With the B1G expanding, I thought our last chance at a winning something was meaningful due to the very favorable West being dissolved.
Looking at this season with hindsight, THIS WAS THE SEASON if we had put together a more competent team. Literally, all of our games (with the exception of PSU) should have been winnable. Even our OCC game vs. UNC, they are coming off their QB being a 1st RD draft pick and are very average this year – the same with USC with the QB situation. How many times are we going to play 2 teams the year after their QB’s get drafted in the 1st RD?
Going into the season, I chalked up MI as a loss as they were defending National Champions but their fall off is second only to FSU and they are likely to finish .500 on the season. Both Iowa and WI are average and very beatable – both teams being very beatable in the same season is very rare so a unique opportunity.
Lastly, with the season Indiana has put up, it shows what is winnable if you win the games against the middle and lower end of the B1G. They could easily end up 11-1 and in the playoffs. This would actually be far superior to our 2019 season and they did it in the era of NIL and the expanded B1G – but they did it by only playing 1 really good team in a very lucky season schedule wise. I really did not think this would ever be possible again. So, I was wrong. This season was a huge blown opportunity but maybe things will align more often that I ever thought possible.
Looking at this season with hindsight, THIS WAS THE SEASON if we had put together a more competent team. Literally, all of our games (with the exception of PSU) should have been winnable. Even our OCC game vs. UNC, they are coming off their QB being a 1st RD draft pick and are very average this year – the same with USC with the QB situation. How many times are we going to play 2 teams the year after their QB’s get drafted in the 1st RD?
Going into the season, I chalked up MI as a loss as they were defending National Champions but their fall off is second only to FSU and they are likely to finish .500 on the season. Both Iowa and WI are average and very beatable – both teams being very beatable in the same season is very rare so a unique opportunity.
Lastly, with the season Indiana has put up, it shows what is winnable if you win the games against the middle and lower end of the B1G. They could easily end up 11-1 and in the playoffs. This would actually be far superior to our 2019 season and they did it in the era of NIL and the expanded B1G – but they did it by only playing 1 really good team in a very lucky season schedule wise. I really did not think this would ever be possible again. So, I was wrong. This season was a huge blown opportunity but maybe things will align more often that I ever thought possible.
