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

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

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Team 1 2 3 4 T
UMass 7 17 3 10 37
Rutgers 7 0 0 14 21
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u/awrf UMass Minutemen • Team Chaos Sep 04 '26 edited Sep 04 '26

I know this thread is going to be full of LOL Rutgers which is fine, but this is my national championship right here. We didn't just win, we looked like a legitimately good football team. Seriously go look at some highlights, some of Pop Watson's throws were nuts. I almost wonder if this might be the year we manage our first ever bowl bid. I'm so happy y'all

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u/lordeandtaylor Louisville • Lehigh Sep 04 '26

*Pop Watson lol. Would be pretty surprised if Pop Warner were somehow playing for you guys.

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u/mel_anon Indiana Hoosiers Sep 04 '26

"We reanimated Pop Warner" would only be a slightly more surprising outcome than this result.

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u/teeterleeter Michigan Wolverines Sep 04 '26

Oh come on, even HE still has eligibility?

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u/Lopoetve Colorado Buffaloes Sep 04 '26

You owe me a beer. And a less pissed off bartender girlfriend that said beer went all over

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u/teeterleeter Michigan Wolverines Sep 04 '26

Take it out of pop’s nil

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u/billybobskcor Georgia Southern • Mercer Sep 04 '26

Eligibility is apparently a myth anyway

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u/SpartansATTACK Michigan State • Wooster Sep 04 '26

He did only play at Cornell for 3 years, however he also played in one professional game for the Syracuse Athletic Club in 1902, earning $23.

Interestingly, the game he played was the first ever indoor professional football game, at Madison Square Garden. They used a 70 yard long field

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u/Arcades Miami Hurricanes • Michigan Wolverines Sep 04 '26

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