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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2018 7:07:23 GMT -6
It's 30 days until the season opener. Thought I would start the annual game prediction thread. Here goes. I say 5-7. | Opponent | Outcome | Comment | | Central Connecticut | W | CCSU has been decent in years past, but I don't see them in the FCS Top 25. BSU wins at home. | | Notre Dame | L | Gonna be a rough one, with a nice payout. Just great to see us play in one of the football shrines | | Indiana | L | It could be close, but our secondary is an unknown. Will require forcing some mistakes. | | Western Kentucky | W | Shoulda beat them on the road last year. Need to beat them at home going into the MAC | | Kent State | W | Kent is rebuilding. We have them at home. We need to start the MAC off with a win. | | Northern Illinois | L | Our secondary is still a weakness. NIU will throw, and throw often. | | Central Michigan | W | Central is also rebuilding. Will be a close one. Will require our kicking game to step up. | | Eastern Michigan | W | Eastern will throw on us. It's Homecoming. I think we will step up and win a close one. | | Ohio | L | They will pass all day on our secondary. | | Toledo | L | They will pass all day on our secondary. (see the theme) | | Western Michigan | L | They will pass all day on our secondary. | | Miami | L | Well balanced Miami team will probably be in the bowl hunt (we could have outside shot). Will defend at home.
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Post by bsutony on Jul 31, 2018 7:33:04 GMT -6
4-8. The stretch at the end looks really tough.
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Post by cardfan on Jul 31, 2018 7:33:13 GMT -6
If in good health, 4 wins. If more key injuries, 2 wins.
We could come out of the Nd game severely damaged.
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Post by JacksonStreetElite on Jul 31, 2018 7:42:08 GMT -6
| Opponent | Outcome | Comment | | Central Connecticut | W | Praying for a victory.
| | Notre Dame | L | Lose ugly but hopefully not so ugly I can't still make fun of my ND buddy for ONLY beating us by ___
| | Indiana | L | I hate losing to them, but we're gonna lose
| | Western Kentucky | L
| Maybe a win?
| | Kent State | L
| No comment
| | Northern Illinois | L | No comment
| | Central Michigan | L
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| | Eastern Michigan | L
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| | Ohio | L | No comment
| | Toledo | L | No comment
| | Western Michigan | L | No comment
| | Miami | L | No comment
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Post by BSU Card Fan in AZ on Jul 31, 2018 7:45:56 GMT -6
If in good health, 4 wins. If more key injuries, 2 wins. We could come out of the Nd game severely damaged. I’ll ratchet that up one. 5 wins. 3 if injury prone again. |
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Post by rmcalhoun on Jul 31, 2018 8:40:37 GMT -6
It's 30 days until the season opener. Thought I would start the annual game prediction thread. Here goes. I say 5-7. | Opponent | Outcome | Comment | | Central Connecticut | W | CCSU has been decent in years past, but I don't see them in the FCS Top 25. BSU wins at home. | | Notre Dame | L | Gonna be a rough one, with a nice payout. Just great to see us play in one of the football shrines | | Indiana | L | It could be close, but our secondary is an unknown. Will require forcing some mistakes. | | Western Kentucky | W | Shoulda beat them on the road last year. Need to beat them at home going into the MAC | | Kent State | W | Kent is rebuilding. We have them at home. We need to start the MAC off with a win. | | Northern Illinois | L | Our secondary is still a weakness. NIU will throw, and throw often. | | Central Michigan | W | Central is also rebuilding. Will be a close one. Will require our kicking game to step up. | | Eastern Michigan | W | Eastern will throw on us. It's Homecoming. I think we will step up and win a close one. | | Ohio | L | They will pass all day on our secondary. | | Toledo | L | They will pass all day on our secondary. (see the theme) | | Western Michigan | L | They will pass all day on our secondary. | | Miami | L | Well balanced Miami team will probably be in the bowl hunt (we could have outside shot). Will defend at home.
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I like your thinking only place I might argue you a bit is WKU.. They Have been a good team who had a dismal year last year. I do not like this game
3-8
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Post by cardfan on Jul 31, 2018 8:52:22 GMT -6
I think 3-8 is most likely scenario. We could have started out 3-0 or even 4-0 last year and not had injuries and I still think we’d have been destroyed in most Mac games. The defense was that bad. I have no confidence it’ll be much better this year. The secondary is the same and it got completely torched. No idea if there are any impact players on that defense, especially with Winbush gone. He was all we had.
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Post by cardrock on Jul 31, 2018 9:49:29 GMT -6
Well crap, I had a good feeling opening this thread, after reading I’m wavering on my predictions.
I’m gonna hope to see 5 wins, however thinking the new redshirt rule allows up to 4 games I’m hoping some of the new kids coming in may be able to help if we see some injuries, especially on defense. Because of this (& we’ll have to see how the team gels) I think if we get in a close one late in the year we might pull a 6 win out.
So - 5-7, possibility of a 6 in a tight one with crazy weather or other events. Maybe someone else can have the injury bug this year.
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Post by universityjim on Jul 31, 2018 10:02:11 GMT -6
It's 30 days until the season opener. Thought I would start the annual game prediction thread. Here goes. I say 5-7. | Opponent | Outcome | Comment | | Central Connecticut | W | CCSU has been decent in years past, but I don't see them in the FCS Top 25. BSU wins at home. | | Notre Dame | L | Gonna be a rough one, with a nice payout. Just great to see us play in one of the football shrines | | Indiana | L | It could be close, but our secondary is an unknown. Will require forcing some mistakes. | | Western Kentucky | W | Shoulda beat them on the road last year. Need to beat them at home going into the MAC | | Kent State | W | Kent is rebuilding. We have them at home. We need to start the MAC off with a win. | | Northern Illinois | L | Our secondary is still a weakness. NIU will throw, and throw often. | | Central Michigan | W | Central is also rebuilding. Will be a close one. Will require our kicking game to step up. | | Eastern Michigan | W | Eastern will throw on us. It's Homecoming. I think we will step up and win a close one. | | Ohio | L | They will pass all day on our secondary. | | Toledo | L | They will pass all day on our secondary. (see the theme) | | Western Michigan | L | They will pass all day on our secondary. | | Miami | L | Well balanced Miami team will probably be in the bowl hunt (we could have outside shot). Will defend at home.
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I think our offense will be effective but not effective enough to overcome my sad expectations for how the defense will perform. I hope I am surprised but I see only 2 games where we are a solid favorite and those are even questionable. I feel the max win range is 5 with 3 of the 5 being in the tossup category. If we get to 5 my guess is the above prediction is how it will go. Hoping for better. Expecting worse. |
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Post by cardfan on Jul 31, 2018 10:13:43 GMT -6
That’s it in a nutshell, Jim. Offense will be good, defense will be, well.....
Not sure Elson has had a good defense anywhere he’s been since he was dc at wku when they were fcs. Most of his defenses have been downright bad. Looked similar to last years. I guess we’ll see.
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Post by mattg on Jul 31, 2018 11:04:39 GMT -6
I'm going the optimistic route and saying 6-6. Wins against CCSU, WKU, Kent, CMU, EMU, and Miami. I'm banking on a Chuck Martin Miami hot seat collapse at the end of the year. I feel as though it is so hard to judge how much improved we will be based upon health and availability of good players alone. I think we have witnessed how bad it can get and I don't think a fully healthy squad last year would have produced more than 1 extra win. I'm just banking on our running game really setting the tone for us this year so that Riley doesn't think he has to "take over" games for us to be competitive. We haven't seen him be that type of player. I'm hoping that just keeping our defense off of the field longer this year will be some sort of help compared to last year.
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Post by rmcalhoun on Jul 31, 2018 11:17:22 GMT -6
First day of camp and hope is oozing...... Whatever happens lets go to some games and drink a few stiffies
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Post by JacksonStreetElite on Jul 31, 2018 11:38:28 GMT -6
I don't go in for that sort of thing. But what a man does in the privacy of his own home...
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Post by rmcalhoun on Jul 31, 2018 11:39:27 GMT -6
I don't go in for that sort of thing. But what a man does in the privacy of his own home...
Well played sir Well played |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2018 12:04:30 GMT -6
I don't go in for that sort of thing. But what a man does in the privacy of his own home...
Well played sir Well played Bitches. |
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