Seriously Rutgers, the Scarlet Knights, beat the Louisville Cardinals. 28-25. Louisville was playing for a National title. Both teams were 8-0. The Knights are now 9-0 with a very small chance to play for the title. This is the biggest win for the team that started college football. It is impossible to believe. The Empire State Building was lit up in Red for the night (or for the Knights if you prefer).
The Knights rallied from a 25-7 deficit. They shut down Louisville in the second half. They won with seconds to go on a field goal but first the kicker missed the chip shot and got a second chance when a Cardinal jumped off sides. He easily made the second. Final play of the game, one last sack. The largest crowd in Rutgers history stormed the field for celebration of course.
The NY metro area is starving for a college Football team to root for; maybe Rutgers can step up and do it.
I hope they run the table and beat West Virginia in a couple of weeks. The winner of OSU/Michigan vs. Rutgers in the National Championship. Could it happen?
Rutgers really has put together a good team. This seems like an overnight transformation, but its’ really the result of several years of hard work and great recruiting.
Still, screw 'em.
-Wolfian
Syracuse class of '05
current Cincy grad student
Native Jerseyan
Wait-listed by the bastards in '01 and still bitter about it.
That was the first time I ever watched a college game beginning to end. All the local hype (coupled with the fact that I dated a Rutgers girl and hung out at a Rutgers bar years ago, giving me a slight bit of Rutgers pride) sucked me in.
My wife and so many of my friends are Alumni, that I have always rooted for them. However, they have never been good before.
I do not watch much College football, but what a game to watch!
Oh my word, no. It will never happen. That said, I also hope they run the table (although I think that W. Va is going to be ready for them) and play also-undefeated Boise State in the Bridesmaid bowl. I mean, the Fiesta Bowl.
Not very likely. I noted all the stuff that has to happen in the CS thread on this game, and even then it wouldn’t be guaranteed. It’s kind of sad, because it’s almost completely dependant on where they started the season in the human rankings, made before any team played a single game. If they win out, they will have beaten two teams that most agreed would get to play for it if THEY had won out, and beaten those teams - but because no one had any clue Rutgers could be good at the beginning of the year, they never had a chance. Yet another advantage the “traditionally good” teams have over, well, anyone else that dares compete.
(If Rutgers wins out, the computer rankings - now reduced to a one-third component of the BCS - will likely have them top five or higher. Because of their anonymity at the beginning of the season, however, the human polls are unlikely to have them rise above 6th or 7th unless literally EVERYONE else loses their second game.)
I’d love to see Rutgers end up in the Sugar Bowl and have a matchup against the SEC champion. I think it’d be a much closer game than most want to think.
