Who will win the Big 10 in 2018?

olympicoscar · Jun 24, 2018

Ohio State has to be the favorite. Michigan if Shea Patterson is for real. Wisconsin looks tough on paper. Michigan State may be better than anyone thinks.

ralphiewvu · Jun 24, 2018

HuskerinBig10 said:
Penn State. In my book, Penn State only has one game that is a toss up and that is the road game at Michigan. Sure, I called Ohio State a toss up but Penn State with home field advantage is tough on the opposition.

2016 Penn State 24 Ohio State 21
2014 Ohio State 31 Penn State 34 OT the year Ohio State won it all

Franklin was not coaching in years prior

Penn State only plays two tough teams on the road, and one of them is pansy Pittsburgh but it is a state rival, so that makes it a tough game.

No back to back road games.
Plays Illinois on Friday, then it has eight days to prep for Ohio State and rest.

Top Newcomer for Penn State will be Micah Parsons, on defense.

Toss Up games
Ohio State lost AT Ohio State 39-38
at Michigan Penn State won 42-13 in 2017 in State College

Tough Games but Penn State Will win games 4-0 three tough games but played at home
at Pittsburgh rivalry games are always fun, Penn State is much better than Pittsburgh
Michigan State will avenge their three point loss at Michigan State
Iowa
Wisconsin Penn State will stop Wisconsin's run game. Penn State weakness is its pass defense.

Automatic Win games 6-0
Appalachian State
Kent State
at illinois
at Indiana OK, Indiana is on the upswing, but Indiana is not on Penn State's level yet 2017 score Penn State 45 Indiana 14
at Rutgers
Maryland

HuskerinBig10 said:
The for sure CCG participant is Wisconsin. the B1G West is an easy six wins for Wisconsin.

Wisconsin sucks against the B1G east though, by that I mean Ohio State and Penn State. Michigan is an all hat, no cattle team.

The last time Wisconsin won in State College is win Joe Paterno was head coach in 2003. Which, BTW, was the ONLY wisconsin win at Penn State.

Dude 2 things from your rambling.

1) Ohio State beat Penn State in 2014. Maybe that was a typo on your part.

2) 2003 was not the only year Wisconsin won at Penn State. They beat them their in 1995 and 2001.

HuskerinBig10 · Jun 25, 2018

ralphiewvu said:
Dude 2 things from your rambling.

1) Ohio State beat Penn State in 2014. Maybe that was a typo on your part.

2) 2003 was not the only year Wisconsin won at Penn State. They beat them their in 1995 and 2001.

Thanks. Typo on the score, i know it was 31-24 Ohio State won.

I failed on the wins by Wisconsin.

I am definitely not a dude, to you I would be a sir. Dude is lingo from when kids went to school in the 1990s. Such as the sophomorish movie "Dude where is my car?"

I went to elementary school when "groovy" and "far out" were the lingo. Beatnik was a little before my time.

Doesn't matter, Wisconsin will not win in State College in 2018.

7Samurai13 · Jun 25, 2018

Michigan State is going 8-1 in the Big this year.

with a loss to....

@Nebraska

MAIZEandBLUE09 · Jun 25, 2018

7Samurai13 said:
Michigan has two major problems. First and foremost is that offensive line is horrendous. One out of every ten passing plays resulted in a sack. Which leads us to the second problem which is depth at quarterback. Patterson is going to take a beating and he already missed half of last season with an injury. Does that mean he’s injury prone or was it just a fluke? Peters was pretty bad last year racking up mediocre stats against the dregs of the conference. McCaffery is a stick figure and likely to get injured unless he bulked up a ton this off season which I doubt. Should Michigan be better than MSU, yes, but Harbaugh has yet to show that he is a big time game day coach. He seems to shrink up when the light shines brightest.

It's somewhat of a chicken and egg argument though. Is it possible a lot of those sacks were a result of poor QB play? I imagine a good number of them would be prevented by getting the pass off or making a proper read by the QB. We also hopefully add Newsome back to the line after suffering a major injury in 2016. We also had a major upgrade at the OL coach, so that plays into this as well. We'll see. I'm optimistic those major problems are a thing of the past.

MAIZEandBLUE09 · Jun 25, 2018

outofyourmind said:
This is how it plays out:

Wisconsin

Ohio State

Penn State

Nebraska

Michigan State

Michigan

then one more

then the bottom half

lol @Nebraska being top 4. They'll be lucky to end up top 6.

MAIZEandBLUE09 · Jun 25, 2018

rmilia1 said:
There's 6 teams with a shot imo. I'm descending order

6. Iowa
5. Penn St
4. Michigan
3. MSU
2. Ohio St
1. Wisconsin

I dont necessarily think Wisconsin is better than OSU but they've got a far better shot to make the title game. Iowa is really only on the list because they don't play OSU, MSU or Michigan and they get Wisconson, NW and Nebraska all at home .

Wisconsin has a the fast track to the title game because no one else in their division should be on their level yet. But I still don't see them winning it. How many shots have they gotten recently? It's always the same result. The team that comes out of the east will win it again.

rmilia1 · Jun 25, 2018

MAIZEandBLUE09 said:
Wisconsin has a the fast track to the title game because no one else in their division should be on their level yet. But I still don't see them winning it. How many shots have they gotten recently? It's always the same result. The team that comes out of the east will win it again.

Yeah but if you've got a 90% chance to make the title game compared to the next highest team at say 33% you should be number 1 preseason best odds

kburjr · Jun 25, 2018

MAIZEandBLUE09 said:
Wisconsin has a the fast track to the title game because no one else in their division should be on their level yet. But I still don't see them winning it. How many shots have they gotten recently? It's always the same result. The team that comes out of the east will win it again.

Each of the last 2 CCGs were decided by 1 score. Although the Badgers lost, it is not like they were blown out.

MAIZEandBLUE09 · Jun 25, 2018

kburjr said:
Each of the last 2 CCGs were decided by 1 score. Although the Badgers lost, it is not like they were blown out.

Yeah, Wisconsin has a good team. but the likelihood is that whatever team wins the East is going to be better.

Wamu · Jun 25, 2018

MAIZEandBLUE09 said:
Yeah, Wisconsin has a good team. but the likelihood is that whatever team wins the East is going to be better.

Ya dun fucked up now! Damn good thing @Great Dayne ain't around cause he'd tell all of us why his badass Badgers will not only run the table but every CFB award will also end up in Madison by the end of the year.

mall3013 · Jun 25, 2018

AlaskaGuy said:
Penn St. beat Washington in last season's Fiesta Bowl so I'm going with them.

I see you set the bar pretty low on this.

kburjr · Jun 25, 2018

MAIZEandBLUE09 said:
Yeah, Wisconsin has a good team. but the likelihood is that whatever team wins the East is going to be better.

I agree and that perception won't change until we win a Championship or 2. I like our chances gong forward.

AlaskaGuy · Jun 25, 2018

mall3013 said:
I see you set the bar pretty low on this.

mall3013 · Jun 25, 2018

AlaskaGuy said:

I don't see any Huskies on that field :noidea:

AlaskaGuy · Jun 25, 2018

mall3013 said:
I don't see any Huskies on that field

They were to busy winning that weekend.

mall3013 · Jun 25, 2018

AlaskaGuy said:
They were to busy winning that weekend.

Let me guess... Portland State or some FCS school?

AlaskaGuy · Jun 25, 2018

mall3013 said:
Let me guess... Portland State or some FCS school?

The PAC was playing a 9 game conference schedule when the B1G was still being a pvssy about it.

AlaskaGuy · Jun 25, 2018

Cowboyinexile said:
Minnesota

Row that boat

Why we should have patience with P.J. Fleck in Year 2

rmilia1 · Jun 25, 2018

ericd7633 said:
I think I would eliminate Michigan from the start. I think they are a slightly worse than the contenders. And they have absolutely the hardest in conference schedule IMO. Not only do they get who I project to be the 3 best teams in the other division(NW, NEB, Wisconsin) they have to play NW, MSU and Ohio State on the road. And they have to play a bunch of contrasting styles over the course of the season, which makes it difficult to prepare. Going from Nebraska to NW to Maryland to Wisconsin to Michigan State to Penn State isn't easy in terms of style of play. I think that's an underrated aspect of scheduling.

I'd probably peg Ohio State as the favorite in the East. Simply splitting the road trips against Penn State and Michigan State should be enough as I don't see them losing a conference game outside of that. Wisconsin is the easy answer in the West. But they have to travel to Michigan, PSU and NW. So they certainly have a much more difficult path than last year.

I do think there is a chance the B1G could get left out of the CFP again, especially if Ohio State gets beaten by TCU. It seems like all the contenders play each other this year.

Nebraska top 3?? Again? Come on ED. You're better than that. Nebraska will likely go 4-8/5-7 again. Frost is a good coach but their talent is abysmal. Give him a few years.

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