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  1. 4 minutes ago, Parliament said:

    Yes.  Trophy games are a thing in the B1G, and it's cool.

    There are some pretty good ones. And pretty good origin stories for some. 

    The little brown jug: Michigan coach Fielding Yost suspected that Minnesota would taint the water supply in a 1903 game in Minneapolis, so he ordered a manager to buy a water jug of their own. After Michigan left it behind following a 6-6 tie, it became the series’ traveling trophy.

    The Illibuck trophy: when Illinois and Ohio State decided they needed a rivalry trophy in 1925, they picked a live turtle; the animal’s long lifespan was meant to show the anticipated longevity of the Illinois-Ohio State rivalry. But the turtle died just two years later (according to the University of Illinois Library, it spent his two years living in fraternity houses and other campus buildings and died of stress.)

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  2. 17 minutes ago, Left Coast said:

    The Big 10 is getting so fucking lucky getting UW/UO/USC/UCLA next year.

    Iowa beat Wisconsin 15-6 today. Watching something like that sounds like a punishment vs the UW/UO game (or vs any game for that matter).

    Lolwut? They have half of the top 6 and make the most money. They don’t care if the score is 36-33 or 14-6. 

    I will say that this game, and really this whole season has got to feel bittersweet if you’re a fan of the pac 12. What a great farewell tour this season has turned into for the conference. 

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  3. Announcers: “This is the first time they’ve faced 4 consecutive ranked opponents since 2000.”

    And they wilted like dry flowers. They might go 1-3. Should have had a chance to go 0-4.

    Amazing how much harder things are when you play a full fucking schedule. 

    Fuck ND. 

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  4. 3 hours ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

    Boo for not making the west coast schools play in the Big noon kickoff time slot at home at 9am pacific...that would have been so funny to watch.

     

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     But since that’s just for home games that doesn’t mean they won’t have to travel across the country to play a 9am jet lag game at Penn state. 

  5. 5 hours ago, redswingline said:

    Holy crap the Big 10 sucks ass.

    Unranked Northwestern is giving Pedophile State (#6!?) all it can handle.

    NW is about as bad as Colorado was last year.

    So which conference has 3 teams better than UM, OSU, and PSU?

    If PSU isn’t the 6th best team, who outside of 6th is better? Washington, maybe? 

  6. 20 minutes ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:

    Are they just not showing the Jordan-Justin four ball match outside of the occasional putt to spare the viewer from seeing an ugly tee shot or approach? It's a tie match now and yet we're seeing every shot from the matches where the US is comfortably up. Plus the oh-so-thrilling Captain's cart cam.

    They are just mostly showing the matches that are nearly closed out because after that they’ll be showing all of the other two matches. 
     

    edit: but also why you said. 

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  7. Koepka and Scheffler now hold the biggest loss since the switch from 36 hole matches to 18  


    These are the biggest blowouts, by format, in Ryder Cup history for 18 holes matches.

    Singles

    Twice in Ryder Cup history a golfer has won a singles match by an 8-and-7 score. Both times, the winner was American. In the 1989 Ryder Cup, Tom Kite defeated Howard Clark by 8 and 7 (meaning the match ended after the 12th hole, when Kite reached an insurmountable lead of eight holes ahead with only seven holes left on the course). And in the 1997 Ryder Cup, Fred Couples won by an 8-and-7 score over Ian Woosnam. No European golfer has yet won an 18-hole singles match by more than a 5-and-4 margin.

    Foursomes

    The largest winning margin in an 18-hole foursomes match is 7 and 6, and Kite is once again involved. In the 1979 Ryder Cup, Kite and partner Hale Irwin won by that score over Ken Brown and Des Smyth.

    The 7-and-6 score has been achieved twice more since then. In the 1991 Ryder Cup, Mark O'Meara and Paul Azinger won by that score over Nick Faldo and David Gilford; and in the 2012 Ryder Cup, Keegan Bradley/Phil Mickelson defeated Luke Donald/Lee Westwood, 7 and 6.

    The biggest winning foursomes margin by any European side is 7 and 5, achieved twice so far. The teams were Jose Rivero/Jose Maria Canizares (over Kite/Calvin Peete) in 1985; and Woosnam/Bernhard Langer (over Azinger/Payne Stewart) in 1993.

    Fourballs

    The score of 7 and 5 is the biggest blowout in the Ryder Cup history of the fourball format, achieved just once so far. That was in the 1981 Ryder Cup, when Lee Trevino and Jerry Pate teamed to dispatch Faldo and Sam Torrance by that score. The European record for fourball winning margin is 6 and 5, achieved multiple times.

    What About 36-Hole Matches?

    The fourball format was added to the Ryder Cup in 1963, after the competition had switched to 18-hole matches. Therefore, no 36-hole fourballs have ever been played. But 36-hole foursomes and 36-hole singles matches were played prior to 1961. In fact, they were standard through that point.

    Biggest winning margin in 36-hole singles match: 10-and-8 by George Duncan over Walter Hagen in the 1929 Ryder Cup.

    Biggest winning margin in 36-hole foursomes match: 10-and-9, first by Denny Shute/Hagen over Duncan/Arthur Havers in the 1931 Ryder Cup; then by Lew Worsham/Ed Oliver over Henry Cotton/Arthur Lees in the 1947 Ryder Cup.

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  8. 6 hours ago, ztejas said:

     

     

    Cal has hung 32 on Wash now.

    I'm not buying it. Anyone west of Austin is fucked in my book when it comes to contending nationally. The culture just isn't there. They don't care enough and the talent base is too far away. 

    Texas will be the furthest west school that contends the next 20 seasons. @ me when someone further west than us makes the title game. 

    It was 52-12 with 2 minutes to play in the 3rd quarter. Washington’s 2nd and 3rd string defenders gave up some back door touchdowns up 40 points has no bearing on their ability to compete for a championship. I’m not saying they will, but those late points after the game was well out of reach are meaningless. 

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