Kolek planning to go pro
Saw this on the twitter:"Kentucky and Duke are ranked in the same football AP poll for the 1st time since 1957. They have been ranked in the same basketball AP poll 547 times in that span."
Virginia Tech aint Michigan.
Again, a low level FBS school upsets a ranked P5 school pretty much every year. Such as last year. Without looking it up, can you remember who is was? There was also one in 2015. Probably don't remember that one either.
"Low level", so you just mean non-P5? I assume you're talking about Troy-LSU last year. Which was probably the "biggest" upset of the non-con. But Troy is a solid program who won their conference last year. Thats different than a team who got blown out by an FCS school the weak before and who most people wouldn't know played FBS football.I indeed don't recall 2015. I looked it up, are you talking Citadel/South Carolina? Cause that USC team was TRAAAASSHH.It might not still be a national story in December but it wasn't a run of the mill weekly or annual upset.But yea, VT does love choking in buy games. I don't know how good JMU was in 2010, but JMU is probably perennial top 3 FCS program, along with NDSU. They could, and often do, handle FBS teams when given a chance.
But yea, VT does love choking in buy games. I don't know how good JMU was in 2010, but JMU is probably perennial top 3 FCS program, along with NDSU. They could, and often do, handle FBS teams when given a chance.
Jeremy Larkin from Northwestern had to retire today for medical reasons.Whenever it seems like Northwestern is primed to have a special year, it all goes to hell.
Any chance for a special year went out the window with the Duke game...and then shattered on the pavement with the Akron loss.
Yep, other than the fact that VT travelled to ODU, I would say it was the biggest FBS upset since App St over UM
2015 was Memphis over Ole Miss.But my point is that those single, one-off events don't have lasting positive PR implications. That's really was my entire point to counter what Chicos said.
People still talk about App State over Michigan. ODU was 0-3. They didn't have a program from 1942 through 2008. They were nearly dead last in every FBS ranking. This will be one of the ESPY Upsets Of The Year come next Summer. Monumental upset. Biggest on record since ESPN rankings started.ODU @ Liberty (1-2) Loss 52-10ODU vs FIU (2-2) Loss 28-20ODU @ Charlotte (2-2) Loss 28-25ODU vs #13 Virginia Tech (2-1) Win 49-35
No one will care in a month. No one cares about the ESPYs.Case in point. Go to any marginal college basketball fan and ask them to name the teams involved in the 16 v. 1 upset from last year's tournament. I doubt 5% would recall who played. What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.Is there anything of which one can say, “Look! This is something new”?It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time.
I think chicos2 was simply saying that ODU over VaTech was a bigger upset than App St over Michigan because App St has been a fine program (albeit not a high-major one) for a long time while ODU has been one step up from Marquette club football.And on this occasion, I agree with c2.However, sultan, I agree with you about the ESPYs and all that. And the App State win probably will be remembered longer because it was so outrageous at the time; there have been big upsets since then but that was one that really energized all college football fans whose school colors aren't maize and blue.Neither of them were Chaminade over Ralph Sampson, of course! Heck, neither of them were UMBC over Sampson's alma mater!
No one will care in a month.
Clemson senior QB Kelly Bryant leaves program so he can play elsewhere next season. He had lost the starting job to a freshman.Highest-profile example so far of the new "redshirt allowed after 4 games" rule. Excellent rule, giving the athletes a little of the control that had been exclusively reserved for coaches and other rich, powerful figures.
Old Dominion loses again. 1-5. Virginia Tech trails #6 Notre Dame by 1 point in the second half.
Effen ND.I still have confidence in them that they'll find a way to lose to either Navy, Syracuse or both.