The WAC is now 1-2 in Bowl Games this season
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The WAC is now 1-2 in Bowl Games this season
Boise States questionable exclamation mark against Utah is the only redeeming factor so far. Fresno and Hawaii didn't help the WAC cause at all. It will be interesting to see how it all levels out. Count Hawaii out of the top 25 for the closing polls.
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Re: The WAC is now 1-2 in Bowl Games this season
In the 3rd quarter I was actually thinking Hawaii might win. And I was very intrigued as I could not remember a team ever winning with 6 TOs! (Of course I have CRS...so I guess that might not be saying too much.)
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Re: The WAC is now 1-2 in Bowl Games this season
Nevada should pound a Boston College team who sneezed their way toward bowl eligibility.
I doubt that Fresno State was unprepared against Northern Illinois. The Huskies brought an overachieving game with an interim head coach auditioning for a future head coaching gig.
Hawai'i practiced six times in the twenty days leading up to this game, which seems low. Is there an NCAA limit of number of practices/practice days going into bowl games?
I doubt that Fresno State was unprepared against Northern Illinois. The Huskies brought an overachieving game with an interim head coach auditioning for a future head coaching gig.
Hawai'i practiced six times in the twenty days leading up to this game, which seems low. Is there an NCAA limit of number of practices/practice days going into bowl games?
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Re: The WAC is now 1-2 in Bowl Games this season
I'm not sure what Hawaii's practice schedule was doing, but I do know that they literally played as bad as they could have possibly played. Tulsa didn't do too well offensively until the 3rd quarter, so the game was certainly a disappointment.
I don't think Nevada is anywhere near a done deal to beat Boston College. BC has really found a presence with the ground game and their freshman RB (I've forgotten his name). He carried the ball about 40 times against Syracuse for about 200 yards. That looks like a nightmare matchup against Nevada's arm-tackling defense.
I don't think Nevada is anywhere near a done deal to beat Boston College. BC has really found a presence with the ground game and their freshman RB (I've forgotten his name). He carried the ball about 40 times against Syracuse for about 200 yards. That looks like a nightmare matchup against Nevada's arm-tackling defense.
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Re: The WAC is now 1-2 in Bowl Games this season
armchairqb wrote:I doubt that Fresno State was unprepared against Northern Illinois. The Huskies brought an overachieving game with an interim head coach auditioning for a future head coaching gig.
Hawai'i practiced six times in the twenty days leading up to this game, which seems low. Is there an NCAA limit of number of practices/practice days going into bowl games?
If anything, Northern Illinois underachieved. They did not overachieve. It is definitely unachieving when you go undefeated in MAC play and then lose in the championship game when the other team won one game the season before and didn't even have its best quarteback available.
I guess you could say that NIU because of the number of people that thought Temple would win the MAC before the season started, but that error can be attributed mainly to the fact that Temple underachieved more than NIU did, not that the Huskies overachieved.
I didn't see the Iowa State game, but based on how the season turned out, you would have thought that Northern Illinois could have done better than lose by 17 points. As it turned out, beating Illinois couldn't have been that difficult because Fresno State did it, and Northern Illinois defeated the Bulldogs.
Northern Illinois could have easily had an undefeated season and made certain people on this board very upset.
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Re: The WAC is now 1-2 in Bowl Games this season
Northern Illinois had a great year...they went .500 against BCS teams and that's pretty good.
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Re: The WAC is now 1-2 in Bowl Games this season
Northern Illinois seems like they have had a pretty good football team frequently. Of course their enrollment of around 25,000 makes them a bigger school than Iowa, Nebraska and Northwestern in the Big 10.billybud wrote:Northern Illinois had a great year...they went .500 against BCS teams and that's pretty good.
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