One thing has been pretty clear watching the first couple of days of college football…yecch.
First off, I want to say how happy I am that this kid isn’t our quarterback. While many were butthurt when he spurned the Dawgs, watching his weekly antics and attempting to be a Patrick Mahomes doppleganger is a bit nauseating, and for all the hype around Matt Rhule and his flash of greatness at Baylor, I’m not impressed with what’s going on in Lincoln.
Regarding Raiola and his Mahomes schtick…here ya go.
Anyway, four B1G teams were in action last night, you know, the conference that deemed the SEC played a weak schedule because we only play 8 conference games, and, lo, look at the stiff competition we play in the B1G!
Nebraska, per ESPN’s FPI (take that for what it’s worth), was the highest ranked B1G team in action last night at 29, and took on the stiffest competition amongst the four teams when they faced Cincinnati, ranked at 52 in the FPI.
For additional context, Rutgers was 42 in FPI, Ohio 84th. Buffalo had the most lopsided contest of the night, ranked 44th in FPI against a Buffalo team ranked 117th. Granted, Minnesota rowed their boat to over 400 yards of offense and held Buffalo to 151 total yards, so the score doesn’t do the stat line justice. Wisconsin (44th) decided to get into a staring contest with Miami of Ohio (78th) and kept the MACtion limited holding them to under 150 yards.
I’m not necessarily throwing shade at the B1G, but one would imagine that these games would translate to more of the 40-something to single digits type games a few years back, but now they’re turning in to low-rolling, boring exhibitions of futility. The best game I think I’ve watched to this moment was Stanford-Hawaii, though Nebraska was hard to watch from a standpoint of wondering why Rhule and Company couldn’t quite figure out that the Cincinnati defense pretty much anticipated throw on every play and couldn’t scheme out of it. Raiola had 42 attempts for 242 yards, and when Nebraska plays a better defense, Dylan is going to have to impersonate Superman to stay off the ground all game.
Boise State pretty much ended their CFP hopes last night. Turnovers and a very hyped-up South Florida team ended it, along with a receiver for USF named Nimrod. Not kidding.
Maybe I’m just biased and don’t care for B1G football. Admittedly, I am, but outside of that, there’s not been much to really get a pulse over so far. That kind of worries me about this weekend, with Marshall predicting a win and coming in very optimistic, but not so much about the victory but wondering more will it be a slog-fest like many of the games I’ve seen so far? Is this the new parity that results from transfer portals and NIL, or is this parody, like a mockery of the game we’ve known for years? I guess time will tell.
Anyway, maybe things will get more interesting tonight. We get to hate watch Friday night football tonight.
Maybe it’ll be more interesting than the past few nights of contests. There’s plenty of parody to be had in these two games alone to keep me entertained, so at least there’s that.
Huskers continue to walk in the wilderness and they don’t know it… rhule is a douche, rayola stay classy and thank you for taking your overhyped talents to corn country
Je déteste vraiment le Nebraska.
For some reason it did not compute that Raiola when responding to TEX last night that he’d gone to Lincoln.
#FTMF
d’accord monsieur Got
Nebraska is a 5-7 team in the sec with 4 non conference wins. Dylan only looks like Patrick. When the ball is snapped he turns into a slightly below average college QB that would sniff the practice squad on an NFL team.
Let’s be careful throwing shade at these B1G teams in these games. I think we’ll do better than 23-10 against Marshall, but I’ll honestly be surprised if we score 40+ and hold them to single digits. Not because we’re that bad or they’re that good, but because as has been mentioned many times recently, Kirby and Bobo are going to go with a vanilla offensive scheme. And if we go up by 4 scores and put in the 2nd and 3rd strings, Marshall will likely score a garbage time TD.
I predict us winning 35-10 or 38-10. Prettier than the B1G games but not what tOSU typically does with their food.
Plus nobody knows what Marshall will be. A whole new roster and new coaches. It will take a few drives to figure them out.
45 – 0 Dawgs!
Nebraska continues to underwhelm but that’s redundant. I do think the pattern for these first games is to be sloppy and thus more low scoring. Add weather and another slow “WTF” start for us plus Marshall letting clock run and we may be looking at a 20-7 final with questions galore.
Will be good for GTPR comment count.
45 – 0 Dawgs!
I got tired of ESPN starting with the first game. They were already talking Taylor Swift-football jock. Who TF cares?
Then, watching them slobber all over Raiolahomes was nauseating. Nebraska is still Charmin soft. Cincy ran over them.
Oh, and Nimrod was only the second best name last night. The USF DB named McDoom took the prize to me. Great DB name.
How am I supposed to hate-watch the nerds when they’re playing the OMGgreatestcoachofalltime!!1!1!! Primetime? Guess I’ll need to flip over and pull for Baylor.
Dylan would very likely be starting tomorrow if he didn’t switch.
You are probably right, but I don’t think that is necessarily good for us. Dylan underwhelmed imo. It’s only one game, and maybe the Cincy D really good, and maybe Dylan got let down some by his teammates, but he didn’t look like you might expect given his press clippings. Meanwhile, the USF QB was en fuego while I watched. Big, strong, quick and with a bit of an attitude, but if keeps taking on tacklers like I saw he will be hurt before the season is over. He flat stoned a guy and ran more yards after that.
The consensus was that Raiola doesn’t have a good “surrounding cast”. Considering Cincinnati had roughly 30 yards passing going into the 4th quarter, color me unimpressed by Nebraska, who some of the preseason pundits have tabbed to be in the CFP at year’s end. With a B1G schedule, they could do that, though games against Michigan and Penn State may undo all that.
We’ll see. Raiola has at least proved he can make plays from the pocket if not much else. Our guy hasn’t proven a thing, yet.
Apparently, God doesn’t want us to have an athletic qb, big or slight. Our qbs plays from the pocket, well or poorly.
Kirby will keep at it. Maybe some day…
So that was Nimrod’s son? Shoutout Pixies!
So did y’all notice they kept saying he transferred from tannercee? Seems like that’s common place now – a guy makes a play and then they tell you where he transferred from. Will that continue or die off as time passes? Was he not good enough to make the hillbillies? That’s scary cuz he looked pretty good to me. Do we get the goody out of our portal guys so they’ll mention where they came from? Who’s better – miniMahomes or nephew Manning? Are either one good? Am I the only one who thought of the Pixies last night? So many questions.
Throw that shade! Some turrible football played last night.
Dylan only identifies as Patrick. So its all okay.