Bracketology 2019
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B.B. Hemingway
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ECisGod
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Tenth in the conference with close road loses to teams ranked 26, 36 & 56 in the NET rankings & blowout home wins over teams ranked 45 & 48, a close road win over 51 & a "neutral site" blowout win over 65. The computers love big point spreads.
ECisGod
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ECisGod
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ColoradoHusk
Heisman Trophy Winner
Based on the non-conference schedule, NU should still have a decent seed right now. The team just needs to right the ship a bit before the losing becomes contagious and the conference season ends up being a bust. That's how NU will get left out of the NCAA tournament.
ECisGod
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I think that they are likely to lose their next two games (at Indiana, Michigan State), but they should win 9 of the next 10.
If we lose the next two, we'll be 2-5 in conference with the two wins coming over teams that are currently winless in conference.
Not saying they can't, but "expecting" them to win 9 of the next 10 seems a bit ambitious.
ECisGod
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I get that is is ambitious, but after Michigan State, the schedule is six home games (OSU, Wisconsin, Maryland, Minnesota, Northwestern & Purdue) and four road games (Rutgers, Illinois, Purdue & Penn State). They should have beaten Maryland & Minnesota away, so you'd hope those would be wins. Northwestern is very offensively challenged and a worse road team the Nebraska. OSU, Wisconsin & Purdue should be close, but the home crowd should push the Huskers to win. Rutgers & Illinois are improving, but haven't really figured out how to win (yes I know Rutgers just beat OSU) & Penn State will be playing for the end of the Pat Chambers era by the time Nebraska gets there.
SandhillshuskerW
Special Teams Player
Here's the way I look at the remaining 15 games, and this is obviously just my opinion.
The next 5 games are @Indiana, vs Michigan State, @Rutgers, vs Ohio State and vs Wisconsin. I feel like we need to win 3 out of 5 here. There is no way we are winning against Michigan State in my opinion so we need to win 3 out of the other 4.
The next 5 games after that are @Illinois, vs Maryland, @Purdue, vs Minnesota and vs Northwestern. I feel like we need to win 4 our of this 5 since we have 3 home games and we go to Illinois.
The last 5 games are @Penn State, vs Purdue, @Michigan, @Michigan State and vs Iowa. I think we need to win 3 out of 5 here with obvious losses @Michigan and @Michigan State.
That would leave our record at 22-9 going in to the conference tournament. If we could win a couple of games in the tournament I think we have a good chance of making it in. The way we look lately though, I'm not sure if everything is possible that I laid out.
The next 5 games are @Indiana, vs Michigan State, @Rutgers, vs Ohio State and vs Wisconsin. I feel like we need to win 3 out of 5 here. There is no way we are winning against Michigan State in my opinion so we need to win 3 out of the other 4.
The next 5 games after that are @Illinois, vs Maryland, @Purdue, vs Minnesota and vs Northwestern. I feel like we need to win 4 our of this 5 since we have 3 home games and we go to Illinois.
The last 5 games are @Penn State, vs Purdue, @Michigan, @Michigan State and vs Iowa. I think we need to win 3 out of 5 here with obvious losses @Michigan and @Michigan State.
That would leave our record at 22-9 going in to the conference tournament. If we could win a couple of games in the tournament I think we have a good chance of making it in. The way we look lately though, I'm not sure if everything is possible that I laid out.
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ColoradoHusk
Heisman Trophy Winner
seaofred92
All-American
its so interesting to see the differences in bracketologists at this stage. For instance, Lunardi doesn't even have Temple in the field, while Palm has them safely in as a 10 seed.
I guess I'm not all that sure. I'm a bit perplexed by how the new raking system works for sure. It appears to give a lot of weight to margin of victory - which we did well early in the year - but I still wonder if our schedule isn't going to catch up to us at some point.
The good thing - and probably helping our ranking - is all our losses are Quad 1. But we've also stockpiled wins against Quad 3 and Quad 4 teams. Which I suppose most teams have at this point in the year. But if we lose 7 games and they start falling in the lower categories - and we can't pick up some more nice wins - I think we'll fall down the list.
I would think we'd still get in at 22-9 (but we didn't last year). 20-11 I'm not so sure.
Quad 1 - Clemson (58)
Quad 2 - Seton Hall (44), Oklahoma St (66)
Quad 3 - Creighton (52), Illinois (124), Penn St (77)
Quad 4 - MVS (349), SELA (332), MO St (190), WIll (300), Cal-Fullerton (243)
Quad 1 Losses - Texas Tech (4), Minnesota (56), Maryland (25), Iowa (34)
