Campus Insiders is Annoying (aka very pessimistic on Michigan's season-Game By Game Predictions)
Campus Insiders has been coming out with Game by Game predictions for a wide variety of big name teams across the country, and even some no name teams like our #1 rival, the New Jersey Birthplace Stripers. Obviously, these predictions don't really mean anything besides to provide fodder for the impatience of the August offseason; however, it's a slow day on the board, so why not, right?
Their view of Michigan's season, is in my opinion, a worst case scenario. They have us losing at MSU by 4 points, at Iowa by 3 points, and at Ohio State by 2 points to finish 9-3 (6-3). I don't think most of us could handle that magnitude of repeated heartbreak after all these years. While it's in the realm of possibility, I think that even a nonpartisan observer would say that's definitely a very pessimistic outlook.
Overall, they have Ohio State winning the Big Ten East at 11-1 (with their one loss coming at Wisconsin). The chance OSU beats Oklahoma in Norman, but loses in Madison, seems small to me.
They have Michigan, Michigan State and Penn State all finishing 9-3 on the season. MSU would finish 2nd in the East with a 7-2 record (third loss in the non-conference to Notre Dame), and Michigan would have the 3rd place tiebreaker with a head to head win over Penn State (they predict we beat them by a score of 17-12....). They have this trio of teams splitting games (we beat PSU, MSU beats us, and PSU beats MSU).
To me, this seems very negative on both Michigan teams (especially us), slightly too high on Ohio State, and WAY, WAY too high on Penn State.
The idea that Penn State wins at Pitt, kills Temple, loses by only 5 points to us in the Big House, then beats both Iowa and Michigan State is laughable to me. I don't see Penn State getting more than 7 wins, and honestly could see them at 6. That they go 9-3 is an absolute best case scenario for them in Franklin's third year, and maybe not even that.
Links:
Michigan: http://campusinsiders.com/news/michigan-football-schedule-predictions-08-03-2016
Ohio State: http://campusinsiders.com/news/ohio-state-football-schedule-predictions-08-04-2016
Michigan State: http://campusinsiders.com/news/michigan-state-football-schedule-predictions-08-03-2016
Penn State:http://campusinsiders.com/news/penn-state-football-schedule-predictions-08-03-2016
I hate my comments. There's been a few comments that I started to type but deleted. Everything sucks right now. Reminds of of the pre-Harbaugh limbo (circa 12/2014).
The first rule of MGoPoints is we don't talk about MGoPoints.
I didn't understand the hate. Sometimes downvotes turn into a feeding frenzy.
out those 62 things that are not to be talked about..I had a bad day at the board too and it ruined my day. Then my wife pulled all ny UM gear out of the trash handed it to me and said get the $%#& over it and get on with your dumb ass fandome. Those words were so prophetic I just brushed the coffee grouds off my cap put it back on and screamed GO BLUE! My wife shook her head and mumbled something about men and I was back. So don't take it too hard it will all be fine once we get on with this season.....
Downvotes may "turn into a feeding frenzy," but so do upvotes. I have to admit that I often find my hand automatically upvoting something that has a lot of upvotes already, as though it were bypassing my thought process and responding directly to a bright, green shiny object. OTOH, I almost never downvote anyone for having an opinion.
It's not like it really matters all that much anyway.
And I believe there was a wider talent disparity. The only good thing you could count on with Hoke is that the OSU game would be close.
He really did have them kids..... Ready? But they were using their God given athletic ability to try and over come their lack of knowing actually how. He damn near beat them twice. Then again losing to Rutgers was simply inexcusable. Just like apologizing to Staee for anything.
1. No WAY is the PSU game that close.
2. No way we go 0-3 in those games. 1-2 I can see, but the one WILL BE in East Lansing...
and yes, at East Lansing.......W.
If we are going to lose one of the big three games this year, I need it to be Iowa. Just for my own mental well-being.
It's pretty darn annoying to read all these projections about what could happen though. Anything could happen. Aliens may attack in the 3rd quarter of the season opener, and it could lead to Jabrill Peppers being hit by some exotic weapon, but it doesn't hurt him, it only increases his killing power! We lose the starting linebacker corp in the resulting explosion, but its ok because at twice his normal size and now with the ability to cloak a la Predator we ONLY need Peppers at linebacker! In fact this is my season preview for the defense. Stay tuned for the unbelieavable turn of events in our starting QB competition.
/edit: I can't type or spell or grammer
Annoyed by amusing hypotheticals? Relax, man. It's just supposed to be fun. Just like Jabrill Peppers with enhanced superpowers.
1) I already prefaced this post with that
2) If you don't care, then don't click on the fucking thread and defintiely don't comment on it to make your whiny opinion known.
This is by far more related to Michigan Football than the off season threads about TV shows and soccer.
I personally think those are stupid, but I have never commented on them saying so.
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No!!!!
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Well if you tell someone not to click something, can you really expect them not to click it?
WHO HAS THAT LEVEL OF SELF-CONTROL??!?
Until we beat OSU and MSU.
until we beat OSU and MSU
If I were you, I would drag that hideously rotted and stinking dead thing around with you until we beat MSU and OSU.
Do it.
Wait Until We Beat MSU & OSU
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Look, we're going undefeated and that is all there is to it. We ain't losing a game.
For one, they are predictions.
For two, it is entirely possible to lose three incredibly difficult road games to very darn good teams.
It's not out of the realm of the possibility that this team finishes 10-3 again, even though they are better in terms of talent.
And there's ALWAYS a game or two every season that just defies logic. It's not that far fetched to have the Penn State game be close. Why not?
What I find annoying, Uncle Leo, is that they predict the ways teams will win.
"The Wolverines will hit on two big pass plays in the second half..."
What's even the point?? It's just fantasy, then
YES, that is very stupid lol.
Not to be taken so seriously. It's just to show they put some thought into it and tell you a little bit about the teams, rather than just crunching numbers. Makes it a little more fun to see how things really turn out, and how they really turn out is all that matters.
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They have UM ranked 8th, OSU 6th, MSU 12th, and Iowa 24th. If they think that UM will lose to Iowa and MSU, why do they have UM ranked above them? It makes no sense.
Everyone outside of EL knows that we have more talent than MSU or Iowa. But it's college and winning on the road is a challenge.
Also, we don't know who our QB will be and how good they will be. I know (Harbaugh, Harbaugh), but it's still an unknown.
I would not be surprised, but very disappointed if we lose all three of those games. I think we're at least a touchdown better than MSU and Iowa on a neutral site.
Agreed.
I think that losing all three is unlikely, but possible. And I think we could lose to teams that we are actually "better" than. The problem is, you can have one of those games, but if you lose multiple games to teams you think you have more talent than, you probably don't have more talent.
If we lose to MSU, I would hope that Harbaugh would be able to light a fire under their butts to win one or both of the last two. I think that would be the most disappointing thing of losing all three: I wouldn't think we had the mentality of a winning team even if the games and talent were close. At some point you have to stop losing big road games.
Unlike most any other CFB team, Harbaugh has been encouraging our players to work on both sides of the field and alternative positions. Once the season begins and the expected attritions obtain, the team should still have competitive athletes filling every spot with no holes. Given this and our schedule, I honestly believe the team stands a realistic chance of an undefeated record until the playoffs. I mean it.
by playing through that severed stem descender injury.
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