Lol everyone forgot we beat UNI last year with an offense that some what better than last year. We will follow know this weekend when it plays out on the field !
Northern Iowa - Quality Win?
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Losing my shit? You’re funny. You’re also hilarious that you think I don’t want us to make the playoffs. Simply called you out for saying Indiana State was a quality win.
In the end, we want the same things. Just simply view things differently to get to that end game.
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I’m chuckling a bit because your argument against IC being ranked is the opposite of the argument we use when the basketball team is left out of the “at-large” consideration.
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Good to hear .. but imo it does not sound like that for you when you rip me for saying it.
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AGS does their weekly pick 'em, many of which are also on their poll ranking team. To this point, we are losing the UNI game vote 4 to 10. But ... the 2 lone YSU fans have picked us to win, along with an NDSU fan who is in first place (54-6).
That said, if this poll were taken a week ago, before UNI pounded UND, I'm quite sure we would have gotten far more votes. Demonstrating, it only takes one strong win to get noticed, when youre considered a "bubble" team. UNI had fallen off the radar prior to UND game.
Also recall STATS front man Haley, also has us on the bubble stating the winner of UNI at ISUr game lkely stands a good chance of making playoffs. Even though I think we also need a win or a very impressive loss at UND, combined with decisive win at MoST and then a more decisive win against MuST at home.
That and $2 bucks may or may not get you a coffee at Starbucks.
That said, if this poll were taken a week ago, before UNI pounded UND, I'm quite sure we would have gotten far more votes. Demonstrating, it only takes one strong win to get noticed, when youre considered a "bubble" team. UNI had fallen off the radar prior to UND game.
Also recall STATS front man Haley, also has us on the bubble stating the winner of UNI at ISUr game lkely stands a good chance of making playoffs. Even though I think we also need a win or a very impressive loss at UND, combined with decisive win at MoST and then a more decisive win against MuST at home.
That and $2 bucks may or may not get you a coffee at Starbucks.
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There is a threat of rain Saturday but it looks like it won't come until after the game. Even so, it will be a small but loyal crowd. It's not a special event game (FD, Homecoming) and there are several HS playoff games in the area.
Mel's bookie is calling it a close game. I agree. We'll have to give the Redbirds all the support we can.
Mel's bookie is calling it a close game. I agree. We'll have to give the Redbirds all the support we can.
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Can't wait for Crazzy to tell us how many season ticketholders showed up!
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I heard theyre boycotting UNI game because YSU refused to honor their tickets.
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so a 28 - 25 type game favoring UNI.Opening lines came out very late this week
Illinois State +2.5
Over / under 52.5
We're 4-3 playing the 68th ranked SOS. UNI is 4-3 playing the #1 SOS .. per Massey. Up until last week, UNI was trending the wrong way, but they smoked a strong UND team last week.
But common opponents favor us
- SDSU .. we lost 40-21, they lost 41-6. Advantage Redbirds
- ISUb .. we won 44-7, they won 27-20. Advantage Redbird
- YSU .. we lost 41-38 on road, they won 44-41 at home. Slight advantage UNI.
So we win the common opponents argument. But UNI also played Iowa St tough in week 1 and smoked UND last week. Which puts them ahead of us now, especially after last weeks 27-0 drubbing of UND at home.
But what jumps off their Massey schedule page is this ... their best couple games were at home, other than Weber St (6 TOs will kinda do that). And their worst couple games are on the road. Not a big revelation on surface, but as spotty as they been all year .. this looks like the difference. This and they get the TO bug one in a while. QB Day has just 10 TDs and 8 picks. Plus theyve taken 20 sacks, which is tied for 3rd most .. though playing the #1 SOS.
Their pass ranks 2nd in MVFC, their run game ranks 10th. So they shouldn't be as multi-dimensional as YSU or SDSU where we clearly got overwhelmed .. though 1st half much moreso than 2nd half in both games. Both games, we tightened things up 2nd half.
So maybe their a home/dome team. So a little home cooking and unfavorable weather probably helps us on Saturday. Noon kickoff should see 47 degrees with 12-15 mph winds ... though don't see rain at this point. Zack threw very well in weather like this at YSU. We'll see if Theo Day does as well.
Redbirds win a 27 - 24 type game.
| Date | Opponent | Result | PF | PA | |||
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| Sat 10-14 | at | S Dakota St | 1 (7-0) | L | 6 | 41 | |
| Sat 11-11 03:00.PM.ET | at | Missouri St | 28 (3-4) | 58 % | |||
| Sat 10-28 01:00.PM.ET | at | Illinois St | 31 (4-3) | 60 % | |||
| Sat 09-16 | at | Idaho St | 46 (3-4) | W | 41 | 17 | |
| Sat 10-07 | at | Indiana St | 92 (0-7) | W | 27 | 20 | |
| Sat 09-02 | at | Iowa St | (4-3) | L | 9 | 30 | |
| Sat 11-18 05:00.PM.ET | N Dakota St | 3 (5-2) | 30 % | ||||
| Sat 10-21 | North Dakota | 11 (4-3) | W | 27 | 0 | ||
| Sat 09-30 | Youngstown St | 18 (4-3) | W | 44 | 41 | ||
| Sat 09-09 | Weber St | 22 (3-5) | L | 17 | 34 | ||
| Sat 11-04 02:00.PM.ET | W Illinois | 107 (0-7) | 97 % |
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Key stat from last year's 23-21 victory at N. Iowa. UNI QB Theo Day was sacked 4 times in just 23 passing attempts. Zack Annexstad was sacked 0 times in 41 passing attempts. That game was largely won on the line of scrimmage (we protected, they didn't), but I give credit to Zack as well. Zack is a little more mobile and with his quick release in the short passing game he's hard to sack. Zack has the arm to throw deep we just don't try very often. When we've missed on deep balls it's because the WR had a half step on the defender and Zack throws long so that our guy runs it down or nobody does.
Most of the players that got those 4 sacks for us are gone. Vandenburgh, Wilhoit and Lamont are gone. Dinga got the 4th and he's still here. We need Dinga to get his again and then sacks from Abdullah, Gaines and Jackson. 4 to 0 on sacks is a winning number. I'd even settle for 3 to 1.
Most of the players that got those 4 sacks for us are gone. Vandenburgh, Wilhoit and Lamont are gone. Dinga got the 4th and he's still here. We need Dinga to get his again and then sacks from Abdullah, Gaines and Jackson. 4 to 0 on sacks is a winning number. I'd even settle for 3 to 1.
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Wow out defensive scheme is horrible today. Open receivers all over the field.
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UNI offense looks good. ISU defense looks bad. Game’s getting away quickly.
The color guy ripping ISU for not returning the punt right after they talked about how Spack likes to fair catch everything. Just more ridiculous over conservative. Also gave up yardage on kickoffs that were short and fair caught
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One of the worst announcing teams I have heard this year. Where did they get these clowns?
