[NU Sports] USC ... WTF?

[Joe Thiegs]

Well, if you don't believe in the transitive property of college football,
that would mean we weren't unfairly robbed of the national championship last
year:
 
NU > Mich. St. > Pitt > WVa > Miss. St. > Kentucky > LSU
 
And I, for one, refuse to believe that.  ;)
 
-Joe
 
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From: Jonathan Hodges [mailto:jonathanwhodges at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 10:19 AM
To: Joe Thiegs
Cc: sjtruog at yahoo.com; nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] USC ... WTF?
 
Personally, I don't read much into the "transitive property of football" and
don't read a whole lot into Penn State over Oregon State over USC.

I think what last night proved is that parity still reigns in college
football and that home field advantage counts for a lot.  Never discount
having to travel such long distances (i.e. Ohio State all the way to LA or
USC all the way up the coast).

Everyone talks up who will be going undefeated this time of year, but as
last year should have taught everyone - never count on anything.

Jonathan
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Joe Thiegs <thiegs at umn.edu> wrote:
I actually was thrilled to see this last night.  Some wanted USC to crush
everyone else in their path to show that tOSU still is a great team, just
one notch below USC like everyone else.  USC getting taken down by an
unranked team shows, though (a) how any team can have a bad game while still
being a great team, and (b) Ohio State might be even weaker than originally
thought, so assuming the Buckeyes don't cakewalk through the Big Ten
schedule, whatever teams are atop the Big Ten standings might still get
national respect at the end of the year.  And I now actually have hope for
the Gophers against the Buckeyes on Saturday (being one of the youngest
teams in the country, though, Minnesota would have to be playing a year or
two ahead of themselves).

Paterno has said that this Penn State offense is better than his offense in
1994.  His 1994 offense was the best offense I've seen in 16 years of
following college football (though the Nebraska offenses from the same era
were close and USC and Oklahoma have had some juggernauts since then too).
I haven't noticed anything yet this year to suggest that JoePa is wrong, so
that's a pretty scary prospect for Big Ten defenses.  It could be season to
remember for them.  The Nittany Lion defense has been pretty good too.  That
said, if there's a team in the Big Ten other than my alma maters that I'm
happy to see do well, it's Penn State.

-Joe

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From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
Behalf Of SjT (Stephen J. Truog)
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 11:36 PM
To: NUSPORTS
Subject: [NU Sports] USC ... WTF?

Did the team that I saw crush Ohio State a couple weeks ago really just lose
to the team that was embarassed by Penn State a few weeks ago?

Yikes ... between the Big East, ACC and Pac 10 woes, I think the Big Ten may
be out of the media doghouse this year by default!:)

And how good does this make Penn State?

What a kickoff to a weekend with Bama-UGa and another white-out at PSU under
the lights.

And of course, the only game that REALLY matters ...

BEAT IOWA!!!
GO CATS!!!
-SjT


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GO CATS!!!




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