Louisville laying an egg against BC
It's still in 2Q, 6:30 remaining, and it's not looking good for the Cardinals.
Shough has already thrown an INT, and now they just fumbled away the ball. Their only scoring chance was a missed 56 yard field goal.
Louisville's only bright spot is that DE Ashton Gillotte is having an excellent game (4 tackles, 1.5 TFL, and applying good pressure on pass rush). That guy is going to be a NFL stalwart for years to come.
BC is up 20-0, running all over Louisville. BC is also playing pretty good defense, especially against the run.
I'll just be glad that we beat Louisville when they were still ranked.
(Edit: Overlooked that BC missed the PAT after that last TD)
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Well guess what they come back proving their good.
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They are ACC trailer trash
I loathe playing them with any regularity.
Fuck you Jack.
We should be rooting for them when they play Clemson.
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game over. louisville wins.
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And now Louisville came roaring back.
Looks like they snapped out of their 1st half funk... They're now in the lead 31-27.
Shough has been razor sharp in the 2nd half, and has rarely missed a pass, while BC has floundered.
They got screwed on the pickup of the PI flag
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cardinals now ahead 31 - 27 in the 4th quarter.
quite a comeback if it holds.
Shough has been impressive ever since the OP
He has thrown only 2 incomplete passes this entire second half, and those were on that 3 and out drive.
So they clearly aren’t very good but you somehow think because they were
Ranked when we played them that somehow that matters?
Wow.
Well they won this game, they are 5-3, 3 losses by 7 pts, to 3 teams with combined records of 20-2..
I would say all of that plus that they were ranked when we beat them matters...and maybe, just maybe, our third best win isn't quite as bad as you think they are.
All that matters is they're 5-3
They suck balls.
They are our 3rd best win...Clemson's BEST win is 4-3 UVA who Louisville beat.
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Beating a ranked team (at the time) usually has its short-term benefits
It's common sense that you'll more often than not, sway some votes your way when you beat a ranked team at the time, even if that team ends up tanking at the end of the year.
You can't deny that 1994's Michigan team got a nice one week boost after beating us (until Kordell Stewart's Hail Mary the next week). Had they played us at the end of the year after our season went down the tubes, they wouldn't have gained anything in the polls.
Or, in 2005, when we beat a #3 Michigan team early in the year, we jumped 10 spots in the rankings. That game wouldn't have had nearly the same impact if it occurred later in the year after Michigan racked up all of those losses.
Thus, it does matter where an opponent is ranked when you actually play them.
It's like if you beat the #1 ranked team, so they fall to #5...did you not beat the #1 team?
Is it even possible to ever say you beat the #1 team unless they don't drop from you beating them?
I judge schedule strength at the end of the season.
It's too fluid during the season.
I think that is the correct way to assess actual strength of schedule, but in season rankings
are not a reflection of actual strength of schedule, they are popular opinion about how good a team is considered to be at that time.
I think when you beat a team who is ranked "___" you should get credit in the terms of beating ranked teams, for what they were ranked when you played them.
You already know that the outcome of the game will alter their rankings, but it doesn't change what was thought of them at the time you played them. Also, you have no control on how the other team does going forward...some teams are galvanized by a tough loss while others crumble.
In 2014 unbeaten #5 ND went to unbeaten #2 FSU and beat them until homer refs robbed them of the W...but I digress. #5 ND gave #2 FSU all that (and more) they could handle that day in Tallahassee.
FSU went on to finish their regular season 13-0, while ND lost 4 of their next 5 games. But that isn't the team FSU played that day in Tallahassee...they played the unbeaten #5 team on that day.
They were good, Their QB is out of sorts,Lacy quit the season, and we fucking broke them.
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