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Now that I posted a depressing stat about our record against teams finishing the season in the Top-25 (1-49 since 2000), I will look at the half-full aspect of the glass.
Kill's first year (2011) had a bone-headed loss to New Mexico State, a loss to an NDSU team that went 14-1 and a trouncing at the Big House.
Since then, however, have there been any losses that absolutely should've been wins?
The only candidates I can find are:
a 2012 loss in Iowa City to a 4-8/2-6 Hawkeye team
a 2013 loss in the Big House to a 7-6/3-5 Michigan squad
the 2013 bowl loss to a 7-6/4-4 (in a weak division) Syracuse
and the 2014 loss at Illinois to a team that went to a bowl.
I would argue that none of those were stupid losses.
We'll see how Northwestern and Nebraska fair the remainder of the year, but I suspect both may end up playing a bowl game. If that is the case, that would mean Jerry Kill's lone loss to a non-bowl team after his first year was the 2012 Loss in Iowa City. I don't see anything too embarrassing about that.
Kill's first year (2011) had a bone-headed loss to New Mexico State, a loss to an NDSU team that went 14-1 and a trouncing at the Big House.
Since then, however, have there been any losses that absolutely should've been wins?
The only candidates I can find are:
a 2012 loss in Iowa City to a 4-8/2-6 Hawkeye team
a 2013 loss in the Big House to a 7-6/3-5 Michigan squad
the 2013 bowl loss to a 7-6/4-4 (in a weak division) Syracuse
and the 2014 loss at Illinois to a team that went to a bowl.
I would argue that none of those were stupid losses.
We'll see how Northwestern and Nebraska fair the remainder of the year, but I suspect both may end up playing a bowl game. If that is the case, that would mean Jerry Kill's lone loss to a non-bowl team after his first year was the 2012 Loss in Iowa City. I don't see anything too embarrassing about that.