Head Coach Scott Frost

PJ saying they're planning on it means they're definitely out

If something that actually happened, did not happen, a different result would have occurred.

Without the ball touching the ground or going out of bounds we complete 90% of the passes

Anyone but Penn State. If they allow repeats and we meet in the toilet bowl crossover, I bet they win the rematch and we finish last in the b10.

Not the way we thought but, this game may be a blowout after all.

A chance to equal our stride

Something I didn't catch until watching again today: This moment right here when Betts scores a touchdown to make it 17-3, just one minute into the second quarter, would be the last time we score a TD on offense and only go on to score 6 more points offensively for the basically 3 quarters remaining. It wasn't just the second half trying to milk the clock that we had offensive troubles.

By Schrodinger's cat rules, every player both simultaneously has a black shirt and doesn't have a black shirt until proven otherwise. Schrodinger's Black Shirts if you will

Is telling Domann no one has seen his ceiling yet our strategy to get him to come back for a sixth year?

He'll delete it within the next couple days

A chance to do or dare

Wandale Robinson. First Play: Luke McCaffrey hands the ball to Wandale. The offensive line, including Cam Jurgens, has a great push and he gets 8 yards. Our offense has looked pretty different in the two game sample size, why not? So either that happens or we false start.

Of course Penn State is favored to win the game. You learn more from a loss than a win, so Penn State's accrued knowledge from their 3 losses obviously exceeds our two

Fleming did actually play against Ohio St. towards the very end. I would be shocked if he didn't continue to play a larger role as the season went on.

Northwestern is a decent team that might win the West for the second time in 3 years. All in all, we did a lot good or ok. Tied turnovers, had fewer penalty yards, more passing, rushing and total yards. We moved the ball well. Play calling wasn't awful - except in the redzone. That has to be a focus. Mills pounding the ball, Mills as a full back, QB sneak. All that stuff has worked well for short yardage stuff, hopefully we go back to that. How about true freshman Fleming leading the receivers in his second game? We know Wandale is great and we need to get him the ball more too. I would like to see him take some snaps at RB still. Running game is underwhelming. I think that will look better when these young, talented WRs continue to step up, regardless of who the RB is. Defensively, I thought we did decent. Two inceptions and a strip sack were great. Hopefully, next time we can jump on that ball. Luuuuuuke Riemer played great and that's exciting. Obviously there's a lot of negative things that happened, but I'm going to try to keep my posts in this thread positive vibes only.

I've been surprisingly unimpressed with Dedrick Mills. He might legitimately be the fourth best option at running back on this team. Luke looked good when he took handoffs. I think Wandale is better and should not completely play receiver and Thompkins looked more explosive from the limited amount against Ohio State. Mills has had two games and is still at 3 yards per play. I'm not saying he should get no playing time, but he clearly did not pick up where he left off.

It was always more likely that we would start off 0-4 than 2-2.

Everyone hates on Chin and of course they could be better, but I feel like the low hanging fruit of this team is finishing in the red zone and dumb offensive penalties. Second, I would say special teams. I think this year and last our defense played well enough for us to win a couple more.

Is it really that important though? Alex Gordan already had like 7 golden gloves.

I know the comment already got ratioed but outside of Illinois, there's not a terrible amount of shame in losing a single game to any of the teams in our division. Northwestern won the division in 2018 Wisconsin consistently wins the division Iowa is coming off the best 5 year stretch in the history of their program Minnesota went 11-2 last year Purdue has looked way better than they did 5 years ago Illinois sucks. I guess they beat Wisconsin last year and have been to bowls more often It's been a rough time to rebuild a program twice in a half decade

They looked pretty lost at sea in the fourth quarter. As far as them competing for the West, I'd say that ship has sailed.

Would be a lot more cool with leaving if we won the championship in 2012. At least would have had something to hang our hat on.

If "no block no rock" was an iron clad standard, we wouldn't have had a WR room last year.

Alright let's curb this Covid argument and check in on our friends in Buckyville. TheBrookBucky writes, "I just took a dump while urinating myself." Wow, great analysis TheBrookBucky! I hope you washed your hands afterwards too. https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/buckyville/mertz-with-one-positive-covid-test-t102482.html