SI.com Video from Andy Staples about Michigan's chances to make 2016 CFB Playoff
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Here's some Michigan content here in dead period. Andy Staples does a video mailbag and discusses Michigan's chances of making the college footall playoff around the 3:40 mark: http://www.si.com/college-football/2016/04/06/michigan-college-football…
I don't think we can make it unless we do.
But what if we do and don't make the playoff?
You mean sort of like what happened to staee.
Oh snap, Alabama just scored again!
I predict that whether or not we make it depends on how many games we win.
Well Andy Staples thinks there is a chance, so that should be very meaningful to you.
Unless the video said "ONE HUNDRED PERCENT CHANCE" then it is worthless and Andy Staples can go jump in Lake Erie.
I don't know that his College Football prognostication skills are tied all that strongly into his ability to jump into a body of water.
If we outscore all our opponants, we have a good shot at the playoffs/title game
What do you guys/gal think will be the toughest game before heading to EL? Penn St and Wiscy would be the obvious choices, and both are home. I would say PSU just bc they have a game changing RB. Cant see them losing to either of those teams.
I honestly think Penn State is going to garbage this year.
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Their offense was already pretty mediocre last year and they lost their franchise QB. Yes Barkley will continue to be productive, but if they bring zero passing threat teams will just load the box and shut them down. I don't really see their offensive production improving in 2016.
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Bad team that suddenly loses it's multi-year starter at QB? Not lookin good
agreed....without hackenberg, franklin will be exposed.
theres gonna be a massive beatdown when we play them.
Barkley is a good back, but Penn State still has an awful OL until proven otherwise, no proven QB, and will be breaking in a new offense. And their defense lost quite a few pieces. And we're at home. Unless Penn State's offense grows up big time by the end of September, our defense will be allowed to tee off on Barkley and dare whoever the QB is to try and beat us with his arm. And with Jourdan Lewis locking down one side of the field, I like our chances.
Wisconsin worries me more because they've proven over the last 15 years that whoever lines up at RB will be able to put up yards.
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Wisconsin is like Penn State in that they have to come up with a new QB now that Stave is gone. Both teams should bring solid defenses and run games, but I'm not sure how either is going to be able to manufacture enough pass yards to win in Ann Arbor.
Also, I may be a little off here, but I believe that Wisky's rushing stats this past season weren't quite up to their recent historical standards. I'm not sure what they do or don't have returning on the O line, and that will make a difference obviously. But I don't recall that they were special in the run game last year, not compared to normal for them anyway.
If there's two things you can continually rely on Wisconsin for, it's producing good offensive linemen, and good running backs.
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Don't think Stave was a driving force of anything. Their offense is going to be pretty good since their QB will have time and their RB will have holes as long as the OL is pretty good. Which it will be, since you know, Wisconsin.
I don't think Stave was very good either, but I'll bet with his 12 years of experience as their starting QB he was better than who they'll have replacing him - and that's assuming their #1 guy is still standing after games against LSU and then sparty the week before us.
I'm not saying the Badgers won't be a test. But I feel much more comfortable in our shoes than I would in theirs.
I hope so. I cant stand PSU, but I was at a coaching clinic last month and their OC was one of the speakers. Very impressive. I think their offense will be much better this year.
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Gorgeous Borges would agree with that!
Not sure Hackenberg is a draft pick. His game is filled with 'buts' because he didn't produce like a draft pick. If he's picked, it should be well after Jake is off the board.
Not sure how much of Penn State you watched, but Hackenberg did not have control of that offense. Plus with his recent finger pointing, it shows he has some maturity issues. Sometimes it just takes some new blood to revitalize a team. I do not think that offense will be great, but I do not expect it to be any worse.
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Michigan could be in the playoffs, or they might not be. If they're in, Odds are 100% they make it. If they don't, it's 0%.
Yeah!!!
PREDICTION:
Now that we are moving into post-March Madness sports wasteland of NBA, tennis, baseball and golf, there will be countless articles every week "predicting" what will happen in the NFL and NCAA football seasons from now until August.
Yes, 5 months of rehashed unofficial polls, power rankings, playoff predictions, Heisman watches.
This guy always has these videos where he only answers the non-football questions. But it sounds like in his opinion, if we win all of our games, we could make the playoff, and every game we lose will lower the chances. It was a very deep piece of journalism.
it'll all depend on our QB and LT play... I like our chances... we are a deep veteran team, tons of fifth year seniors.