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re: Why do Tennessee fans think beating Northwestern was such a big deal?
Posted on 8/26/16 at 10:04 am to cbi8
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.
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Posted on 8/26/16 at 10:05 am to BHMKyle
But dude the AP said they were #12!!!!
Posted on 8/26/16 at 10:09 am to BHMKyle
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I think the OP asks a good question.
Maybe a good question, but asked in a shitty way. Nobody ever claimed that Northwestern was some juggernaut, we all recognize that they were overrated, the OP is just trying to troll.
Posted on 8/26/16 at 10:12 am to BHMKyle
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I think the OP asks a good question.
But the problem is, the Northwestern game is brought up by our opponents fans more than it is brought up by us. Most of us agree that NW wasn't deserving of their ranking (they werent). But we don't set the schedule, we play who we play, and we dominated them. You can try and spin that into a bad thing all you want. But lately UT has had a problem with playing down to opponents levels. So seeing that was a whole lot better than a bowl game like UF for example, where they just got worked.
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