[Postgame Thread] UMass Defeats Rutgers 37-21

[u/CFB_Referee]

Box Score provided by ESPN

Team	1	2	3	4	T
UMass	7	17	3	10	37
Rutgers	7	0	0	14	21

[u/Skyhav]

Imagine paying a team a bunch of money to lose to them on BTN. Couldn't be me. Haha... ha........

[u/Otherwise-Question70 → u/Skyhav]

Big Ten Network was launched at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time on August 30, 2007, with Big Ten Tonight as its inaugural program. The network aired its first live telecasts two days later on September 1, which included a football game between Appalachian State and Michigan

I never realized ya’ll get upset on the first day of BTN lmao

[u/wit_T_user_name → u/Otherwise-Question70]

Hardly anyone saw it live because nobody carried the Big Ten network back then.

[u/WirlingDirvish → u/wit_T_user_name]

So basically the whole B1G should be thanking Michigan for convincing people to get the Big Ten Network. We really kickstarted people’s interest in the network. 

I wonder how many Buckeyes and Spartians subscribed in the 4th quarter just to watch the end. 

[u/wit_T_user_name → u/WirlingDirvish]

They showed the end of it on the Jumbotron at the Shoe.

[u/zorionek0 → u/wit_T_user_name]

WITHOUT THE EXPRESS WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE COMMISSIONER!?! Hello, FBI?

[u/dkviper11 → u/wit_T_user_name]

They had it on the TVs in the concourse in Beaver stadium.

[u/Fear_the_chicken → u/WirlingDirvish]

More than 6 I’d say

[u/Thiege1 → u/WirlingDirvish]

Should we thank Michigan or App St

[u/WirlingDirvish → u/Thiege1]

Replace App state with a different roughly equivalent team and it’s the same reaction. 

Replace Michigan with another B1G team and nobody gives a shit unless it’s OSU or maybe PSU. I don’t remember the preseason rankings that year.