Forget all those bad years, we just beat the #3 team in the country baby.
When Ito nailed a 46-yard field goal with 10:17 left in the fourth quarter, the game was tied at 25, the cannon behind the south end zone boomed and the record crowd of 44,111 was in a white-towel waving frenzy.
Students started lining up outside Rutgers Stadium more than four hours before kickoff for the most important college football game in New Jersey since, well, maybe the first one was played between Rutgers and Princeton in 1869. Never before had Rutgers played in a game matching ranked teams.
Now the Scarlet Knights have won one and can started wondering where they will be when the next Bowl Championship Series standings come out Sunday.
Brendan Loy says it best: Rutgers is good.
R-U! RAH! RAH!
This is the biggest football win in Rutgers history. Before this, the most the RU could point to was a late-80s win against Michigan State at an away game during which the crowd chanted “What’s a Rutgers ?” And, darn it, it feels damn good even if its been 16 years since I graduated.
Update: Stewart Mandel points out something truly amazing:
Stop and let it sink in for a second. No — really let it sink in. As of today, we are down to three undefeated, major-conference teams in college football this season: Ohio State, Michigan … and Rutgers.
Can anyone say #1, #2, and #3 come Sunday ?
November 10th, 2006 at 11:22 am
Ack! What will you do if the national championship becomes a Rugters/Ohio State matchup?
November 10th, 2006 at 12:33 pm
I think we’ll have to rely on our dog to keep the peace
November 12th, 2006 at 7:54 am
[...] Meanwhile, this hasn’t been such a good week for the rest of the BCS Top 10. Starting with Thursday’s Rutgers triumph over Louisville,? things just sort of went downhill: (hyperlinks mine) BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — You wanted a BCS shakeup? You got it. In terms of postseason ramifications, I can only think of one Saturday in the BCS era that rivaled this one — and that was the last day of the season in 1998, when undefeated UCLA and Kansas State went down. [...]