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At 4-4, we need to win two to become bowl eligible. And let's not sugar coat it. It's going to be tough.

 

 With four games left( Northwestern, Penn State, Minnesota, and Iowa), we're not favored to win two. 

 

Record Odds::

8 - 4: 0.2%

7 - 5: 6%

6 - 6: 28%

5 - 7: 43%

4 - 8: 23%

 

Odds of going at least 6 - 6: 34%

 

Note:The numbers may not add to 100 due to rounding, don't be alarmed, the math checks out :)

 

EDIT: Numbers are from ESPNs FPI. Some how I forgot to include this in the original post. My bad.

 

The numbers used were as follows for odds of winning:

NW: 40%

MN: 40%

Penn State: 3%

Iowa: 35%

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Just now, HuskerMav11 said:

 

Nah. Penn State is above his pay grade. Maybe if they were closer to the bottom of the top 25.

Remember the time when we beat Michigan State? We had no business winning that game, seriously, refs blew a call on our WR coming back into bounds for the game winning touchdown.

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For full disclosure, you should provide the raw numbers you used to make this math. If you gave Nebraska a 100% chance to lose to PSU and a 60% chance to lose each of the other games, then there's a 21.6% chance to go 0-4. That doesn't seem charitable. Even if it were, you're pulling numbers out of the air (that's being charitable), so maybe stay away from assertions like "there is a ___% chance of this event".

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8 minutes ago, zoogs said:

For full disclosure, you should provide the raw numbers you used to make this math. If you gave Nebraska a 100% chance to lose to PSU and a 60% chance to lose each of the other games, then there's a 21.6% chance to go 0-4. That doesn't seem charitable. Even if it were, you're pulling numbers out of the air (that's being charitable), so maybe stay away from assertions like "there is a ___% chance of this event".

 

40% chance of beating NW 

40% chance of beating MN

3% chance of  beating Penn State

35% chance of beating Iowa.

 

Feel free to check my math.

 

EDIT: Also, they're not out of air. They're from ESPN's FPI. Feel free to argue that their numbers are bulls#!t

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5 minutes ago, zoogs said:

Yeah, you didn't need to do any math there to make your "predictions". You could have just said "I'm really down on the Huskers because I think they stink."

There is no 'think' about it. They lost to Northern Illinois at home. They stink. 

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23 minutes ago, zoogs said:

Are there 9 conf games now? Is this the first year where that started?

 

I'd be pretty happy to go 6-3 in the B1G. It won't be easy but this team can do it.

Big Ten went to 9 game conference schedule last year.

 

6-3 with 3 most likely lopsided losses to any Big Ten team worth a darn isn’t that great. 

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14 minutes ago, HuskerMav11 said:

 

40% chance of beating NW 

40% chance of beating MN

3% chance of  beating Penn State

35% chance of beating Iowa.

 

Feel free to check my math.

 

EDIT: Also, they're not out of air. They're from ESPN's FPI. Feel free to argue that their numbers are bulls#!t

 

Can confirm.

 

Using ESPN FPI:

NW 40.5%
Minn 40.7%
PSU 3.1%
Iowa 35.1%

 

Odds of each record are:

4-0 0.2%
3-1 6.5%
2-2 28.1%
1-3 43.0%
0-4 22.2%

 

So a 34.8% chance of 2 or more wins.

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