. . . yeah, but about your Herd, OCF?

This is exactly why I wanted to see them play Ohio this year. Everyone stated how great Buffalo was this year, but 3 of their 5 wins were vs horrible teams and they can't win in Athens. What Ball State did was right along the lines of what I felt Ohio could have done. UB finally faced a team that could defend their running game and when they got punched in the face for the first time this season, they couldn't respond. They've had two pretty damn good teams get to Detroit in two of the last three years, only to get upended their. Congrats to Ball State.

BSU has a MUCH better rushing defense than we had this year: 134 ypg vs 194 ypg. We gave up 216 to Akron -- AKRON -- which was 9th in the MAC in rushing this season with 849 yds in six games. Patterson probably would've shredded us. BSU did a good job of containing him last night and it really helped their cause when he went out with an injury in the 3rd quarter. I don't expect him to play in Buffalo's bowl game; he'll want to heal up for the NFL draft.

BSU was very well prepared last night. They shut down Buffalo most of the night. They did give up three or four big plays which kept Buffalo in the game, but beyond that they were in control. Mike Neu might finally be seeing results there.

Buffalo's Achilles Heal is their FG kicking game. McNulty was 0-2 this season, including having a chip-shot FG blocked last night. In the 4th quarter Buffalo was 4th and two around the BSU 20 and down by ten. A FG would've put them down by seven with about eight minutes to go, but they went for it instead and didn't make it. That was the nail in the coffin. They probably would've gone for the FG if they had more confidence in the kicking game.

From the Kraft challenge, as always, Buffalo SUCKS!