Note to Pac-12 teams for future scheduling: Go East and you might earn a mulligan for a woeful performance against a Northwestern team outscored by a combined 78-10 against MI and Iowa. Wisconsin got handled pretty easily by Alabama and lost at home to Iowa while only scoring six points. For a year we’ve avoided that aspect of losing. Even if you want to talk losses, MI looks better.
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“He’s got to be able to do the things that allow him to regain that position”, Dantonio said. “We face ourselves with another challenge”.
The second-best team in the ACC would be decided in this matchup… but we’re not going to get it. Such a shame.
“I think we manage the 1-0 part, and that’s what we do, ” said the Rutgers fourth-year coach, referring to his program’s mantra.
Scouting the passing game: Nebraska ability to run the football is crucial to the passing game’s success. There’s a lot to play for.
“Well, I just think it’s another opportunity to prove yourself”, Dantonio told reporters Tuesday. There was a Cotton Bowl shirt. Theriot, who was an honorable mention All-American as a sophomore, is one of the nation’s top point guards and averaged 16.4 points and 5.2 assists as a junior. The Hoosiers are just good enough in turnover margin, and they’re just good enough to capitalize on mistakes, to force MI to have to fight well into the fourth quarter. You have to reach higher. You are always trying to go somewhere you haven’t been.
The “select” aspect would come into play if the Big Ten Champion (the team that wins in Indianapolis) is undefeated and in the College Football Playoff.
The Spartans’ 39-38 loss all but ended their hopes of making the College Football Playoff. Iowa is on course to win the Big Ten West. Boise State, thanks to an upset loss by Utah State, has regained leverage in the Mountain West Mountain, while San Diego State is about to seal the Mountain West West. That defeat had similar ramifications as the loss to Nebraska.
Three of the factors the committee looks at which teams potential playoff teams have beaten, who teams lose too, and when they lose.
The Scarlet Knights and Huskers squared off for the first time as Big Ten members last season, resulting in a 42-24 win for Nebraska.
MI State will try to rebound by getting coach Mark Dantonio his 50th victory in conference play when struggling Maryland comes to town with interim coach Mike Locksley. All the way to the point of being disappointed with an 8-1 record in mid-November. Kadie Rolfzen got NU out of the run with a kill, and a Foecke kill and MSU hitting error, followed by one from Hunter, gave NU the momentum to finish out the 25-18 win and force a fifth set. Long said the committee is increasingly impressed with Iowa because it has the strongest strength of schedule among undefeated teams other than No. 1 Clemson, and the Hawkeyes have two road wins over top-25 teams (Wisconsin and Northwestern). It’s not a good chance, but there’s a chance. “Now, the rest of the season, we plan on doing it”, safety Montae Nicholson said. “There’s a few things I can control, and I’ve learned to deal with that, do my best”. But the rankings seem to affirm the idea that the Spartans and the Wolverines are of about equal quality, which I’m sure will be fun when one gets chosen over the other for an NY6 bowl.
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“We’ve got to move on”.
