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re: Why do Tennessee fans think beating Northwestern was such a big deal?
Posted on 8/26/16 at 9:36 am to goldennugget
Posted on 8/26/16 at 9:36 am to goldennugget
They beat the #12 team in the nation 45-6 to finish the season on a 6 game winning streak. They return a lot of players including the one at the most important position.
What's not to be excited about? Continue trolling, tho.
What's not to be excited about? Continue trolling, tho.
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Posted on 8/26/16 at 9:41 am to cbi8
They always finish the season strong. Their soft opponents are always lined up at the end (including us)
They win some games.
Get preseason hype.
Lose the relevant games early
44-44 since Fulmer.
Repeat.
They win some games.
Get preseason hype.
Lose the relevant games early
44-44 since Fulmer.
Repeat.
Posted on 8/26/16 at 9:44 am to cbi8
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They beat the #12 team in the nation 45-6 to finish the season on a 6 game winning streak. They return a lot of players including the one at the most important position.
The entire point of this thread is that Northwestern wasn't actually the #12 team in the nation.
Are we calling legitimate discussion of teams trolling now?
Posted on 8/26/16 at 10:04 am to cbi8
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They beat the #12 team in the nation 45-6 to finish the season on a 6 game winning streak.
I think the OP asks a good question. Did anyone actually regard Northwestern as the 12th best team in the nation last season, despite their ranking? I mean come on... the BIG 10 was pretty horrible. There were 4 pretty decent teams from that conference last season:
Ohio State
Michigan
Michigan State
Iowa
Northwestern did not have to play Ohio State or Michigan State. They did play Michigan and Iowa and lost both of those games by 30 points or more: They lost to Michigan 38-0. They lost to Iowa 40-10.
Northwestern did somehow beat Stanford in Week 1, but I think most anyone would regard that as a fluke.
All total, Northwestern played 5 teams that finished in the Final AP Top 25. Against those 5 opponents, Northwestern was outscored on average by 18.2 points and out-gained offensively by nearly 114 yards each time. I'm not sure if Tennessee whipping up on them was really that impressive after all.
When you also take into account that they only beat Ball State (3-9) by the score of 24-19.... they beat Purdue (2-10) by the score of 21-14... etc., it sort of shows that Northwestern wasn't all that great.
Posted on 8/26/16 at 11:08 am to cbi8
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They beat the #12 team in the nation 45-6 to finish the season on a 6 game winning streak. They return a lot of players including the one at the most important position.
What's not to be excited about? Continue trolling, tho.
This dude gets it. It's really not that hard to understand. Yeah maybe they were overrated, but they still are the same team that beat Stanford, Wisconsin and Penn State. They may not have been 12, but they were a solid team, and we kicked their teeth in.
This post was edited on 8/26/16 at 11:10 am
Posted on 8/26/16 at 4:25 pm to cbi8
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They beat the #12 team in the nation 45-6 to finish the season on a 6 game winning streak. They return a lot of players including the one at the most important position.
Yeah brutal 6 game stretch for that 6 game winning streak:
Mizzou 5-7 (1-7 SEC)
South Carolina 3-9 (1-7 SEC)
North Texas 1-11 (1-7 CUSA)
Kentucky 5-7 (2-6 SEC)
Vandy 4-8 (2-6 SEC)
*Northwestern 10-3 (6-2 BIG)
*Northwestern did not play Ohio St. OR Michigan St.
*Northwestern also lost to the 2 other best BIG 10 teams, Michigan and Iowa, by a combined score of 78-10
Tennessee finished with a 4 game SEC winning streak by beating teams that were a combined 17-31 overall and 6-26 in the SEC.
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