Week 4 Games

Dan · Sep 22, 2016

Week 4 college football news & games thread! Feel free to add and discuss any other CFB games/news/items of interest :thumb:

Thursday, September 22nd

Clemson at Georgia Tech
6:30pm CT - ESPN

Saturday, September 24th

Wisconsin at Michigan State
11:00am CT - BTN

Iowa at Rutgers
11:00am CT - ESPN2

Colorado State at Minnesota
11:00am CT - ESPNU

Nevada at Purdue
11:00am CT - ESPNews

Georgia at Ole Miss
11:00am CT - ESPN

Penn State at Michigan
2:30pm CT - ABC

Wake Forest at Indiana
2:30pm CT - BTN

Florida at Tennessee
2:30pm CT - CBS

Nebraska at Northwestern
6:30pm CT - BTN

Arkansas vs Texas A&M (Arlington, TX)
8:00pm CT - ESPN

Second and Chalmers · Sep 22, 2016

Multiple intriguing games in every timeslot. A good week for an Illini bye!

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IlliniFaninHoosierLand · Sep 24, 2016

Anyone else find it odd that a ranked vs. ranked game like Wisconsin-Michigan State is on BTN while games like Iowa-Rutgers and Nevada-Purdue are on the ESPN networks?

illinipioneer · Sep 24, 2016

IlliniFaninHoosierLand said:
Anyone else find it odd that a ranked vs. ranked game like Wisconsin-Michigan State is on BTN while games like Iowa-Rutgers and Nevada-Purdue are on the ESPN networks?

I've always wondered if all the games in a season are pre-determined vs. how easily can a network add a game or switch ones out to focus on a team that surprises many.

USNIlliniFan · Sep 24, 2016

Holy cow.... 2 Plays, 2 touchdowns... FSU v. USF track meet.... Thought it was a football game, hahaha

IlliniFaninHoosierLand · Sep 24, 2016

illinipioneer said:
I've always wondered if all the games in a season are pre-determined vs. how easily can a network add a game or switch ones out to focus on a team that surprises many.

If I had to guess, I'd say the first few weeks of the season it's pre-determined so I guess the excuse for the major networks is that they didn't expect Wisconsin to be as good as they were.

Though that you makes you wonder why the other two games got put on the ESPNs.

illinipioneer · Sep 24, 2016

USNIlliniFan said:
Holy cow.... 2 Plays, 2 touchdowns... FSU v. USF track meet.... Thought it was a football game, hahaha

There at the beginning I thought it would be a fun game, now it's looking to settle into a pounding.

Hoppy2105 · Sep 24, 2016

I saw that USC lost to Utah and is now 1-3. I'm not sure why...but I'm always happy to see that team lose.

illinifan4249 · Sep 24, 2016

Looks like once again Wisconsin will be the team to beat in the West. So much for them having a down year.

Hoppy2105 · Sep 24, 2016

Yup. And even though Nevada isn't great, Purdue is winning. I don't think that will be an easy win. With the way Rutgers is hanging with Iowa, they won't be easy either.

We need to get much better than what we saw last week or we might see a 1-11 year. I think we will see the improvement we desperately want to see.

breadman · Sep 24, 2016

illinifan4249 said:
Looks like once again Wisconsin will be the team to beat in the West. So much for them having a down year.

How about this. Anybody checking out what they are doing on the road today? It's looking like we had a better chance of beating them last year instead of this

BillyBob1 · Sep 24, 2016

Hoppy2105 said:
Yup. And even though Nevada isn't great, Purdue is winning. I don't think that will be an easy win. With the way Rutgers is hanging with Iowa, they won't be easy either.

We need to get much better than what we saw last week or we might see a 1-11 year. I think we will see the improvement we desperately want to see.

Read Nevada missed a 27yd fg for the tie in the ending minutes of the game.

JDHalfrack · Sep 24, 2016

Rutgers sucks. The fact Iowa only won by 7 is a testament to how bad THEY are, not how good Rutgers is...

EfremWinters84 · Sep 24, 2016

After seeing the scores of today's games (played so far), I have to think we're probably the 14th best team in the conference this season.

USNIlliniFan · Sep 24, 2016

EfremWinters84 said:
After seeing the scores of today's games (played so far), I have to think we're probably the 14th best team in the conference this season.

Unfortunately, the bar is set pretty low at this time

IrishIllini · Sep 24, 2016

Iowa and Nebraska looked pretty bad today. We play both. That's two potential wins...

Idk how good Wisconsin actually is. MSU looks pretty bad.

It'll be interesting...

WesterveltVictoryCigar · Sep 24, 2016

IrishIllini said:
Iowa and Nebraska looked pretty bad today.

Posting from the future?

illinidarrin · Sep 24, 2016

That was terrible by Newby.:tsk:

the national · Sep 24, 2016

IrishIllini said:
Iowa and Nebraska looked pretty bad today. We play both. That's two potential wins...

It'll be interesting...

Doc we better back up, we don't have enough room to get up to 88.

In all seriousness, that was a bad start for Neb. Fumble into the end zone for a touchback. NW is luuucky.

IrishIllini · Sep 24, 2016

WesterveltVictoryCigar said:
Posting from the future?

Haha, I meant Rutgers...although Nebraska and NW look pretty bad. Goes without saying we're likely worse, but they aren't unbeatable.

ItsFootballTime · Sep 24, 2016

JDHalfrack said:
Rutgers sucks. The fact Iowa only won by 7 is a testament to how bad THEY are, not how good Rutgers is...

What I thought 2.

The tobacco smokers barely beat Pitt but WMU is scorching a 3 - 0 team. Georgia Southern hasnt beaten anybody but were undefeated. WMU might hang a hundred

This is a great week because noter dame and Indiana both lost and to duke and wake forest.

Hoppy2105 · Sep 24, 2016

I didn't realize Flynn Nagel decommitted from Duke and flipped to NW. As I recall, we really wanted him back under the last regime.

BillyBob1 · Sep 24, 2016

I guess Northwestern's budget didn't include grass seed money!

Adnarel · Sep 24, 2016

Wisconsin looks like it might be for real.

JDHalfrack · Sep 24, 2016

Honestly, my take away from this week (and slightly from last week) is this:

Nebraska: we actually may have a shot. Instead of getting blown out, we could potentially keep this a close game.

Purdue: We better win this game. That's all there is to it. This was already a winnable game on paper, and having watch thus far this season just reinforces that.

Rutgers: Rutgers is just plain awful. They've been awful for years. Sure, they barely lost to a ranked team this week, but they're vastly overrated (thanks to a cupcake schedule last year).

Michigan: They will rape us. There's no way to excuse ourselves from this one.

Minnesota: This team looks better than I thought they would, but worse than their record shows. We could definitely win this game if the stars all align properly (homecoming, big attendance, play good football, etc...).

Michigan State: Definitely beatable, just probably not by Illinois. But, I will say after what happened to them and Notre Dame this week, they don't look as tough as they did a couple weeks ago.

Wisconsin: Nope.

Iowa: I think we can safely move this game back over to the "probably can win" category. I still think they're better than us, but it'll be at our place, and hopefully we'll have some momentum from some key wins already. Maybe, if the cards fall right, we're looking at a "win and go to a bowl" situation.

Northwestern: they've looked beatable all year. This should be one we win.

When all is said and done, even after the disappointment I felt after last game, I still see three games in this schedule we should win, and two or three more that we could win. Of course, there's 2 or 3 that we probably don't stand chance in, but I think I've convinced myself to go back to not writing off a bowl game quite yet.

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