Illinois 41, Team Slumpbuster 22
The Fightin' Native Americans dominated this game. Team Slumpbuster never had a chance.
Indiana 27, Purdue 24
Hoosier kicker Austin Starr iced the game with a 49 yd FG with 30 ticks left as Indiana beat their in-state rival and James Hardy finished the season with at least one touchdown in every game-except for the Wisco game.
Michigan State 35, Paterno State 31
MSU showed up in all of it's manic glory, allowing Penn State to race out to 17 point lead before clawing back into the game and finally taking the lead for good with four minutes left. After that it was merely waiting for
Wisconsin 41, Minnesota 34
Holy Christ was I nervous about UW's chances thru the first three quarters of this game. To have to have suffered the ignominy of knowing that the Badgers provided the Golden Gophers with their only conference win would've been too much. Lucky for me I was able to sheath the ceremonial hari-kari sword for another year...
Ohio State 14, Michigan 3
Lllllater Lllllloyd. Ugly game to watch and, surely, a painful game for the Great Lakes State to have watched. I feel minor twinges of saddness for Mike Hart at the thought of him never beating Ohio State, but those notions are quickly dashed when I envision the first phat NFL check he signs as a rookie next spring.
*Look for some Bowl Destination Predictions in the coming days.
3 comments:
I vote in favor of putting the onus back on Penn State (i.e. coaching/game plan) instead of Morelli for 2 reasons: 1) lack of ability to stop anything MSU was doing offensively in the 2nd half; and (more importantly) 2) going away from the run on the next to last drive when running the ball had gotten PSU to the MSU 25 with a little under 2 min to go - and instead having Morelli pass the ball on 4 straight downs. That's some genius play-calling there.
However, let the record show that Morelli's decision to *check-down* to the RB 8 yds downfield in the center of the field with 6 seconds left, no timeouts, and needing a hail mary to win it was *PURE* idiocy.
I didn't realize that this was the first time in his career JoePa had given up a 17 pt. 2nd half lead. He's been hanging out with John L. Smith too long.
He learned it from Lloyd 2 years ago after the Nebraska debacle (you know, back when Nebraska actually had some talent).
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