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Seven bowl teams + USC. Current AP 4, 7, 17, 30, and 36. Four New Year's day bowl teams. Two of three Big Ten co-champions and the Big 12 runner up. Fortunately no Ohio State or PSU - a miss that will only happen on average 20% of the time.

Is this the toughest schedule in recent memory?
 

Very tough but there are opportunities. It will be interesting to see what happens at Iowa, Wisconsin will graduate a lot of key players and if Michigan changes coaches their personnel might not fit the system. This years rankings will not accurately describe next years schedule.
 

2010

Middle Tennessee State vs Ohio U
Northern Illinois vs Fresno State
Northwestern vs Texas Tech
Wisconsin vs TCU
Penn State vs Florida
Ohio State vs Arkansas
Iowa vs Missouri
Michigan State vs Alabama
Illinois vs Baylor

Looks like 2010 was a tough year on the schedule. If anything, only playing 7 bowl teams next year looks much less "difficult". Only time will tell.
 

Mustang Mountain Man said:
Middle Tennessee State vs Ohio U
Northern Illinois vs Fresno State
Northwestern vs Texas Tech
Wisconsin vs TCU
Penn State vs Florida
Ohio State vs Arkansas
Iowa vs Missouri
Michigan State vs Alabama
Illinois vs Baylor

Looks like 2010 was a tough year on the schedule. If anything, only playing 7 bowl teams next year looks much less "difficult". Only time will tell.
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Good point. USC won eight games too. I didn't realize MTSU had crawled back into a bowl game.
 

You don't need to worry about it, we have already established 7-5 as our minimum performance expectation.
 


Well

Thats what Brewster wanted. A schedule tough as nails.
 

If someone had told me last February the Gophers would legit man up and beat Iowa this past season, I wouldn't have believed them.

Of course of someone else had said South Dakota would come into TCF and win, I wouldn't have believed that either.

So, I'll just go back to reading, I guess...
 

Clark W. Griswold said:
Very tough but there are opportunities. It will be interesting to see what happens at Iowa, Wisconsin will graduate a lot of key players and if Michigan changes coaches their personnel might not fit the system. This years rankings will not accurately describe next years schedule.
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Our division should be pretty wide open next year. Our OL is the key to any success.
 

dont forget NDSU, which will be ranked #1 in FCS this fall.
 





Bob_Loblaw said:
You didn't really just compare NDSU with bowl teams did you?
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Maybe he was seeing everyone talking about how tough the schedule was, and he wanted to encourage us by mentioning the worst team on the schedule next year.
 

Rosemountian said:
Maybe he was seeing everyone talking about how tough the schedule was, and he wanted to encourage us by mentioning the worst team on the schedule next year.
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That can only be it, I think he forgot to start his posting with "Look on the bright side...".
 



Is this the toughest schedule in recent memory?
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No. We catch a huge break in not playing 2 of the tougher teams in the conference next year in OSu and PSU. This may be the easiest big ten line up we have ever faced. That's not saying it's easy, just better than the normal brutal line up.
 

A different look.

Our division(starts with an L is all I know):

Michigan- Not the perenial power it once was, possible new coach and 'starting over'.
Nebraska- Maybe they aren't 'back to being the power some thought'.
Iowa- In bad shape.
Michigan St.- Overated and had a lucky year IMO.
Northwestern- They're Northwestern.
Gophers- ???????????????

Other Division(also starts with an L, I think)
tOSU
Wisconsin
Penn State
 

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