Cleveland Plain Dealer: A 3 percent chance Minnesota beats Ohio State

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maroonedinCA said:
There is no arrogance or cluelessness about it. Your bias makes them different in your eyes but they're really not any different.

Also, since we've beat them exactly twice since 1969 I absolutely agree with you that we have approximately a 20% chance of winning this game. :rolleyes:
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If only players and coaches changed from year to year. :rolleyes:
 

maroonedinCA said:
These types of comments get so tiresome. This is the offseason. All articles are projections and are mainly framed up as opinions. Yet every article someone has to come on and make the same cliche comment "why even show up".
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It's also very tiresome having to explain sarcasm to people.
 

I think we beat them but we have a good likelihood of losing the B1G Championship game to them. I'll settle for 1-1 with them this year. This will be Kill's signature win.
 


stocker08 said:
If only players and coaches changed from year to year. :rolleyes:
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+1. How many times have we returned 9 starters on O and 7 on D coming off of an 8 win season since 1969? Not many and we probably could have made the series a bit more competitive if that were the case.
 


Obviously, the Buckeye players will be too adapted to Columbus' tropical climate to deal with Minnesota weather.
 

mkAz said:
It's also very tiresome having to explain sarcasm to people.
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I know it's sarcasm directed at the author and both the point it tries to make and attempt at humor are lame and overused. Exactly what my first post said.


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maroonedinCA said:
I know it's sarcasm directed at the author and both the point it tries to make and attempt at humor are lame and overused. Exactly what my first post said.
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Cool, we have needed an arbiter of humor on this site, thanks for stepping up.
 



howeda7 said:
If this game were in Columbus, I'd buy 3%. I think we have now progressed to the point where saying we have only a 3% chance of winning any home game is absurd, unless it would be an Alabama or Oregon.
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Not that preseason mags mean much, but Ohio State is right in the mix with Alabama and Oregon in the national rankings (in fact slightly behind Ala and slightly ahead of Ore).

Athlon's - Ala (2nd), OSU (3rd), Ore (6th)
Lundy's - Ala (2nd), Ore (4th), OSU (5th)
TSN - Ore (2nd), Ala (4th), OSU (9th)
USA Today - OSU (2nd), Ala (3rd), Ore (4th)
Phil Steele - Ala (2nd), OSU (3rd), Ore (6th)



I think 3% is about right.
 

mkAz said:
Cool, we have needed an arbiter of humor on this site, thanks for stepping up.
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Well thankfully you're here to point us in the direction of definitions (albeit, at urban dictionary) of commonly used and understood words.
 

3% is far too low. I'd say 25% easy. If this Gopher team hosted this OSU team 4 times I think the Gophs definitely win one of them. Northwestern had OSU beat last year, why can't the Gophers at least give them a tough game? Remember that OSU comes here the week after they play MSU, so this could be a trap game for them. There's a decent chance we won't get their best effort/game. Maybe I'm more optimistic than others, but I don't even think people on this board realize how good this Gopher team will be this year. I honestly believe we are a top 5-6 team in the conference and a legit top 25 team nationally. Any team coming to TCF this year and in the future better not take Minnesota for granted. The days of elite helmet schools coming to Minneapolis and blowing us out are over, and upsets are coming.
 

DMB123 said:
3% is far too low. I'd say 25% easy. If this Gopher team hosted this OSU team 4 times I think the Gophs definitely win one of them. Northwestern had OSU beat last year, why can't the Gophers at least give them a tough game? Remember that OSU comes here the week after they play MSU, so this could be a trap game for them. There's a decent chance we won't get their best effort/game. Maybe I'm more optimistic than others, but I don't even think people on this board realize how good this Gopher team will be this year. I honestly believe we are a top 5-6 team in the conference and a legit top 25 team nationally. Any team coming to TCF this year and in the future better not take Minnesota for granted. The days of elite helmet schools coming to Minneapolis and blowing us out are over, and upsets are coming.
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Plus Illinois put up 35 on them last year, One win Cal put up 34 on that D, Iowa was winning for a good amount of their game at the Shoe and looking back to 2012 when they went undefeated four win IU only lost 49-52 and measly Purdue took them all the way to OT. They have not been as good as their record the past two seasons this game doesn't seem all too different from the MSU game last year, a team that ended up finishing third nationally. I don't think anybody would have thought that we had a 3% chance to win that game and it sure didn't seem that way when watching that game either. Plus this one is at home.
 



3%? Is there any website offering 33:1 odds on the Gophers to win this game, because if so I will lay down that money right now.
 

If this is true, and if OSU is in the title game, and if you assign 50% odds to the rest of the schedule, the Gophers have a 0.00004% chance of entering the playoff undefeated.

I'm thinking they've overstated things a bit. I don't think this will be decided by more than 14 points.
 



EE_Gopher said:
I think Wisconsin is getting too much love. This is a Wisconsin team without Chris Borland. That is a huge loss!

I really think the team to beat in the West is Iowa.
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Not just Borland, their entire front 7
 

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