seaofred92 Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 3 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said: All that does is shows how difficult it is to compare two teams with such complete opposite strength of schedules. Good news here is ESPN actually has a "Strength of Record" ranking which reflects exactly that and.... Buffalo is 31 while Illinois is 76. I'm not saying they're world beaters. But they're pretty obviously by legitimately every standard and advanced metric a better team than Illinois. To say they aren't literally goes against every statistical measure out there. 1 Quote Link to comment
J-MAGIC Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 Preseason SP+ for 2021 was released this morning. We're projected 30th nationally with the 43rd-ranked offense and the 19th-ranked defense. Our schedule: Illinois: 83 (72nd offense/91st defense) Buffalo: 77 (80/79) Oklahoma: 3 (1/16) Michigan State: 59 (94/18) Northwestern: 75 (124/14) Michigan: 23 (32/27) Minnesota: 31 (20/48) Purdue: 40 (31/63) Ohio State: 4 (2/38) Southeastern Louisiana: NR Wisconsin: 9 (36/2) Iowa: 16 (51/1) Based on this we would be favored in seven games. The preseason rankings heavily factor in returning production, so I'm assuming losing all our receiving yards in Wandale killed our offensive rating and we're realistically a little higher. 2 Quote Link to comment
seaofred92 Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 19 minutes ago, J-MAGIC said: Preseason SP+ for 2021 was released this morning. We're projected 30th nationally with the 43rd-ranked offense and the 19th-ranked defense. Our schedule: Illinois: 83 (72nd offense/91st defense) Buffalo: 77 (80/79) Oklahoma: 3 (1/16) Michigan State: 59 (94/18) Northwestern: 75 (124/14) Michigan: 23 (32/27) Minnesota: 31 (20/48) Purdue: 40 (31/63) Ohio State: 4 (2/38) Southeastern Louisiana: NR Wisconsin: 9 (36/2) Iowa: 16 (51/1) Based on this we would be favored in seven games. The preseason rankings heavily factor in returning production, so I'm assuming losing all our receiving yards in Wandale killed our offensive rating and we're realistically a little higher. thanks for this- I'm going to add it to the thread I just made outlining each game. Quote Link to comment
Hedley Lamarr Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 13 hours ago, Head Coach Scott Frost said: We're more likely to figure out how to go 0-15 it is the off season I will roll with winning it all until we lose haha 2 Quote Link to comment
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