10-2 regular season. The Amazing Carnac the Magnificent has said so.
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Ohio State website states "Nebraska could be biggest threat to Big Ten title reign for Ohio State"
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Well actually hwy 34 goes through Lincoln. I-80 goes around it
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I believe we have superior coaching and the best QB in the BIG. Yes we have pieces that need to come together but so does every team in our division. Even with all the missing pieces we could have won every game last season but Michigan imo.
Our schedule is extremely favorable versus last season which is a huge plus. Assuming no major injuries we're not going to lose to either Indiana or Purdue. Wisky has a very rough schedule and who knows how their new QB is going to work out. I honestly believe IF we beat OSU (very possible) we'll be well on our way to winning the West. Frost has already said he wants to win NOW meaning this coming season. We're also not going to need 10 wins to get to the CCG imo. Only thing that matters is beating BIG teams not our OOC. schedule.
I simply have a lot of faith that a SF led team is going to surprise some people. Obviously even the talking heads agree since we're been rated top 20 or higher in pre-season. I'm not in the least bit concerned about our offense as that will come together quickly. Defense needs to step up and our new starters play well. I simply don't believe we lost much with the defensive players that left! We had one of the worst run defenses in the conference so I believe the trend will be up, not down this season.
Bottom line I'll bet dollars to donuts we'll win at least 9 games... Hopefully that will be enough to win our division........
Personally, I think we could win 9 regular season games next year but am expecting 7 as the most realistic. For 17 years I have been pumped for a new season, only to be left disappointed in all of them-from a total letdown to feelings of what might have been. In every one of those season there were multiple fans that were convinced that that this was the year. I am done discounting teams based on their name and our past. Purdue beat us by 14 at our home last year and I bet most are chalking this up as a win. Colorado beat us at home and we go out there. I think we will be a better team next year and found something late in the season but don’t discount the improved play by Minnesota, the same excitement at Purdue, and the confidence that Iowa and Wisconsin will have when they strap it on next year. Add to the fact that NW has a 5 star transfer QB from Clemson and the Badgers recruited what might be the best QB they have ever brought on campus, we would be foolish to think there isn’t improvement throughout our division. We see our improvement play out in front of our eyes last year but continue to measure our competition based on their name and in many cases their past-we discount or don’t as closely follow what is going on with the competition. Once again, I haven’t seen anyone really concerned about Purdue but they bring back what might be one of the best coaches in the conference and definitely one of the most exciting players in the conference and they beat us by 14 at home. In my heart I believe we will be better but not a ten win season yet.
O st is the correct answer,
We've been bad long enough that setting the bar low feels high.
I think that it will hurt more down the road because it was already clear by the previously committed players who went elsewhere that you don't just replace Urban's recruiting ability. Ditto for Schiano. Besides recruiting, the coaching changes that are most going to affect OSU are where their new focus and biases will lie. On the offensive side, Urban Meyer was a spread-to-run OC before he was ever a head coach, and everywhere he went, that was the offense that he ran ... until last year. OSU wasn't as effective running the ball between the tackles last year, and they threw the ball more than ever before. They destroyed Michigan. What's the problem, right? They lost 4 of the 5 O-line starters from that Michigan game, and a couple missed large chunks of the season ... when they couldn't run the ball very effectively. Now take out Urban as head coach, Day has said that he's going to call the offensive plays, Kevin Wilson--who never met a down-and-distance that wasn't perfect for a pass--is the OC, and they brought in Oklahoma State's OC to work with the QBs and be the Passing Game Coordinator. If you look at their coaches' profiles, you'll notice that there is no "Running Game Coordinator." The RBs Coach has been given what seems to be the meaningless title of "Assistant Head Coach for Offense," which means ... what? They've got a good O-line coach, but who's going to be the commanding voice--a la Urban Meyer--that is advocating for more focus and emphasis on the running game? OSU is going to be a pass-first team until something changes with this staff. Add in the loss of Mike Weber to the NFL, and now they have one year left with JD Dobbins (who is a great RB) to elide over the fact that their O-line will not be as good, especially running the ball.
The defensive coaching changes may be even more interesting. I don't know that the coaches who remain fully soaked in why/how they struggled against the spread-to-run offenses of Nebraska and Maryland, or how Purdue's use of Robinson in a spread system similarly stretched them too much. They pushed Schiano out, and I think that he was the one guy who had the big-picture view to see where their weaknesses were, and what needed to be done. Day poached 2 defensive coaches from Michigan, which is extremely odd considering that they just torched the Michigan defense. Put those pieces together, and I don't know how it's going to look, but if you're going to run a 4-man front against Nebraska's offense, you want at least 3 of those guys to be future NFL D-linemen, and you need LBs who can fly. Ohio State lost some of that.
Fwiw, all of the above bodes well for Nebraska matching up against every aspect of Ohio State, even including special teams. Remember that punt block by Ohio State? Schiano recognized the weakness in the Nebraska protection and drew up the overload scheme that they used to do that. He's gone. (Thank you, Ryan Day.) If our special teams played better that day, we would have won that game. I do not believe that they'll be as good this fall except for in those positions where they return a lot of starters (defensive secondary, for example), and the coaching staff will need to settle into a new identity (pass-first offense), which I don't think fits with OSU's historical identity in any way. I think that it's going to be a very, very long year for Ryan Day.
I think that those are two teams with talent that are better than average and could rise up and beat anyone in the B1G on any given weekend. Purdue will be better than last year, with another year in the system and another year of better recruits coming up. Indiana took both Michigan and Ohio State to the wire last year. They have a lot back, but they lack depth. Why do you think that these are automatic wins for us?
I agree. If anyone in the West finishes with <=2 B1G losses, they'll win the division outright, but I think that it's more likely that there will be a logjam of teams with 3 to 4 B1G losses in the West.
These are the wisest words in this thread. I 100% agree.
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Playing poorly is probably too strong of a word, how about saying they were not as focused as they could be.
Defensively they didn’t play real focused.
Nebraska played very well though and I do agree it is about match ups.
I think going forward Nebraska should be able to score some points on most teams. They just need to be able to stop teams
If that was the case, why didn't that come out in any of the numerous interviews with the coaches and players both immediately after the game and in the week that followed?
You're selling the Nebraska offense short. The key to shutting down the Nebraska offense last year was to dominate our O-line. By that point in the season, and with the help of a little scheming, OSU didn't do that for the most part. We matched up well against their skill positions until (ironically) the starting Safety was ejected for targeting, and his replacement (Brendon White) did an exponentially better job of reading and reacting to our short passing game.
Watch the film again. Listen to the coaches and players on the sidelines. (They had TV cameras right in the huddles with them.) Watch that and tell me that those guys weren't focused. Going into that game the popular opinion on this site and with all of the pundits was that Urban is just unstoppable after a loss, and they had two weeks to prepare, and his teams always take it out on their next opponent, and ... blah, blah, blah. It blows my mind that some of the same people who think that we're going to tear through our schedule this year can't grasp the fact that we went toe-to-toe with a p'd off Urban Meyer-coached OSU Buckeye team in Columbus, and we would have won the game if we had just had average play from our special teams. We matched up that well. So did Maryland. OSU didn't suddenly discover a magical potion to whip Michigan. They just matched up a lot better against them.
It's like the game of Rock-Paper-Scissors. OSU's defense was built to rock Harbaugh's offense, and ditto for the matchups on the other side of the ball. Meanwhile, our offense and defense are close to ideal for attacking OSU. Unfortunately, Michigan's offense and defense were ideal for de-pantsing us and giving us the paddle. Michigan has changed their offense now, so we'll see how that shakes things up, and OSU is likely going to lean harder into the passing game. We beef up our line, stay healthy, and get some depth, and we can match up with these guys. The problem is that we can also be beat by Indiana, Illinois, Maryland, Northwestern, Purdue, Minnesota, Wisconsin, or Iowa, too.
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MABC I am not going to argue with you about this. If you truly believe OSU brought their A game from start to finish in this game good.
If you truly think they played with the same intensity that they did against Michigan and it was all just scheme that is great for Nebraska.
I am not selling Nebraska short they played well and gave everything. I am just saying Nebraska got the B+ game.
Okay, so ... let's just disagree and state in print why we disagree and call it something else besides "arguing" because that's important for some reason. We clearly disagree, and that's fine. I'm showing you enough respect to ask you to show me evidence for why you believe what you believe. You're giving me this....
That would be stating the same opinion, again, with nothing new to support it. I'm persuadable, I promise. Show me something on film. Show me coaches or players complaining about a lack of focus. Give me something to show me that this is more than just a gut reaction to being surprised that the game was close.
They weren't perfect, if that's what you think I'm saying. I'm saying that they spent time on Nebraska's film, had a plan based on it, and did their best to execute it. When your DC is spending time going over special teams film to attack a weakness, that's NOT taking someone for granted. I'm not sure how I'd be able to check, but I'd guess that most DCs don't look at film of opponents' special teams as the assistants pre-load everything for them.
Ohio State was missing O-linemen who were injured, but who were back for Michigan. That mattered a lot, but that was the same situation that they'd had against Purdue, Maryland, and others.
Coach, lets just look at Indiana in answer to your question why I believe Nebraska will beat Indy. Last season Indy lost to MSU, Michigan, OSU and IA by a combined total of 74 points while Nebraska lost by a combinded total of 51 points! However of those 51 total points 46 of them came in a SINGLE game against Michigan. That was with an injured AM who didn't play a lot of that game. If the 46 lost points are factored down to say a 10 point loss Nebraska average loss to those combined teams would be apron 4 points per game! Indy average loss to those same teams was 18.5 per game!
Do you believe we're going to get boat raced in 2019 like we did against Michigan last year? Indy lost 6 of 7 games to end their season while Nebraska obviously was obviously improving imo. Nebraska had a decent chance to win every game after Michigan and Wisky which wasn't so with Indy. I honestly believe Nebraska is clearly a better team than Indy and baring catastrophe injuries will beat them.
Obviously any team can be beaten on a given day but I believe Nebraska is clearly a better team then Indy..
Do you believe we're going to get boat raced in 2019 like we did against Michigan last year? Indy lost 6 of 7 games to end their season while Nebraska obviously was obviously improving imo. Nebraska had a decent chance to win every game after Michigan and Wisky which wasn't so with Indy. I honestly believe Nebraska is clearly a better team than Indy and baring catastrophe injuries will beat them.
Obviously any team can be beaten on a given day but I believe Nebraska is clearly a better team then Indy..
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I hope not...I hope they sleep walk into the game and don’t wake up until it is to late.
Actually, neither Hwy 34 or i80 go anywhere--they stay right where they are. You have to travel on them to get somewhere...
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