10-2 - tell me I’m wrong

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Buffalo - Lance Leopold ain’t walking through that door.
1-0 and probably by 3 scores

Northwestern state- maybe better than northwestern but awful.
2-0 and by at least 3 scores

@Cal - sneaky sneaky but 3-0 by 10 points on the road

Rutgers - Revenge game at home against Athan K coming off a bye week?
14 points at home - 4-0

@ohio state - too rich for my blood
Loss by 10 that feels like more than 10
4-1

Purdue - get right by playing the worst power 5 team. 5-1

Nebraska - Friday night lights.
The steak continues by 7.
6-1 in a gritty game. I will be intoxicated

@iowa - gophers 2-0 in Iowa city when im not there since 1995 and im not going to be there. You are welcome. 7-1

Michigan state is just below average.
Gophers by 14
8-1

@oregon with a bye week. This would be a good game to go to. If the gophers jump into the playoffs it’s because they beat Nebraska, Iowa, Oregon back to back to back. Oregon doesn’t have a QB. It’s the first time their coach is with his whole team nobody from previous regime.
Oregon by 20
8-2

Northwestern in Chicago. Revenge game from the worst game of the fleck era (IMO) two years ago. 9-2

@wisconsin. I predict vs interim coach. I predict vs interim team.
Gophers by 100000
10-2


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Wrong is a little strong. I like the optimism but 8-4 would be a huge success. I see 7-5 despite a new untested QB. This is a season where 6-6 would not shock. Very young team.
 

1983 said:
Wrong is a little strong. I like the optimism but 8-4 would be a huge success. I see 7-5 despite a new untested QB. This is a season where 6-6 would not shock. Very young team.
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They could lose any game
But the predicted wins that are 50/50 or harder are:
Iowa
Nebraska

Lose both of those plus a random game and you are 7-5
Lose both of those plus two random games and you are 6-6




Young in key spots but I hope we make a run. Schedule super manageable this year. Not sure when our next super manageable schedule is.
 

Some guy said:
They could lose any game
But the predicted wins that are 50/50 or harder are:
Iowa
Nebraska

Lose both of those plus a random game and you are 7-5
Lose both of those plus two random games and you are 6-6




Young in key spots but I hope we make a run. Schedule super manageable this year. Not sure when our next super manageable schedule is.
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We have no idea how easy or hard this years schedule will be. Everyone expected last years schedule to be hard and it ended up being one of the easier schedules in the conference. No one saw Indiana being in the CFP or USC and Wisconsin being as bad as they were. Michigan was also down.

Even if we think we know who's going to be good, I think playing at Oregon and at Ohio St is much tougher this year than getting Michigan at home and playing at Penn St next year.
 

Some guy said:
Wrong
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The OL was not a strength last year.
The WR group's lead WR had 18 catches and 1 TD last year (Brockington).
The QB is a redshirt freshman whose stats are 4/5 50 yards 1TD (4 of those attempts against URI).

I hope the Gophers don't lose a game. But how was I wrong?
 

Not going to speak for SG, but it seems his argument is that he's already excluding @OSU and @Oregon from his prediction, and really just trying to predict the remaining 10 games. Which I think is fair.
 


GoDucks349 said:
I'm going to assume that was meant as sarcasm. Neither one of them are straight out of high school. Dante Moore started for UCLA under Chip Kelly in 2023, he spent 2024 learning as a back up to Dillon Gabriel at Oregon. Autstin Novostad, has spent one year as a back up to Bo Nix and one year as an understudy to Dillion Gabriel. Point is both QBs aren't "high school" QBs, they've both been in the system and have had the chance to learn under a couple pretty good college QBs and OC.

Dante probably is the most athletically talented of the two, while I can see Austin making a career in the NFL.
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I just think it is amazing you are on a first name basis with both of them. Definitely fun to get insider level info to this degree here on Gopherhole.
 
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I think 10-2 is possible. But, I also think 6-6 is possible. I think both of those seasons are equally likely to happen, with the more likely situation being something in the middle - 7-5 or 8-4.

I will say that IF the Gophers somehow climb to a 10-2 season, it will feature a stunning upset of either Ohio State or Oregon on the road, but also have a loss to someone like Cal or Nebraska in a very frustrating game to watch. There is always a game or two like that. They are college kids and Fleck always seems to uncork a couple stinkers during the season.
 

swede2 said:
Seems legit except we can't beat Iowa and they might have a QB this year. And Peej always loses a can't lose game. Buffalo, NWSt, or Purdue will pull the upset. 8-4.
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Neither one of those teams have a chance, especially the 1st 2 games.
 

GopherWeatherGuy said:
We have no idea how easy or hard this years schedule will be. Everyone expected last years schedule to be hard and it ended up being one of the easier schedules in the conference. No one saw Indiana being in the CFP or USC and Wisconsin being as bad as they were. Michigan was also down.

Even if we think we know who's going to be good, I think playing at Oregon and at Ohio St is much tougher this year than getting Michigan at home and playing at Penn St next year.
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Yes we do?
The only way you don’t have any idea is if you don’t have a brain or a memory
 



Schnauzer said:
I think 10-2 is possible. But, I also think 6-6 is possible. I think both of those seasons are equally likely to happen, with the more likely situation being something in the middle - 7-5 or 8-4.

I will say that IF the Gophers somehow climb to a 10-2 season, it will feature a stunning upset of either Ohio State or Oregon on the road, but also have a loss to someone like Cal or Nebraska in a very frustrating game to watch. There is always a game or two like that. They are college kids and Fleck always seems to uncork a couple stinkers during the season.
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Agree

Hard for an above average team to play great all year

Gonna play below average a game or three
Need to try to go 3-0 in those games anyways
 

GoDucks349 said:
Oregon does have a couple more QBs in the room. One with some name recognition is Akili Smith Jr. Four Star and son of Akili Smith (former Duck and NFL QB)
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Great to have Oregon in the Big Ten, welcome!—looking forward to a trip to Eugene. I’ll admit I’m ornery about the Bucky Irving poaching…
 





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