My Nittany Lions Giving Huskers A Well-deserved A$$kicking

SlightOfTongue Press | 9/14/02 | SlightOfTongue

[SlightOfTongue]

Wonders never cease in this day and age. Who'd have thunk it!!!??? Penn State is trouncing Nebraska 40-7 with 5:40 to go in the game. 100,000 fans going crazy in Happy Valley

[Diddle E. Squat]

Sorry, but the SEC is finally playing tough nonconference games outside their region(though Tennessee has done so all along), and they are coming up short. Auburn, Bama, SC, and Florida have gone down, GA not looking impressive at home, Arkansas has one of the most pathetic non-conference schedule in Div. I.

Big East? Miami and VA Tech look good(and actually a good non-conference schedule, about time). Pitt home loss to A&M, Syracuse loss at home to UNC(spanked at home by Texas), everybody else are also rans.

BTW, forgot to mention that Colorado really stunk it up for the Big 12, but Texas Tech had an impressive win against 'Ol Miss. K. State playing their usual pathetic non-conference sched., but Iowa State has looked great. I'd still rank it Pac10, Big 12, SEC, Big 10, ACC, Big East.

[Nachum]

Nice pic of my Trojans. Seems they had a good day today also. Next week against K state should be a good game.

[hole_n_one]

Make that Our Trojans!

[hole_n_one]

I'd still rank it Pac10, Big 12, SEC, Big 10, ACC, Big East

You're a smart cookie!

[Nachum]

Indeed!

Nice to see they discovered the running game today.

[hole_n_one]

Tommy Cam.....

[kwyjibo]

I'd still rank it Pac10, Big 12, SEC, Big 10, ACC, Big East.

I dunno, there's not a whole lot of difference between 2, 3, and 4, but those rankings are pretty good, though you're a bit too harsh in your assessment of the SEC.

Any more days like today for the Big 12 and they'll fall far in a hurry. Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska and Baylor embarrassed the conference in a big way. Even my OSU Cowboys disappointed me today.

Outside of Ohio State, the Big 10 is a very average conference. Michigan is probably a top-20 team. Michigan State proved to be the conference's answer to Colorado today. Wisconsin stinks. Penn State sure looked good against Nebraska, though.

Looks like this may be the year for your 'Horns. But they have a pretty tough 4-game stretch with OU, at K-State, Iowa State, and at Nebraska. Basically it boils down to the Sooners and Wildcats standing between Texas and the Fiesta Bowl.

Nebraska will be lucky to make it to 9-4 this season. ISU, KSU, Okla State, Texas, Texas A&M, and Colorado all appear to be loseable after tonight's miserable performance. Solich probably won't be back for 2003.

[Non-Sequitur]

Q: What does the N on the Nebraska football helmet stand for?
A: Knowledge.

I'm a proud alumnus of two Big 10+1 universities currently stuck in Big 12 land and I say, "Go, JoePa, go!" I've got about 6 Nebraska alumni where I work and, boy, am I looking forward to Monday!

[gridlock]

Hey, what's California doing on that list of ranked teams' games?

Oh, there just there beating (trouncing, demolishing, stompin-into-the-turf) #15 Michigan State by 22 points!

Did anybody catch this game on ESPN2? It wasn't as close as the 22 point gap would indicate.

So if this keeps up, do the Golden Bears get a shot at the big time? Or do you have to be part of some club?

GrrRrrRah! GrrRrrRah! GrrRrrrRrrrRrrrRrrrRrrRah!

BTW, a winning football team will get the usual lefty pukes off the front page and turn Berkeley into Footballtown USA. So Roll On You Bears!

[AppyPappy]

Now if you Ags will just put a whuppin' on VA Tech, that would be sweet.

As we say in the hills of SW Virginia "You got it to do"

[Fury]

Q: What does the N on the Nebraska football helmet stand for? A: Knowledge.

I'm a proud alumnus of two Big 10+1 universities currently stuck in Big 12 land and I say, "Go, JoePa, go!" I've got about 6 Nebraska alumni where I work and, boy, am I looking forward to Monday!

Being a Nebraska fan, the loss was deserved. The offense played poorly and the defense cannot be on the field as much as they were and expect to play well. It's going to be a tough season for Nebraska - they lost some quality players last year.

They do have an outstanding graduation rate for the football team at Nebraska and the other sports, and have many Academic All-Americans. I wish they would learn to spell "knowledge", however! :)

[Willie Green]

ConsistentLibertarian: "Penn State has struggled since joining the Big Ten, dropping three or four conference games a year for the past half dozen years."

Diddle E. Squat: "Agree with that assessment of recent Penn State teams,"

Penn State's Big Ten record isn't quite THAT bad:

YEAR   Overall (rank)   Big Ten(rank)   Bowl  (W/L)
2001    5-6-0             4-4-0 (4)
2000    5-7-0             4-4-0 (5)
1999   10-3-0  (11)       5-3-0 (4)      Alamo    W    
1998    9-3-0 (15/17)     5-3-0 (5)      Outback  W    
1997    9-3-0 (16/17)     6-2-0 (2)      Citrus   L    
1996   11-2-0   (7)       6-2-0 (3)      Fiesta   W    
1995    9-3-0 (12/13)     5-3-0 (3)      Outback  W    
1994   12-0-0   (2)       8-0-0 (1)      Rose     W    
1993   10-2-0  (7/8)      6-2-0 (3)      Citrus   W    

Only dropped out of the top 25 nationally the last 2 years,
and finished #11 as recently as 1999.
The Big Ten is a competitive conference.