You mean like the fact that Alabama has only played 1 top 50 team so far this year?
Game 9: PSU @ Minnesota, TCF Stadium, Nov 9th, noon EST
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You mean like the fact that Alabama has only played 1 top 50 team so far this year?
My buddies and I were pissed hearing people talk about where the kegs were that night like everything was fine.
While it appears they have played better on D the last 4 games all have been against teams without their starting QB
Bama and Clemson with no wins over Top 25 opponents, but BTN argues not whether Penn State should be ranked higher than them.....but whether one loss Georgia will be ranked higher than Penn State.
The bias against PSU is comical. The Big Ten is structurally set up to promote Ohio State and Michigan. Penn State is crapped on to further their main goal.
The bias against PSU is comical. The Big Ten is structurally set up to promote Ohio State and Michigan. Penn State is crapped on to further their main goal.
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But even our own fans will continue to say "it doesn't matter because only the committee matters". But they fail to realize that the committee is made up of people, and all people have biases, and those people listen to other people and might be impacted by their biases.
So long as this "system" remains a damn beauty contest, what people say matters. A lot.
Yeah, this Nicole Auerbach actually seems worse than the other BTN commentators.
Forecast for 41 degrees & slight rain showers on PM. A few more degrees higher and it’s shorts and golf shirts!!!
Herbie pumping up PSU pre the Ohio State game.
You can set your watch to it this time of year every year. During the Michigan game, it was all Michigan talk from Herbs, now that they got through that game and MSU, its ra ra Penn State as to of course pump up his Buckeyes. Win or lose to penn state, Herb is laying it all out there for the bucks. If they win, "wow, we beat a perennial power in penn state." If they lose, "no shame in loosing to perennial power penn state, OSU deserves in the playoffs, eye test, garble garble."
Did anyone listen to Stanford Steve and the Bear this afternoon? Did the guy from Vegas say there has been 7 times the money bet on PSU than bet on Minnesota?
Bingo.
Nailed it.
Spot on.
Dead nut (I lost one to cancer
)However you want to say it. I agree wholeheartedly.
OL
Penn State vs. Minnesota odds, prediction, betting trends for battle of Big Ten unbeatens
WRITTEN BY BILL BENDER
No. 5 Penn State (8-0) travels to No. 13 Minnesota (8-0) in a battle of Big Ten unbeatens at TCF Bank Stadium on Saturday. The game will be televised nationally at noon ET on ABC.
Penn State remains ranked in the top five and is coming off a bye week after an impressive string of victories against Iowa, Michigan and Michigan State. Sean Clifford has been solid at quarterback, and the Nittany Lions rank second in the FBS in scoring defense at 9.6 points per game.
WRITTEN BY BILL BENDER
No. 5 Penn State (8-0) travels to No. 13 Minnesota (8-0) in a battle of Big Ten unbeatens at TCF Bank Stadium on Saturday. The game will be televised nationally at noon ET on ABC.
Penn State remains ranked in the top five and is coming off a bye week after an impressive string of victories against Iowa, Michigan and Michigan State. Sean Clifford has been solid at quarterback, and the Nittany Lions rank second in the FBS in scoring defense at 9.6 points per game.
Penn State returns to its winning football ways
A 2016 overtime victory over the Gophers sparked revival.
By Phil Miller Star Tribune
NOVEMBER 7, 2019 — 6:35AM
BARRY REEGER • ASSOCIATED PRESS
Since coach James Franklin and Penn State pulled out a 29-26 overtime victory over the Gophers in 2016, the Nittany Lions have gone 37-7 and returned to national prominence.
A 2016 overtime victory over the Gophers sparked revival.
By Phil Miller Star Tribune
NOVEMBER 7, 2019 — 6:35AM
BARRY REEGER • ASSOCIATED PRESS
Since coach James Franklin and Penn State pulled out a 29-26 overtime victory over the Gophers in 2016, the Nittany Lions have gone 37-7 and returned to national prominence.
Saturday
A 30 percent chance of rain after noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 42. West wind around 5 mph.
https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lon=-93.22446584701538&lat=44.97654773772854
A 30 percent chance of rain after noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 42. West wind around 5 mph.
https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lon=-93.22446584701538&lat=44.97654773772854
My gut tells me they will be pretty good, and we need to play well to beat them. They had some close games early against lesser teams, but now they are killing teams. So they are getting better.
So they will put a Nittany Lion on BTN, but only so he can recount the worse loss of his career. Makes sense.
Minnesota has a stout and talented OL. Pry will need to dial up different blitz packages to try and gas the big guys up front. Penn State’s defense should have a significant edge in speed and depth. In my opinion that will be the difference.
As a Gopher fan, I view the 11AM CST kickoff as a very bad thing. The crowd is going to be lethargic unless things go very well. The student section (to the right in the video) will be the exception.
The video linked from four years ago shows a very different environment , for a 7PM game vs. #2 TCU, which Minnesota lost 17-23. The band usually comes out to about 80 percent empty seats 25 minutes before kickoff.
In this video, the stadium is fairly full at the start and halfway into the 18 minute pregame show, the place gets very loud. During the game it was very loud, even though Minnesota pretty much played like crap early.
I was hoping for a night game and a similar environment,, since early games tend to kill a lot of the energy, unless the home team is winning big, early.
On a 30-40 degree, low wind day, a night game is probably a wash relative to a 11 AM start in terms of weather. A 2:30 start would have been a lot better. The average highs in Minneapolis, like much of the midwest have been about 20-25 degrees below normal for a month. The bad weather here usually begins after Thanksgiving.
