November Big Ten Football

What do you call it?  Real college football.  Good college football.  

It is still the first quarter.  Indiana at Columbus, Ohio is real football.  Indiana took the kickoff for a touchdown.  Will Howard is a really good quarterback.  He is big, White, and you'd think he is slow, one dimensional, or boring.  He is anything but; excellent passer, runner, and emotional.  He was recruited and I guess paid to put Ohio State over the top, or at least up to it.  That is the way you have to do it--you can't teach someone to do it in one season. 

Indiana is undefeated.  I will not be Googling Indiana football coach.  The game matters in the standings.

Michigan plays Northwestern at home later.

Indiana stooped OSU on 4th down at the 2.  Ohio State has a lot of yards; passing yards.  That is going to be the deciding factor.  7-7 and it is going to continue.

Michigan better hope they get lost on the way to The Shoe next week.

If Indiana wins they deserve it.  

I must be getting old, or good at this. I could see it coming, halfway through the 3rd, IU has 68 yards, 18 rushing,  OMG, the Suckeyes are going to score again.  They are a machine.  That stadium may look like the rest of Ohio--concrete, fencing, and fake turf, but it is murder.  Whatever Chip Kelly is doing, it is working; they have the matchups.  Views of the stadium are nothing but business-like red.  Don't they know those are Indiana's colors?  Intelligence was never a prerequisite.  It is not that they are not enthusiastic, it is just that there are so many they blend into one.  There are a lot of crowd barriers.  There is a lot of crowd.

And these people are not normal.  They live for it.  Only when it is zero degrees and snowing do I enjoy seeing their bestial outfits.  

It is as if Marvin Harrison, Jr. never left, and with an even better quarterback.  It is getting ugly and someone is going to get hurt.  Or maybe some extracurricular... You have to watch the whole game to see how the people react.  It is nothing like earlier in the game but Indiana is still punchy.  Ohio State is focused; no way Indiana is going to get in the way.  The Indiana transfers are not up to the task.  This one is over, but I still want to see if anyone loses their cool or if Curt Cignetti eats it.  Mark Dantonio as prophet RE pride and failure.  They have a good field goal kicker too.  Indiana has 91 yards.

Sherrone Moore should donate $5 million to charity.  He got a free year.  It begs the question of who said it first or last.  If it happens again, you're fired.

Michigan is going to get killed.  And they're going to enjoy it in Ohio.

Up Next - More Sat-Action.  Who is Brian Hartline.  I see he didn't go to college, he went to THE Ohio State University.  Just get it over with.  Ohio State has good corners; look for some interceptions.  I think Michigan is really going to have trouble moving the ball.  The game is almost over.  Indiana is playing like Michigan with a garbage time touchdown.  There is playing to win and there is just playing the game.  "Unbelievable"(Joel Klatt), Ryan Day showed-up by TreyVeon Henderson.  I try to watch the whole game.  They're singing an anthem to concrete.

Penn State?  Penn State.  Minnesota is almost-always decent.  Penn State needs to tune it up if they are going to compete with that (Ohio State).  I think I'd rather watch that.  But I'm reminded that it isn't the same old Big Ten.  

Devin Gardner just said "paradigm."  Some of us remember.  He was a recruit, a 5-star I think.  He is remembered now after that career has been over for some time by that Ohio State game.

Michigan football vs. Northwestern

It is self-explanatory.  Nice interception and a score, exciting field goal kicker (!), but very little else.  

It is not ugly, it's void.  Scratch that, it is ugly.  Davis Warren is ugly.  Why is he always scrambling around and usually throwing bad passes?  The completions are either very short or sheer luck.  I'm sorry, this is not nice.  He could get hurt against Ohio State.  I don't know why he throws sidearm.  I don't know why he looks so uncomfortable in the pocket, doesn't look at the whole field, and so frequently throws terrible passes.  I don't like to watch him play.  In my opinion, like Jack Tuttle (after many years), he should retire and save his brain.  His career in football is going nowhere.

Northwestern should wake up.  If they score some points, they'll win. 

If you telegraph and repeat running plays better teams will stop it.  Northwestern is not a very good football team.

These announcers too are patronizing toward Michigan.  Everyone knows the ratings and alumni.  Gardener is pretty bad.  Geez, the ball almost hit Zeke Berry in the head without knowing it.

What a day.  Penn State-Minnesota; BYU-Arizona State; Colorado-Kansas; tonight USC-UCLA.  Brock Huard just said Devon Neal's individual performance is the best he has ever seen.

I'm glad for Michigan's seniors and others.  You have to watch the whole game to see how they react.  It was tedium.  It was a second-rate game and third-rate telecast.  I think I'll watch the other games on replay, not this one again.

Sherrone Moore reacted