There's no way around the fact that next year's schedule will be quite a bit harder than this year's. If I'm not mistaken, we were favored in every game this year, except for against Oklahoma. You could say we "should" have won every game. But we didn't. As far as next year's schedule, we "could" win every game. That depends on the team improving from this year to next. We get better, we can challenge for the Big Ten title. If not, I'm afraid middle of the pack is possible.