Joe Rexrode is more sold on the possibility of a second BCS slot for the Big Ten, even with Penn State out of the national championship picture: Now let’s look at the other (more likely) scenario: an MSU loss in Happy Valley. That would leave the Spartans at 9-3 overall, 6-2 in the league. If Ohio [...]
Posts Tagged ‘football’
Orlando may still be in our future
Posted in news, tagged capital one bowl, football, outback bowl on November 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Purdue Game Recap: Delightful Defense
Posted in game recap, tagged football, greg jones, purdue on November 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Not a lot to hang your hat on in terms of the MSU offense today. Javon Ringer was contained for most of the day. Brian Hoyer was erratic. Brett Swenson was a nonfactor due to the weather. And we managed to turn the ball over four times. But the defense was magnificent. They took an [...]
Good News/Bad News
Posted in news, tagged football, rose bowl on November 8, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Bad news first: Our road to the Rose Bowl just got more complicated. Good news: We’re in first place! All alone, for the time being. TEAM CONF OVERALL *-Michigan State 6-1 9-2 *-Penn State 5-1 9-1 *-Ohio State 5-1 8-2 *-Minnesota 3-3 7-3 *-Northwestern 3-3 7-3 *-Iowa 3-3 6-4 Illinois 3-3 5-5 x-Michigan 2-4 3-7 [...]
Friday Links and MSU-Purdue Mini-Game Preview
Posted in football discussion, game preview, links, tagged football, purdue on November 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Basketball links first: Joe Rexrode shares his thoughts on the exhibition win vs. Northern. Likes Dahlman to be the #10 guy in the rotation and thinks Green may still redshirt. Luke Winn judges the Old Spice Classic to have the best field of the nearly 30 preseason college basketball tournaments. Inside the Hall pegs Raymar [...]
Discussion Thread: MSU-Wisconsin and Green-White Basketball Scrimmage
Posted in football discussion, tagged football on October 29, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Just one link: ESPN.com’s Adam Rittenberg reports that, due to not playing an FCS patsie, MSU still controls its own destiny with respect to the Rose Bowl. I wouldn’t book your plane tickets to Pasadena just yet, though. Regarding the upcoming football game vs. the Badgers: At noon on Saturday, I anticipate I’ll be frolicking [...]
Hooray for Hoyer
Posted in game recap, tagged brian hoyer, football, wolverines on October 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Me, last night: One set of numbers we haven’t talked about are the career statistics of our senior quarterback: 57.1% completion percentage, 7.0 yards per pass attempt, 32-18 TD-Int ratio. If Brian Hoyer can just revert to the mean for one game, it will be a good day for the Green and White tomorrow. Well, [...]
Special in-state-rivalry edition football game preview
Posted in game preview, tagged football, wolverines on October 23, 2008 | 11 Comments »
And by “game preview,” I mean “a bunch of graphs interspersed with random observations and questions of an unanswerable nature.” Data presented below are from here and here. Big Picture Reasons I Am Fairly Optimistic About Saturday’s Game With one spectacular except, MSU has simply been a much better team than Michigan this season. The [...]
Good Omen/Bad Omen
Posted in news, tagged football, omens on October 20, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Good Omen: A member of a 2-5 Michigan team basically guaranteeing victory on Saturday. Bad Omen: Some sort or kerfuffle on campus apparently involving MSU football players.
Nooooo! Too much hype!
Posted in links, tagged football, reverse jinx attempt on October 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
ESPN.com’s Pat Forde on the Michigan State football team, whom he deems to be the 5th “most relevant” one-loss team in the BCS National Championship race: Where the Spartans stand: 20th in the AP poll, 10th in the Sagarin Ratings. How bad was the loss: getting better all the time, at California (No. 24 Sagarin) [...]
