Our Purdue win suddenly looks better... | Syracusefan.com

Our Purdue win suddenly looks better...

We beat some really good teams, and we lost to some really good teams. We had a really tough schedule and all of our games were quality games, except Wagner. Overall, I think this was a big step up for our program. Winning tonight was huge, and hopefully a bowl game. We all got spoiled with 6-0 but seriously we did pretty good overall.
 
llandz said:
We beat some really good teams, and we lost to some really good teams. We had a really tough schedule and all of our games were quality games, except Wagner. Overall, I think this was a big step up for our program. Winning tonight was huge, and hopefully a bowl game. We all got spoiled with 6-0 but seriously we did pretty good overall.
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Go back to 9/1 Forget the order. The question would be.. would you be happy with a 7-5 record? Everyone here would say yes. Oh, and while we lost to the Tigers. We took them to the final play at Clemson.
 
dasher said:
Go back to 9/1 Forget the order. The question would be.. would you be happy with a 7-5 record? Everyone here would say yes. Oh, and while we lost to the Tigers. We took them to the final play at Clemson.
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Yep.
 
dasher said:
Go back to 9/1 Forget the order. The question would be.. would you be happy with a 7-5 record? Everyone here would say yes. Oh, and while we lost to the Tigers. We took them to the final play at Clemson.
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7 and 5 with a chance for a bowl game and 8 wins. Every single person on this board would have signed up for that outcome hands down.
 
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dasher said:
Go back to 9/1 Forget the order. The question would be.. would you be happy with a 7-5 record? Everyone here would say yes. Oh, and while we lost to the Tigers. We took them to the final play at Clemson.
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Agreed. 7-5 is a very good year, not great but very good. Ill Take it and keep building. We have got to get this o line cleaned up. The false starts are maddening
 
When I watched them they had tons of next level talent. It was a good win, aided in part by their own stupidity in the end for sure.
 
cto said:
They won the Big 10 West Division title tonight ... and play Michigan next week in the Big 10 championship game.
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Louisville is ranked too - pretty sure every team we played had a winning record besides Wagner and BC.
 
dasher said:
Go back to 9/1 Forget the order. The question would be.. would you be happy with a 7-5 record? Everyone here would say yes. Oh, and while we lost to the Tigers. We took them to the final play at Clemson.
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Forget the order, we should be happy with 7-5 right now anyway.

But if the last 10 minutes last night were like the first 30, I think everyone would be justified in their concerns.

I don’t agree with most of Axe’s post game show comments, but I do agree with his comment that 13 penalties in the 12th game is just ridiculous.
 
cto said:
They won the Big 10 West Division title tonight ... and play Michigan next week in the Big 10 championship game.
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I think that says more about how bad that side of the Big Ten was.
 
JustPherU said:
I think that says more about how bad that side of the Big Ten was.
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They beat a tough Illinois team that took Michigan to the wire … it’s soft but it’s not ACC coastal soft which is why Duke had 8 wins … look at their schedule.
 
wfschrec said:
They beat a tough Illinois team that took Michigan to the wire … it’s soft but it’s not ACC coastal soft which is why Duke had 8 wins … look at their schedule.
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They also got absolutely destroyed by a horrible Iowa team.I’m not saying it wasn’t a good win, but they weren’t a top level team this season.
 
JustPherU said:
They also got absolutely destroyed by a horrible Iowa team.I’m not saying it wasn’t a good win, but they weren’t a top level team this season.
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A win is a win … a win over a ranked foe is a ranked win. If we were playing in the ACC Coastal we win at least 9 games. The Illini have one of the best backs in the NCAA and a very good defense. They would win the ACC Coastal in a walk.
 
wfschrec said:
A win is a win … a win over a ranked foe is a ranked win. If we were playing in the ACC Coastal we win at least 9 games. The Illini have one of the best backs in the NCAA and a very good defense. They would win the ACC Coastal in a walk.
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My opinion on college football this season is that there were about 7 or 8 top teams and then about 75 teams that anybody could beat anyone on a given day.Syracuse obviously started out well, but you have to admit we were gifted that win by Purdue and the dumb penalties they committed at the end.I just don’t think Purdue is a top team and they fall in the 75 team category.
 
JustPherU said:
My opinion on college football this season is that there were about 7 or 8 top teams and then about 75 teams that anybody could beat anyone on a given day.Syracuse obviously started out well, but you have to admit we were gifted that win by Purdue and the dumb penalties they committed at the end.I just don’t think Purdue is a top team and they fall in the 75 team category.
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We don’t have any top teams in the ACC either hence my point. You could also say we gifted Clemson their win … a win is a win. You can slice it however you wish. We played 9 bowl teams … from the 11 FBS on the schedule (Wagner obviously doesn’t factor in) again give me a list of teams that played that many. That includes two conf division winners in Clemson and Purdue. Give me a team with a similar claim. Purdue is not elite and honestly outside of UGA, Mich and a few others who is. Purdue was good enough to win their half of the B1G. How you can’t take away beating them as a significant positive is beyond me.
 
llandz said:
We beat some really good teams, and we lost to some really good teams. We had a really tough schedule and all of our games were quality games, except Wagner. Overall, I think this was a big step up for our program. Winning tonight was huge, and hopefully a bowl game. We all got spoiled with 6-0 but seriously we did pretty good overall.
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We lost to teams we thought we would lose to at the beginning of the season. Now, of course, our expectations changed once we were 6-0, but there's no shame in losing to the teams we did. We can question effort and injuries, but the season certainly played out better than most of us expected. We could be Rutgers, who is 4-8 and lost their last game 37-0. lol
 
wfschrec said:
We don’t have any top teams in the ACC either hence my point. You could also say we gifted Clemson their win … a win is a win. You can slice it however you wish. We played 9 bowl teams … from the 11 FBS on the schedule (Wagner obviously doesn’t factor in) again give me a list of teams that played that many. That includes two conf division winners in Clemson and Purdue. Give me a team with a similar claim. Purdue is not elite and honestly outside of UGA, Mich and a few others who is. Purdue was good enough to win their half of the B1G. How you can’t take away beating them as a significant positive is beyond me.
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Gifted Clemson a win? They out gained us two to one and had 4 turnovers.Gotta take off those Orange glasses and come back to reality. We played decent football the first half of the season, but to think we were some kind of dominant early on just isn’t true.
I never said Purdue wasn’t a good win by the way.
 
JustPherU said:
Gifted Clemson a win? They out gained us two to one and had 4 turnovers.Gotta take off those Orange glasses and come back to reality. We played decent football the first half of the season, but to think we were some kind of dominant early on just isn’t true.
I never said Purdue wasn’t a good win by the way.
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We also extended a key drive for them with a PF that allowed them to get back in the game and Cuse still had a chance to win. Yardage doesn’t mean a thing it’s the points that win games.
 
wfschrec said:
We also extended a key drive for them with a PF that allowed them to get back in the game and Cuse still had a chance to win. Yardage doesn’t mean a thing it’s the points that win games.
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Exactly, Clemson won and we didn’t.
Really gotta raise your expectations of the Orange.
I’m not pleased at all on how this season went and darn sure expect better.
As many teams that go to bowl games nowadays it would be hard not to play at least 7 or 8 games against bowl eligible teams.
 
JustPherU said:
Exactly, Clemson won and we didn’t.
Really gotta raise your expectations of the Orange.
I’m not pleased at all on how this season went and darn sure expect better.
As many teams that go to bowl games nowadays it would be hard not to play at least 7 or 8 games against bowl eligible teams.
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Really? Mich played 6 … OSU played 7 … ND played 7 … Bama played 7 … UGA played 7 … none of the elite teams played 9. That is anywhere from 2-3 extra games against sub .500 teams. Give Cuse two squads with sub .500 records in lieu of two of their losses and they are a 9 win team. Only 6 times in the last 22 years was their SOS as high or higher than this. Our SRS which is results vs SOS is the third highest we have seen since 2000. Higher than any in Marrones tenure, not looking through orange colored glasses I am working with facts. Can we stop already? This was about the quality of the Purdue win anyway.
 
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