1st 2 drives have been our vulnerability
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Yep. Cats still control their destiny in the West. Would have been great to win but they look flat.
Flush this one. Just hope no one gets hurt.
WTF, guys? We're halfway through the first quarter! I'm glad our team doesn't give up like our fans do....
It may not be the end of the first quarter but it is the end of the game. 21-0. Seriously????
Need to make some major defensive adjustments just to make this less of an embarrassment.
Having the right scheme plays a big part, but the D-line can't get into the backfield.
The UM O-line is playing much better than what Stanford's O-line did against the 'Cats and that's saying something considering how bad UM's O-line has been the past few years.
Why does it mean "little"? Isn't the division title awarded on the basis of each team's entire conference record, regardless of the in-division records?
It is, but it's only useful in a three-way tie. This game means less than a division game because we still control our own destiny no matter what happens in this game.
Assuming Minnesota beats Purdue (and assuming we lose), everyone in our division will have at least one conference loss except Iowa (the Neb-Wisc loser will have two), and we have a chance to give Iowa a loss next week. So no, it doesn't matter very much.
So, you already know each division's foe conference records by season's END? That'd require knowing all upcoming game outcomes. Without that information you cannot know how losing to MI would affect the division race by season's end.
If we win all of our remaining games, it doesn't matter how the other teams in the West do -- we'll be 7-1 and we'll have the H2H tiebreaker over everyone. That's why this loss doesn't matter as much in terms of the conference race.
True IF WE WIN all our remaining games. OTOH, who the heck knows the win/loss records by season's end.. Say we lose to IOA and no one else, but IOA loses 2 conference games to others. We finish 6-2 tied with IOA but they get the H2H tie breaker and get the title. But had we beat MI we would have finished 7-1 and won the title even after losing to IOA. This is just one example. I am pretty sure there are other scenarios in which a loss to MI costs us the title (depending on what everyone else does).
Well of course there are. I said it's less important, not that it's unimportant.
