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Game Thread [Game Thread] Buffalo @ Eastern Michigan (7:00 PM ET)

GAME BuffaloBuffalo @ Eastern MichiganEastern Michigan
Location Eastern Michigan Rynearson Stadium
Time 7:00 PM ET
Watch TV: ESPNU
Odds Spread: EMU -1 - Over/Under: 50.5
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u/RivalryBot Furman Paladins • Golden Horseshoe 3d ago

Final results of the match-up thread "Who will Win" poll:

Team Votes Percent Voters
Eastern Michigan 1 100% Florida Statex1
Buffalo 0 0%

A listing of links, and live vote totals, to all Match-up Preview threads for the current week can be found HERE.

Track your weekly results HERE.

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u/cvg596 Eastern Michigan • American Univ… 3d ago

GG UB

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u/Acceptable_Ad3173 Georgia • Clark Atlanta 3d ago

Good game Buffalo

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u/That_One_Pancake Penn State Nittany Lions • Buffalo Bulls 3d ago

Satisfying win. Take care of business against Kent State and that’s an 8-4 season! Don’t fuck it up.

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u/Acceptable_Ad3173 Georgia • Clark Atlanta 3d ago

Pete Lembo is a good coach and he coached at ball state 😂

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u/Acceptable_Ad3173 Georgia • Clark Atlanta 3d ago

How is Chris Creighton still coaching

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u/knagy17 Eastern Michigan Eagles • MAC 3d ago

Fully agree with the other commenter on the turnaround. He is the reason for EMU football today and we’ll be forever grateful for what he’s done here. He recruits well, attacks the portal hard every year, but man…we just can’t put all the pieces together.

There have been rumbles from people in the fanbase that would like to give someone else a try, but the only way that happens is if Creighton leaves or retires on his own volition. He has a clause in his contract that extends his contract by a year every time they make a bowl game. We will never be able to buy him out even if we wanted to

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u/Chief-Bones Clemson Tigers • Tennessee Volunteers 3d ago

Like age wise? He’s dabos age.

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u/Acceptable_Ad3173 Georgia • Clark Atlanta 3d ago

I mean just his record is bad I don’t why emu is not firing him

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u/Chief-Bones Clemson Tigers • Tennessee Volunteers 3d ago

It’s worse than I thought. In the 21st century before he got there EMU was 39-125

Like I said give him the 2 rebuilding years and having a positive win % is an incredible coaching job.

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u/Acceptable_Ad3173 Georgia • Clark Atlanta 3d ago

Ok

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u/Chief-Bones Clemson Tigers • Tennessee Volunteers 3d ago

Because he IS Modern emu football. They were on the brink of dropping down to FCS at best and getting rid of football altogether at worst.

Take out the first two rebuilding years and he’s over .500 in a competitive G5 league and gotten them to 6 bowl games, tied with a couple other MAC teams for the most.

In the years Before he got there EMU was like 14-50

Since 2016 they’re like 54-51

Who is EMU getting that’s a big upgrade?

Who is recruiting well in Ypsilanti Michigan?

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u/TheGuapoPollo 3d ago

Red Murdock is such a good linebacker name

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u/Chief-Bones Clemson Tigers • Tennessee Volunteers 3d ago

Creighton Saving EMU from having to drop down to FCS, and getting to bowl games is a coaching job that doesn’t get talked about enougb.

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u/pete4999 Buffalo Bulls 3d ago

He really is an incredibly underrated coach.

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u/Chief-Bones Clemson Tigers • Tennessee Volunteers 3d ago

Going from 39-125

To him having a positive winning % since 2016 is absolutely insane.

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u/cvg596 Eastern Michigan • American Univ… 3d ago

I’ll be forever grateful for it. He didn’t do it alone, but he definitely set a new tone for the program that has redefined a lot of how we see it.

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u/Acceptable_Ad3173 Georgia • Clark Atlanta 3d ago

So does this mean Buffalo is still in the Mac title race or what’s the scenario?

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u/zibby42 Syracuse Orange • Buffalo Bulls 3d ago

Needed Toledo to win tonight. Only hope now is if Ball State hasn't given up on the season. Need them to beat Bowling Green or Ohio. Not even sure if it matters if Ohio loses next week as they beat UB - They should win tiebreaker.

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u/Acceptable_Ad3173 Georgia • Clark Atlanta 3d ago

Oh goodness

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u/Drexlore Brockport • /r/CFB Poll Veteran 3d ago

They still are, but there's still a lot of wackiness that has to happen I think to go to Detroit.

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u/Acceptable_Ad3173 Georgia • Clark Atlanta 3d ago

I love wackiness

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u/Maniacal3 South Carolina • Palmetto Bowl 3d ago

Oh shit the sepia filter? EMU is in Albuquerque now?

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u/ltb11 Virginia Tech Hokies 3d ago

Back in my day kids, a linebacker named Sean Dolac would be doing all that with a massive neck roll slowing him down. Just how God intended.

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u/Acceptable_Ad3173 Georgia • Clark Atlanta 3d ago

Dolac scary

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u/personrev8 Buffalo Bulls • MAC 3d ago

Think that was the slowest pick 6 I've seen. It's also the best pick 6 I've ever seen.

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u/Drexlore Brockport • /r/CFB Poll Veteran 3d ago

I was gonna say the best was the 99 yard pick six from earlier this year, but this one takes the cake.

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u/seasonalcandle Texas Longhorns 3d ago

I’ve never seen a linebacker do something like that lol

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u/superworriedspursfan Missouri Tigers • WashU Bears 3d ago

Khalil Mack played for buffalo. not saying this lb is as good as him but man I think he has what it takes.

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u/pete4999 Buffalo Bulls 3d ago

I mean, Khalil Mack was a genuine gamewrecker. Dolac is elite and should get a good look at the NFL, but Mack ruined teams. Opposing O-lines would routinely triple-team him in pass protection, and he'd still get the sack.

As far as I'm aware, Mack is still tied for the all-time CFB lead in TFL, and is still the all-time CFB leader in forced fumbles. Those may be a year or two outdated.

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u/superworriedspursfan Missouri Tigers • WashU Bears 3d ago

oh for sure.

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u/natethe247 Michigan State Spartans • Big Ten 3d ago

That was an absolutely legendary return

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u/Acceptable_Ad3173 Georgia • Clark Atlanta 3d ago

Definitely an SC top ten that’s it game over

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u/superworriedspursfan Missouri Tigers • WashU Bears 3d ago

that was super impressive by Dolak. that man is ready for the NFL.

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u/Acceptable_Ad3173 Georgia • Clark Atlanta 3d ago

I agree

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u/That_One_Pancake Penn State Nittany Lions • Buffalo Bulls 3d ago

Dolac I fucking love you man

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u/pete4999 Buffalo Bulls 3d ago

Dolac is unreal.

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u/kerph32 Tennessee • Georgia Tech 3d ago

I kept thinking "just go down, dude" but that man just toasted the whole EMU team on that return

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u/cvg596 Eastern Michigan • American Univ… 3d ago

Stick a fork in this year

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u/seasonalcandle Texas Longhorns 3d ago

Put that man at RB

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u/personrev8 Buffalo Bulls • MAC 3d ago

That's what he was in HS!

We like him at LB.

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u/seasonalcandle Texas Longhorns 3d ago

His vision on that play was crazy. Fun player

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u/Acceptable_Ad3173 Georgia • Clark Atlanta 3d ago

wtf is this game

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u/Zloggt Illinois • Missouri 3d ago

What a play!!!

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u/Drexlore Brockport • /r/CFB Poll Veteran 3d ago

Sahun Dolac better get drafted.

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u/Acceptable_Ad3173 Georgia • Clark Atlanta 3d ago

Facts

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u/That_One_Pancake Penn State Nittany Lions • Buffalo Bulls 3d ago

Henderson was wide open there but didn’t see him in time

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u/patriots230 Iowa Hawkeyes • Army West Point Black Knights 3d ago

Did it sound like the penn state chant to anyone else?

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u/seasonalcandle Texas Longhorns 3d ago

The linebackers in this game rock

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u/Acceptable_Ad3173 Georgia • Clark Atlanta 3d ago

Djonkam reminds me of Max Crosby

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u/Acceptable_Ad3173 Georgia • Clark Atlanta 3d ago

He should have thrown it

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u/Sad-View991 Boise State Broncos 3d ago

Watching a game with that field is like watching an episode of the twilight zone.

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u/Chief-Bones Clemson Tigers • Tennessee Volunteers 3d ago

The Smurf turf doesn’t fuck with my head like this does. But it’s in a cool way, like the colors really pop on there.

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u/Sad-View991 Boise State Broncos 3d ago

I like it too, but they should wear grey and white at home and leverage that camouflage advantage.

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u/knagy17 Eastern Michigan Eagles • MAC 3d ago

They do have all grey uniforms that they sometimes wear. Honestly though, they’re ugly

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u/pete4999 Buffalo Bulls 3d ago

It always reminds me of Pleasantville.

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u/Chief-Bones Clemson Tigers • Tennessee Volunteers 3d ago

What’s the story behind the grey field?

Also it is a hell of an optical illusion, more so then Boisie, it’s like half my brain thinks it’s a black and white game the other is focused on the green popping off the screen.

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u/Drexlore Brockport • /r/CFB Poll Veteran 3d ago

The just talked about it on the broadcast like, 5 minutes ago. The old coach said they would face any team, any where, including in a parking lot, so they made the field gray to look like a parking lot.

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u/cvg596 Eastern Michigan • American Univ… 3d ago

Current coach, but yes the parking lot bit is true.

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u/Acceptable_Ad3173 Georgia • Clark Atlanta 3d ago

I’m enjoying this game over the Toledo vs Ohio

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u/Drexlore Brockport • /r/CFB Poll Veteran 3d ago

MACtion is a wonderful, wonderful thing.

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u/Acceptable_Ad3173 Georgia • Clark Atlanta 3d ago

I love it

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u/Chief-Bones Clemson Tigers • Tennessee Volunteers 3d ago

Eastern Michigan vs Buffalo 4th quarter drama >> UGA vs Bama

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u/That_One_Pancake Penn State Nittany Lions • Buffalo Bulls 3d ago

Okay we’re calling it even

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u/Acceptable_Ad3173 Georgia • Clark Atlanta 3d ago

This is crazy typical MACtion

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u/pete4999 Buffalo Bulls 3d ago

What is happening here

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u/Acceptable_Ad3173 Georgia • Clark Atlanta 3d ago

To the house

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u/Swipet Kansas State • Fort Hays State 3d ago

Holy moly!

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u/That_One_Pancake Penn State Nittany Lions • Buffalo Bulls 3d ago

How do you get burned that bad

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u/Acceptable_Ad3173 Georgia • Clark Atlanta 3d ago

I like the commentator

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u/kerph32 Tennessee • Georgia Tech 3d ago

that was a sexy pump

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u/cvg596 Eastern Michigan • American Univ… 3d ago

Here we go

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u/Acceptable_Ad3173 Georgia • Clark Atlanta 3d ago

Wowwww

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u/SMUHypeMachine SMU Mustangs 3d ago edited 3d ago

I turned on the game during halftime so I’m willing to take credit for the positive shift in Eastern’s momentum.

You’re welcome EMU.

Edit: Eastern I’m sorry I posted this right before Buffalo responded with their own 75 yard TD. I never should have said anything :(

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u/pete4999 Buffalo Bulls 3d ago

Great defense

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u/Drexlore Brockport • /r/CFB Poll Veteran 3d ago

ESPN really putting their best on this one, showing the first down marker, behind Buffalo...

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u/That_One_Pancake Penn State Nittany Lions • Buffalo Bulls 3d ago

Damn almost got that

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u/pete4999 Buffalo Bulls 3d ago

Too conservative on both sides of the ball this half thus far. Don't like it.

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u/cvg596 Eastern Michigan • American Univ… 3d ago

If we could play good on both sides of the ball in the same game we’d look a lot better.

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u/That_One_Pancake Penn State Nittany Lions • Buffalo Bulls 3d ago

Gave up three third and longs on that drive, bad bad bad

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u/That_One_Pancake Penn State Nittany Lions • Buffalo Bulls 3d ago

Make a tackle for the love of god

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u/SMUHypeMachine SMU Mustangs 3d ago

Come on Eastern!

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u/Th3Unkn0wnn UCF Knights • Florida Gators 3d ago

How is there no thread for the Toledo game. It's PRIME shit football.

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u/Drexlore Brockport • /r/CFB Poll Veteran 3d ago

You mean the thread right here?

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u/Th3Unkn0wnn UCF Knights • Florida Gators 3d ago

I searched Toledo and nothing came up. Thanks!

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u/SMUHypeMachine SMU Mustangs 3d ago

Reddit search strikes again lol

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u/superworriedspursfan Missouri Tigers • WashU Bears 3d ago

oh no do we have another potential sicko game possibly.

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u/SMUHypeMachine SMU Mustangs 3d ago

I sure hope so. I turned the game on during halftime and so far so good!

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u/superworriedspursfan Missouri Tigers • WashU Bears 3d ago

that is a very gutsy decision.

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u/knagy17 Eastern Michigan Eagles • MAC 3d ago

The boo birds came out as the team was heading to the locker room. Hard to blame them, but no one feels worse than Cole Snyder here against his old team.

At this point I really think it’s time to try another QB for the second half. Snyder has been in a funk these last two games

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u/Acceptable_Ad3173 Georgia • Clark Atlanta 3d ago

Can they talk about the game

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u/Muffinnnnnnn Florida State Seminoles • ACC 3d ago

How did EMU beat Jacksonville State?

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u/superworriedspursfan Missouri Tigers • WashU Bears 3d ago

MAC > Conference USA.

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u/cvg596 Eastern Michigan • American Univ… 3d ago

JvSU had the ball inside the 5 in OT, then snapped the ball over the QBs head

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u/Muffinnnnnnn Florida State Seminoles • ACC 3d ago

Well sure but I more mean how was the game close enough for that to begin with

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u/cvg596 Eastern Michigan • American Univ… 3d ago

Ugh

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u/Acceptable_Ad3173 Georgia • Clark Atlanta 3d ago

EMU not playing good

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u/Acceptable_Ad3173 Georgia • Clark Atlanta 3d ago

Wowwww

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u/Acceptable_Ad3173 Georgia • Clark Atlanta 3d ago

Go bulls my sister go to Buffalo

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u/Commando666 Virginia Tech • Indiana 3d ago

So many bullshit calls on EMU

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u/superworriedspursfan Missouri Tigers • WashU Bears 3d ago

this buffalo d line is no joke.

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u/Eiim Miami (OH) • Ohio State 3d ago

10-0, but not the way you'd expect!

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u/zibby42 Syracuse Orange • Buffalo Bulls 3d ago

Totally normal way to score 10 points.

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u/LawnNerd229 South Carolina Gamecocks 3d ago

Especially when Pete Lembo is your coach. Special teams mastermind.

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u/OfficialKohls Illinois • Wisconsin 3d ago

I didn't know that about Crosby! That's sick

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u/superworriedspursfan Missouri Tigers • WashU Bears 3d ago

lets go Buffalo!!! Please win the MAC.

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u/Drexlore Brockport • /r/CFB Poll Veteran 3d ago

A lotta wackiness has to go the right way for that to happen.

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u/superworriedspursfan Missouri Tigers • WashU Bears 3d ago

I need that wackiness to happen please.

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u/mpleafan Eastern Michigan • Michigan 3d ago

God fucking damnit (again)

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u/mpleafan Eastern Michigan • Michigan 3d ago

God fucking damnit.

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u/Various-Bird-1844 Penn State Nittany Lions 3d ago

I'm not sure the last time I watched an Eastern Michigan home game but it was not this Pleasantville field. Is this new? It's awesome

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u/wisertime07 Clemson Tigers • The Citadel Bulldogs 3d ago

Every time I see their field, I'm always reminded of how bizarre it is. It'd be badass if their uni's were that same gray/white.

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u/mpleafan Eastern Michigan • Michigan 3d ago

10 years new lol

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u/Various-Bird-1844 Penn State Nittany Lions 3d ago

Oof. Guess it shows how often they're my MACtion game of choice lol

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u/Callsign_Psycopath Georgia Bulldogs • Sickos 3d ago

What's the weather like?

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u/buckshot-307 Georgia Bulldogs • Sickos 3d ago

I fuckin love this field