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I'm with you SSunday, protect Williams and Gophers will be in the top 4; I have Gophs at 13-5 - maybe not quite as consistent on the road as you forecast, but 14 has a great ring to it.
 



I don't know why but it make me feel good and more confident when a guy like Selection Sunday is saying 14-4. I'm going to go 12-6. I think the winner of the conference is 14-4.
 


I'm saying 11-7 (see earlier post), not 14-4. I was just pointing out a scenario to get to 14-4 and B1G title contender status.
 


BarnBurner said:
Choose low so the team can outperform your pick.
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Or in the case of others, choose high so they can say anything less is a failure.

I hope your prediction turns out to be more accurate than mine, BB. 13-5 would be a smashing success. I would welcome the opportunity to hear an "I told you so (or 20)" from you. Let's get 'er done on Monday.
 

There might be an unexpected win and loss in here but in the end 12-6

W
Michigan State
Northwestern
@ Northwestern
Nebraska
Iowa
Illinois
Wisconsin
@ Iowa
Indiana
Penn State
@ Nebraska
@ Purdue

L
@Illinois
@Wisconsin
Michigan
@ Indiana
@ Michigan State
@ Ohio State
 



As a bare minimum, I've gone with 10-8. Anything less would be a let down and 10-8 itself would just be "acceptable"

W
Michigan State
Northwestern
@ Northwestern
Nebraska
Iowa
Illinois
Wisconsin
Penn State
@ Nebraska
@ Purdue

L
@Illinois
@Wisconsin
Michigan
@ Indiana
@ Michigan State
@ Ohio State
Indiana
@ Iowa
 

One thing that I would like to see happening is for us to beat teams ranked ahead of us at home more often than we lose to teams ranked lower than us on the road. I don't want any of the nonsense where we lose to a bad team on the road and comfort ourselves with "its tough to win on the road" but then not make the wins at the Barn be as tough to come by for the cream of the conference crop.

I predict 12-6. It would be a nice juxtaposition to last year's 6-12.
 

I think it's more interesting to consider the schedule in terms of groups. I don't feel any team is completely unbeatable for us, though I would not be remotely surprised to see us lose twice to Indiana. I think we could expect to go 1-2 against Michigan and OSU.

We have 6 games against the likes of Illinois, Michigan State, Wisconsin, which are the teams I'd say we are more "equal" with, at least as it looks now. I don't think it's unreasonable to think we could get anywhere from 2 to 5 wins, but for the sake of being conservative, I'll go with 3.

We've got 8 games against the "next level" (in my mind), Iowa, Northwestern, Purdue and Nebraska. I would expect we can win at LEAST 5 of those. We also get one game against Penn State, who I think is clearly the worst team in the league, so I expect a win.

That, conservatively, puts us at 10-8 in my mind (which is also, perhaps by coincidence, where I ended up when I went game-by-game)...
 

I won't take it game by game, but will say 10-8 with 12-6 as a best case scenario and 9-9 at the worst unless everything goes to pieces due to injuries and things like academics and off court trouble undermining things.
 




SelectionSunday said:
11-7.

Home 7-2.
Road 4-5.

Three (bold) certainties:

(1) Gophers will beat Michigan State by double digits on Monday.

(2) Gophers will win @ Illinois.

(3) Sparty will return the double-digit favor in East Lansing.

Is it New Year's Eve yet?

Beat State. Jump on 'em, put your feet to their throats, then finish 'em off with a haymaker (preferably a SportsCenter-worthy posterization by Williams).
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Kudos. Since everything you've predicted has happened, maybe the wheels aren't all the way off yet?
 


gopherbadgerman said:
I agree. I read that with near amazemant.(sp?)

That was right on the money...
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SS is the Lunardi/Nate Silver of the Board. Further, in reading all the other predictions, the Gophers are one game behind for almost everyone's including mine. The game at Northwestern is the one truly unexpected loss.
 


Thanks. I had forgotten about that.

We can still get to 11-7, but right now not so sure it's in the cards. The way they're playing right now not sure Gophers will be able to get 3 more road wins. To do that they'll have to split the Iowa/Ohio State trip. Not very confident of that. Closing B1G road games is not a strength of ours.
 

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