORY

Big Ten all time in this bowl: 2-0

Maryland's bowl record: 11-13-2

Head Coach in bowls: 1-0

In this bowl: 0-0

Record vs. ACC: 249-239

Distance to bowl: 522.4 mi

 

Boston College's bowl record: 13-11

Head Coach in bowls: 1-2

In this bowl: 0-0

Record vs. Big Ten: 6-13

Distance to bowl: 707.1 mi

 

Head-to-head history: BC leads 8-3, last met 2013

 

TEAMS THIS YEAR

 

Maryland

Sagarin Strength of Schedule: 54

Sagarin Ranking: 76

Last 5 games: 1-4

Defense YPG: 434 (81)

Defense PPG: 29 (71)

Offense YPG: 532 (37)

Offense PPG 25.4 (92)

Turnover Margin: -5 (99)

 

BC

Sagarin Strength of Schedule: 63

Sagarin Ranking: 78

Last 5 games: 3-2

Defense YPG: 311 (8)

Defense PPG: 24.6 (44)

Offense YPG: 288 (127)

Offense PPG: 19.1 (123)

Turnover Margin: +5 (31)

 

Common Opponents: None

 

Minnesota (8-4) vs Washington State (8-4)

 

BOWL/TEAM HISTORY

Big Ten all time in this bowl: 31-37

Penn State's bowl record: 28-16-2

Head Coach in bowls: 3-2

In this bowl: 1-2

Record vs. PAC 12: 22-12

Distance to bowl: 2570.1 mi

 

USC's bowl record: 33-17

Head Coach in bowls: 1-1

In this bowl: 24-9

Record vs. Big Ten: 68-27

Distance to bowl: 14.3 mi

 

Head-to-head history: USC leads 5-4, last met 2009

 

TEAMS THIS YEAR

 

Common Opponents: None

James Franklin has regressed badly so far tonight. Never, ever give up field position especially in the first half of a big game like this. Definitely not coach of the year calls.

 

They would be in this game if not for his idiot calls.