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Message: [QUOTE="wfschrec, post: 360088, member: 361"] Have you actually watched Minny? They are awful ... we stuck with a better USC squad this season without USC making a ton of mistakes ... if you watched the USC/Minny games you would know that USC did everything humanly possible to cough those games up ... they couldn't run the ball on Minny and even though Barkley was completing passes left and right USC for some reason abandoned the passing game and decided to run the ball backwards ... look at the numbers, if they had Redd for either of those seasons USC wins by 3 scores each time. As for WV feeling the same way about us ... well we did choke and blow 5 in a row after beating them did we not ... we were a bad matchup for them as we all came to know. I don't care if the game is at Minny or at the Dome ... they are not a good football team ... They were manhandled by a NW team last season that is much better this season and we for all intents and purposes dominated that game sans the special teams ... they are a 3-9 team (last season) hanging their hats on a 3 game win streak of UNLV, W Mich and NH ... and I really don't care if SU is playing in the B1G, ACC or BE .. the fact is you are playing a cellar dwellar from a conference that is performing rather poorly thus far in OOC ... sorry but if you feel this is a middle of the pack or potentially top quarter of the BE squad ... (as I feel they are top half) they better take care of business against these guys ... I feel they will. Frankly for 3 quarters we hung tough with USC last season ... the rest of our schedule proved that game was probably an abberation as was Minny's game against them. Minny beat Illinois, Iowa and Miami of Ohio and was either manhandled by a better program or lost to an FCS school for the rest of their schedule ... they were 3-9 ... 3-9 ... they are not a good football team sorry ... I wasn't paraphrasing when I said they suck. I have higher expectations for SU this year than last ... I am confident they will come out and sock Minny right in the mouth and get the W ... And now with SU getting bigger upfront on the DLine I like their chances ... had we been trotting out last season's DLine I wouldn't feel nearly as good about our chances. One of the biggest thing that hurt Minny is their secondary ... I expect us to exploit that since the running game is not our strength this season ... IMHO (and maybe I am going out on a limb with this squad) but I feel we are a bad matchup for them. Last season they gave up over 400 yds/game in a conference not exactly known for slinging it ... honestly I feel much better about our game with them than I did with NW for a bevy of reasons ... [/QUOTE]

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