As this season progresses, every game embodies all the hyperbole that us pesky bloggers like to throw around about the magnitude of football contests. So to say the Cards’ contest at Western Michigan is big is not only to be expected, it’s also surprisingly true. At the dawn of the season, WMU was thought to [...]
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On Saturday, the Cardinals will play their second true road game of the 2011 season as they battle the Oklahoma Sooners in Norman. Frankly, doing a “Better Know” for Oklahoma seems like a bit of redundancy since each and every talking head or college football show certainly makes sure you know just how good OU [...]
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So, this past weekend didn’t go as expected for the Cardinals, but Saturday is (at least in my mind) far more important as a game than the USF contest. Saturday marks the first MAC game for the Cards, the first home game, and in all honesty, this game is going to speak volumes about what [...]
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In recent memory, whenever the Cards squared off against an opponent from a BCS automatic qualifying conference, many assumed (and rightly so) that BSU was simply road kill fodder on another team’s journey to bowl eligibility. After all, it wasn’t until 2008 until the Cards were able to defeat a BCS AQ opponent. Their second [...]
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Well, if there ever was a gift horse, this one rides into Scheumann Stadium on Saturday. Let’s try not to look it in the mouth, shall we? Akron comes into the contest with the Cardinals at 0-9, and I pray to the Footballor, the God of pigskin, that we don’t allow yet another opponent this [...]
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For the Cardinals, 2009 has been a season in humility. One victory so far, countless games that have just slipped away, and a growing portion of the fanbase that is transitioning from faithful supporter to angry patron, or in the worst cases, apathetic. Central Michigan has been quite the opposite. CMU was dubbed the MAC [...]
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2009 for the Cardinals has been far from “awesome”, “impressive”, “dominant”, or any other adjective that was thrown about like candy on Halloween last year for the 08 edition. Last season, people were pissed we weren’t making a BCS game. This season, the Cards are 1-8 and the resounding perspective from some of the “fans” [...]
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The road to win number one was a long time coming for the Ball State Cardinals, and given their opponent this weekend in Ohio University, the road to #2 may be difficult as well. Ohio comes in at 5-2 and 3-1 in the MAC, but on the heels of their first conference loss. The MAC [...]
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It’s hard for national attention to be paid to a contest that features two teams with a combined 0-6 conference record and an 0-13 overall record. But ask the fanbases of these two programs and this game is looked at as one of the most important games of the season. The pessimist Cardinal fan points [...]
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Saturday is going to tell Ball State fans one of two things. With a win, their first of the season, it’s going to tell more than a few people that this team isn’t nearly as bad as people are making them out to be. It’s going to tell people that Stan Parrish is not in [...]
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