The Iowa Hawkeyes and Northwestern Wildcats played what some might charitably describe as a football game on Saturday. Most though, would describe it as an embarrassment to offense.
Pregame expectations for the point total were anemic, to say the least.
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And yet, even with a record low over/under of 29.5, the teams somehow, magically, wildly underperformed the literal lowest possible expectations. Iowa “won” the game 10-7, but even that undersells just how ugly it was.
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In what was likely the final installment of Bedlam for the foreseeable future, Oklahoma State spoiled rival Oklahoma’s hopes of winning a national championship.
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It was a game so bad that the playing surface rebelled.
With a little over five minutes left in Saturday’s game between Iowa and Northwestern at Wrigley Field, the Hawkeyes maintained a 7-0 lead. One of the least anticipated offensive matchups in college football history had lived down to the hype, with both teams barely cracking 100 yards for the afternoon.
However, things went from bad to worse when the game was delayed by a turf issue.
The Pasadena Police Department has identified the suspects accused of theft from the Colorado locker room at the Rose Bowl while the team played UCLA last Saturday.
The suspects in the case are juveniles, and the investigation is still ongoing. It is unclear whether the suspects have been taken into custody at this time.
Investigators with the police department confirmed that some of the items have been returned to Colorado players, but that other items remain missing as the investigation continues.
The firings of Josh McDaniels, GM Dave Ziegler and some of the coaching staff will cost the Raiders approximately $85 million, league sources told ESPN.
After years of falling short against Top-25 opponents, a lopsided win over a longtime rival helped secure more than just bragging rights for Army on a historic day in Denver.
Entering Saturday on a five-game losing streak, Army (3–6) pulled off a stunning 23–3 win over No. 25 Air Force (8–1), handing the Falcons their first loss of the season while ending the program’s 52-game losing streak against AP-ranked teams.
Army’s monumental win, astonishingly, fell exactly 51 years to the date of its last win over an AP-ranked team. As it turns out, the opponent on that fateful Nov.
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The Raiders needed to shake things up. Las Vegas entered November 3–5, smarting from back-to-back double-digit losses at the hands of the Bears and Lions.
Accordingly, the Raiders fired coach Josh McDaniels and general manager Dave Ziegler on Oct. 31. McDaniels’s dismissal and the subsequent elevation of linebackers coach Antonio Pierce to interim coach seemed to instantly improve the mood of Las Vegas’s locker room.
There is a catch: the firings reportedly came at a significant financial cost.