2017 Season Prediction Thread

[Whistlepig]

Remaining schedule:  

Ohio State (huge) Loss

Purdue Tossup

Northwestern Tossup

Minnesota Tossup (leaning towards loss)

Penn State (big) Loss

Iowa Loss

Best case:  6 - 6

Worst case:  3 - 9

My guess, probably somewhere in between:  5 - 7

We are not favored in any game from here on out, so the odds are in favor of 5-7 or lower- what is striking is that only 3 people in the original poll (4- if I were on the board at the time) took off the rose colored glasses to allow in a critical thought as to the factors that they'd use in predicting the seasons results

Factors that included:

New QB with a crappy record at Tulane (turn-over machine and about 50% completion-sound familiar?)

New Defense with new Coach

Schedule that basically shouted out a minimum of 5 -6 losses (Wisc-tOSU, PSU, Iowa, OR plus a random should have won loss)

and of course a coach who should not have been hired if you based such things on past records.

 

[Whistlepig]

At this point we are going to need some miracles for it to end up in the pessimistic scenario I laid out. 

f#*k Eichorst and Mike Riley and what they have done to this program. 

hate to say it but judging from the majority of this boards responses, Bo did all this so you can't blame Eichorst and MR

This is what they wanted

 

[Mavric]

Forgot to tally this up and lock the poll before yesterday so this will have to do.

8-4 is the leading vote-getter (30.8%) followed by 9-3 (25.6%).  Only about 15% went with worse than 8-4.

Basically unanimous wins: Arkansas State, Northern Illinois, Rutgers, Illinois, Prudue

Vast majority (>75%) wins: Northwestern, Minnesota, Iowa

Coin Flips: Oregon, Wisconsin

Expected losses: Ohio State, Penn State

So if we can get the vast-majority wins and better, that's 8.  After that .... we'll see.

Basically unanimous: 4-1, 0 games left

Vast Majority: 0-0, 3 games left

Coin Flips: 0-2, 0 games left

Expected losses: 0-1, 1 game left