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As we get into the doldrums of the off season other posters have talked about going back and watching non-conference teams games from last season. Challenge: Post or list a game in which your team played up to their potential. Best Game. Then post or list your biggest dumpster fire. :)
For SDSU if this includes conference games, I’d say last year against NDSU was great or the playoff game vs New Hampshire. The biggest dumpster fire was against JMU, no close 2nd.Quote:
Originally Posted by andthehomeofthe-BIZON-
Best game was the game we played at SFA when we beat them 35-0. I can't decide in which game we played the worst. I want to say the opening game at Nicholls because we really should have won that game. But we probably played the worst at UCA, when it seemed like everything that could go wrong did.
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This is way too easy for ISUr .. and we have several choices as 2017's Dr Jeckyl and Mr Hyde team of the year !!!!
Worst ... NAU or SIU in consecutive weeks .. pick your poison !! I'll take SIU as worst of 2 .. Spack lost the team for first time in long time. I can explain what went wrong at NAU .. I can not explain SIU. It was bad on both sides of ball. Could also have take InSU and WIU games .. great 1st halves followed by horrible 2nd halves. This is why Spack fired 4 offensive coaches .. maddening inconsistencies on offense.
Best ... USD (38-21 win, defense had 13 QBHs + 2 sacks, 6 PBUs and 2 picks) or YSU .. I'll take USD because they were full strength at time .. and because I know YSU had just completed a murderous row trip, though we destroyed (45-0) a very good but worn out team at their place for homecoming.
My team: Western Illinois
Our best: All of our OOC, I'd say. We went on the road for all three games, playing two full-scholarship FCS teams (Tennessee Tech and Northern Arizona) and a first-year FBS team (Coastal Carolina) and winning all three by an average of 29 points.
Our worst: South Dakota State...lots of mistakes, some questionable ref calls, just an overall ugly game where the Jackrabbits outscored us 21-0 in the third quarter en route to a 28-point win in front of all of ~2k fans (although even that seems like an overestimation).
Best was probably the wins at UCA or Georgia Southern, I don't think anyone expected that for maybe some die hard fans?
Worst could be the loss at SDSU, but they were a much better team. Id say the worst was either Holy Cross or the regular season ender at Albany, barfffff
UND's Best = Missouri State 34-0 win in second game of the season.
UND's worst = give me a few hours to break it down and see which one was "worse".........
2017 was a strange year for YSU xsmhx
The OOC games pretty much went as planned, scrimmage games with a close OT loss to PITT.
Conference play YSU seemed to be a contender beating SDSU soundly at home then blowing a lead to NDSU in the final minute.
Then the dumpster fires broke out especially the 35-0 loss to ISU red xasswhipx
Best: Furman had a lot of impressive wins. It's easy to look at the complete dismantling of the Citadel, but I look at the Mercer game. Furman won a gutty 7 point victory against a good Bears team at home. The Paladins converted 4 fourth downs (and I believe scored TDs on each of those drives). Watching a coaching staff have complete confidence in an offensive line to step up and push back arguably the best defense in the league four times on fourth down was just impressive to watch.
Worst: None of Furman's losses were particularly awful. They looked young and rusty early in the season against Elon and Wofford. The playoff game against Wofford was probably the ugliest game, but that was the third straight game against a tough defense on the road with a few guys out.
SDSU was a dumpster fire for NDSU
Sam Houston was the best game.
I’d rather not go down this road again for UNI. Scars never heal for us. They just find new ways to reopen.
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Best game...... Nicholls
Worst game..... like always, the Semis or Quarters depending on when we play the teams who play in the final game.
Couldnt MSU be the worst also? I mean MSU was terrible.Quote:
Originally Posted by F'N Hawks
https://i.imgur.com/LiI76Sk.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by clenz
Yeah. I’ll simply askQuote:
Originally Posted by ST_Lawson
Have you ever lead a game by 5 with 7 seconds left and lost by 9?
UNI has.
Are you the only team NCAA to lose a game by having two field goals blocked? I don’t mean during a game. I mean on back to back plays on the final 10 seconds of a game.
UNI has.
How many times have you lead a game and lost by the other team scoring a TD in the final 19 seconds of a game?
Off the top of my head UNI is averaging almost two of those a year over the last decade.
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The little pupper saying hi wasn't meant to be "hi, this happens to us"...it was more "hi, sorry we did this to you"Quote:
Originally Posted by clenz
Considering they scored 43 the week before vs. Missouri, I would say it was UND's best (only had 3 choices).Quote:
Originally Posted by Bisonoline
Best: Probably our win over SHSU early in the season. No one knew what to expect from their senior laden team with pretty good QB. A loss there and it would have been playing for second in conference. Our offense suffered all year from lack of scoring while our defense did pretty good all year.
Worst: Easily UNH. It was bad when the coach says in an interview afterwards that his new job may not have been open had the team advanced further in the playoffs. He was checked out. Credit to UNH they took what we gave them. Still, it just didn't seem right. The play calling, the lack of care on the sidelines even before the game started, the comments from players. That was tough. xlolx
UNI’s could both be against SDSUQuote:
Originally Posted by clenz
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Best Game: 2010 upsetting #13 Virginia Tech. Despite what some will claim from other fan bases, this is still the biggest impact win in terms of national exposure.
Biggest Stinker: 2009 losing to Hofstra on the road. We’ve had other bad losses but they were to a playoff team (kind of doesn’t count as bad technically) or it seemed bad at the time but they went on to have a good team that year or were at least a consistent program (I.e. 2005 loss to CCU).
Hofstra on the other hand disbanded their program at the end of that season. Talk about embarrassing.
Notable best game: beating ndsu in 2016
Notable bad loss to a good team but god damn did it tucking sting: 2007 first round loss to eventual three time champ app state.
Edit: I totally did this historically and not just last season. ECU, SDSU, UR, WSU were all great in different ways.
correction per ysubigred .. beat YSU 35-0, not 45-0Quote:
Originally Posted by Redbird 4th & short
Played a full 60 minutes of dominating football? I would say vs. overmatched MEAC foe Norfolk State. Held them to <100 yards of total offense, gave up no TDs on defense (NSU scored on a fumble return and a KO return) and put up over 725 yds of total offense. Only downside was losing Cardon Johnson to an injury to his surgically repaired achilles. Hurts a bit down the stretch as he had breakaway speed (265 vs. ECU in the season opener). Could've used him in Toyota Stadium last January...
Didn't play a dumpster fire type game all year, but the game against SDSU, while an eventual blowout, highlighted some of our shortcomings. Could only turn 5 first quarter TOs into 7 points.
We weren't a great red zone team last year (~ 56% TDs) and went only 2-6 for TDs vs. NDSU in Frisco (1 FG).
The final score vs. ECU -- not an upset by any means -- is deceiving as we had only a 7-0 lead at halftime and hadn't looked great doing it. The biggest highlights of the game? 3 70+ yard TD runs and the end zone interception by Rashad Robinson where he just ripped it away from the receiver in mid-air.
We had some holes last year. Most notably our oline was seriously young. Disappointing season for our veteran backfield.
That said, our most complete game was against Presbyterian in week 2. Not great competition, no offense to the Bluehose, but everything on O clicked. D wasn't bad either. The team had high hopes at this point as well.
On the down side, our performance against Furman was the worst I have seen in a while. Nothing worked. After losing to WCU the week prior, which evaporated any playoff hope, and it was small any way, there was very little energy. The boys just were not in the game. Plus Furman was on a serious upswing at the time. It was a perfect storm for Furman and ended up being embarrassing.
On a bright note, one thing we have done better, is not giving up even when down in games. Our game against Samford could have been the worst, but we stuck in there and almost came back. Packing it in emotionally in down games has always been a Bulldog problem. But that issue seems to be changing the last couple years. However, sitting back when we are up big seems to happen too often. We have let teams back in when we shouldn't. We need to be piling on when we get up.
Best performances: SHSU 2015, Old Miss 2010
Worst (Grass Era): NDSU, YSU, KSU, Second half of the GT game
In my opinion for the 2017 NDSU Bison.
Best - There are quite a few to pick here but I will go with National Title #14 in the win over JMU. Great game.
honorable mention: Beating EWU & SHSU like a drum.
Worst - at SDSU
Dewey
Yeah I would have picked holy cross as your worst. That was stinkumsQuote:
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Best: 28-7 win over Delaware to take away their playoff hopes.
Worst: 20-6 loss to Rhody the week before Delaware win.
2017 the bad for ASU- Out gaining Tuskegee in yardage 397-174, getting inside of the red zone 3 times in the 1st half and coming away with 0 points. 5 turnovers later we lose 14-6 to a team we outplayed.
#2 For 2017-Not even showing up against Prairie View at home and getting boat raced 34-0 after playing a helluva game against Kennesaw State and Troy in the previous two weeks.
The good- Winning 5 of the last 6 games of 2017 and coming close to knocking of eventual conference Champ Grambling
Best: Sam Houston
Worst: SE Lousiana
Its easy to pick the loss for NDSU to be the "worst".....best game was probably was probably either the SHSU or Wofford games....the EWU game was a woodshed game too (especially since it was on the road.....I think EWU had some growing pains though).