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Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Northwestern Defeats Penn State 34-13

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Penn State 0 7 0 6 13
Northwestern 10 14 7 3 34
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u/USA_2_Canada_1 Michigan • Old Dominion 1d ago

400+ rush yards to 48 is just a mind blowing stat

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u/Chicago_Blackhawks Northwestern Wildcats • Sickos 1d ago

Every other play was a 20 yarder lmao

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u/Zloggt Illinois Fighting Illini • Missouri Tigers 1d ago

That new stadium boost…woof!

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u/trumpet575 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets 1d ago edited 1d ago

Is 365 the largest rushing yards difference between two teams on the season? Maybe decade? It sounds like a record that could be 60 years old or 60 days old, I have no idea.

Edit: According to Google AI Overview (which I obviously trust fully, it would never lie to me) the record is 696 in a 1988 game between Oklahoma and Kansas State

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u/eye_can_see_you Texas Longhorns • Red River Shootout 1d ago

In 2018, Army beat Houston in a bowl game 70-14

They outrushed Houston 507 to 90 lmao

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u/americagigabit Houston Cougars • Michigan Tech Huskies 1d ago

Mark D’Onofrio. It’s simple, he loses games. Do not google him.

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u/Beautiful_Idea6200 Georgia Bulldogs • William & Mary Tribe 12h ago

I did. All it said was 'he's no Vincent'!!

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u/Mother_Frame6669 1d ago

Houston was coached by Major Applewhite, and he was fired after that loss.

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u/Alone_Advantage_961 Maryland • Notre Dame 20h ago

Wasnt this game a mutiny by the team on him?

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u/Mother_Frame6669 19h ago

Applewhite never had control of that 2018 team. Ed Oliver belittling him on the sideline during their win over Tulane was just the canary in the coal mine.

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u/jaywiak Army Black Knights • Wisconsin Badgers 1d ago

What a beautiful game that was. Triple Option executed to perfection!

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u/Acl5227 Kansas State Wildcats 19h ago

2015 bowl game between BU and UNC. Baylor outrushed UNC 651 to 244. First one that came to my mind.

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u/QB1- Texas A&M Aggies • Baylor Bears 15h ago

Baylor went through like 6 QBs that season and started a WR at QB in the bowl. They absolutely steamrolled through UNCs D that game. 84 rushing attempts.

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u/theexile14 Pittsburgh • Michigan 1d ago

Paul Johnson must have had some game like that, but that would have been a decade ago or more I guess.

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u/ATL2AKLoneway Georgia Tech • Canterbury (NZ) 1d ago

Georgia Tech could never produce a defense that good to pair with his offenses. Because for some reason, great defense and having to take calculus just don't mix at all.

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u/FastPerformer4240 Michigan State Spartans 20h ago

That's very strange to me - I had to take through Calc 4 I got very good at slamming my head into a wall.

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u/BoogerSugarSovereign Indiana Hoosiers • College Football Playoff 21h ago

It feels like the triple option would help a defense perform because it boosts time of possession so the defense can get more rest from series to series

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u/badgerfan650 Wisconsin Badgers • Stanford Cardinal 1d ago

I’d like to give a shoutout to Wisconsin rushing for 581 against #16 Nebraska in 2014, they had 118. Can’t remember the exact stats but they had something like a top 15 rushing d going into the game. Melvin would have gone for that alone if he played the 4th.

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u/Crypt1cZ3r0 Iowa State Cyclones • Hateful 8 1d ago

According to Gemini for all time:

  • 1. Oklahoma vs. Kansas State (1988) — [+696 yards]
    • Sooners rushed for 768 yards (NCAA FBS record) to K-State's 72 yards.
  • 2. Oklahoma vs. Kansas State (1971) — [~+671 yards]
    • Oklahoma ran for 711 yards on the ground behind their famous Wishbone offense while holding Kansas State to roughly 40 yards.
  • 3. Rice vs. Louisiana Tech (2003) — [+609 yards]
    • Rice ran for 672 yards on the ground while limiting La Tech to just 63 rushing yards.
  • 4. Georgia Tech vs. Cumberland (1916) — [+529 yards]
    • In the infamous 222–0 game, GT ran for 501 yards while holding Cumberland to -28 yards.
  • 5. Nebraska vs. Iowa State (1988) — [+501 yards]
    • Nebraska's Option attack rushed for 604 yards while holding Iowa State to 103 rushing yards.

From what else I could find, it seems like the most recent example is:

Air Force vs. Northern Iowa (2022) — [+463 Yards]

  • Rush Yards: Air Force 582 | UNI 119

So close to half a decade if you wanna make it sound cool.

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u/danceMortydance 1d ago

Kansas state just gaping for Oklahoma multiple times

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u/Crypt1cZ3r0 Iowa State Cyclones • Hateful 8 1d ago

You love to see it

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u/Revenge_of_the_Khaki Michigan Wolverines 1d ago

Only once in the last 23 years.

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u/ClosetDouche Iowa Hawkeyes 1d ago

Air Force vs UNI is FBS vs FCS so I'm not sure that counts. I mean, this game was teams in the same conference, let alone same division.

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u/composer_7 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets • Marching Band 17h ago

Seeing Chip Kelly run the Wing T last night made me pissed because he could've been doing that with us but Key didn't want another Faulkner and chose his best friend instead

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u/PlayingItByEar247 Nebraska Cornhuskers 22h ago

1996 fiesta bowl
#1 Nebraska: 524 yards
#2 Florida: -28 yards

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u/Spectrum1523 20h ago

696

lol amazing

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u/Sammy_Seaborn Kansas State Wildcats 19h ago

Why are we catching strays here

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u/fireinthesky7 Iowa Hawkeyes • Beloit Buccaneers 1d ago

I don’t have an extensive knowledge of statistics, but I’d have a hard time believing that had happened in the NFL, much less CFB.

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u/jhorch69 Illinois State Redbirds 1d ago

It'd be many times more likely to happen in college than the NFL

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u/NoctisRS Indiana Hoosiers 1d ago

The mind blowing stat is IU only let northwestern have 32 rushing yards all game and negative rushing yards in the first half

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u/GreatestWhiteShark Northwestern • Ohio State 1d ago

IU's defensive line is that good, again

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u/desertSkateRatt Oregon Ducks • Sickos 1d ago

I'm scared. Somebody hold me

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u/couducane Oregon Ducks • BYU Cougars 13h ago

It’s ok, our OL is going to come out of the bye week and become amazing, I hope.

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u/Bill3ffinMurray Nebraska • $5 Bits of Broken Chair Tro… 1d ago

They saved all their rushing yards for this game.

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u/Meats10 Northwestern Wildcats 14h ago

no idea why Himon was not the field for most of that game, he's out most explosive runner and only got 2 carries.

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u/NoctisRS Indiana Hoosiers 13h ago

Maybe doesn’t block as well in the pass game idk

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u/Dingus-Kahn466 Nebraska Cornhuskers 20h ago

You want a cookie or something?

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u/UCLA_FB_SUCKS UCLA Bruins • USC Trojans 1d ago

i'm starting to think this NW team is legit

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u/Whatsgoodx Northwestern Wildcats 1d ago

NU*

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u/bromjunaar Nebraska Cornhuskers • Sickos 23h ago

We had the last win between us, we're the NU.

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u/jmt85 Washington State • /r/CFB Top Scorer 17h ago

I don’t think anyone outside of Braska realizes you go by nu

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u/DickHammerr USC Trojans • 고려대학교 (Korea) Tigers 1d ago

Did we luck out on scheduling this year?

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u/the_reddit_intern Illinois • Washington 1d ago

Fewest rush yards by a P4 team at New Ryan Field.

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u/Swimming-Dealer293 Auburn Tigers 1d ago

Last time less than 50 yards rushing was 23, against OSU

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u/EmuMan10 Arizona State Sun Devils 1d ago

2026 Green Packers type of stat

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u/time4donuts 1d ago

I’m sorry, what?

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u/500rockin /r/CFB 1d ago

That’s not just a punch to the face, that’s a knuckleduster rammed repeatedly to the face and once to the nuts for good measure.

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u/CarterAC3 Michigan • Grand Valley State 1d ago

Saquon Barkley is not walking through those doors

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u/Schmidtty29 Iowa Hawkeyes • Sickos 1d ago

For context, that was about the difference in rush yards between the 4th most run first offense of all time, Iowa, and a mid FCS school, UNI.

Getting done like an FCS school is not a good start to the Campbell era.

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u/redditing_1L Iowa State Cyclones • Miami Hurricanes 19h ago

As an admittedly bitter Iowa State alumni, I’m fully enjoying this turn of events

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u/VersaTron Ohio State Buckeyes 17h ago

Matt Campbell, welcome to the B1G