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OhioCatFan
11/10/2018 11:02 PM
Is this the first time that MAC teams have defeated three B1G teams in the same season? I can't remember when this happened before, but my memory is very fallible.

The wins this year were:

Buffalo 42
Rutgers 13

EMU 20
Purdue 19

Akron 39
Northwestern 34
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OhioBobcat
11/11/2018 12:54 AM
OhioCatFan wrote:expand_more
Is this the first time that MAC teams have defeated three B1G teams in the same season? I can't remember when this happened before, but my memory is very fallible.

The wins this year were:

Buffalo 42
Rutgers 13

EMU 20
Purdue 19

Akron 39
Northwestern 34
It happened as recent as 2014:

Indiana 42
BG 45

NIU 23
Northwestern 15

CMU 38
Purdue 17

BG also turned right around and won two more games vs the Big Ten the next year in 2015 with a pair of road wins over both Maryland and Purdue. I don’t think any other MAC team beat a Big Ten team that year though other than BG.
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OhioCatFan
11/11/2018 1:07 AM
Thanks, OhioBobcat. I did say my memory was infallible didn’t I?

I wonder if it’s happened more than these two years. I guess what makes this year stick out is that Northwestern just won the B1G West and Purdue’s beat down of the Evil Empire.
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TWT
11/11/2018 9:21 AM
Its more who did these 3 wins Akron, Buffalo, EMU the traditional bottom quarter of MAC football that stands out.
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Mike Johnson
11/11/2018 9:56 AM
Irony. Akron wins over Northwestern which yesterday clinched the Big 10's west division title. Meanwhile Akron fell to 4-5 with its loss to EMU which had beaten Purdue which had beaten OSU.
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OhioCatFan
11/11/2018 10:03 AM
... and Purdue turns around and gets blasted by Minnehaha. Just goes to show in college football that the old cliche about "any given Saturday" is true. For the MAC one must add . . . Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Black Friday! ;-)
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OhioCatFan
11/11/2018 10:08 AM
While thinking along this vein, I remember one year -- ages ago -- when Northwestern won the B1G (before divisions) and they had a perfect record, except for a defeat by the boys from Butler County. I also remember how when NW was playing in the Rose Bowl that year how the "talking heads" tried to not mention who had caused the one blemish on the perfect record. Very scant mention.
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TWT
11/11/2018 10:15 AM
The exception is really the 20-25 bluebloods with the 100,000 seat stadiums and steady flow of 4 to 5 star recruits where over the longer term they win more conference games, appear in the Top 10 ect. For everyone else its more about how big their offensive line was that particular year, did they get hit with injuries, the home and away schedule that year. There have been some poorly coached games at OSU this year bailed out by the athletes.
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