Post-Spring Practice: Early 2018 Michigan W/L Prediction
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11-1 only because it’s statistically inadvisable to predict 12-0.
10-1 to 12-1 odds before the Patterson ruling
If the pros think Michigan has a great chance to go undefeated or 1 loss, who am I to argue!
Go Blue!
https://www.landof10.com/michigan/michigan-football-championship-odd
https://www.landof10.com/michigan/michigan-football-wolverines-harbaugh…
I'm pretty sure that FPI and S&p+ both project Michigan at 8 to 9 wins. 10 to 12 seems ridiculous.
Mod should delete this silly thread...
15-0!
Average scores
Michigan 98
opponents -15
Now that is creative optimism
Well we certainly aren't losing to freaking Northwestern, and we ain't losing at home this year, so...
Wisconsin is overrated and their style of play will always favor us. They also lose a bunch on D. PSU loses a bunch everywhere and you better believe Jim will embarrass them on national TV if given the chance for the shit Franklin pulled last year. If we get up, that game will be a bloodletting.
Just please beat OSU and MSU. If that happens, we should be in line for the B10 championship game anyway.
I'd be fine going 2-10 if they win those 2 games. Don't @ me
When the going gets tough, the tough get going!
After that, it's all about matchups
Then when we go 9-3, everybody will then say "Well, everybody said we'll go 9-3."
Pretty much.
What will be lost in all of that is that 9-3 will be a solid result given the circumstances. 11-1 could happen, so could 6-6. Neither probably will.
I remember predicting 9-3 and it seemed like a lot of others here also predicted that, it seemed like that and 8-4 were fairly common
A few posters predicted 8-4, but not many were saying that at all. I'd say the median prediction last year was 10-2.
That's a load of bullshit. Some people did predict 8 or 9 wins and they all got downvoted and shamed for being "sparty troll" because, well... that's what mgoblog does.
Reasonable prediction = troll
I'd say 2 to 4 people predicted 8 wins.
I think mine was 8-4/7-5 just because I simply didn't expect much of the O-Line and refused to believe the team had what it took to win a big game on the road. I was proven right but would rather I be wrong and really would rather Michigan figure out how to win any kind of big game without stomping on their cranks.
As for this year 8-4/7-5 again, and it will remain as such until I see them figure out how to beat someone with a pulse on the road. If they beat Notre Dame to start the year, then I think 9-3 is the ceiling, unless this is the breakthrough year of them developing a winning mentality, but I don't see it until 2019 at the earliest, if ever. Maybe that makes me a troll, but I just need to see it.
I'm a UCLA fan, mediocrity is baked into that program and I am starting to wonder if the same thing is happening to Michigan
I predicted 9-3 +/- 1. Not popular. But it was pretty clear we had 9-3ish talent last year.
April 29th, 2018 at 12:34 AM ^
I had all our losses correct OSU, PSU and WI. I was not expecting MSU to beat us at home. Though, I did not expect Wilton to be injured all season and that JOK would play as poorly as he did.
Do more, say less.
the number of "hype" videos that are produced before the season starts.