Folks, I'm a Maine Football fan now.
Last week we released the final version of our 2020 schedule poster. However, it was a close vote for this year's poster design so we thought it was important to share the runner-up version...#BlackBearNation | #ChampionshipMentality | #CAAFB pic.twitter.com/SG4FjhtTqO
— Maine Football (@BlackBearsFB) June 1, 2020
Song of the Day: "Banana Pancakes" by Jack Johnson.
Word of the Day: Shibboleth.
UNDAUNTING. A year after Ohio State cakewalked through a schedule that featured five games against teams ranked in the final AP Poll, it seems the Buckeyes have a much more manageable slate this year, at least relative to the rest of the Big Ten.
According to CBS Sports, Ohio State's strength of ranks just 10th in the conference, ahead of just Illinois, Northwestern, Indiana and Rutgers.
10 Ohio St.
The marquee game on Ohio State's noncon schedule is a road trip to Oregon the second week of the season. That game is sandwiched between home dates against Bowling Green and Buffalo. In conference play, the Buckeyes get Iowa, Nebraska and Illinois from the West, and only Illinois will be on the road. The toughest test in conference should be a road trip to Penn State in October, which comes a week after playing Michigan State on the road. The Buckeyes get Michigan in Columbus this year. Overall: 10.27% | Conference: -7.11%
My biggest beef with comparing schedule strength within a conference is that it's kind of bullshit when you're clearly the best team, because everyone else gets that strength boost from playing you, while you just have to play scrubbery.
But it really doesn't matter how difficult the schedule is, anyway. Give Ohio State road games against the five best conference opponents – Ryan Day and Justin Fields would still be moonwalking to the Big Ten Championship regardless.
However, last season's slate was much more manageable than this one, and Ohio State dominated teams like I've never seen teams dominated. Maybe we should consider a mercy rule before we start this season?
WAVY DUB SPEAKS. I'm not sure you can call a returning All-American and potential first-round pick "underrated," but it does feel like Wyatt Davis is flying extremely under-the-radar, at least as far as returning All-Americans go.
He's also a pretty underrated interview, as well.
It's all kinds of hilarious that he's a former five-star prospect and is widely considered the top interior lineman in the country and he's almost unanimously considered Ohio State's fourth-best pro prospect in this year's draft class.
“A REAL TREAT.” In one of the least shocking turns of events imaginable, Washington Redskins head coach Ron Rivera is pleased to have Terry McLaurin on his team.
"Terry McLaurin's been a treat," Rivera said. "He's been a treat to get to know."
As a rookie in 2019, McLaurin was one of the lone bright spots in an otherwise forgetful season for the Redskins. Then wideout finished with a team-high 919 receiving yards, just eight short of breaking Gary Clark's franchise rookie record. Additionally, his seven TD receptions accounted for nearly half of Washington's touchdowns in the passing game.
Rivera told Glazer that McLaurin reminds the head coach of one of his former wideouts in Carolina: D.J. Moore.
"[McLaurin is] a guy that could be on the verge [of stardom], he really is," Rivera said. "He reminds me so much of a D.J. Moore that we had in Carolina. Just an outstanding young man."
What? Terry McLaurin is a delightful addition to a football roster? Who would have imagined! I cannot wait until he becomes the first NFL Hall of Famer to run for president.
JUST DOING THEIR JOB. This is the first round of The Lantern staff that I don't know personally (your boy is getting old) but as an alum, I'm extremely proud of how they've handled themselves – even while getting illegally maced by police for doing their jobs.
Hi everyone: this was me. I was sprayed in the face after we identified ourselves and presented our press passes multiple times. Media are exempt from curfew. Media are exempt from curfew. https://t.co/DAIDudVpud
— Sarah Szilagy (@sarahszilagy) June 2, 2020
Our team has followed every rule while also bringing you the best coverage we can of this historic moment in history. Journalists even students put themselves on the line every day to serve our communities. There is no reason that what happened tonight should have happened.
— Sam Raudins (@sam_raudins) June 2, 2020
The new staff walked into one HELL of a world to cover as student journalists, but they've already done much better work than anything I ever produced during my time as a student (including my Insane Clown Posse concert review), in obviously much more trying circumstances.
I tip the cap, young ones.
TWO-SPORT STARS. Chase Young's current bank statement indicates that he quite clearly made the correct decision to pursue football over basketball, but he's freaky enough to have made it work.
Yall heard it! https://t.co/2TQ8ptVFk0
— CY2 (@youngchase907) June 1, 2020
Although, another former two-sport star is unimpressed.
Wouldve gave you that work https://t.co/PJURqjJpau
— Dawand Jones (@dawand_jones) June 1, 2020
Filed squarely under "Things I Didn't Know I Needed": A one-on-one basketball event between Big Thanos vs. The Predator. Give it to us. Eleven Warriors will stream it live.
NOT STICKING TO SPORTS. A death row inmate is denied a new trial despite the co-defendant confessing to the crime... A Florida high school had graduation on jet skis... The U.S. attorney’s paralegal is accused of tipping off the Mexican drug cartel... America’s obsession with lawns has 160-year-old roots... How much of Wikipedia is real?... Scammers are gaming Spotify by faking collaborations with famous artists...
