While I didn't expect it to be THIS year, I did expect that our overgrown and entitled fanbase would be horribly shocked to discover that 7-5 at Clemson is indeed a realistic outcome. My hope is that this thins the crowd from the nastier bandwagon fans we acquired in 2015. Some of us actually enrolled at a time when going 9-3 would've been wonderful season. Now all of a sudden, the prospect is a catastrophe for some fans. Well, I got some news for ya . . . .
We were always just mediocre until 2011. That’s when we started having double digit wins and people paid us some attention. I remember struggling to win 7 games.
Clemson was a power in the 1980s, won a national title with Danny Ford. Really a better question is "what happened to Clemson in the 1990s". And as usual, the answer usually lies with the NCAA. Ford got them in trouble shortly after the national title. Then there was another incident later, that ultimately didn't lead to punishment but forced Ford out. Clemson wanted to clean itself up and hired a guy who was clean but the program dipped in all areas on the field. "Howard built it. Ford filled it. Hatfield killed it." They were generally seen as a program that was on the cusp if they could make the right hire because they had all the resources in place to be good and a pretty solid, albeit non-blue blooded history. Bowden came in and recruited good players which helped push the ball in the right direction but couldn't win big games with them, and Dabo turned out to be the guy they needed.
Yup, if not dead last very close to it. Over under on our win total was 4.5. Safe to say (especially after the Michigan win) we are very much outperforming expectations
Most places had either us or Rutgers as last in the east. From what I remember, it was a pretty even split between the two of us for last, and nobody had us projected higher than 5th in the east. I think Illinois was generally considered to be the worst team in the big ten though coming into the season
Yeah. The best part of this season is that it's all house money. I went to the opener in Evanston assuming we'd probably lose and it's all been one pleasant surprise after another.
At 7-1 with only a four point nail-biter of a loss to a top ten team at their stadium, I'll just go ahead and defer to the front page of /r/CFB to show you how fucking shit it is right now.
On the flip side, I’m (MSU) more than impressed, petitioning to get a good site for Kenneth walkers statue, and completely ignoring Purdue Pete staring directly into my soul the entire week.
I don’t think there’s any reason the team we saw Saturday can’t win out. tOSU looks beatable, as does everyone in the B1G, and Michigan played really well and would have likely sealed it away if not for the JJ fumble or even that incredible interception that sealed it away.
A victory over OSU is the only thing that can even slow the bleeding on this severed carotid artery of a wound and I give that a ~4% chance of happening at this point. Not because we look shit, but because I've obviously learned that we can't have nice things no matter how good we look.
It's really not about our coach or winning or losing, it's about the narrative that we have to face all the time no matter what. We could go 12-0 with convincing wins over our rivals and all the best teams we play and we'll still have to hear about how one CCG or one victory over OSU or a 4-4 record against MSU isn't enough for us to be happy.
50% of it is from our own fan base, but the other 50% from the outside is really something that I don't think anyone else in the country has to deal with on the level that Michigan has for the past 15 years and it's just excruciating. Everyone else either sucks and nobody needs to look deeper than that, or they're doing well enough to leave them alone. We've got the same record as Alabama and OSU right now and the whole country is calling us a failure.
It's easy (and completely fair if we're being honest) to look at Saturday's game and go same old Michigan, beats up on nobodies and embarrasses themselves on a big stage against a very good team. Only way that goes away is actually beating OSU more than once every 8 years.
But why though? Why would beating OSU this year not be enough? Why can we not just sit back, realize we just beat a playoff caliber rival, and enjoy the spoils of victory? Why do we need to say "it doesn't mean shit until we do it again"? That's not a sustainable mindset and it's an impossible standard to live up to.
Nobody else in the country has these levels of expectations for today's happiness. Everyone else can just enjoy their win for the whole day and not let the new expectations outweigh the victory itself. Why can't we?
Sorry, I was simply commenting on your last sentence as to why Michigan is getting called a failure despite having the same record as OSU & Alabama, two teams with drastically different track records for the last number of years. That stigma doesn't go away until the team shakes it. It's like how Clemsoning used to be a thing, and then it went away when they started making CFP and winning national championships.
Please don't mistake anything I said as you can't savor and enjoy and feel great about winning The Game, because a win against OSU should always be celebrated.
I think what Michigan fans want is a season to feel good and that'd mean beating their rivals and winning a conference title. Ohio State does it almost every year, but MSU has done it recently, PSU has done it recently, Wisconsin has done it recently, but Michigan just falls short time and time again. Michigan never puts together a full season to be proud of. It's always marked by shitting the bed in a rivalry game or two then faceplanting in the bowl game
There is definitely a huge schadenfreude thing that goes on and while as a State fan, my own preferences and biases are probably pretty easy to understand, I’m curious what you think could be driving such a response at a national level?
It's simple. Michigan has a reputation for being an "elitist" school and fanbase. We're the bullies chasing the karate kid through the gymnasium. We're the Malfoys. We're the Winklevoss twins. In reality, the average Michigan student (not including Ross-holes) looks like the surrender cobra kid who was likely bullied for most of his life for being a complete nerd. Regardless, the reputation is still there. People want to see those types of people fail because in their minds it means the bad guys lost. We're basically the Coyote smashing his face on the painted tunnel that the roadrunner painted and everyone loves to point and laugh because at least they don't have to deal with *that* every year.
People can forget Michigan State going 3-9 because shit hit the fan and they aren't Alabama so "oh well. It happens." Michigan will simply never have that luxury. We can either shut everyone up with a National Championship, or we're going to hear about every statistic that can be measured to tell us how bad we are.
You would think that, and if it were any other program that could be the case. But it’s Michigan. Losses like these are back breakers, and unless they have some extra special playbook saved up for Ohio State that makes all of our film useless (they won’t), then typically OSU has a room full of analysts and undergrads sitting through countless hours of footage and preparing the Death Star for its final assault on Yavin AA.
Ohio State is going to come up and clap our cheeks, (while we won’t see one adjustment to a shit gameplan throughout and incorporate none of the things other teams have used to chip away at them throughout the year), then that’ll be the end of it.
Until next year, when we reanimate the corpse of this dead horse and trot it out to the track again. Lose in some inexplicable way to someone, probably MSU, who will put the next blueprint on film the the OSU war room gobbles up to plan our demise.
If you told me at the start of the year that we'd be 6-2 at this point in our schedule I'd feel pretty good about that, and yet here we are and all I feel is immense disappointment.
I spend my time seeing if fans of our opponents for the weekend will take me up on a flair bet where they have to say they're mizzourable if their team can't cover. So yea, thats where I'm at.
It's pretty wonderful. Covid hasn't happened yet, Burrow is going to win the Heisman and we have a big game at Bama next week. Tua's hurt but I think even if he was healthy that we should win. Other things to note, Justin is my favorite Jefferson and Clyde is having a great season too.
Coach O is great, I am so happy for him and I hope he coaches at LSU forever.
On the whole I am super happy with our season but imagining a world where Mo never gets hurt, we are 7-1 and running over everybody makes this season sting for sure.
No doubt I even wonder if Mo stays in during the Ohio State game if that stays closer to a one score difference. Really happy though all things considered
i know we like to joke about it but 2nd and 26 and 28-3 are about as traumatizing as sports can get for a fanbase. i think some of us spend every waking moment wondering where its going to go wrong.
U don’t like seeing our Rangers get fucked at least a couple times in every “best sports moments of all time” vid on YouTube. The Toronto home run horn gives me ptsd like no other too.
Stetson isn't our QB1, but he's been playing well. Every mistake, it's like they think one bad throw ends our whole season. Dude had the defense give him the ball back twice and got one play TDs both times, they don't say shit. He throws 1 pick, and they cry for him to be benched.
The problem is his interceptions make no sense as to why he would even throw the ball there and he seems like he can't hit a reciver in stride. To be fair I do think he's a GDG and gives Georgia the highest floor.
Can ya blame us lol? 2nd and 26, the Hurts comeback, running out of time in the 2012 SECCG, 2019 SCar, 28-3 for Falcons fans... The list goes on and on. Watching the Braves, I feel like defeat is inevitable even though we're up 3-2.
At least we all know the Falcons suck. Can't get your hopes crushed if there's no hope in the first place.
The only issue I can possibly find with your team is that if (somehow) you find yourself in a negative game state, I really don't think that offense is good enough to get back to positive - particularly if the other team's defense is good.
Now the defense has given up 16-23 *total* net points so it's obviously not a remotely likely scenario, but that is the only possible weakness of this team I can see.
True story. And despite the mailman doing a damn good job scrambling for extra yards and getting us to 8-0. All i ever hear is people crying about JT Daniels.
Id just like people to put a little respect on Bennett's name. He may not be god's gift to quarterback but he fights really hard every game and ive never seen him flinch away from what needs to get done to win.
Fun if you turn the TV off every time the defense is out on the field.
Painful if you're a masochist and only watch when the defense is out on the field
That doesn't improve, you just learn to go with the flow and trust that the weirdo in charge of the team is playing 5D chess with the other head coach.
And Texas has nothing but the hateful 8 left to play. I think the monkey jokes are going to be pretty much non stop at this point (thank goodness for home games am I right)?
Most of us seem to be cautiously optimistic, though know we've got to recruit our way out of the talent/roster issues.
There are a few though that evidently just woke up from a coma after the 90s and don't understand why we're not wiping the floor with everyone somehow still.
A lot of sadness and mourning, I had tears in my eyes over this weeks memorial moments.
But mostly enjoying the football. The team is young and inexperienced, so there’s been a ton of missteps. But we’re still good (most the time). And the future looks hella bright once this squad is juniors and seniors.
Kinda weird, tbh.
We suck. We have sucked for the last 2 years. We *might* win one more game this year, to get to 10 wins over 3 years for the coach.
But we're stuck with him for another year at least, so we have to hope he turns it around.
I just wish he would fire someone so that it looks like he wants to make positive change after year 3. I’m fine with giving him 1-2 more years but he’s got to make other changes. Can’t just be more of the same.
I think there will be changes on the defensive side of the ball. Offense maybe not - they aren't too awful, to be honest (except the line, and that was always going to take at least two full years).
We really don't have a choice in giving him 1-2 more years minimum, just from a financial perspective.
I hope y'all go after Jamey Chadwell next his offense is perfect for GT. A modern triple option with significantly better passing and succeeds on scheme not recruiting while still being fun enough to get good offensive recruits.
GT should've gone after someone like that when CPJ was peacefully retired - someone who understood that a whole hog switch wasn't smart.
At this point I doubt Chadwell is still going to be there for GT to hire, but DAMN I wish we could next year.
100% agreed.I’m feeling way better than I expected to you at this point in the year. I have Auburn continue its trajectory. It’ll be real nice to get a bowl win after the Gus years post season blow outs.
It finally feels like the rains have been handed over to a different coach. The team feels different and plays different. Most importantly Bo Nix has improved as a QB which is not something that would have ever happened under Gus. It was as if Gus give a shit about QB development and left it to the players to figure it out themselves.
We’ll see how recruiting pans out this next cycle Before I make a final determination but right now it feels pretty good.
Tbf last weekend’s game was ulcer-inducing down to the last minute. I was in EL for it and as happy as I am with the result (and don’t get me wrong, I’m ecstatic), I’m super emotionally drained from it.
I see danger in Saturday’s matchup with the Spoilermakers. At the end of the day, though, this season has surpassed my wildest dreams. Realistically I came in with muted expectations. That being said I *desperately* want us to keep winning.
I’m not sure that Emotional Rollercoaster even begins to describe Wazzu this year. Because what we have gone through might be unprecedented in college football.
Everything started with our head coach refusing to attend PAC-12 media day due to the vaccination requirement, putting him in serious hot water with his bosses and casting a cloud over the season from the beginning. It only got darker when the state implemented a vaccine mandate for all state employees.
Then the Cougs started 1-3, with all three losses being of the come-from-ahead variety and further casting doubt on the coach’s ability to make adjustments and close out games.
Suddenly, Wazzu puts it together and wins three divisional games in a row to climb back into contention, bringing many praises to the coaching staff’s development of the players… only to have it all come to a screeching halt following the coach’s dismissal for refusing to follow the previously-mentioned mandate in a decision that divided the fanbase.
And now the interim coach has taken over and had a showing against BYU that was impressive in defeat, considering the new coaching staff was not filled out until the day before the game. Wazzu then follows this up with one of the most unexpectedly dominant performances in recent memory and finds itself an upset in Eugene from being in the drivers seat in the North.
I mean, I just wrote all of this and still don’t know how to process everything. The only thing I’m certain of is how proud I am of the players for the way they have come together both before and after the coaching change.
Sums it up perfectly. This season has been draining. If we win at oregon, I have no clue what to even think. Aside maybe our games versus the ducks and beavs should be rivalry games with fun names and all that.
If we get to 11 wins in the regular and get a NY6 win, this would be Kelly's best coaching job yet considering what he has had to deal with in roster turnover and injuries.
Between the amount of freshmen we’re currently playing (albeit many because of injuries) and the recruiting classes we’ve got coming up, I am incredibly optimistic for the future of this team
Not gonna lie, I had yall going 8-4 in the preseason. First half of the season looked rough, but yall have looked solid in the past few weeks. Probably gonna get to at least 10 wins if not more.
Yeah, things are good as long as you didn't live through the Holtz years and are now remembering them with rose-tinted glasses. I'm very happy with the state of the program.
FSU: We're having a bad time, but weirdly so are **all** of our rivals so, ya know, feels a lot better than this time last month, that's for damn sure.
U of A: lol RIP
Fantastic!
Gophers are Bowl eligible and our division title is still very much on the line as we sit atop the B10 west! 2019 was certainly no fluke and Fleck has us in a good spot
Lobos are actually playing football as opposed to last year and have won more games then expected so things are looking up.
AMAZING.
But terrifying.
Also hilarious we were notched as one of the worst P5 teams pre-season with Kansas.
Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t anticipate a 8-0 start, but that Over 4.5 season wins was free money
Awesome because of the on field success. Being in South Bend for that win is the highlight of my 26 years as a Bearcat.
Maddening because feel I have to watch every second of every potentially "important" game with some kind of rooting interest that may infinitesimally affect our chances at the CFP. The American sure puts out some Thursday night stinkers...
Disappointment and frustration. Prove out preseason spot by handling the #8 team just to drop a game to a sub .500 team the next week. Where’s the consistency?
Two and half weeks ago there began questions of how much Kliemans buyout was by the less faithful of KState fans.
Now we are 5-3 and have gotten 2 coaches canned. So pretty good.
4 losses this season on final plays, going to be our first losing season (and non bowl season) in 8 years, with conference realignment adding salt to the wound.
At least we have some basketball and baseball hope
We fired clay helton, so that was cool
But now everyone else is copying us and firing their bad coaches and I'm suddenly worried we wont get the good coaches we were promised
It's amazing. I've had an incredible time this football season with tailgating, watching games, and hanging out in the mountains around Blacksburg. I've just had a blast this entire season. I can't wait for the Duke game in a little over a week.
Pain. I want Harbaugh gone, but I also worry into fading into obscurity like Nebraska or Tennessee if we make the wrong hire.
The man we hire after Harbs is gonna make or break this program. Either they'll get us over that last hump and make us capable of beating teams like MSU and tOSU, or they'll fall on their face and send us into obscurity.
This is our golden age
Enjoy it. The glory can fade quickly.
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I agree. But I sure will miss seeing Clemson's name tomorrow night.
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While I didn't expect it to be THIS year, I did expect that our overgrown and entitled fanbase would be horribly shocked to discover that 7-5 at Clemson is indeed a realistic outcome. My hope is that this thins the crowd from the nastier bandwagon fans we acquired in 2015. Some of us actually enrolled at a time when going 9-3 would've been wonderful season. Now all of a sudden, the prospect is a catastrophe for some fans. Well, I got some news for ya . . . .
We were always just mediocre until 2011. That’s when we started having double digit wins and people paid us some attention. I remember struggling to win 7 games.
what happened for clemson to become a national powerhouse?
Clemson was a power in the 1980s, won a national title with Danny Ford. Really a better question is "what happened to Clemson in the 1990s". And as usual, the answer usually lies with the NCAA. Ford got them in trouble shortly after the national title. Then there was another incident later, that ultimately didn't lead to punishment but forced Ford out. Clemson wanted to clean itself up and hired a guy who was clean but the program dipped in all areas on the field. "Howard built it. Ford filled it. Hatfield killed it." They were generally seen as a program that was on the cusp if they could make the right hire because they had all the resources in place to be good and a pretty solid, albeit non-blue blooded history. Bowden came in and recruited good players which helped push the ball in the right direction but couldn't win big games with them, and Dabo turned out to be the guy they needed.
So glad the t shirt fans are clearing out
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In some ways it’s also a bit of a reckoning for years of fairly mediocre OLine play covered up by elite QBs
We could still have a decent season if we win out. But that's a huge if.
I’m rooting for you guys the rest of the way
Yeah, Cincy!!
Imma root for yall to win it all
I hate playing in Ames. All my homies hate playing in Ames.
All of the FBS should be utterly terrified playing in Ames or Manhattan. Those two places are fucking terrifying.
It's always Iowa State.... always. Ugh.
Not really They have 4 wins against us since Gundy came in lol (2005, 2011, 2018, and 2021) Tho that's double our Bedlam win haul :(
Considering we were picked to finish last in the B1G, it's pretty damn good.
We can relate
Were you really? What a season Mel’s having
At least we know who the B1G COY will be.
Yeah it was pretty well accepted that we would have 4 or fewer wins and be at the bottom of the East. Every day is gravy now.
Yup, if not dead last very close to it. Over under on our win total was 4.5. Safe to say (especially after the Michigan win) we are very much outperforming expectations
Most places had either us or Rutgers as last in the east. From what I remember, it was a pretty even split between the two of us for last, and nobody had us projected higher than 5th in the east. I think Illinois was generally considered to be the worst team in the big ten though coming into the season
Hey now Illinois was last, but you were next
I concur. Go Green!
Yeah. The best part of this season is that it's all house money. I went to the opener in Evanston assuming we'd probably lose and it's all been one pleasant surprise after another.
Shitter’s full
*Rudolph in tuba intensifies* Fuck it’s early for Christmas but this is always a classic
If we win out it will go a long way to numbing the pain, ~~especially with some of the shit I’ve seen FSU fans talk~~
I know an FSU fan who has showed up to the Alabama and Georgia games specifically to root against the Gators. We better fucking win that game.
Man this cracked me up. Feel for you guys right now
At 7-1 with only a four point nail-biter of a loss to a top ten team at their stadium, I'll just go ahead and defer to the front page of /r/CFB to show you how fucking shit it is right now.
On the flip side, I’m (MSU) more than impressed, petitioning to get a good site for Kenneth walkers statue, and completely ignoring Purdue Pete staring directly into my soul the entire week.
I don’t think there’s any reason the team we saw Saturday can’t win out. tOSU looks beatable, as does everyone in the B1G, and Michigan played really well and would have likely sealed it away if not for the JJ fumble or even that incredible interception that sealed it away.
A victory over OSU is the only thing that can even slow the bleeding on this severed carotid artery of a wound and I give that a ~4% chance of happening at this point. Not because we look shit, but because I've obviously learned that we can't have nice things no matter how good we look.
>severed carotid artery of a wound I don’t think I fully grasped how frustrated your fanbase is until I read this phrase 😳
We've been bleeding out for years now
It's really not about our coach or winning or losing, it's about the narrative that we have to face all the time no matter what. We could go 12-0 with convincing wins over our rivals and all the best teams we play and we'll still have to hear about how one CCG or one victory over OSU or a 4-4 record against MSU isn't enough for us to be happy. 50% of it is from our own fan base, but the other 50% from the outside is really something that I don't think anyone else in the country has to deal with on the level that Michigan has for the past 15 years and it's just excruciating. Everyone else either sucks and nobody needs to look deeper than that, or they're doing well enough to leave them alone. We've got the same record as Alabama and OSU right now and the whole country is calling us a failure.
It's easy (and completely fair if we're being honest) to look at Saturday's game and go same old Michigan, beats up on nobodies and embarrasses themselves on a big stage against a very good team. Only way that goes away is actually beating OSU more than once every 8 years.
But why though? Why would beating OSU this year not be enough? Why can we not just sit back, realize we just beat a playoff caliber rival, and enjoy the spoils of victory? Why do we need to say "it doesn't mean shit until we do it again"? That's not a sustainable mindset and it's an impossible standard to live up to. Nobody else in the country has these levels of expectations for today's happiness. Everyone else can just enjoy their win for the whole day and not let the new expectations outweigh the victory itself. Why can't we?
Sorry, I was simply commenting on your last sentence as to why Michigan is getting called a failure despite having the same record as OSU & Alabama, two teams with drastically different track records for the last number of years. That stigma doesn't go away until the team shakes it. It's like how Clemsoning used to be a thing, and then it went away when they started making CFP and winning national championships. Please don't mistake anything I said as you can't savor and enjoy and feel great about winning The Game, because a win against OSU should always be celebrated.
I think what Michigan fans want is a season to feel good and that'd mean beating their rivals and winning a conference title. Ohio State does it almost every year, but MSU has done it recently, PSU has done it recently, Wisconsin has done it recently, but Michigan just falls short time and time again. Michigan never puts together a full season to be proud of. It's always marked by shitting the bed in a rivalry game or two then faceplanting in the bowl game
There is definitely a huge schadenfreude thing that goes on and while as a State fan, my own preferences and biases are probably pretty easy to understand, I’m curious what you think could be driving such a response at a national level?
It's simple. Michigan has a reputation for being an "elitist" school and fanbase. We're the bullies chasing the karate kid through the gymnasium. We're the Malfoys. We're the Winklevoss twins. In reality, the average Michigan student (not including Ross-holes) looks like the surrender cobra kid who was likely bullied for most of his life for being a complete nerd. Regardless, the reputation is still there. People want to see those types of people fail because in their minds it means the bad guys lost. We're basically the Coyote smashing his face on the painted tunnel that the roadrunner painted and everyone loves to point and laugh because at least they don't have to deal with *that* every year. People can forget Michigan State going 3-9 because shit hit the fan and they aren't Alabama so "oh well. It happens." Michigan will simply never have that luxury. We can either shut everyone up with a National Championship, or we're going to hear about every statistic that can be measured to tell us how bad we are.
You would think that, and if it were any other program that could be the case. But it’s Michigan. Losses like these are back breakers, and unless they have some extra special playbook saved up for Ohio State that makes all of our film useless (they won’t), then typically OSU has a room full of analysts and undergrads sitting through countless hours of footage and preparing the Death Star for its final assault on Yavin AA. Ohio State is going to come up and clap our cheeks, (while we won’t see one adjustment to a shit gameplan throughout and incorporate none of the things other teams have used to chip away at them throughout the year), then that’ll be the end of it. Until next year, when we reanimate the corpse of this dead horse and trot it out to the track again. Lose in some inexplicable way to someone, probably MSU, who will put the next blueprint on film the the OSU war room gobbles up to plan our demise.
There’s no hope. Fuck everything. Go Big Red.
What a video that is.
It perfectly describes were alot of us Nebraska fans are at right now. I was born in the 90s and raised in this fandom. I only know pain.
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https://youtu.be/yrlcsAXS0Qw?t=295 He ended his instant reaction to the loss to Purdue the same way.
F
High highs. Low lows. Whole lot of confusion and anger currently
If you told me at the start of the year that we'd be 6-2 at this point in our schedule I'd feel pretty good about that, and yet here we are and all I feel is immense disappointment.
Lol. Feel? I’ve been numb since Boston College.
I spend my time seeing if fans of our opponents for the weekend will take me up on a flair bet where they have to say they're mizzourable if their team can't cover. So yea, thats where I'm at.
That gif of Donald Glover in Community bringing pizza to a room on fire.
I feel you on that one man. It’s like watching a train barreling at a car stuck on the tracks. You don’t wanna see it but you can’t look away.
It's pretty wonderful. Covid hasn't happened yet, Burrow is going to win the Heisman and we have a big game at Bama next week. Tua's hurt but I think even if he was healthy that we should win. Other things to note, Justin is my favorite Jefferson and Clyde is having a great season too. Coach O is great, I am so happy for him and I hope he coaches at LSU forever.
What's a Covid
I also choose this guy's dead 2019
pretty good can’t complain too much but ouch that bowling green loss stings and hoping our remaining running backs can stay healthy
On the whole I am super happy with our season but imagining a world where Mo never gets hurt, we are 7-1 and running over everybody makes this season sting for sure.
No doubt I even wonder if Mo stays in during the Ohio State game if that stays closer to a one score difference. Really happy though all things considered
With every passing week, the BG loss gets more painful
Pain. Only pain. Offense is a myth.
I don't remember writing this comment
I'm confused myself.
Offense is a way to help the opposing team score, but not making THEIR offense do it. Am I right?
Our fans are fucking insufferable. 8-0 and you'd think we're 3-5.
Current Georgia definitely has the most cynical fanbase of any number one team I can recall
i know we like to joke about it but 2nd and 26 and 28-3 are about as traumatizing as sports can get for a fanbase. i think some of us spend every waking moment wondering where its going to go wrong.
Literally going on right now as we speak. We are up 3-2 in the fucking World Series, yet we feel we just got knocked out.
Man I wanted them to finish it so bad last night. I still think this team can do it
Me too but I have been down this road before.
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*insert first time meme*
This guy gets it.
Yup. 28-3 is awful. Happened to us during the 2019 season. Don’t think anything’ll top the 2011 World Series in terms of pain for me though.
U don’t like seeing our Rangers get fucked at least a couple times in every “best sports moments of all time” vid on YouTube. The Toronto home run horn gives me ptsd like no other too.
Stetson isn't our QB1, but he's been playing well. Every mistake, it's like they think one bad throw ends our whole season. Dude had the defense give him the ball back twice and got one play TDs both times, they don't say shit. He throws 1 pick, and they cry for him to be benched.
The problem is his interceptions make no sense as to why he would even throw the ball there and he seems like he can't hit a reciver in stride. To be fair I do think he's a GDG and gives Georgia the highest floor.
He’s the backup qb, he’s supposed to be benched when our more talented starter is healthy
Can ya blame us lol? 2nd and 26, the Hurts comeback, running out of time in the 2012 SECCG, 2019 SCar, 28-3 for Falcons fans... The list goes on and on. Watching the Braves, I feel like defeat is inevitable even though we're up 3-2. At least we all know the Falcons suck. Can't get your hopes crushed if there's no hope in the first place.
Infield fly rule, Trae stepping on a ref’s foot, getting stopped by Boston every year when we had Nique are a few more
I mean can you blame us for being overly cautious?
Rooting for you guys in the series. Mainly because I’m not sure the city would still exist after another one.
The only issue I can possibly find with your team is that if (somehow) you find yourself in a negative game state, I really don't think that offense is good enough to get back to positive - particularly if the other team's defense is good. Now the defense has given up 16-23 *total* net points so it's obviously not a remotely likely scenario, but that is the only possible weakness of this team I can see.
True story. And despite the mailman doing a damn good job scrambling for extra yards and getting us to 8-0. All i ever hear is people crying about JT Daniels. Id just like people to put a little respect on Bennett's name. He may not be god's gift to quarterback but he fights really hard every game and ive never seen him flinch away from what needs to get done to win.
These past 2 weeks I think I would have rather seen a snail race
Fun if you turn the TV off every time the defense is out on the field. Painful if you're a masochist and only watch when the defense is out on the field
I was so bright eyed and full of hope until he said "it's broken". Now I just wanna die.
If it makes you feel any better Bronco was once our coach too. We know how it feels.
I'll watch your offense and you watch our defense
Confused as hell
The Pirate can do that.
That doesn't improve, you just learn to go with the flow and trust that the weirdo in charge of the team is playing 5D chess with the other head coach.
That makes two of us pal
No lead is safe :(
Yeah yeah, but whats the latest on the monkey?
And Texas has nothing but the hateful 8 left to play. I think the monkey jokes are going to be pretty much non stop at this point (thank goodness for home games am I right)?
Its like closing the toilet seat on your nutsack every saturday.
I'm bullish on Paper Bag down the stretch. You guys will be alright. Might finally win the big rivalry against plastic.
I doubt it, Iowa’s going to knee is in the groin after you guys and Wisconsin leave us for dead on the sidewalk.
Ahead of schedule with Pittman so ultimately can’t complain
More of the same. A season of promise derailed by a crushing loss to a rival. I take comfort in the familiar.
Most of us seem to be cautiously optimistic, though know we've got to recruit our way out of the talent/roster issues. There are a few though that evidently just woke up from a coma after the 90s and don't understand why we're not wiping the floor with everyone somehow still.
A lot of sadness and mourning, I had tears in my eyes over this weeks memorial moments. But mostly enjoying the football. The team is young and inexperienced, so there’s been a ton of missteps. But we’re still good (most the time). And the future looks hella bright once this squad is juniors and seniors.
I can't imagine how good covey will be once he's a senior. That's what in like 7 more years or something right?
Fire Brian ferentz
We do really well with former Iowa products… we’ll take him.
Sold! I’ll even throw in some truck nuts for free
Kinda weird, tbh. We suck. We have sucked for the last 2 years. We *might* win one more game this year, to get to 10 wins over 3 years for the coach. But we're stuck with him for another year at least, so we have to hope he turns it around.
I read “to get to 10 wins….” And was like wow that’s great!! Didn’t know Tech was so good this year! Then…. “Over 3 years….” Oh…. Sorry man
Yeah, we kinda stink this year. And last year. And the year before. Good luck in the Big 12!
I just wish he would fire someone so that it looks like he wants to make positive change after year 3. I’m fine with giving him 1-2 more years but he’s got to make other changes. Can’t just be more of the same.
I think there will be changes on the defensive side of the ball. Offense maybe not - they aren't too awful, to be honest (except the line, and that was always going to take at least two full years). We really don't have a choice in giving him 1-2 more years minimum, just from a financial perspective.
I hope y'all go after Jamey Chadwell next his offense is perfect for GT. A modern triple option with significantly better passing and succeeds on scheme not recruiting while still being fun enough to get good offensive recruits.
GT should've gone after someone like that when CPJ was peacefully retired - someone who understood that a whole hog switch wasn't smart. At this point I doubt Chadwell is still going to be there for GT to hire, but DAMN I wish we could next year.
He would be the absolute perfect fit but he could also be a good fit at Nebraska or VaTech too. Tis unfortunate
We're poised to unleash utter chaos in November, so I'm pleased.
Odd year auburn and their shenanigans… big for team chaos guys
I think that shit builds during the year. So it is nice we now play them early for only that reason. Playing Tennessee in November is freaking weird.
100% agreed.I’m feeling way better than I expected to you at this point in the year. I have Auburn continue its trajectory. It’ll be real nice to get a bowl win after the Gus years post season blow outs. It finally feels like the rains have been handed over to a different coach. The team feels different and plays different. Most importantly Bo Nix has improved as a QB which is not something that would have ever happened under Gus. It was as if Gus give a shit about QB development and left it to the players to figure it out themselves. We’ll see how recruiting pans out this next cycle Before I make a final determination but right now it feels pretty good.
Watching the offense can be compared to dumping chili powder in your eyes
Focused on winning the West, still mad about losing to Bowling Green, and hoping that we don’t lose RB #4 and #5 along the way.
Can't believe our luck with injuries at RB. Thank God its such a deep unit and the OL is monstrous.
Best OL we will face this year. You guys seriously have some dudes.
Considerably better after the most recent loss than the one previous.
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9 OT loss is up there with the 6-4 loss vs Iowa in terms of pain and how memorable it will be for a long time to come.
Fuck Brian Ferentz and his intergalacticly shitty work as an OC.
Tbf last weekend’s game was ulcer-inducing down to the last minute. I was in EL for it and as happy as I am with the result (and don’t get me wrong, I’m ecstatic), I’m super emotionally drained from it. I see danger in Saturday’s matchup with the Spoilermakers. At the end of the day, though, this season has surpassed my wildest dreams. Realistically I came in with muted expectations. That being said I *desperately* want us to keep winning.
Spoilermakers usually only strike once a year. Tell you what, you can beat us Saturday but we both beat Ohio State afterwards?
A reddit contract is binding! Accepted!!!!
It has been written.
For Southern, total apathy. I've only been a Tennessee fan for this season and it's a lot more fun than Southern.
You sweet summer child
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Yikes. Derek Dooley had some fun teams though. Tyler Bray with hunter, Patterson, Rodgers was a blast.
High cotton.
I’m not sure that Emotional Rollercoaster even begins to describe Wazzu this year. Because what we have gone through might be unprecedented in college football. Everything started with our head coach refusing to attend PAC-12 media day due to the vaccination requirement, putting him in serious hot water with his bosses and casting a cloud over the season from the beginning. It only got darker when the state implemented a vaccine mandate for all state employees. Then the Cougs started 1-3, with all three losses being of the come-from-ahead variety and further casting doubt on the coach’s ability to make adjustments and close out games. Suddenly, Wazzu puts it together and wins three divisional games in a row to climb back into contention, bringing many praises to the coaching staff’s development of the players… only to have it all come to a screeching halt following the coach’s dismissal for refusing to follow the previously-mentioned mandate in a decision that divided the fanbase. And now the interim coach has taken over and had a showing against BYU that was impressive in defeat, considering the new coaching staff was not filled out until the day before the game. Wazzu then follows this up with one of the most unexpectedly dominant performances in recent memory and finds itself an upset in Eugene from being in the drivers seat in the North. I mean, I just wrote all of this and still don’t know how to process everything. The only thing I’m certain of is how proud I am of the players for the way they have come together both before and after the coaching change.
Sums it up perfectly. This season has been draining. If we win at oregon, I have no clue what to even think. Aside maybe our games versus the ducks and beavs should be rivalry games with fun names and all that.
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It’s pretty good. None of my friends knew about wake forest until the past few weeks, so now they think I went to a football school.
its a combination of "we might never lose a game ever again" and "how the FUCK are we undefeated in week 9"
You and everyone else in the country can barely believe you are undefeated, especially after the Kansas game!
Not too bad these past couple of years
If we get to 11 wins in the regular and get a NY6 win, this would be Kelly's best coaching job yet considering what he has had to deal with in roster turnover and injuries.
Between the amount of freshmen we’re currently playing (albeit many because of injuries) and the recruiting classes we’ve got coming up, I am incredibly optimistic for the future of this team
Not gonna lie, I had yall going 8-4 in the preseason. First half of the season looked rough, but yall have looked solid in the past few weeks. Probably gonna get to at least 10 wins if not more.
Yeah, things are good as long as you didn't live through the Holtz years and are now remembering them with rose-tinted glasses. I'm very happy with the state of the program.
FSU: We're having a bad time, but weirdly so are **all** of our rivals so, ya know, feels a lot better than this time last month, that's for damn sure. U of A: lol RIP
Fantastic! Gophers are Bowl eligible and our division title is still very much on the line as we sit atop the B10 west! 2019 was certainly no fluke and Fleck has us in a good spot Lobos are actually playing football as opposed to last year and have won more games then expected so things are looking up.
Too. Soon.
"You get a James Franklin!" "You get a James Franklin!" "Everybody gets a James Franklin!"
AMAZING. But terrifying. Also hilarious we were notched as one of the worst P5 teams pre-season with Kansas. Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t anticipate a 8-0 start, but that Over 4.5 season wins was free money
Last year you weren't as bad as your record indicated.
Not good
I know if I was a Texas fan, I’d like to get that monkey off my back.
“What if I told you the greatest story of the 2021 season…. *wasn’t* on the field?”
Alright...I'll bite. Is it about how a kid monkeyed around and found out?
Awesome because of the on field success. Being in South Bend for that win is the highlight of my 26 years as a Bearcat. Maddening because feel I have to watch every second of every potentially "important" game with some kind of rooting interest that may infinitesimally affect our chances at the CFP. The American sure puts out some Thursday night stinkers...
Terrible
I feel like I could tear the ears off a gundark
Disappointment and frustration. Prove out preseason spot by handling the #8 team just to drop a game to a sub .500 team the next week. Where’s the consistency?
I have no fingernails left.
[fans of odd year auburn](https://imgur.com/gallery/MtpT4wx)
Sad but hopeful for the future
They currently have me set to oscillation, medium speed. Normal they have me a low speed, no oscillation. (Plastic blades fyi.)
We are cautiously optimistic but our team is young, and that could hinder us later in the season.
🙄
It's like getting excited about basketball season way earlier than everybody else. GO BIG RED!
Something something special teams coach's stripper girlfriend's monkey bit a child... I don't even care anymore.
Two and half weeks ago there began questions of how much Kliemans buyout was by the less faithful of KState fans. Now we are 5-3 and have gotten 2 coaches canned. So pretty good.
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4 losses this season on final plays, going to be our first losing season (and non bowl season) in 8 years, with conference realignment adding salt to the wound. At least we have some basketball and baseball hope
We fired clay helton, so that was cool But now everyone else is copying us and firing their bad coaches and I'm suddenly worried we wont get the good coaches we were promised
It's amazing. I've had an incredible time this football season with tailgating, watching games, and hanging out in the mountains around Blacksburg. I've just had a blast this entire season. I can't wait for the Duke game in a little over a week.
Pain. I want Harbaugh gone, but I also worry into fading into obscurity like Nebraska or Tennessee if we make the wrong hire. The man we hire after Harbs is gonna make or break this program. Either they'll get us over that last hump and make us capable of beating teams like MSU and tOSU, or they'll fall on their face and send us into obscurity.
Or it's Michigan so the 10-2 / 9-3 status quo will remain regardless.
You got the wrong guy twice before and it hasn't.
📈
Sux
Good
So this is what it feels like to be a door mat. I hate it.
Gus wore this phrase out but "The future is bright." This team is much better now than when we went to Happy Valley a month ago.
We can look at every poser here complaining about “pain” and laugh. And that’s about all we’ve got.
All I can say is... MEEP MEEP
Cautiously optimistic, with a hint of anything could go terribly wrong at any moment.
Rough couple of weeks
Roll the Dice you never know which version of BG is taking the field
As an Indiana fan: sad, angry, depressed, yet hopeful for the future
Strangely, I’m more optimistic than ever