Initial B1G win projections, per SP+ (Minnesota 5.1)

[BleedGopher]

Go Gophers!!

 

[BTChamp]

Dink+

 

[hello-world]

Looks about right to me.

There are 5 games where Minnesota will be favored:
@Maryland
@Illinois
Iowa
Purdue
Northwestern

There is one game where Minnesota will be a heavy underdog:
@Wisconsin

There are two games which are essentially coin flips:
Michigan
@Nebraska

There aren't going to be any gimmies in this schedule. They need to be ready to go game 1.

 

[die hard gopher]

Looks about right to me.

There are 5 games where Minnesota will be favored:
@Maryland
@Illinois
Iowa
Purdue
Northwestern

There is one game where Minnesota will be a heavy underdog:
@Wisconsin

There are two games which are essentially coin flips:
Michigan
@Nebraska

There aren't going to be any gimmies in this schedule. They need to be ready to go game 1.

Gophers will be favored against Nebraska, Iowa is the coin flip.

 

[BilldGopher]

Iowa and Michigan are my coin flips.

Hard to win in Madison.

 

[Cedar Rapids Gopher]

I believe we will beat Michigan this year. They have a new qb and secondary is suspect.

 

[stocker08]

I believe we will beat Michigan this year. They have a new qb and secondary is suspect.

Start the year by retaking the Jug. And proceed to drink the tears of the hawk and badgers from it rolling into the Championship.

 

[hello-world]

Gophers will be favored against Nebraska, Iowa is the coin flip.

We've definitely had this discussion before but Iowa is super young this year and starting a Sophomore QB. Nebraska returned a ton of production

 

[Some guy]

If SP+ didn’t make serious adjustments to their home field advantage metric then their predictions are pretty flawed

 

[MplsGopher]

We've definitely had this discussion before but Iowa is super young this year and starting a Sophomore QB. Nebraska returned a ton of production

13 points, at home, vs NW.

And JDS left.

Nebraska football = Illinois football

 

[hello-world]

13 points, at home, vs NW.

And JDS left.

Nebraska football = Illinois football

Minnesota scored 14 points, at home, against Northwestern, in 2018.

 

[MplsGopher]

Minnesota scored 14 points, at home, against Northwestern, in 2018.

Yes? Did you say we returned a lot of production from 2018, last year?

 

[hello-world]

Yes? Did you say we returned a lot of production from 2018, last year?

Fleck spent all of 2018 talking about how Minnesota was the 'youngest team in the country' and 'racing to mahturity' while getting their ass kicked by teams like Maryland and Illinois.

Then they returned essentially their entire roster in 2019 and ended the season as a top 10 team.

Game experience matters.

 

[MplsGopher]

Fleck spent all of 2018 talking about how Minnesota was the 'youngest team in the country' and 'racing to mahturity' while getting their ass kicked by teams like Maryland.

Then they returned essentially their entire roster in 2019 and ended the season as a top 10 team.

Game experience matters.

Good point.

Maybe Nebraska will do something similar (although again, if we had lost TJ -- similar to the loss of JDS -- would it have been the same?).