r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • Sep 04 '26

Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] UMass Defeats Rutgers 37-21

Box Score provided by ESPN

Team 1 2 3 4 T
UMass 7 17 3 10 37
Rutgers 7 0 0 14 21
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u/RumRunner323 ECU Pirates • American Sep 04 '26

Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.

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u/ChasingMD Nebraska Cornhuskers • Kentucky Wildcats Sep 04 '26

Can confirm

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u/BustDemFerengiCheeks WKU Hilltoppers Sep 04 '26

It's okay brother, we in the west understand.

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u/jackw800800 Virginia Tech Hokies Sep 04 '26

Don’t listen to them, it’s great!

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u/PhDShouse Iowa State Cyclones • Sickos Sep 04 '26

I can also confirm

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u/coltsmetsfan614 Michigan Wolverines • College Football Playoff Sep 04 '26

He said Hope, not Pope! /s

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u/Eazy_Now Michigan • Central Michigan Sep 04 '26

It’s got no use on the inside. Better get used to that idea.

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u/MyFace_UrAss_LetsGo Ole Miss • Southern Miss Sep 04 '26

Like Brooks did?

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u/Commercial_Show_6997 Sep 04 '26

Get busy living, or get busy dying

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u/PretendThisIsMyName Clemson Tigers • Texas A&M Aggies Sep 04 '26

Hope is trademarked football

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u/RazzmatazzNo4726 Sep 04 '26

It's the Hope that kills ya

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u/AesopsFurballs ECU Pirates • South Dakota Coyotes Sep 04 '26

As someone who went to both ECU and UMass, I feel this on a visceral level. But if UMass can get a legitimate win, then based on this logic the Pirates will beat Bama this weekend, right?

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u/RogueOneisbestone ECU Pirates • NC State Wolfpack Sep 04 '26

Greenville wouldn’t survive lol

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u/HotdawgSizzle Georgia Bulldogs Sep 04 '26

As a Falcons fan it's the worst thing ever.

But don't let me be a downer

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u/PettyRang Georgia Bulldogs • Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 04 '26

But as a UGA fan, she's alright.

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u/jpetrie18 Boise State Broncos • Gonzaga Bulldogs Sep 04 '26

Worth it.

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u/Jhriad Nebraska • $5 Bits of Broken Chair Tro… Sep 04 '26

Nebraska fans have entered the chat

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u/nice_Nisei Hawai'i • 京都大学 (Kyoto) Sep 04 '26

10/10 reference

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u/-Don-Draper- Florida Gators • Team Chaos Sep 04 '26

Everyone's saying that they've got the answer. Well hope is deceiving, it spreads like a cancer.

-Emory

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u/Lefunnymaymays4lief Notre Dame • Jeweled Shillelagh Sep 04 '26

Yeah.

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u/obiwanjabroni420 Georgia Tech • Vermont Sep 04 '26

Yup

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u/LtDrunkFace Notre Dame • Arizona Sep 04 '26

It’s the hope that kills

Signed-

2012
2024

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u/TbRays93Plumber26 Utah Utes • Florida Gators Sep 04 '26

My liver hates hope

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u/Mugwumpjizzum1 Kansas Jayhawks Sep 04 '26

Counterpoint, it's what rebellions are built on

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u/Gold-Swing5775 Purdue Boilermakers Sep 04 '26

Hope will crush you in ways you never saw coming

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u/zorionek0 Arizona State Sun Devils Sep 04 '26

Oh boy now you get to listen to the Menzinger’s classic “Hope is a Dangerous Little Thing” one of my favorite songs from one of my favorite bands

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u/baileyx96 Texas A&M Aggies • UTEP Miners Sep 04 '26

It’s the hope that gets you

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u/WMINWMO Michigan Wolverines Sep 05 '26

It's the hope that kills ya.