Isn’t paper tiger a term used for someone over-rated but can’t back it up?

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Oct 1, 2024
11:36:16am

MHOP Political Junky

Isn’t paper tiger a term used for someone over-rated but can’t back it up?

BYU has covered every spread and beaten every team that “on paper” they should have lost to.

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MHOP

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Two guys on the Cyclone Fanatic podcast just predicted BYU 0-4 in next 4

CycloneCoug

11:27am

Were your friends in the ISU student government in 2016?

Benfica1

11:28am

Probably

Icelandic Cougar

11:28am

That's not all that unreasonable...on the harsh side, but certainly possible.

NOCAL_YFAN

11:29am

Anything >0% chance is possible. It’s not probable though.

mulletino

11:32am

Well, Arizona is currently favored by 1.5 pts, Utah and UCF are likely to be

NOCAL_YFAN

11:37am

We’ve beaten the spread, I believe, by an average of 17.4 pts per game.

mulletino

11:41am

A fact oddsmakers are well aware of in the setting of the current odds.

NOCAL_YFAN

11:47am

Yet each passing game they’re chosen to lose.

mulletino

12:28pm

Why would UCF be favored? They lost to CU and CU beat Baylor. We just beat

11:44am

We have to go to Florida to play UCF. Home field advantage & travel and the

NOCAL_YFAN

12:01pm

Understandable considering what ISU did to us last year

11:32am

Such a pathetic game. Left w/ just a couple minutes left & apologized for not giving them a better game passing fans.

Soupie

12:46pm

What gripe would Iowa State fans have with BYU?

BYU Fan

11:33am

Who says they have a gripe? Could be objective analysis.

YOHONOMOTO

11:37am

He said that many of his Cyclone friends were BYU haters...

BYU Fan

11:41am

oh got it. yeah that is weird.

YOHONOMOTO

11:43am

Maybe they hate BYU for what we did to their basketball team last season

ldssdl

11:44am

Think they're just trying project their own desires to eliminate who they see as

BackPacker

11:39am

This is probably a part of it

CycloneCoug

11:54am

Iowa state was the loudest voice against BYU joining in 2016

CycloneCoug

11:53am

Isn’t paper tiger a term used for someone over-rated but can’t back it up?

MHOP

11:36am

They’re projecting them to be a paper tiger

CycloneCoug

11:54am

their point is we will be exposed as such going forward and that we only beat weak teams so far

byujag

11:56am

and has the second highest strength of record in the country.

MaxxPower

1:21pm

I don't know how you could say that with how our defense has looked.

YOHONOMOTO

11:36am

There's was no paper involved in BYU's trouncing of KSU or wins @ SMU & Baylor

Doogal McCougar

11:37am

BYU is a good home team, I wonder how we do on the road

Projectoor

12:02pm

Although we are 5-0, I also worry about dropping the next 4 games.

Boring

12:43pm

We could go 0-4. I don't think we will, but we've lost 4 in a row before.

IronPotato

12:52pm

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