Junior Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 15-20% chance. Let's stop overreacting to how bad Illinois beat the Redhawks. Here is a list of teams who are, according to Sagarin, better than Miami (OH): Missouri State Sacramento State Jacksonville State Fordham Eastern Kentucky North Dakota Tennessee State Illinois State Samford Harvard Northern Arizona and many more FCS teams So, please, everyone, STOP OVERREACTING. I'm not reacting to them beating Miami. I'm reacting to seeing their offense move at will on Cincinnati and Miami, as well as giving #16 Washington a very good game a couple of weeks ago. Until our defense proves otherwise, any team with a competent offense can torch us for 40 points. And Illinois offense looks to be a step above competent. Quote Link to comment
MichiganDad3 Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 NU played the 98th ranked schedule and is ranked 106th in defense. I expect Illinois to score many points next week. I hope NU can be positive in turnovers, or I expect a loss. I don't think NU can overcome an injured TM starting. We need a healthy QB. Quote Link to comment
huKSer Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 I like how this thread is more about both NDSU and SDSU than Illinois now. What is an Illinois? Quote Link to comment
suigeneris Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 Oh, definitely that's not the case, but something like this presents a slightly less macro story of the game as it unfolds, compared to just total game stats. We can see, for example, that the defense totally gave way to Wyoming late in the game, at the worst time. UCLA we opened up very impressively and then they turned it around and kicked our asses in the second half. SDSU was never stuffed, but held (comparatively) in check compared with a pretty rough start to the game. I agree that a chart of a yards and points per quarter shows in which quarters we gave up the most yards and points. I guess I don't know why that matters. Quote Link to comment
Junior Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 UCLA we opened up very impressively and then they turned it around and kicked our asses in the second half. We opened up impressively, or UCLA opened up like a team that was playing on the road at 9am the week their teammate died? 1 Quote Link to comment
zoogs Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 Well, it's like he said. Maybe it's a game where we are consistently in stalemate vs the offense, or maybe it's a game where the defense does a great job for a while, and then utterly falls apart. Total yards don't tell that story. Junior, I don't know. I suppose any time ever the argument could be made about whether it was Team A doing a good job or Team B just being terrible. Quote Link to comment
suigeneris Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 Well, it's like he said. Maybe it's a game where we are consistently in stalemate vs the offense, or maybe it's a game where the defense does a great job for a while, and then utterly falls apart. Total yards don't tell that story. I agree but you can also see that from watching the game. The point I was angling towards is that all defenses (good or bad) usually give up a disproportionately large and small number of yards in some quarters of a particular game. That Nebraska is no different says nothing about how good or bad this defense is or will be. Quote Link to comment
Saunders Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 I looked at Nebraska's box score but still a 250 yard swing from us to NDSU. The transitive property doesn't work in college football. Quote Link to comment
Saunders Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 I'm not reacting to them beating Miami. I'm reacting to seeing their offense move at will on Cincinnati and Miami, as well as giving #16 Washington a very good game a couple of weeks ago. Until our defense proves otherwise, any team with a competent offense can torch us for 40 points. And Illinois offense looks to be a step above competent. Did you watch that game? UW made a bunch of stupid mistakes and bonhead plays to keep Illinois in it. They should have won by 4 touchdowns, easily. Quote Link to comment
Norhusker Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 I'm not reacting to them beating Miami. I'm reacting to seeing their offense move at will on Cincinnati and Miami, as well as giving #16 Washington a very good game a couple of weeks ago. Until our defense proves otherwise, any team with a competent offense can torch us for 40 points. And Illinois offense looks to be a step above competent. Did you watch that game? UW made a bunch of stupid mistakes and bonhead plays to keep Illinois in it. They should have won by 4 touchdowns, easily. Yeah, but if they run it up our gut next week they will be in it to the end. I can't believe South Dakota State went away from the running game. It would have been quite a bit closer otherwise. Illinois is much better. I'm very concerned about this game. Quote Link to comment
memyselfandillini Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 Sounds like both teams have run defense issues then. But as for the idea that Washington should have beat Illinois by 4 TDs... um what? Did YOU watch the game or just look at the box score and total yards differential? Because the game I watched was competitive most of the way through. Quote Link to comment
True2tRA Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 Awesome name Me Myself and Illini. I wish I was as creative when I came up with my stupid ass name. Not even sure what I was thinking when I made it. Quote Link to comment
onlyHskrfaninIL Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 Awesome name Me Myself and Illini. I wish I was as creative when I came up with my stupid ass name. Not even sure what I was thinking when I made it. Ugh Quote Link to comment
True2tRA Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 Awesome name Me Myself and Illini. I wish I was as creative when I came up with my stupid ass name. Not even sure what I was thinking when I made it. hes just defending his team. You dont gotta be a dick to him. Ha! Not sure if you're serious, but ya, I was being serious. Quote Link to comment
memyselfandillini Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 I didn't know whether you were serious or not, but I kind of think all message board names are dumb, including mine, so I didn't really take offense. Especially as a noob poster from an opposing fanbase. I do have a quibble with this message board though because perusing the "smiley" choices just now you have customized "smiley" things to bash Colorado, Nebraska and Texas yet have yet to create one for any B1G foe yet. What's that about? Quote Link to comment
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