Line opens at +39.5
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Playing the third ranked team in the most top heavy, unbalanced, unfair era of college sports.
Add in the fact they are the best team we have ever played against and this should come as no surprise at all
Third meaningless game of the year we have played.
Add in the fact they are the best team we have ever played against and this should come as no surprise at all
Third meaningless game of the year we have played.
What game mattered in regards to our season? And the goal of winning a championship?
We showed some offensive signs against SB
Defense played very good at VT
This game we are nearly a 6 score underdog. How could game like that really matter? Ooc game as well
We showed some offensive signs against SB
Defense played very good at VT
This game we are nearly a 6 score underdog. How could game like that really matter? Ooc game as well
If you are SB champion. It might help getting a playoff spot?
Need to keep it respectable.
Need to keep it respectable.
Playoffs??? Playoffs???
All I did was post the opening line and a question. I know how good Ohio State is and how much they spent to be that good.
I will say it’s interesting that you do seem to at least be recognizing reality now. Didn’t even pretend to act like we have any shot. This game was always meaningless except for a need to keep it somewhat respectable. We lost any shot at the playoff spot when we lost to VT when you consider this loss was already baked in.
Perkins is following his typical pattern. Pre-season, Marshall is the bestest eveeeeeeer because it is Marshall. Then after CH's charges are manhandled by some mediocre P4 team or by a MACer, the line that we can "win the conference" (something CH has NEVER done) is trotted out, playing off the true, but irrelevant, point that non-conference games don't really count in that way. Now, in a bow to reality Perkins is accepting OSU will manhandle us.
Then comes WMU, which also should easily control that game, and we will still be in the "but we can win the conference, we are 0-0" mode. Then we will spend a brief time in the "well if Appy loses two games and we win out..." mode. Then we will move on to the "we can make a bowl" mode. Which might or might not happen, it doesn't really matter.
Then the reset button is pushed and it all starts over again. Except we move up in class from the second best B10 team to the best team from the best conference, Georgia, who should be favored by at least 50. But we can still win the conference....
As to your original post, lay the points and take the Buckeyes.
While Perkins takes his rhetoric to ridiculous levels... I do agree with his premise.
We learned nothing against Stony Brook... They were awful and we looked like the 85 Bears.
We learned pretty much nothing against VT... Other than we aren't very good at that damn newfangled forward pass.
We will learn pretty much nothing this week... OSU is a legit National Title contender and whether or not they beat the spread will be determined by how the coaches decided to bet it in their burner Fan Duel accounts (maybe they'll help us out and bet the under).
We will learn what we are made of the next three weeks -- WMU, App State, and Georgia Southern are comparable teams to us. We will need to win 2 out of 3.
We learned nothing against Stony Brook... They were awful and we looked like the 85 Bears.
We learned pretty much nothing against VT... Other than we aren't very good at that damn newfangled forward pass.
We will learn pretty much nothing this week... OSU is a legit National Title contender and whether or not they beat the spread will be determined by how the coaches decided to bet it in their burner Fan Duel accounts (maybe they'll help us out and bet the under).
We will learn what we are made of the next three weeks -- WMU, App State, and Georgia Southern are comparable teams to us. We will need to win 2 out of 3.
So what, be the line for We are Marshall anyways we show up win or lose on game day. Screw the gamblers sorry SOB’s. Go ahead and take that line hope you lose your asses. I am praying that we don’t back down and give them more than expected and kick their paid for asses. NIL (DEI), has made It the lust for $$$ bigger than teamwork, fellowship, and athletic abilities of our children. Frankly writing I bet the whole nation wants us to beat them come Saturday. David vs Goliath for sure! Coach Huff let loose the Herd!
Would you happen to be a grandmother/grandfather? -- This is the exact kind of pep talk my grandma would give me before my high school basketball team was about to lose by 30+ at Erie Cathedral Prep every year.
This might be an unpopular opinion, but quoting a movie that’s 18 years old about an event that happened 54 years ago is part of our problem. We need to move forward and realize we can’t keep defining our program by past events. It’s time to accept that college football has evolved, and we’ve been left behind.
College football no longer exists in my book....professional football that happens to be played on Saturday!
I admire your optimism, but I don't see it. This is a bad coach with bad players.
Well, we'll be favored at home with the Bronco's...but as you know the favorites don't always win!
Yikes... People still pouring money on Ohio State even at 39.5.
I jumped over to the Ohio State board for a second just to see what they think about this matchup... Basically they think we are Western Michigan Part Two and this will be another 56-7 type game.
There were a few guys who talked about our defense being pretty good and predicted closer scores, in the 45-10 range, but most of them would lay the 40 points.
You said "bad players" last year too. The thing is, we had more players make NFL rosters, practice squads, and transfer out to Power 5 programs after last season than ever. As I said last year, it wasn't a talent issue. It was a coaching/coordinator issue.
I am taking Marshall +40 with how Huff gets them fired up to play big time teams. We have covered (or won) vs every P4 team since Huff became our head coach. Don't see that changing now
I honestly think our defense is pretty solid(at least it looked that way in the VT game) I don’t see us losing by 40. I was disappointed Huff left Earle in the entire game, with how poorly he was playing Imo. ( I kept thinking, they’ll switch it up next drive but never happened). Defense was on the filled over 36 minutes, the offense needs to be better. Hopefully, will see Braxton and maybe Pennington get a shot this week and create some offense! OSU 34 Marshall 20. Marshall fan in me prediction Marshall 31 OSU 30
Id wait till about 3 minutes before kickoff... The line is still moving toward OSU. The app I use now has it as OSU - 40.5... It could easily be 41 or even 41.5 at kick. Might as well get all the points you can.
I would never make that bet. There are way too many fluke plays that can lead to 7 points. For example, we will probably punt 12 times. They could drop one of those and we could scoop and score.
Though your point is valid, your example is invalid. You can’t advance a muffed punt. But you can punt on a bad muff, and I’ve had to do that one too many times.
I guess they could try to catch a punt in the end zone, muff it, and Marshall could fall on it for a TD, but that’s not really the meaning of “scoop-and-score.”
Agree with your premise... There are a lot of ways to score a fluke TD... A DB falls down in coverage, special teams, they take their starters out in the 3rd quarter and we get a late one against the backups. Anything can happen.
That said, if the line was MU under 9.5 instead of 6.5, I think they'd have a ton of takers.
Agree. Too many think we can re-create the Pruett years and that ain't happening. Too many changes and an entirely different landscape now. We need to accept that and move forward.
Don't worry @Aaron Perkins I got this one.
Ahem! How dare you so-called Marshall fans bet against The Herd? You guys are disgraceful and aren't REAL Marshall fans!
Aaron has personally bet his family's 2024 Christmas budget on Marshall to beat tOSU, which is what any real fan would do.
Ahem! How dare you so-called Marshall fans bet against The Herd? You guys are disgraceful and aren't REAL Marshall fans!
Aaron has personally bet his family's 2024 Christmas budget on Marshall to beat tOSU, which is what any real fan would do.
Man, he was on me last year for putting a grand on JMU -2 at our place. The green bet slip made it better tho
You are right, i was on you for that, and if I am not mistaken there was a little more to that as well, based on who you knew, who you had talked to, etc.
But congrats!!! You bet against your friend and won.
If you think you care that people bet for/against them, you are sadly mistaken. He didn't care either way when I told them I bet on us to cover this week
I guess that all depends on what you mean. Do I think we can be a national player? No. The deck is stacked against 70% of the field. However I do not think that it's impossible to become the dominant force in our conference or at least one of the teams that is always fighting for a championship.
There really aren't any programs in the SBC that are untouchable.
The current state of Marshall football should not be acceptable. To anyone.
We can certainly be a top 3 program in this league, no question. Make a title game appearance every 3 years - that would be great. Gotta have the right coach first!
Everyone said those were Doc's players. Huff isn't going to be around, nor will his signed players, long enough to say MU really was anything for them.
