the issue is bowling green has had some good teams over the years and on any given sunday you will here will watch a handful of nfl players that came from there, but this is not one of the good bowling green teams. they had some injuries but this team just lost to another mac team by 30 points and has only one win against eastern illinois.
In probabilistic terms, what would your definition of a gimme game be? 90%? 95%?
Dude. Bowling Green is a bad MAC team this year. They got beat 38-7 against Ohio. Not Ohio State. Just plain old Ohio. The Bobcats.
I think you’re selling this BG team short. Its actually quite simple to see why they have been losing. This BG team probably is a one loss team but for turnovers. They gave away 5 to Liberty and lost by 10. They gave away 4 to Ohio in a fashion that looked like they never even came out of the locker room.
Hey now, I will not sit back and allow the mighty Ohio Bobcats to be slandered! Tim Albin has done a great job with that program. They went 10-4 last year with a bowl win over Arizona, and are 4-1 so far this year with a nasty defense. They should be 5-0, except their starting QB got knocked out in their opening game vs. San Diego State.
so it sounds like our defense was unable to exploit a team that is prone to turning the ball over.
No embellishment needed either way…
it’s not really an agenda it’s just the reality of the situation. we got thumped at home in one of our few games on the schedule that would be deemed a gimme win. we don’t need to make excuses and pretend that bowling green was a good mac team, when they are far worse than even the northern illinois team we lost to.
No one serious about the success of this team is excusing this loss. We also don’t need to embellish it. It’s bad enough on face value. We became a “get right” game for a MAC offense that was reeling. Our D is historically bad right now. BG is not nearly as good as we made them look, but they’re better than most are making them out to be.
That’s exactly the embellishment and agenda I mean… No need to make a totally baseless claim that this BG team is “far worse“ than NIU of two years ago. Its total conjecture and may prove entirely untrue. At any rate, its totally irrelevant.
idk call it what you want, it is equally if not more embellishment and agenda, and i would even go as as far to say embarrassing that we have people on a tech forum arguing that this bowling green team is anything but mediocre to bad when all the statistics and results say otherwise.
But TFG is gone.
It’s a bad loss to a team we should've easily beaten. If someone is making an argument otherwise, I haven’t seen it. What has been said (by me, and maybe others) is that BG cleaned up the garbage that made them look REALLY bad (good for them) and we allowed them to do it (we own that).
The talent ranking is for folks who get excited about recruiting rankings and doesn't take into account imbalances by position. The ranking of 36 is about right when you factor in transfers. We have some talent concentration on offense, for example, our #1 and #2 QBs are both 4-stars, and Blalock and Leary are both high 4-stars. Some of our DBs like Brooks are 4-stars. Our weakness from a talent rating standpoint is our linemen on both sides of the ball. And that is a large part of why the 36th ranking seems too high. Still, we've got some high 3-stars there.
Per 247 we have 18 former 4 stars and have at least one at every position group with the most at DB. Overwhelmingly though, they have not contributed at 4 star level.