I tried my best to encapsulate the mood from the game yesterday in the Pourover this morning, but I wanted to separate the grander idea of the impact of this blowout from the game play. One, because I run a site which likes traffic and people to read stuff, but moreso because the game itself was interesting in a statistical way while the meaning of the game was completely different.
On it’s surface, a blowout loss in a rivalry game for a first year coach isn’t surprising. But if you strip out the rivalry part of it, you can see that one team played well while the other team didn’t.