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I come home from every game hoarse. After the Ohio State game I didn't have a voice for the better part of three days. Today I'm in decent shape, but I can tell I've been shouting for three-plus hours recently.

Whenever this guy is mentioned, it seems to be about how wrong he is. Which begs the question, why is he mentioned so much? I'm not saying he's wrong, I'm saying his numbers are often quite interesting. In fact, I think he's right more often than not, and I typically use him for a benchmark of what teams real strengths are. The numbers can be misleading, and they can be manipulated by anomalies (as in the relative strength of the Pac-10 last year), but more often than not I think he's a better barometer than the human polls.

Sure, as long as we give the "ESPN said _______, it is now TRUTH" crap a name like "ESPN Belief Syndrome." We'll call it ESPN-BS for short.

The guy was out cold, and it was pretty obvious at the moment of the hit. If you watch the replay Martin was a little freaked out by it, too - he backed away like he was scared of the guy. Both players lowered their shoulders to take the impact, it's just that Sparty got lower and took the brunt of Martin's helmet in the back of his head. Not much Martin could have done. That whole sequence of approach, lowering and bracing for impact probably took less than a quarter of a second. If anyone gripes about helmet-to-helmet from this, they need to stop watching football. This was totally unintentional, and the blame is more on Sparty than Martin.

Sagarin's numbers have us outside the top ten. He's clearly concerned about our final four games, two of which are away at 100K+ seat stadiums. We're #12 in his poll, behind 4-4 Missouri. Missouri is up there because they've played the #1 SOS (ours is 38th). It'll sort itself out in the end.

Thanks for the gifs, Freak! +1 If you go frame-by-frame on irafreak's gif, you see that Yoshi knocked that guy probably seven feet from point of impact. It's amazing he got up from that hit.

Via Twitter. Will update with a link as soon as I find one. Also, according to @jppalm, owner of CollegeBCS.com, Nebraska should be #9 in the BCS when it comes out later today. EDIT - finally, here's the stupid Coaches poll. I can't understand for the life of me why it's a USA Today poll, but I find out the results from Twitter 20 minutes before they update their own site. Why not update your site before releasing the info? Coaches Poll #9 in the AP Poll, too.

This only becomes a concern if ESPN is your primary source for sports information. Ignore them. They are the carbuncle on the ass of sports.

Rex has to be involved in the conversation next year. This year he won't get much consideration unless we win out - then he may even get invited to New York. The toughness of our schedule is both in Rex's favor and against him. If we win out, against that tough schedule, with just the one blip against Wiscy, we'll be going to the Rose Bowl and in the BCS top five. Next year, if we feature him like we have been lately, he will get in the conversation early. We just can't have any Wisconsin-esque losses or he'll never get it.

Hold on!

If we should win,

Big game today. With the win the Huskers can take a huge step on their way to winning the Legends Division.

Michigan State day! Everyone get pumped!

Who are you rooting for tomorrow, Badgerfan? Do you have a dog in this fight or do you just want to see a good game?

No effing way. If that's true then they can go [Mod Edit] themselves with a [Mod Edit] in their [Mod Edit]ing [Mod Edit]-[Mod Edit] cat and a [Mod Edit] with a [Mod Edit]ing bassoon. [Mod Edit]ers.

That has to be Bollywood, or one of the umpteen versions of Bollywood action.

Please elaborate on Jose Canseco being an ass. Maybe he was just going through a roid rage session We were walking down Market Street in San Francisco going to lunch. It was crowded, so we were having to weave our way between oncoming people, when out of the crowd comes this WALL of a person who just bulled his way straight forward through the sidewalk. We each bounced off his shoulder, and you have to remember I'm a pretty big guy. Turned around to apologize - the typical thing you do when you bump someone's shoulder - but the guy turns and looks at us like we were at fault and says something like "Oops" or words to that effect. It was very quick and I don't recall exactly what he said, but he was very sarcastic about it. I didn't recognize him until my coworker said, "That's Jose Canseco!" I was like, "Yeah. He's an ass."

The guy can coach. Makes you wonder why he didn't take another gig when he "retired" from KSU the first time. Also makes you wish (for the Mildcats) that he was 30 years younger. The guy isn't going to be coaching much longer, and once he's gone.... it's back to irrelevance.

Just so you know, I meant "worked up" in the metaphorical sense. Not that you were actually upset about this.

I wouldn't get too worked up over it. They have 24 hours to fill on four or five channels. They're going to make bad points from time to time. And there are also times they make "mistakes" on purpose just to create controversy so people will talk about it. This could be one of those times, too.

I didn't watch this (it's an ESPN product, right?) but if I had to wager, I'd guess they were talking about the fact that MSU is better than we are on both sides of the ball. Our offenses are similar, but their defense is way better than ours.

Apparently someone clued the Groza Award people into the fact that we have a football team. They apparently didn't know that last year.