Northwestern - Absolutely No Chance In B10 Championship Game

Northwestern has a chance. The power running game led by Bowser can keep the Buckeye's high powered offense on the sideline, OSU has been vulnerable to a power running game and Northwestern is at their best in close games.

If Urb smells blood in the water, however, look out. He will be looking to make a statement to impress the playoff committee.
 
Regardless of the odds, regardless of who's playing who...just don't EVER, EVER bet on college Football.
WHY???
Because they're all they're just 19-21 yr old kids and anything can happen and often does.
I haven't placed a bet since ISU beat us when we were undefeated and ranked pretty high...and Shaggy knocked through 5 FGs to beat us.
So NW could shock the world.
 
I see this being a 2014 Wisconsin beat down. Northwestern is completely overmatched and Ohio St will be motivated to win this game by a lot. If Michigan gave up 62, northwestern will be lucky to hold them under that.
 
Northside Hawk said:
Northwestern has a chance. The power running game led by Bowser can keep the Buckeye's high powered offense on the sideline, OSU has been vulnerable to a power running game and Northwestern is at their best in close games.

If Urb smells blood in the water, however, look out. He will be looking to make a statement to impress the playoff committee.
Click to expand...

Urban really had the bucks jacked up for Mich and he also will for the title game. OSU has more team speed on defense than Iowa and remember bowser did nothing for a half.
 
Northwestern is 15-1 in its last 16 conference games. Their only losses in the past two years have been to then #10 Wisconsin, then #4 PSU (with Barkley) and Michigan this year. Fitz with Thorson at the helm has honestly put together one of the best conference runs of any team outside of the big boys in the past 20 years. I think Iowa's '02-'04 run with 3 different QBs is on par (probably sullied by the MSU and Purdue losses in '03) and a few of Wisconsin's runs are as well, as was Sparty's run from 2013-2015. They got screwed by Thorson being dinged going into the season that cost them in the early games and having the Notre Dame return game this year.

I'm definitely cheering for the Cats, but I think they will lose by at least 40 because Meyer is a classless piece of shit who will be out there trying to score style points the whole 60 minutes. Fitz has a good formula of being able to utilize Thorson to constantly attack the two shittiest guys in a team's back 7, but that ain't gonna work against OSU. Thorson ain't gonna have time and OSU is gonna be all over the short routes that NU has to run due to the lack of viable threats at RB. OSU seems to be getting the O-line in order, so OSU should be able to run and NU doesn't have the DBs to cover OSU's WRs.

Meyer has shit trucked all comers in the Big Ten title game and I think this will be the same. I think I would need at least 49 points to even consider betting on Northwestern in this one. That said, Go Cats.
 
WinOneThisCentury said:
This is really the worst possible scenario for Northwestern. Ohio State playing for a chance in the playoff. When you consider how nationally devastating it would be for the B10 to have an 8-4 Northwestern team win the B10 Title, it leaves me to believe this is stacked against them and they have no chance.

If they get any calls, I'll be really surprised. Holding is the big equalizer in officiating. How a crew calls a game truly influences the outcome...just remember Purdue when we had a chance to salt that game away. Two holding calls out of nowhere...the first two all day against either team.

When everyone in the B10 office is praying Northwestern wets the bed...they aren't going to allow an officiating crew to give them any benefit. There is way too much on the line...money...reputation...etc.
Click to expand...
NW is better than Purdue.

I’d be way more scared of Michigan than OSU.
 
And to be honest, for Hawkeye fans this game is a win win.

If NW gets pantsed then Fat Pitzgerald has to go home embarrassed and live with the humiliation of realizing his team isn't worth hen shit on a pump handle.

If OSU gets beat then we can watch Urby stroke out on national TV.

What more could we want? I'd actually like to go so I could heckle both sides at once.
 
pythagoras said:
I feel pretty confident OSU wins by 30+. This may end up worse than when Wisc was taken to the woodshed.
Click to expand...

I'm 99% confident that is what will happen. There's a 1% chance that Northwestern just hangs around and hangs around and then at the end the game is tossup that goes to whoever has the ball last. Thorson is really, really good. And Fitz is going to go for it on 4th down and less than 5 every time he is on the right side of the 50. If Fitz goes for it 7 times on 4th down and fails on them all, no Northwestern fan is gonna give a crap because they are playing with house money. Hell, Northwestern could lose this game by 100 and it will still be a crown jewel achievement in the media guide a century from now. That's the only thing Urban has to worry about. NU will not play a rational game.
 
Lets talk conspiracies for a minute.

The conference that has the most to gain from a bit of collusion is the SEC.

Its a given to me, that if UGA defeats Alabama, both will be in the playoff. And wouldn't it be grand if they both in the playoff for the 2nd time.

If both are in the playoff then the B1G is out. SEC loves that. and so is the XII not to mention the PAC.

#1 Clemson vs #4 Alabama

#2 Notre Dame vs #3 UGA


What ever OSU does won't matter.
 
NCHawker said:
Lets talk conspiracies for a minute.

The conference that has the most to gain from a bit of collusion is the SEC.

Its a given to me, that if UGA defeats Alabama, both will be in the playoff. And wouldn't it be grand if they both in the playoff for the 2nd time.

If both are in the playoff then the B1G is out. SEC loves that. and so is the XII not to mention the PAC.

#1 Clemson vs #4 Alabama

#2 Notre Dame vs #3 UGA


What ever OSU does won't matter.
Click to expand...
I don't think we get in if we lose to UGA. We got in last year because we were injury depleted and we lost the Iron Bowl, which sent Auburn to play UGA in the SEC title game. Auburn lost and we hadn't played UGA, so that gave us the remaining slot. A loss to Georgia and we ain't going to the playoff. They want the conference title games to be like play-in games, so they won't schedule potential rematches of those. For TV purposes, I don't think they want three teams that are a few hours apart in the playoff unless it is a fluke scenario like last year. Everyone knows the SEC and Clemson are head and shoulders above everyone else, but if the Big Ten, Big 12 and Pac 12 are consistently locked out of the playoff there is a good chance for the system (which makes a lot of money) to fracture and that ain't in anyone's interest.
 
ssckelley said:
I'd love to say that but earlier in the year I think I said that Northwestern had no chance to win the West and yet here we are with Northwestern winning the West. If Ohio State can put up a clunker against a team like Purdue then they are more than capable of putting up a clunker against Northwestern.

But I agree that nobody in the B10 office wants Northwestern to win and I'm sure that includes Rose Bowl officials and whomever has the broadcast rights. But if officiating winds up being why Ohio State wins then that's going to look horrible. I'd like to think the B10 still has some integrity, having officials throw a game sounds like something the SEC would pull.
Click to expand...
Delaney played basketball at UNC-CHeat. He wouldn't know anything about integrity. Zero, zilch, nada.
 
Ohio State will try to run up the score as much as possible because that's their best chance at making the playoff outside of an Oklahoma loss. If Oklahoma squeaks by Texas, and Ohio State throttles Northwestern, it may give the committee enough to justify Ohio State jumping Oklahoma. They would probably be salivating at the thought of pitting Ohio State and Alabama against each other in the semifinals in a rematch of a few years ago.
 
guffus said:
OSU just a week ago barely survived in OT against MD. OSU defense is not that great.

If MD can score 51 points against OSU, NW has a chance.
Click to expand...

Indeed.

Everybody dogs Oklahoma's D, and rightly so, but fOSU's D is pretty glaringly bad too.

Yeah, they kicked the shit out of Meatchicken, but they gave up 39 points in the process.
 
lightning1 said:
Delaney played basketball at UNC-CHeat. He wouldn't know anything about integrity. Zero, zilch, nada.
Click to expand...

Yeah but he knows about keeping the money flowing and he's not going to risk that just to promote an fOSU team that'd get skullfkd in the playoff regardless.
 
ThunderHawk said:
Yeah but he knows about keeping the money flowing and he's not going to risk that just to promote an fOSU team that'd get skullfkd in the playoff regardless.
Click to expand...
The money is the reason for the cheating. He can keep the money flowing but don't ever confuse that with integrity. He has none.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Latest posts

Share this page

Top