FOOTBALL Middle Tennessee (5-5, 3-3) vs ODU (4-6, 3-3) (ESPN+), 2:30PM, Saturday, November 20, 2021

[SpaceRaider]

Hope we can do to ODU’s football team what Indiana State is doing to their basketball team tonight. 72-24 with 7 minutes left.

Well I would say odu is committed to 'competing' in the new sun belt.
LMAO

 

[JohnDavidBlue]

I confess. I left early during 2001 New Mexico State game.

"A win over Old Dominion (4-6) would give the Blue Raiders a clean sweep of their home schedule, something that hasn't been done since 2001."

Blue Raiders looking for the broom in home football finale

When Middle Tennessee State (5-5) takes the field on Saturday, November 20, the brooms will be coming out with hopes of using them. A win over Old Dominion (4-6) would give the Blue Raiders a clean sweep of their home schedule, something that hasn't been done since 2001. After losing three of...

www.wgnsradio.com

 

[SpaceRaider]

Two decades since the MT fan base experienced a complete sweep of home games. - Just one reason attendance is in such poor shape.

 

[SpaceRaider]

Middle Tennessee vs. Old Dominion NCAA Football Odds, Plays and Insights | November 20, 2021

Check out odds, insights and more in our betting preview for the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders vs. Old Dominion Monarchs college football matchup on November 20, 2021.

www.si.com

 

[SpaceRaider]

MTSU football vs. Old Dominion: Scouting report, score prediction for home finale

MTSU will play its home finale and try to gain bowl eligibility when the Blue Raiders take on Old Dominion Saturday.

www.dnj.com

 

[blueraiderJT]

i have watched like 3 of their games since Wolff has been the starter. It's like watching us. It really is. I actually think we have more talent than they do. Especially on defense. Wolffe is good but he throws the same type of short to intermediate passes we do. Their RB Watson is good and their run scheme is better than ours but I like Petaway and Frank Peasant in our backfield. If we had a half decent block scheme with proper caoching, we could just run on them 70% of the time.

One thing I really like about Vattaito is his release. He can get rid of the ball fast and I feel like if he can balance that with accuracy, he will be able to beat their blitz. ODU's front is formidable. They destroyed FAU but FAU has been injured on the line a lot and it showed last week. FAU is not what they were earlier this year.

I more than like our chances if we can just execute and run just a little. If we can run enough to open up the pass, opportunites will be all over the place. If they dog our run, turnover chances go way up. We just have to balance out a little more than we do. Our D will adjust to them so if we can stop an early onslaught, we will be fine.

As weird as this sounds, this may be our most challenging game because of what it represents. However, being at home and on senior day, you couldn't ask for a better advantage for us. Our home play has been outstanding. This is our first back to back home game so that will be interesting as well. It should be a great game that will go to the wire.

 

[MidTennMtneer]

On the line

* Undefeated home season
* Bowl eligibility
* Win #100 for Stock
* Senior game
* 1st game after the big announcement...will all the press make people curious?
* East should be figured out by end of game...Marshall/Charlotte play same time and FAU/WKU play earlier.

 

[SpaceRaider]

Preview: Q&A with Old Dominion Beat Writer David Hall - Middle Tennessee State University Athletics

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — When CJ Windham watches game film of Old Dominion, it's almost like the wide receiver is looking in a mirror.

goblueraiders.com

 

[MIDTENN05]

I got a good feeling we going to be doing some competing tomorrow!

 

[JohnDavidBlue]

Usually when things are on the line we fall flat.

 

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[SpaceRaider]

Old Dominion has turned things around with 3 straight wins. Players and coaching staff aren’t surprised.

The Monarchs, who were 1-6 and left for dead just three weeks ago, sit two wins away from bowl eligibility as they visit Middle Tennessee on Saturday for the regular season’s penultimate game.

www.pilotonline.com

 

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[ewglenn]

Who all is making it today? My daughter and I will be there.

 

[BigBlueBrad]

Keeping my word not to come back until Stock is gone. I’ll get to extend my record of not coming to a game for two consecutive seasons!

 

[Hop45]

Anyone else think it is incredibly stupid that our announcer reports every change in QB from play to play? So much for the element of surprise!

 

[Hop45]

Also, my first game this season. Didn't buy season tix after 17 straight years. Cheapest seat in the house $18. No wonder they can't get the "average Joe" to attend games.

 

[MTLynn]

Also, my first game this season. Didn't buy season tix after 17 straight years. Cheapest seat in the house $18. No wonder they can't get the "average Joe" to attend games.

Well, you know, if they cut the price then the public won't value the product and attendance will suffer...

 

[sWiley]

Anyone know what happened to Amir Rasul ?

 

[MTTim]

Is Buster Faulkner calling our plays today?

 

[MTBlueMan]

Also, my first game this season. Didn't buy season tix after 17 straight years. Cheapest seat in the house $18. No wonder they can't get the "average Joe" to attend games.

This is the exact reason I haven't been in 2 years. Not paying $18-$24 a seat to watch a Stock-coached team.

I can barely stand watching them for "free" on tv.

 

[sWiley]

What in the world is going on ?

What an effort to lose

 

[Predarat]

Good grief.

 

[sWiley]

When I made my prediction for this game I believed ODU would win because I just had this hunch we could not win this game. Talk about manifestation.

team is welcome to prove me wrong. I would like them to prove me wrong. But I just never saw us winning this game. We can never beat teams with a pulse when there is anything meaningful on the line. Ever.

 

[blueraiderJT]

This is going like I thought it would, ODU and MT are really evenly matched. I wish we would open it up a bit but we shall see,

 

[blueraiderJT]

We are folding. We should have gone for it on 4th down. Stupid.

 

[MTBlueMan]

I want a win for the players, but I really don't want to get "bowl eligible."

 

[sWiley]

Very unfortunate. I wanted to send these players out with a W at home and finish 7-5.

but it’s not happening. The better team is going to win today. And that team is not MT.

 

[sWiley]

This game is over. We just don’t have a QB that can consistently throw it down field so ODU only has to defend short.

 

[cfly1980]

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

 

[sWiley]

And that’s a wrap. I’m off to play the new battlefield.

hopefully finishing 5-7 will push Stockstill to finally retire.

 

[Hop45]

This is awful. Played their asses off for 3 quarters to sh!t the bed in the 4th.

 

[blueraiderJT]

Wow. such bad playcalling.

 

[cfly1980]

Just a few more minutes until 98 Ls

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[Predarat]

Dang, watch Stock eek out a win somehow next week and put us through yet another Bowl Shellacking. Sometimes I wish I still got mad about this team and could go on Twitter and Facebook rants, pissing off Alex Dale in the process.

 

[MTLynn]

Is Buster Faulkner calling our plays today?

Never underestimate the influence of stuckstill

 

[blueraiderJT]

ODU did a great job taking what we gave them and opened up the offense on us. They have good coaching. We don't. They will grow that program. We will just be the same.

 

[Hop45]

Not real sure we needed to onside kick with 4 plus minutes left.