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kittens vs Ducks
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The thing I noticed is that the Bobs didn’t really play that bad for them. They had that one play to #14 that worked three times. They were just so much worse at every single position than Oregon. Like, not a little bit worse. Much worse. Not much you can do in that situation, so I’m sure they took the fact that they scored a TD as a huge moral W. Just like Bozeman HS wouldn’t be very good against the Bobs, but would be jazzed to get the chance to play them and score a TD.
I largely agree with this. They were just no match for the ducks at any position. What suprised me a little was how slow their LB's looked. But I still think the bobcats will be near the top of the BSC this year.
Here is my offer to all you expert football analysts on here. I'll take the cats against the jackrabbits this Saturday or the cats against the griz later this year for $1k. This offer is good through next Friday night. PM me to arrange it.
mousegriz1
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Didn't know he was from Missoula. We need a guy named "missoulagriz" to give us city statistics and brief bios of anyone playing on any team if they are from Missoula. Don't you have a cousin in Missoula that can help?
BrownBear9501
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BrownBear9501
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The Cat starters scored a TD against Oregon’s third string defense….:yep time to celebrate that colossal feat.
billingsgriz
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Will it though? SDSU is still unknown at this point.
Yea in the prediction thread earlier this year I predicted 9-3. Griz will be 10-2.
Yeah, once the Oregon players on the field were actually on the same planet as the Bobplayers, they were able to cross the goal line. That should count for something. They couldn’t realistically expect to do anything against the Oregon starters.
When I was about 11, SI for Kids had a blurb about some kid who beat Pippen in a game of HORSE at a summer camp. It was a thrill for the kid, but only an idiot would think the kid would ever have a chance against Pippen trying his best. I think of the BobTD kind of like that.
Maybe I’m misreading this and the Bobs actually thought they could look decent against Oregon. Bless their hearts if true.
footballdood
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Let's not forget that Oregon is a professional team and the Bobcats are a college team.
billingsgriz
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The Shi__y Kitties
at times today resembled a bad Mont. high-school team !!!I didn't think MSU would win, but lose by less than 30, maybe--best-case scenario--lose by low double digits like Idaho v. Oregon, 24-14 one year ago.
footballdood
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Haha fair enough. I assumed they'd drop off from last year, but based on that result I wouldn't consider MSU to be a national title contender.The Shi__y Kitties
I didn't think MSU would win, but lose by less than 30, maybe--best-case scenario--lose by low double digits like Idaho v. Oregon, 24-14 one year ago.
I watched a lot of the top teams in FCS today play, and I gotta say I don't think we know anything about who's gonna round into championship form just yet.
NDSU was probably the only team that looked like they haven't really missed a beat.
SDSU was sloppy as hell, MSU played maybe one of the best CFB teams in the country (and looked...meh? I dunno, how can you even tell?), USD got boat raced by the ISU team that barely beat the Kansas State team that UND nearly beat, UIW are frauds, UC Davis were frauds in the first half before turning it around, and the list goes on.
Some of the teams that showed out today might lose 4-5 games this year, and I bet a couple that we all thought looked horrible do really well.
Who knows, it might be another one of those seasons where NDSU is just way better than everyone else.
Hoping the massive changes we made will get us up to their level this season, though.
Putting the score aside, even NDSU had issues. If they'd have been playing a team with a pulse that game would have looked a bit different. I'm not so sure they're the juggernaut they've been in the past, at least not yet. We shall see.
I think overall it's hard to tell about teams in first games. There are always lots of mistakes. Yes, Idaho made a good showing at Oregon last year and expectations were then really high for them. But, then went on to have just an okay season.
The cats were never going to keep it close vs Oregon. Any of their dumb ass fans who thought they would be within 20 are bigger idiots than I thought.
Taco looked good
Qb got the ball out fast and looked accurate.
They will miss Tommy like I’ve said for a long time now.
Their tackling was abysmal. Some of the worst tackling from a cats team I’ve seen.
They didn’t make one stop on defense. 9 straight scoring drives for Oregon regardless of 2nd team or 3rs team.
Too many pre snap penalties and procedural penalties by cats too. They have A LOT to clean up
Zero run game, which is also weird to see from a cats team.
Oregon looked really really good
Taco looked good
Qb got the ball out fast and looked accurate.
They will miss Tommy like I’ve said for a long time now.
Their tackling was abysmal. Some of the worst tackling from a cats team I’ve seen.
They didn’t make one stop on defense. 9 straight scoring drives for Oregon regardless of 2nd team or 3rs team.
Too many pre snap penalties and procedural penalties by cats too. They have A LOT to clean up
Zero run game, which is also weird to see from a cats team.
Oregon looked really really good
I think your post touches on a bigger point about the different levels within any sport. Consistency is often what separates average from good from great. For that reason, inherent at the top of FCS football is less consistency than we see at the top of the FBS, and the same from FBS to NFL, etc. I’m not saying it’s ever set in stone at any level, but one can be more certain about what team will show up at the top of the FBS than he can when assessing the top of the FCS. In short, players and teams are less consistent in the FCS.
Accordingly, the I think the early season polls can be more incorrect in the FCS than the FBS. BUT, I don’t share many peoples’ opinion that these polls are meaningless. Call it inertia or stubbornness or whatever, but when a team is ranked super high in the preseason, they can get a pass on looking shitty (“just had a bad game, but I’m still right about them”), where a team ranked 14th looking shitty won’t be viewed the same way by pollsters after looking shitty because it’s all self-fulfilling (“see, I knew they were inconsistent”). Example: A 5-1 team ranked 14th in the preseason will almost always be ranked below a 4-2 team ranked 1st in preseason.
Couple that with the fact that polls are a factor in playoff selection, and the fact that some FCS pollsters have credibility that barely eclipses that of a message board poster, and it can be very interesting. Meaningless to determine who is better than whom? OK. Meaningless in total? I don’t think so.
