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Honestly Ferentz is the perfect Iowa coach. Football guy who is good enough to usually win 6-9 regular season games with occasionally more than that. And he works for a place where that is good enough to stick around. There is at least a 51% that program gets worse when he retires

How about off the bat they start with controversy? Is year 0 in the first century or not I would argue that Joe Mauer did not play in the 21st century. He played in the 20th

I guess I just don’t agree with your assessment of the buzz? I have seen projections saying best case 10-2 Projections saying worst case 4-8 or 5-7 I have seen most projections of 7 wins +\- 1 Seems about right and medium not low

Well if they do it it’s not going to be because there’d offered less money

Much more similar dates to all other levels of football (other than championships which are goofy anyways) Plus they don’t lose money by doing it. I wouldn’t be surprised if they then made the semifinals Jan 1 (Jan 2 if Jan 1 is a Sunday) And then championship the next Saturday after Jan 1...

Yeah. In another thread I kind of predicted this a while back though. 12 games starting week before Labor Day. It works differently depending on the date of Labor Day but basically you can have conference title and play in games Black Friday and thanksgiving saturday Playoffs selection day...

This is a way to expand playoffs and conference title week even further

Actually the Michigan game 03 was nearly identical situation. Even with the Michigan state loss, beating Michigan and everything remaining the same would’ve put the gophers in a shared big ten title and would’ve gone due to the rules at the time Those two seasons are why I think it’s crazy when...

A game not seen yet is 1999 Wisconsin Had they won that game in OT and everything else been the same 1999 is a rose bowl year

Yeah. A good program that over the long term is closer to the 5th best program in the conference than 1 For a while they were probably closer to 1 than 5

Correct They have come back down to their norm. I would argue they are very similar to Michigan state in that way.

1993 Wisconsin tied Ohio state who also finished first They didn’t play Penn state who finished alone in second place Michigan finished in a 3 way tie for 4th I didn’t mention 2017 because the OP didn’t I actually think the best team was 2011 but they lost two games in the regular season...

1993 great season. They didn’t beat either of the other two teams In the top 3 of the conference. 0-0-1 against those two 1998 great season They didn’t beat either of the other two teams in the top 3 of the conference 0-1-0 against those two 1999 great season They did beat a team in the top 3...

I’m not sure there was a way Structurally Wisconsin always has been closer to Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, and Michigan state than Michigan state, Ohio state, and Penn state Lucky for Wisconsin they were in the leaders at the same time Penn state and Ohio state were on probation combined with...

Making fans think about what it would take in February and March to get In would be fun

Ohio state has had one losing season since 1989 and it was Fickell Since joining the big east cincinatti has had 4 coaches win 9 games and another coach named mark dantonio

If Lindsey is as bad as Athan kaliakmanis: They should beat Buffalo, northwestern, Purdue, and northwestern state They should have a chance against Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, Rutgers, cal, Michigan state So if they find a way to go 4-0 against bad teams and 3-3 against average teams that’s 7...

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An 18 team conference is easier to get at larges in than a 16 or 14 team conference all else being equal with at largest because you’re more likely to have your best teams miss each other.

Probably so he makes the playoffs every year?