Orange Bowl Prediction Thread: This One's For All The Oranges
by Adam Jacobi on Jan 5, 2010 2:15 PM CST
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PrintIt's money time, chockos! Get your predictions in here.
OPS: 34-21, Georgia Tech (sorry.)
HS: 31-20, Iowa
Ross: 27-17, Iowa
HFMR: 27-16, Iowa
StoopsMyAss: 27-14, Iowa
I notice a theme amongst my colleagues (especially the last three). You guys really don't think Georgia Tech will move the ball on Iowa? Um, really?
Anyway, here's where you all leave your predictions. Winner wins... nothing probably. Nothing but bragging rights, pride, and everything else that requires none of our time and/or money.
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I forget
When you win the Orange Bowl, do you pick up the entire trophy or just pick out an orange in celebration?
The Orange Bowl, it’s trophy is what it is.
Do you get to eat the oranges?
And then who has to replace them? Or what’s the deal with that?
I got more rhymes than Wade Lookingbill's got dunks
Scott Paxson ate one in '06.
I distinctly remember this.
Joe knows bowl games.
by ReadingRambler on Jan 5, 2010 2:22 PM CST up reply actions
I always wondered
How the hell they don’t fall out. That doesn’t look like a very sturdy tower of citrus
How long will that be able to sit in your trophy case?
Won’t the oranges go bad and stink up the joint? If that’s the case, I don’t want it.
School gets the trophy..
.. players each get an orange.
Ford the record...
I do think they’ll move the ball, but I think they’ll get bogged down in the red zone. And I’m banking on a few turnovers, too.
Big junkies come from little junkies.
That going for it on 4th down shit is going to cost G Tech tonight
book it.
"I think it's safe to say our concerns are many." -- Kirk Ferentz
27-23??? Iowa
I am not really sure what the score is going to be, but I am hoping for an IOWA WIN!!!!
31-17 Iowa
Your prediction hurt me OPS in weird ways i feel embarrased to share in a public forum.
i don't wife em...i one night em
Shh.
Don’t let Tech know that OPS is trying to reverse-jinx ’em. Not that their supercomputer-brains would fall for any hokum like that, of course.
Big junkies come from little junkies.
No, seriously, I'm fucking terrified.
I saw what Ohio State, Michigan, and Wisconsin (pre-John Clay-destruction) did on the ground against this defense.
I got more rhymes than Wade Lookingbill's got dunks
Yeah, with linemen the size of the GMC Sierra.
"I think it's safe to say our concerns are many." -- Kirk Ferentz
there were like 30 commercials for that truck last night...
I guess they thought 13 million cowboys were watching.
"I think it's safe to say our concerns are many." -- Kirk Ferentz
There were.
It was Boise State v. TCU.
by Abbas_Cincinnatus on Jan 5, 2010 2:37 PM CST up reply actions
Oh, good call with the product placement in the comments
I mean, I don’t really want a pickup truck… but if I do get one, I’m going with the tough, reliable GMC Sierra, which is strong enough for your biggest tasks but modern enough to be your favorite car. The GMC Sierra—no playoffs needed, it’s hands down the best pickup out there.
I got more rhymes than Wade Lookingbill's got dunks
great truck
If you randomly need to tow a fucking rock somewhere. Because that’s, you know, a common need out on the farm.
by imadirtyoldman on Jan 5, 2010 3:38 PM CST up reply actions
Fine, keep your Sierra..
.. I’m going for the Tostitos chips.
Yeah, images of those games danced through my head...
I decided to put my faith in Norm and a month’s prep time, I guess.
Big junkies come from little junkies.
This is going to be OSU v. OU the second
size and athleticism beat nominally more speed and athleticism.
"I think it's safe to say our concerns are many." -- Kirk Ferentz
Yeah, same here.
And if their defense really is as shittacularly bad as has been suggested, well then… I like those odds. And yes, yes, Derrick Morgan, etc, etc. I know. We’ve faced badasses like him before and came out ok.
I think there is great potential to really put up some points in the air, and to get a couple really solid drives in on the ground.
by Bucketochicken on Jan 5, 2010 2:57 PM CST up reply actions
About the GT defense
I keep thinking that Derrick Morgan + shitty defense = Brandon Graham + shitty defense?
by Abbas_Cincinnatus on Jan 5, 2010 3:11 PM CST up reply actions
Yeah, but that was because we had to commit more people to the pass...
…tonight we’ll be able to key on the run, while covering one or two receivers.
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Jan 5, 2010 3:16 PM CST up reply actions
I am afraid......
of all the Tech supercomputer-brains working together as one giant super-supercomputer, think about it man.
Iowa wins 6-1
Stanzi throws only TD of the game, GT returns blocked EP for 1 point conversion. And if you’ve got stones, you eat the peel.
"Nothing cleanses the soul like getting the hell kicked out of you."
pretty sure it's one, two for a blocked 2 pt try. But what do I know?
"Nothing cleanses the soul like getting the hell kicked out of you."
He can't pick a ball game
but he knoweth the rules. It’s a deuce.
"I think it's safe to say our concerns are many." -- Kirk Ferentz
Add in there "handsome but bald" and "drunk but hung over the next day"
I got more rhymes than Wade Lookingbill's got dunks
1 Point safety
happened in a Texas game. It happens if the defense blocks a PAT, then tries to return it. They have to run out of the end zone with the ball but then run back into it. The offense then tackles them in the end zone for a one point safety. Confusing as Hell but I remember it happening a couple years ago.
Tech wins 21-20.
You are a sad, strange little man, and you have my pity.
Look back at the 2002 Purdue game.
Jovon Johnson returned a blocked kick 98 yards to the endzone and was promptly rewarded with two points for the effort.
by Abbas_Cincinnatus on Jan 5, 2010 2:34 PM CST up reply actions
I believe that was the Penn State game,
and it came on a PAT. In the Purdue game, he returned a blocked field goal for a TD right before halftime.
On a side note, it’s good to see the resident Negative Nancy picking against his team. Iowa hasn’t given up 30 points to anyone in two years, and GT is going to score 34?
It's exactly why
In the Michigan State game, we had to line up, snap the ball, and kneel down, after scoring a touchdown that put us ahead by 2 as the clock expired.
If we’d tried to kick it, and they blocked it and returned it, they’d have tied the game. If we’d been up by 3, the game would have ended right there.
Well then
I’ll buy you a beer. What? Natty Light? Natty Light it is.
"Nothing cleanses the soul like getting the hell kicked out of you."
Like that was ever in doubt
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
by HoyaGoon on Jan 5, 2010 4:52 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
If You Guys are In Black Jerseys
I’ll go 27-21 Hawks.
If not, aloe works well on bee stings.
Of course I'm home. I'm always home. I'm uncool.
You've got another 8 hours...
it’s on tape delay to the left coast
"I think it's safe to say our concerns are many." -- Kirk Ferentz
FUCK
Oh I’m OPS, I’m so cool because I’m an impartial blogger and I predict the other team to win. FUCK YOU TRAITOR! FUCK YOU! FUCCCCCCCCK! ORANGES! SHIT!
I check cheddar like a food inspector
69-0 Iowa
I check cheddar like a food inspector
by SpanishJohnny on Jan 5, 2010 2:44 PM CST up reply actions
shootout...
Ga. Tech has 67 plays over 20 yards…they have given up 60 such plays. 38-30 Iowa.
Ps. The line has moved from 4 to 6 in the past week….big money likes the Jackets.
"I'm not doing any good back here."
by Hawkaloogie on Jan 5, 2010 2:44 PM CST via mobile reply actions
This is because Big Money watches ESPN.
I think it’s a slugfest 24-17 Iowa
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Iowa has the best record against the spread in the last 10 years
plays right into our hands. Unless we cover and still lose. Shit.
"I think it's safe to say our concerns are many." -- Kirk Ferentz
Red Zone defense steps up
It will be a battle of kickers in the first half. Then Stanzi does what Stanzi does and pulls out another 4th quarter Stanz-gasm.
23-20, Iowa.
by YouCanPutYourEddsInIt on Jan 5, 2010 2:45 PM CST reply actions
I just had a Stanzgasm visualizing that in my head
Maybe i should of keep that to myself?
i don't wife em...i one night em
by smokinthereiff on Jan 5, 2010 2:50 PM CST up reply actions
Seriously, red-zone will be the buzz-word here
Iowa plays good red-zone D. Tech has a good kicker. Also, Iowa has a schizo kicker. Lots of focus on what happens in the red zone in this game.
by YouCanPutYourEddsInIt on Jan 5, 2010 3:56 PM CST up reply actions
That's exactly why we'll win
Both teams will score 5 times. It’s just that 3 of ours will be TDs, where 4 of theirs will be field goals.
38-35; Hawkeyes win.
These bruising, “running” teams provide the offensive fireworks that our mid-major friends forgot to give last night.
In the past 10 years, just four team owners have not paid a luxury tax and are not on pace to pay one this year: Donald Sterling, Jerry Reinsdorf, Chris Cohen (Golden State), Bob Johnson (Charlotte).
Two owners’ teams averaged an operating income of over +$10 million per year while their teams have lost over 60% of their games: Donald Sterling and Jerry Reinsdorf.
Iowa wins 28-20
Offensive MVP- Robinson
Defensive MVP- Binns
Binns is key here
He could have a tough game. Run games are not his type of game. But, at the same time, he has done his best work against undersized O-lines. He has those long arms and he’ll need them to wrap up. I have a weird feeeling he is going to intercept a pitch tonight.
"I think it's safe to say our concerns are many." -- Kirk Ferentz
i had that feeling too....
Then I realized I was sitting on my car keys.
"I'm not doing any good back here."
by Hawkaloogie on Jan 5, 2010 3:10 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
You call it your car keys?
My daughter calls it the pooper.
"I think it's safe to say our concerns are many." -- Kirk Ferentz
27-24 Iowa
Tied 24-24 up until the 4:45 mark, the TMFS picks one and returns it to the Iowa 45 and SDS methodically moves the ball to the GT 16 with 0:03 left on the clock and Murray kicks a GW Field Goal while he thinks back to this day:
Daniel Murray = MVP
"You don't become a Hawkeye fan, You're born with Black and Gold in your veins." - Me
Minimal
Only one of those was with the current coaching regime, right?
But what a loss that was.
http://www.rivalryesq.com/
The quintessential Big Ten smoking room.
Of course GT moves the ball up and down the field
Teams do that against Iowa, just keep them out of the endzone and limit the big plays.
And Tech SUCKS in bowls.
Iowa 24 – GT 20
AH, that missed FG by GT was rigged I tell you
RIGGGGGGED!!!!!!!!
by storminspank on Jan 5, 2010 11:00 PM CST up reply actions
I think that the kicking game will be key....
GT will start kicking field goals instead of going for it on 4th after we stop them a couple of times.
I think we'll win by 1 or 2...
…with points being in the 20s for both teams (this has been the cardiac year, no need to change what brought us here), maybe 28-27 (ish) Hawks.
I think we will force 3 or 4 fumbles, and we’ll recover 2 or 3 of those.
Also, there’s a good chance DJK returns a KO to the house.
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Jan 5, 2010 3:25 PM CST reply actions
The LOS is everything tonight.
Iowa owns both fucking lines.
20 – 10 good guys prevail
16 points is 4 scores
You still get 4 points for drop-kicks, right?
No self-respecting man from Iowa goes anywhere without beer
by Hayden Fry's Moustache Ride on Jan 5, 2010 3:28 PM CST reply actions
I don't believe in predicting scores.
Because I’m a pretentious dickbag. But really, I’m superstitious about jinxing and what not. We all know we this team needs to do to win so here’s a semi-prediction if everything happens correctly. If Iowa…
- maintains gap presence and assignments…
- sheds blocks on stretches and counters to the outside…
- prevents Demaryius Thomas from large gains and subsequently forces GT to move the ball in the exact way they expect them to…
- forces Nesbitt into making poor reads and decisions…
- takes care of the football on offense (DUH)…
- establishes the running game, opening up the passing game and allowing quick scores…
- which in turn will keep GT’s offense on the field, allowing the disciplined and extremely well conditioned Hawkeyes D to wear them down…
- doesn’t lose points because of missed chip shots by Murray…
… Iowa wins this game. Not all of these have to happen of course, but most are required in order for a decisive Iowa victory.
/O'keefe'd
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Jan 5, 2010 3:38 PM CST reply actions
Interesting
You may well be right about it, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a recommendation to let the other team have the ball all the time so you can wear down their offense.
by Brock Sampson on Jan 5, 2010 3:55 PM CST up reply actions
Or if Iowa blows out the knees of Dwyer, Thomas, Nesbitt and Morgan.
In the past 10 years, just four team owners have not paid a luxury tax and are not on pace to pay one this year: Donald Sterling, Jerry Reinsdorf, Chris Cohen (Golden State), Bob Johnson (Charlotte).
Two owners’ teams averaged an operating income of over +$10 million per year while their teams have lost over 60% of their games: Donald Sterling and Jerry Reinsdorf.
GT sporting new togs tonight
GT – white & Iowa – black
Just curious.
Will there be an Iowa-Illinois BBall thread open tonight? Just kidding.
by KenOKeefeIfuckinghateyou on Jan 5, 2010 3:44 PM CST reply actions
34-17 Iowa
The fighting Stanzi’s are going to start off slow and hang on (down a TD at the half) until midway through the third quarter when they begin to wrangle the GT offense and shred the GT defense.
Once the Iowa players get used to the wacky GT offense, there’s going to be a lot of short sputtered drives by GT that results in good field position for Stanzi. I bet Moeaki gets 2 TD’s and 120 yards, because ACC defensive coordinators have never seen a tight end before.
"We hugged as grown men do. It was a great moment. Then, it was business as usual." -- LJ Sr.
27 - 19 Iowa
But it won’t be as close as the score would indicate. Much like OSU/Oregon, we’re going to be much bigger and more physical. They’ll move the ball, and kick a lot of field goals, then tack on a meaningless touchdown at the end, but Iowa’s D will dominate for vast stretches of the game. I’m thinking very very similar to Wisconsin/Miami.
The Rolling Stones said it best...
“You can’t always get what you want,” (total Iowa domination both sides of the ball all night) “but sometimes you get what you need” (Hawks win 21-17).
Second half adjustments are key...
and Iowa has made some good ones this year. 28-24 Iowa with GT scoring a meanless TD at the end.
I'm sorry OPS
But I re-read your intro to this, and I hear where you’re coming from — do people really think Iowa will keep the most potent rushing offense off the scoreboard? Or hold them to 16 points? Maybe, but that’s not likely to happen.
Similarly, do you truly believe GT can put up 34 on this defense? Personally, I don’t know if there’s an offense in the country that could do that, let alone one which is as one-dimensional as GT’s.
I see something in the middle somewhere, with Iowa doing just enough to pull out a win. End of the day, Iowa went 10-2 in a MUCH harder slate than GT did. We’ll go with 28-24, Iowa.
31-20 Iowa in a total demolistation.
Give Norm a month to dissect that tricky offense? Bad idea Techies.
I think our lineplay is key on both sides of the ball and will dominate.
Their offense vs. our defense…which one do they say wins championships again?
Fuck you, we’re Iowa!
I’d love to see Moeaki, Angererererer and Edds go out with a bang. I know there are a bunch of Seniors and I hope they all have a great game, but I’ve loved watching these in particular as Hawks, and I get sad when it’s time to say goodbye to guys like these. I’d love to send them out juggling oranges. Go Hawks!
A bunch?
Um – who else is there besides the 3 you named? Richardson is a sorta-senior, but it’s possible he’ll be back. Unless I’m forgetting someone, that’s it.
Also seniors:
Calloway, Eubanks, Stross, The Irish Car Bomb, Kuempel, Doering, Geary, Conklin, Rowell, and a handful of other walk-on dudes.
Big junkies come from little junkies.
And probably Bulaga and Spievey...
….so why not wish them happiness games, too?
In the past 10 years, just four team owners have not paid a luxury tax and are not on pace to pay one this year: Donald Sterling, Jerry Reinsdorf, Chris Cohen (Golden State), Bob Johnson (Charlotte).
Two owners’ teams averaged an operating income of over +$10 million per year while their teams have lost over 60% of their games: Donald Sterling and Jerry Reinsdorf.
Spievey
Will be back, and so will Bulaga if he’s smart.
Bulaga going this year is a late first rounder, maybe even second rounder. Stay another year, be dominant, and go top of the first round next year. Remember, he missed half of this year and wasn’t in top form because of it due to his crazy thyroid condition.
This is one deep OT class
he will ose lots of money leaving now. BUT…I think that health thing scared him. He may want to just hedge his bets and go now. Sam Bradford rule of thumb.
"I think it's safe to say our concerns are many." -- Kirk Ferentz
I get it
but he could drop to second round…it is a deep O-line class. But, if he cleans up today and has a good combine…15 or so.
"I think it's safe to say our concerns are many." -- Kirk Ferentz
So in other words
A couple starters, a couple fill-ins, and nobody else that would impact my belief that we’ll be better next year than we were this year. Ok good.
3 starting offensive linemen (if Bulaga goes), a starting WR*, a starting TE that is great...
…2 starting linebackers, a starting CB. That sounds like a lot.
*The one position they probably won’t lose anything.
In the past 10 years, just four team owners have not paid a luxury tax and are not on pace to pay one this year: Donald Sterling, Jerry Reinsdorf, Chris Cohen (Golden State), Bob Johnson (Charlotte).
Two owners’ teams averaged an operating income of over +$10 million per year while their teams have lost over 60% of their games: Donald Sterling and Jerry Reinsdorf.
We can replace linebackers I think.
they won’t be as experienced as angerer and edds but they’ll do. Anyone remember Klinkenborg? Great middle LB fill in after Hodges left.
I temper that with
I know the back-ups at the O-line spots, the TE spot, and the LB spots are also very good.
The starting WR is not a loss, more like a plus because McNutt is already better than Stross. That CB loss is the one I’m worried about.
As long as the RBs are improved and deeper (and it looks like they will be)
and Stanzi drops down to 8 interceptions…we will be a juggernaut.
"I think it's safe to say our concerns are many." -- Kirk Ferentz
anything going on in the QC?
I was thinking me and a bunch of people would hit up Buffalo Wild Wings on Utica.
haha
My parents both mysteriously left on business trips about 2 days ago… I believe they are probably just at the Orange Bowl and didn’t want to take me. House party in bettendorf?
Iowa 17 GT 14
Seriously Iowa putting up 30 would give me a hard on.
Does anyone else wanna see this game be a battle of field position?
If Iowa were to win this game due to strategic punting and good clock management it would make laughing at the punting analysis by the GT’ers that much more fun.
/O'keefe'd
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Jan 5, 2010 4:39 PM CST reply actions
38-28
IOWA
A finally healthy offense will roll over a defense that would never be able to win a Big10 Conference Championship, no matter how good that offense is.
Iowa wins this
not sure of final score I think if Iowa does not throw interceptions Iowa 45 GT 14 and they get them late
Battle Time
T-minus two hours. Cue favorite Hawk youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVL_5hJ9FyE&feature=related
30-28
Hawks. Final of 3 FGs booted with under 5 minutes remaining to seal the deal. Ferentz puts the stamp on the big FU from the BXI to the world. Time to get drunk.
31 -10 Iowa
No turnover in the first quarter and they will deliver a sweet victory to cap off a great fucking year.
by American Bad Ass on Jan 5, 2010 5:44 PM CST reply actions
I think you can make Tech cough up the ball several times.
That’s some cold weather in Miami by GT standards. I’m expecting the same sort of physical game Wiscy and PSU brought. 28 – 10 Iowa.
"Never mistake motion for action." - Ernest Hemingway
Iowa
20-19
Lot’s of field goals and a decent amount of yards. Iowa wins in the last minute somehow and the entire country will go how the hell did that happen….
Iowa
28 24
"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. "
George S Patton
My prediction? I smoke an entire pack before pre-game.
What the FBI doesn't want you to know is that all Chuck Norris jokes, when applied to Tim Tebow, are very very true.
by steaming_pile_of_awcrap on Jan 5, 2010 6:14 PM CST reply actions
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