8/27/22 Northwestern Nebraska -13.5 (Dublin) Wyoming at Illinois -10 9/1/22 Penn State at Purdue +3.5 NM State at Minnesota -38 9/2/22 WMU at MSU -18.5 Illinois at Indiana -5.5 9/3/22 SD State at Iowa n/a Buffalo at Maryland -21 Colo State at Michigan -27.5 Rutgers at BC -7.5 ND State at Nebraska n/a Illinois State at Wisconsin n/a Notre Dame at Ohio State -14.5
Nebraska plays North Dakota, not North Dakota State. This is an important distinction because we probably lose to ND State.
I'll likely take Purdue and the points but this game just screams PSU with a late cover. On the surface it doesn't seem like a marquee opening weekend game but I think it'll be highly entertaining. Penn State has the more talented roster but Aidan O'Connell is legit and weird shit happens in West Lafayette.
Maybe they've gotten really good at it but I have a hard time thinking they're overly excited about an 18th straight season of Sean Clifford.
We have a fourth year starting QB who is, to be charitable, not very good and shackled ourselves to a coach who is 11-11 the past two seasons. Where exactly are we supposed to draw optimism from?
Penn State has had a better recruiting class than Purdue every year in the last five. Your roster is better than their roster.
On paper, ND has a new QB and is thin at WR. They’re very solid on the OL and TE, so they’re likely going to try to borrow Harbaugh’s playbook to see if that recipe still works against us. The question is how well the cover our passing game.
My point is that Penn State fans should stop their incessant whining about the depths of their despair. We only beat you by 9 at home. Top to bottom, you’re favored because your better than Purdue.
We’ve played them 4 times since 1995 and the closest game we won by 13. It will be a bloodbath unless Freeman is the second coming
I’m not one to point at history and say it will always repeat itself but yes. Too many crackers on that team and it won’t be snowing
Freeman is going to recruit his ass off, but fall short on the field. Day is going to hang 50-60 on him. Something like 55-31, it will be reminiscent of those Don Brown Michigan / OSU games.
I think the Ohio State-ND line is justified, but until I see Ohio State actually play competent defense, I’m going to question the line. In theory, we should be much better on defense, particularly with all the 2021 true freshmen who played significantly returning as sophs. We still gave up 40+ in our last two games. This could be the best offense we have ever had though.
Personally don’t think ND will be able to keep up, just the nature of normal CFB offenses - they eventually fuck up. And OSU has enough talent on D to get *some* stops. ND could have a very good offense and still get beaten by multiple scores. It’s crazy, but as the Rose Bowl showed - you can’t afford one possession without scoring against OSU. I know we joke about it, but ND needs to hope for a downpour.
If an opposing defense doesn’t stop our big plays, we blow them out. If they do, then we struggled last year when the field got short. We had five possessions against Oregon that went inside the Oregon 40 and failed to yield points, lost by seven. Penn State and Nebraska forced us to kick four FGs in each game and stayed close. Michigan forced us to kick two. We were used to the Fields run threat in the red zone. Stroud is not a runner.
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Those Minnesota backfields were fun to watch for a few years there between Barber, Maroney, and Gary Russell. RIP to a great player
There was an incident a couple years ago involving guns that sounded like he was having some mental health related issues. He definitely had a number of concussions. Could definitely be CTE related.