Gimme Ioway and Minnesota to get to 8. Sorry but in Year 4 of Scott Frost, in order to get where we all want, HAVE to be better than Iowa and Minnesota at this point. I can accept a loss this year to Wisconsin as long as it's an absolute heart breaker until the very end and loss to the other 3.
uh huh, and Fordham and Buffalo should be guaranteed wins. "Performance" sure has been a problem.
Unfortunately, unless a corner is turned this year, NU is also fully capable of losing 2 of the other games not on this list.
Had Buffalo not lost their HC and a number of players to the portal, that game likely would have been very close. They probably would have beat us last year.
And if NU had good development and play calling, we should be able to turn teams like Buffalo into our own personal hand-puppet. So we are allowed to use excuses of playing two really good teams as to why our win expectation is so low, but not allowed to use Buffalo as an excuse of why our win expectation should be better. That's just grand.
What’s important is the juice on some of these. Wisconsin is 9.5 but it’s +110 for the over and -139 for the under. Iowa was the opposite last night at -139 for the over and +110 for the under 8.5. But it moved to -113 for both the over and under this morning.
Correct. They must have gotten a lot of action on under 8.5 for Iowa last night at plus money so they lowered the juice to -113 on both sides. With that move, they are trying to even it out and get matching money on the over.
Northwestern has to be one. We've lost to them 4 of the last 6 times, including last 2 of 3 played in Lincoln.
The stat that’s cut off at the bottom is insane:
It’s hard to think about ceilings when we haven’t come near them for years. I’ve become much more familiar with floors.
While I'm working from home in my "office" not really an office it's just a desk with some monitors on it, the ceiling above me angles upward like a positive trend, so that's where I got that. Not really though I think our ceiling is 9 wins with a little luck, a little correction of mistakes, and a bouncing ball or two our direction. But I still like 8-4.
Impossible. I am told that Adrian Martinez completes tons of passes for big gains.
Northwestern and then B1G doormat of your choice that NU should beat by 2+ TDs.
If the offense starts scoring you could see where suddenly things look dramatically brighter than the last two years.
Defense has been improved but still has a long way to go. Having an offense that doesn't strive to go 3-and-out faster than anyone else in the nation would be immensely helpful to the defensive numbers.
Does tannor even have 5 sacks in his career? Another guy who seems to have been here forever but never get any better.
I believe illinois should have an adequate defense, and Bielema will take the air out of the game with his smash mouth ball control football style. So I guess it depends on whether Brett has the personal to play that kind of football in year one.
