College Football is just around the corner!

z-man · Post by **z-man** » September 21, 2005 3:21 pm

IAHawki wrote:2005 Schedule
Day Date Opponent Location TV
Sat 09/03/05 Ball State Iowa City, IA (Varsity Club Day) ESPN Plus W, 56-0
Sat 09/10/05 Iowa State Ames, IA (Hy-Vee Cy-Hawk Series) ABC L,
23-3
Sat 09/17/05 Northern Iowa Iowa City, IA ESPN Plus/ESPNU W,
45-21
Sat 09/24/05 Ohio State Columbus, OH ABC 11:05 AM
Sat 10/01/05 Illinois Iowa City, IA (Homecoming) ESPN Plus 11:10 AM
Sat 10/08/05 Purdue West Lafayette, IN 3:35 PM
Sat 10/15/05 Indiana Iowa City, IA (Family Weekend)
Sat 10/22/05 Michigan Iowa City, IA
Sat 11/05/05 Northwestern Evanston, IL
Sat 11/12/05 Wisconsin Madison, WI
Sat 11/19/05 Minnesota Iowa City, IA

A little late, but I wanted to put my two cents in.

Y'all better be prepared to lose on October 8th!

RinglingRingling · Post by **RinglingRingling** » September 21, 2005 3:51 pm

z-man wrote:
CUparrot wrote:So who's going to what games this weekend?

I plan to be at the Citrus Bowl in Orlando this Saturday, where UCF will try to break the nations longest current losing streak in a game against Marshall.

GO HERD!!! (only because being associated with a record for trivia purposes is pretty cool. AND because the headlines will probably be a play on, "UCF Trampled by Thundering Herd"

)

IAHawki · Post by **IAHawki** » September 21, 2005 4:26 pm

z-man wrote:Y'all better be prepared to lose on October 8th!

I will be.

I hope my team will be.

Only time will tell.

msu#1 · Post by **msu#1** » September 22, 2005 10:41 pm

sonofabeach · Post by **sonofabeach** » September 22, 2005 10:48 pm

FSU is favored to win big this weekend over Bi-week but with our struggling offense it may be closer than expected

PHnSC · Post by **PHnSC** » September 24, 2005 3:58 pm

Another weekend of some good college football. Hopefully my Gamecocks can rebound and put a lot of points on the board tonight. Just watched the Clemson vs Boston College game and another good one. Hey Cuparrot, tough loss again this week. I have to say though I was really surprised by alot of play calling done by Bowden, specially with a little over a minute left in the game and Bowden doesnt try to get in FG range. Dean is a hell of a kicker, and I am surprised they didnt try to give him a shot.

z-man · Post by **z-man** » September 24, 2005 9:17 pm

YESSSS!!!!

UCF just beat Marshall to break the nations longest Division 1 losing streak at 17 games.

Lacey and I were there, but left at the end of the third quarter with the Knights leading by 13. Final score 23-13

Feels good to finally win one!

CUparrot · Post by **CUparrot** » September 25, 2005 3:58 pm

PHnSC wrote:Another weekend of some good college football. Hopefully my Gamecocks can rebound and put a lot of points on the board tonight. Just watched the Clemson vs Boston College game and another good one. Hey Cuparrot, tough loss again this week. I have to say though I was really surprised by alot of play calling done by Bowden, specially with a little over a minute left in the game and Bowden doesnt try to get in FG range. Dean is a hell of a kicker, and I am surprised they didnt try to give him a shot.

Yeah. I agree with you there. I questioned a lot of the play calling in the game yesterday. I hope the team doesn't let 2 OT losses in a row get them down so much that they can't bounce back. I still think this can be a great year for the Tigers.

CaptainP · Post by **CaptainP** » September 25, 2005 4:07 pm

The final dagger in Michigans title hopes....and it was only the Big Ten Opener!!!

msu#1 · Post by **msu#1** » September 25, 2005 11:00 pm

CaptainP wrote:The final dagger in Michigans title hopes....and it was only the Big Ten Opener!!!

No the final dagger will come this weekend after Drew"heisman" Stanton gets done with them

iuparrothead · Post by **iuparrothead** » September 25, 2005 11:53 pm

msu#1 wrote:No the final dagger will come this weekend after Drew"heisman" Stanton gets done with them

He is that good...

I was certain the Boilers were going to win the Big 10... that looks pretty unlikely after this weekend. The Spartans and Buckeyes are the faves now...

[hurl]

Gypsy In The Palace · September 25, 2005 11:56 pm

I have to say that I really had to laugh at the last play of the Michigan/Wisconsin game.

weirdo0521 · Post by **weirdo0521** » September 26, 2005 2:07 pm

msu#1 wrote:
CaptainP wrote:The final dagger in Michigans title hopes....and it was only the Big Ten Opener!!!

No the final dagger will come this weekend after Drew"heisman" Stanton gets done with them

He's really good....but unless something drastically changes he is not going to beat out Ballroom Dancing Matt Leinart.

z-man · Post by **z-man** » September 26, 2005 2:17 pm

iuparrothead wrote:

I was certain the Boilers were going to win the Big 10... that looks pretty unlikely after this weekend. The Spartans and Buckeyes are the faves now...

I thought this was going to finally be the year Purdue started winning the close games. I shoulda known better!

Being a Purdue football fan is kinda like being a Cubs fan....
You keep hoping for (and sometimes even expecting) success, and they just break your heart again and again.

Oh well, at least I can still hope they beat Notre Dame and IU this year!

Caribbean Soul · Post by **Caribbean Soul** » September 26, 2005 2:44 pm

z-man wrote:
iuparrothead wrote:

I was certain the Boilers were going to win the Big 10... that looks pretty unlikely after this weekend. The Spartans and Buckeyes are the faves now...

I thought this was going to finally be the year Purdue started winning the close games. I shoulda known better!

Being a Purdue football fan is kinda like being a Cubs fan....
You keep hoping for (and sometimes even expecting) success, and they just break your heart again and again.

Oh well, at least I can still hope they beat Notre Dame and IU this year!

z-man-

Are you an alumni? We just started watch Boilermaker football last season when my oldest enrolled as a freshman. It's been, how shall I say this ... "entertaining".

iuparrothead · Post by **iuparrothead** » September 26, 2005 2:53 pm

z-man wrote:
iuparrothead wrote:

I was certain the Boilers were going to win the Big 10... that looks pretty unlikely after this weekend. The Spartans and Buckeyes are the faves now...

I thought this was going to finally be the year Purdue started winning the close games. I shoulda known better!

Being a Purdue football fan is kinda like being a Cubs fan....
You keep hoping for (and sometimes even expecting) success, and they just break your heart again and again.

Oh well, at least I can still hope they beat Notre Dame and IU this year!

Well, as an IU grad, I hope not... but let's be realistic here... Purdue fans have nothing to complain about in comparison... Purdue's been very successful for many years and has gone to multiple bowl games.

And as a Cubs fan... nope... still no comparison!

CaptainP · Post by **CaptainP** » September 26, 2005 2:56 pm

msu#1 wrote: No the final dagger will come this weekend after Drew"heisman" Stanton gets done with them

I'm with you on this. MSU will win the Big Ten.

OSU is playing better, but I really like MSU this year. But watch out for the Badgers....

(They have the easiest schedule the rest of the way...don't have OSU or MSU, Iowa & Purdue are home games, the road schedule is light, except for Minnesota.)

3/4 Time · Post by **3/4 Time** » September 26, 2005 3:44 pm

The Buckeyes are coming together now and should run the table. The night game at Penn State will be tough but we have MSU here. I think this man and the rest of the Buckeye defense will have something to say on 10/15 when Drew Stanton and crew arrive in the shoe.

Just ask the Drew from Iowa who left here Saturday about the Bucks "D".

I think he was a little

At Minnesota will be good and then at

Well............let's just say I'm not as concerned as I once was....

ToplessRideFL · Post by **ToplessRideFL** » September 26, 2005 3:51 pm

Did I tell you that I wsa @ a friends on Saturday watching the OSU - Iowa game.... then we went to a place to eat, drink etc.... Most folks were watching Gators play Kentucky... And of course I had on my FSU shirt even tho we were idle..... some silly Gator fan says... oh, they have the FSU game on that TV (pointing to a set in the corner) I said, We are idle... (I looked at the game she was pointing at and thought.... LOL... thats Minnesota playing Purdue....) She musta argued with me for 10 minutes... Silly Gator!! I guess she hasnt noticed in the past 10 years we have taken to wearing gold pants... not that horrible orangey gold color....

z-man · Post by **z-man** » September 26, 2005 3:54 pm

Caribbean Soul wrote:
z-man-

Are you an alumni? We just started watch Boilermaker football last season when my oldest enrolled as a freshman. It's been, how shall I say this ... "entertaining".

I graduated from Purdue back in '77 (never had a winning football team my whole time at Purdue)

my oldest daughter is currently a senior at what I affectionately call "the evil empire" ie IU-Bloomington
another daughter is a freshman at IUPUI in Indy, plans to transfer up to Purdue next year.