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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.
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
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.
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.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.
lol @Nebraska being top 4. They'll be lucky to end up top 6.This is how it plays out:
- Wisconsin
- Ohio State
- Penn State
- Nebraska
- Michigan State
- Michigan
- then one more
- then the bottom half
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.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 .
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 oddsWisconsin 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.
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, Wisconsin has a good team. but the likelihood is that whatever team wins the East is going to be better.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.
I see you set the bar pretty low on this.Penn St. beat Washington in last season's Fiesta Bowl so I'm going with them.
Yeah, Wisconsin has a good team. but the likelihood is that whatever team wins the East is going to be better.
I see you set the bar pretty low on this.
I don't see any Huskies on that field
They were to busy winning that weekend.I don't see any Huskies on that field
Let me guess... Portland State or some FCS school?They were to busy winning that weekend.
The PAC was playing a 9 game conference schedule when the B1G was still being a pvssy about it.Let me guess... Portland State or some FCS school?
Why we should have patience with P.J. Fleck in Year 2Minnesota
Row that boat
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.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.