Rutgers Scarlet Knights football

I didn't take a whole lot out of the show last night, but there was one comment that had me scratching my head.

And it was a comment from Kyle Whittingham saying that he enjoyed the Rutgers game for a couple of hours.

He said he re-watched the win by himself on Sunday, and it was a pleasurable game to watch, and then he was on to the next.

That's what he said last night.

We're just not on the same page.

It was just not a very enjoyable game.

It was Rutgers.

You're supposed to beat them by a lot.

It may not be duplicated anytime soon by anyone, and yet Rutgers was in this game throughout, despite having only three completed passes, three third-down conversions, and they still had three touchdowns.

So the Scarlet Knights had four plays.

that represented 186 of their team total 249 yards.

That means, Sam, the other 34 plays averaged less than two yards per play.

So they lost to Virginia Tech.

They beat Kent State, Cincinnati, Maryland, Rutgers, Penn State, Illinois.

So they played six unranked teams before they got to the trip to Michigan State.

Michigan State was number seven.

No, Tar Heels didn't make it.

Scarlet Knights? Oh, yes.

They didn't make it either.

Next year.

So I'm looking at Indiana's resume.

North Texas, Howard, Western Kentucky, they beat Northwestern by six, crushed Rutgers, beat Nebraska by three, lost Ohio State, beat Michigan by seven, and then... eat by Minnesota in overtime.

Yeah.

So number three, likely Utah.

No, Golden was 15-ish.

Chris Ash.

What, Rutgers?

Oh, my

Can we get a presidential pardon for the UMass game? That would do it.

That would get Rutgers ranked.

Yes.

Wow.

So, I mean, in all seriousness, this is going to be one of those games, if Michigan State wins it, that they're just going to have to create all kinds of havoc and craziness.

Defense is obviously very good.

I don't know if Michigan State has anybody of the caliber to be able to get some of those explosive plays that Rutgers got.

Rutgers had K.J. Duff and Antoine Raymond both have explosive plays in that game.

Let's get into our seven from 77 before we really go on a tangent there.

After studying the film from Saturday, how would you assess the offense's performance? Seemed like there were some positive steps, also some missed opportunities, and some context of who Michigan was facing in Rutgers.

So how do you take in everything that transpired offensively?

I'll break it down this way.

54 of those yards, I believe, was with Tommy Carr.

So...

The numbers don't look bad if you're playing anyone else, but you're playing Rutgers.

I expected that this was going to be the week that we finally got a dominant running performance, much like we had the second half against Penn State.

Always love for the hub, man.

and the Rutgers Scarlet Knights, who are clearly better than the Maryland Terrapins at football this year.

Yeah, if anyone didn't know

that already, now you know.

And I would agree with your assessment, Mark, when you say I would have a difficult time thinking a two-loss Notre Dame team doesn't find their way in.

But you look at their schedule, the only real quality win they have on the season is Wisconsin, who just lost to Iowa 30-0. and they're a 17-point favorite this Saturday afternoon against the Scarlet Knights, against Rutgers at home in Madison, Wisconsin.

But, I mean, it's Wisconsin, it's Rice, it's Michigan State, it's Purdue, it's North Carolina, it's Stanford, that loss on the road to BYU.

And, yes, they should have had one second left on the clock at the end of that game, but then BYU's subsequent loss the following week, the next week against UCF, and then they knocked off and destroyed Navy and won that game 35-13.