Why does Montana think they can beat EWU?

[jackrabbit]

What makes Montana think they can beat EWU?

That team is going to have a hard time winning games with that bad of an offense/defense.

GRIZ 18-15 over UND ( field goal as time ran out to win). Ewu 54-3 over UND, and that was with 12:10 left in the 4th.

Griz get burned going into the INFERNO.

[Grizalltheway]

So easy, a team that lost to UNC AND USD could do it.

[jackrabbit]

laugh now....i will check back on Saturday and see if you are still laughing.

[Brock Landers]

What makes Montana think they can beat EWU?

That team is going to have a hard time winning games with that bad of an offense/defense.

GRIZ 18-15 over UND ( field goal as time ran out to win). Ewu 54-3 over UND, and that was with 12:10 left in the 4th.

Griz get burned going into the INFERNO.

Why would you wear a Harry Potter avatar?

Why is a guy in South Dakota with a "Jackrabbit" handle a fan of UNH and NAU?

Why would you have an aka of jackassrabbitraper? (I mean really...)

The world may never know

[Brock Landers]

Actually I see now that most of your posts are about the Griz. So, you're probably just another one of the legion of EWU or MSU trolls trying to come up with some fresh schtick

[MTfan4life]

What makes Montana think they can beat EWU?

That team is going to have a hard time winning games with that bad of an offense/defense.

GRIZ 18-15 over UND ( field goal as time ran out to win). Ewu 54-3 over UND, and that was with 12:10 left in the 4th.

Great use of the transitive property there, sir. We all know it's entirely accurate when measuring games. To completely contradict your point. Northern Colorado played within 8 points of EWU, while they lost to Montana by 25. So if you compared UNC to UND through EWU, they'd slaughter UND. But if you compared the two through Montana, UND would slaughter UNC. Glad we could see you stretch your intelligence to find some hard nosed facts though.

[JohnStOnge]

Great use of the transitive property there, sir. We all know it's entirely accurate when measuring games. To completely contradict your point. Northern Colorado played within 8 points of EWU, while they lost to Montana by 25. So if you compared UNC to UND through EWU, they'd slaughter UND. But if you compared the two through Montana, UND would slaughter UNC. Glad we could see you stretch your intelligence to find some hard nosed facts though.

Well, comparing scores is a long way from perfect but it does have some predictive value. I guarantee you if you wait until the season is over then go back over every Big Sky game the team that did better against common opponents in each case will have won a substantial majority of the time. But the chances of that not happening are also pretty good so there's still a lot of uncertainty.

Another thing you can look at is a power rating like Sagarin's. At this point of the season that is nothing BUT a variation of the "transitive property" you're talking about and Sagarin's ratings have correctly predicted winners of FBS vs. FBS games 75 percent of the time so far this season. And really the performance of the system in full swing is probably better than that because the 75 percent includes early season games that had to be predicted before there had been enough games to "connect" all the teams.

Nevertheless, it's not uncommon for team A to beat team B, team B to beat team C, then have team C beat team A.

[EWURanger]

Actually I see now that most of your posts are about the Griz. So, you're probably just another one of the legion of EWU or MSU trolls trying to come up with some fresh schtick

Meh, we have very few trolls, and the ones we do have are very overt.

[SuperHornet]

IMO, Ranger has NEVER been a troll, and the EWU fans that have exhibited "trollish" behavior in the past have mellowed out for the most part....