CFN Predictions, Part 2

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CFN early prediction on the Gophers. Best case: 8-4. Worst case: 4-8. Most likely: 6-6. Interestingly enough, they do not predict any Big Ten team to finish lower than 6-6 (both MN and Indiana.) Obviously, this would mean no bowl game for a 6-6 team. Their predictions seem to follow what most on this site are saying.
 

CFN obviosly doen't read GH if they think that 8-4 is possibility.
 


6-6 is an accurate prediction, IMO. The season could really go a lot of different ways. Every road game is winnable. Iowa at home is winnable. We played tough against tOSU for a half on the road, at home that could become a dogfight. USC has a new coaching staff, and that could play well for an upset. PSU is winnable at home. The odds of each of these happening individually is low. The odds of running the table at home are a near impossibility, though, and every road game is a potential loss. We have to replace a lot on defense, and the offense needs to play much better. Here's hoping we start hot, and can continue it through the entire season.
 

What kills me about last year's schedule and next year's schedule is the the fact that after about 80 straight years of playing Michigan every year, when Minnesota finally misses them (due to the unforgivable 2 season suspension of the Lil' Brown Jug game), the Wolverines are flat out awful! By the time the Gophers get to play Michigan again they'll probably have Les Miles coaching a sick D with 2 stud QBs in Forcier and Gardner and DR in the slot.

This is why true rivalries should never miss a year under any circumstances. On the plus side with MQ Gray in his 2nd year as a starter and an ahtletic veteran D the Gophers will have a good shot at the Jug in 2011.
 


AhliBobwa said:
What kills me about last year's schedule and next year's schedule is the the fact that about 80 straight years of playing Michigan every year, when Minnesota finally misses them (due to the unforgivable 2 season suspension of the Lil' Brown Jug game), the Wolverines are flat out awful! By the time the Gophers get to play Michigan again they'll probably have Les Miles coaching a sick D with 2 stud QBs in Forcier and Gardner and DR in the slot.

This is why true rivalries should never miss a year under any circumstances. On the plus side with MQ Gray in his 2nd year as a starter and an ahtletic veteran D the Gophers will have a good shot at the Jug in 2011.
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I agree, they should not temporarily suspend a rivalry that has such longevity. However, you did play them two seasons ago when they went on to win 3 games and they destroyed the gophers. There are no guarantees that Minny would win. A little more likely but still probably more like 50/50.
 

I know it will never happen but I would like to see the Big Ten teams play two non conference games and play every member of the conference every year.
 


AhliBobwa said:
What kills me about last year's schedule and next year's schedule is the the fact that after about 80 straight years of playing Michigan every year, when Minnesota finally misses them (due to the unforgivable 2 season suspension of the Lil' Brown Jug game), the Wolverines are flat out awful! By the time the Gophers get to play Michigan again they'll probably have Les Miles coaching a sick D with 2 stud QBs in Forcier and Gardner and DR in the slot.

This is why true rivalries should never miss a year under any circumstances. On the plus side with MQ Gray in his 2nd year as a starter and an ahtletic veteran D the Gophers will have a good shot at the Jug in 2011.
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Um, we played then at home during their worst season ever and lost 29-6.
 



AhliBobwa said:
What kills me about last year's schedule and next year's schedule is the the fact that after about 80 straight years of playing Michigan every year, when Minnesota finally misses them (due to the unforgivable 2 season suspension of the Lil' Brown Jug game), the Wolverines are flat out awful!
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We didn't play Michigan in 1999 and 2000 either. Iowa and Wisconsin are our protected rivals, everybody else will cycle on and off equally.
 

Ask anyone from Michigan what they think of the Minnesota-Michigan 'rivalry'. They will laugh in your face. They stopped giving it a second thought about 40 years ago. Even now that they stink, given OSU, Notre Dame and State, they want to beat Minnesota about as badly as they want to beat Iowa or Northwestern.

The best way to characterize their feelings towards the Little Brown Jug is ambivalence: it's an old tradition so it's worth doing, but in almost every year the game represents little upside and huge downside.

No one in MI is lamenting the fact that they won't be playing for the Jug for two years. The Big Ten schedule reflects this.

I know lots of MI folks. Just sayin'.
 

tato2001 said:
Ask anyone from Michigan what they think of the Minnesota-Michigan 'rivalry'. They will laugh in your face. They stopped giving it a second thought about 40 years ago. Even now that they stink, given OSU, Notre Dame and State, they want to beat Minnesota about as badly as they want to beat Iowa or Northwestern.

The best way to characterize their feelings towards the Little Brown Jug is ambivalence: it's an old tradition so it's worth doing, but in almost every year the game represents little upside and huge downside.

No one in MI is lamenting the fact that they won't be playing for the Jug for two years. The Big Ten schedule reflects this.

I know lots of MI folks. Just sayin'.
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The good folks at MVictors would disagree. They have done a seven part series (nine if you consider the audio parts) on the history of the rivalry and what they deem the most important piece of memorabilia in college football history. The 'lots' of Mich folks you know may be a representative sample, but there is also the possibility that it is not. The history of Big Ten football virtually rests on the MN-Mich game for the first fifty years of the 20th century.
 




Any Wolverine fan who denies there is a Michigan-Minnesota rivalry is just talking smack. Sure, it's not as big as Michigan-Ohio State by any means, but it is still a rivalry. There is much more of a rivalry than there is between Minnesota and Penn State. If we beat Penn State, it's just beating a good opponent, trophy or not, there's not really a rivalry. There still is one between Minnesota and Michigan.
 

RodentRampage said:
Any Wolverine fan who denies there is a Michigan-Minnesota rivalry is just talking smack.
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That could be. It's also fair that I'm speaking anecdotally.

However, I've talked a fair amount of Big Ten football with MI fans. Their attitude is cocky, yep, but they usually say something like, "yeah, the jug is cool. It's really old. HOWEVER, in a typical season we would WAY rather beat OSU, State, and Notre Dame. That puts the jug at best the 4th most important game, and in reality far lower if we have big games vs. Iowa or Penn State."

Which is sort of like whichever team is behind Sconi, Iowa, and Michigan for us. Can't even think who that would be. I guess Penn State simply because there IS a trophy.

I define a rivalry game as follows: If your team is having a relatively crummy season, and you make the statement along the lines of, "Wow. This season sucked, but at least we beat >fill in team name here<," THAT team is your rival. The team against whom a victory can make an otherwise crummy season almost bearable.

In a crummy year Sconi would say that about MN, so would IA. I guarantee you Michigan fans were not saying that after they beat the Gophers 2 seasons ago.
 

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