r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • 3h ago

Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Northwestern Defeats Michigan State 24-21

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Team 1 2 3 4 T
Northwestern 3 7 3 11 24
Michigan State 7 7 0 7 21
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u/Woalolol Michigan State Spartans 3h ago

Cut my life into pieces

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u/Auferstehen2 Michigan State Spartans 3h ago

This is a stupid sport

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u/AJB46 Michigan State Spartans 3h ago

Humiliation, no winning

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u/JimTresselAtHyvee Nebraska Cornhuskers • Sickos 2h ago

Dont give a fuck if I see my coach leaving

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u/roguebananah Michigan State Spartans • Paper Bag 1h ago

Fitz lovers

And boomers

Don’t really understand how bad he is

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u/TheKoppinator 33m ago

Epic, nice job everyone

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u/CrawlerCoolie LSU Tigers • Southeastern Lions 2h ago

I really hate this fucking season!

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u/SEND_ME_YOUR_CAULK Maryland Terrapins • Sickos 11m ago

Could be worse

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u/hesperoyucca Northwestern Wildcats 2h ago edited 1h ago

I don't know if you intended it, but along the lines of u/Pharx0h's lyrics reference below, "this is a stupid sport" has the same number of syllables and could swap perfectly with "this is my last resort" in terms of rhyme.

Edit: it was too obvious, bring on the downvotes, I deserve every single one

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u/Informal_Ad_6839 2h ago

Good job buddy let’s put that up on the fridge

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u/hesperoyucca Northwestern Wildcats 1h ago

😆 thanks dad, I hope I can keep making you proud

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u/BullshitSloth Michigan State Spartans 46m ago

Lmao good on you for owning it

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u/hesperoyucca Northwestern Wildcats 2m ago

Yes, it is a duty of mine to push back against the stereotype of Nerdwestern. I am an example that we can be as dumb and clueless as anyone else.  

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u/MicksMaster Northwestern Wildcats 2h ago

If you don’t like that, you don’t like Fitzball.

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u/roguebananah Michigan State Spartans • Paper Bag 1h ago

All I can hope for is this fans stop going and then it shows the school he’s trash

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u/Pharx0h Northwestern • Vanderbilt 3h ago

this is my last resort

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u/motomami24 Miami Hurricanes 3h ago

Ayyy samesies if your flares represent the schools you went to

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u/Pharx0h Northwestern • Vanderbilt 3h ago

yeah ive attended both

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u/Rohn- Wisconsin Badgers 2h ago

Nerd!

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u/Pharx0h Northwestern • Vanderbilt 2h ago

shit it do be paying off

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u/motomami24 Miami Hurricanes 1h ago

Hell ya

Can I ask how you do multiple flares? I grew up a canes fan so that is kind of my number 1 but northwestern is my other team. Rare they are both top 25 so would love to rep both lol

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u/BobbysSmile Alabama • Alabama A&M 2h ago

Man what happened to MSU? I used to love watching you play but its just sad now.

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u/jimmy_three_shoes Michigan State Spartans • Team Chaos 2h ago

Mark Dantonio checked out his last couple seasons, and had a bunch of coordinators he just shuffled around so the program stagnated. Decided in February that he was retiring, so they scrambled and hired Mel Tucker. Tucker had one good season, then got fired for masturbating on a call with a vendor. Program scrambled again after firing him for cause and hired Jonathan Smith from Oregon State, who was ass. Fired him and now we have Pat Fitzgerald.

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u/KushDingies Northwestern • North Carolina 2h ago

And that one good season was basically entirely due to Kenneth Walker. That dude was unbelievable

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u/bluespartan8 Michigan State Spartans 1h ago

You're underselling the talent on that team. K9 was a massive part of it, no doubt, but our receivers that year were Jayden Reed, Keon Coleman, and Jalen Nailor. No, they're not Jeremiah Smith but K9 plus three nfl-caliber wide receivers (and Connor Hayward) was too much for even Mel Tucker to mess up.

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u/OGMannimal Michigan State • Washington 1h ago

Kenneth Walker gave us the best season we’ve had in years and unfortunately got Mel Tugger paid

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u/BobbysSmile Alabama • Alabama A&M 2h ago

Damn, insane spiral.

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u/roguebananah Michigan State Spartans • Paper Bag 1h ago

It’s gotta be one of the biggest spirals in the past decade. Maybe Stanford has been more dead than us.

Like if it weren’t for the Kenneth Walker III season, we would have nothing to show since our 2015 CFBP game

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u/Spartannia Michigan State Spartans • Marching Band 2h ago

I also used to love watching us play lmao

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u/royallex Illinois • Pittsburgh 3h ago

Feel awful for you guys. Can't imagine having the boosters deciding 2026 Pat Fitzgerald was a good hire (scandals aside)

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u/slyfox1908 Michigan State Spartans • Iowa Hawkeyes 3h ago

In fairness, we’re two or three plays away from 4-3 and feeling pretty good. But you can’t deny Fitz is responsible for these games turning out how they have.

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u/royallex Illinois • Pittsburgh 2h ago

Referring to the fact that he went 1-8 in conference 3 of his last 4 years at NW

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u/roguebananah Michigan State Spartans • Paper Bag 1h ago

This is the apologetic stuff that is going to keep Fitz here longer.

I don’t care if it was close. He’s in wayyyy over his head

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u/Dorazer Ohio State Buckeyes 2h ago

Regular or zig-zag scissors?

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u/m0sf3t_59 UCLA Bruins • Sickos 1h ago

Just wait until you see what your next game is