Huskers in 2019....

If our main playmakers were all coming back for one more year, then yeah maybe ten wins. 7- 9 wins would be a big improvement. 

Trying to say which games are wins, and which ones are loses, didn't play out to well last year, for all us guru's on here.

Maybe we can win 10, but i think that is still a couple years away yet. I'm thinking 8 this year.

GBR!!!

 
boach_clack said:
Ohio State was Ohio State before Urban Meyer and they will be Ohio State after as well. We won 4 games last year, we have no business looking down our noses at anyone. Its an uphill battle for us. Thing is, we have the staff to do it. 
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Yeah Ohio State bounced right back from the Tressel departure too.  :sarcasm

It's a big impact regardless of how stacked they are.  Whose looking down their nose?  People are say how 10 wins is too hard to do, this schedule is one of the easiest we've had in a while.  Our big games are in Lincoln, 10 wins is very doable.

 
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boach_clack said:
Ohio State was Ohio State before Urban Meyer and they will be Ohio State after as well. We won 4 games last year, we have no business looking down our noses at anyone. Its an uphill battle for us. Thing is, we have the staff to do it. 
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Urban won at a clip never seen before at Ohio St. You think Day is going to come anywhere close to 83-9? 

Ohio St. will be Ohio St, I'm sure.... But they won't be Urban's Ohio St.

 
Redux said:
Yeah Ohio State bounced right back from the Tressel departure too.
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Urban is one of the two best coaches of the past 15 years, thus the reason that they bounced back so well. Without Urban, they definitely don't accomplish what they accomplished post-Tressel.

 

huskered17 said:
If our main playmakers were all coming back for one more year, then yeah maybe ten wins. 7- 9 wins would be a big improvement. 

Trying to say which games are wins, and which ones are loses, didn't play out to well last year, for all us guru's on here.

Maybe we can win 10, but i think that is still a couple years away yet. I'm thinking 8 this year.
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Agreed. Eight wins is my prediction if I'm forced to make one right now in January. Iowa, Purdue, and Northwestern have quietly improved by a fairly significant degree on offense. Without Thorson, Northwestern isn't as good but they're still going to be a good team next season. The West is much less powerful than the East but Wisconsin seems to no longer be automatically better than Purdue, Iowa, and Northwestern.

Winning our division is not going to be easy next season, but if we can do it, it'll be a huge milestone for where we're headed.

*Edit* One thing that's interesting to look at though is the schedule for Iowa, Wisconsin, and Northwestern. Iowa plays Michigan & Penn State. Wisconsin plays Michigan, Michigan State, and Ohio State. I'm going to predict right there that this pretty much takes Wisconsin out as the favorite to win the West.

We could lose to Wisconsin, but as long as we beat Iowa and Northwestern I'm thinking our win total is nine and we win the division. This is just off-season guessing and is primarily based on the relatively tougher cross-divisional schedules that both Iowa and Wisconsin (finally) have this season when compared to ours.

 
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Their 2011 team was loaded and still sucked without Tressel.  Anyone who thinks losing Urban doesn't hurt them is kidding themselves.  They are an 8-9 win team in 2019.

 
Redux said:
Their 2011 team was loaded and still sucked without Tressel.  Anyone who thinks losing Urban doesn't hurt them is kidding themselves.  They are an 8-9 win team in 2019.
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That would be awesome to see. As far as how it pertains to us, Harbaugh probably believes he can fill the power vacuum, but I think Frost is the guy who fills it in the medium term. And that's not just a Kool-Aid prediction. 

 
Undone said:
That would be awesome to see. As far as how it pertains to us, Harbaugh probably believes he can fill the power vacuum, but I think Frost is the guy who fills it in the medium term. And that's not just a Kool-Aid prediction. 
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I would bet that Harbaugh and Frost are going to have a duel in Indy in December to see who fills the void.

 
Ulty said:
I would bet that Harbaugh and Frost are going to have a duel in Indy in December to see who fills the void.
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Obviously, there's nothing more that I'd love to see! In 2020 I really believe we're going to be so much better than the next best team in the West that it'll almost be stupid.

I'm interested though in people's takes from my post six replies up on the West battle for next year. I do think that next year Iowa, Wisconsin, Northwestern, and Nebraska are practically all on the same basic plane. But what I'm looking at most is the fact that Iowa & Wisconsin play two of the four "good" teams from the East, but we only play one.

Big advantage for us in winning our division next year, but I'm not anywhere close to assuming that we're a shoe in as the clear cut favorite.

 
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Undone said:
Obviously, there's nothing more that I'd love to see! In 2020 I really believe we're going to be so much better than the next best team in the West that it'll almost be stupid.

I'm interested though in my takes from my post six replies up on the West battle for next year. I do think that next year Iowa, Wisconsin, Northwestern, and Nebraska are practically all on the same basic plane. But what I'm looking at most is the fact that Iowa & Wisconsin play two of the four "good" teams from the East, but we only play one.

Big advantage for us in winning our division next year, but I'm not anywhere close to assuming that we're a shoe in as the clear cut favorite.
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I agree the competition in the West will be great, and although I think we will be able to beat most of those teams this year, until we actually do it, we shouldn't be considered a shoo-in for anything. Since we aren't proven winners yet, I don't care if we get a pre-season ranking. We haven't earned a damn thing yet.

However, I also tend to think that a lot of folks are predicting 8 wins this year as a hedge due to being shell-shocked from 2018. No one thought we would still be mired at 4-8. However, it is hard to look at the improvement in the second half of the season, have a full off-season of work, and look at the 2019 schedule and not expect much better things. I bet most of us in our hearts really look at the schedule and get big eyes but are afraid of getting burned again. However, I predict 10 hard-fought wins and a return to the CCG. Then 2020 will be even better yet.

 
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I bet most of us in our hearts really look at the schedule and get big eyes but are afraid of getting burned again. However, I predict 10 hard-fought wins and a return to the CCG.
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Ha, the bolded is totally spot on for me personally. Describes it perfectly.

So at your prediction of 10-2, who are our two losses? Ohio State and ________?

 
Undone said:
Ha, the bolded is totally spot on for me personally. Describes it perfectly.

So at your prediction of 10-2, who are our two losses? Ohio State and ________?
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I don't know. I'm not certain that we lose to Ohio State. If we are hosting them at night and the stadium is rockin, we can get them. Frost will be looking for a signature victory. 

I'm not so bold to predict an undefeated season, but I don't see any obvious losses, just a lot of tough games that can go either way. Going on the road against a better than usual Purdue scares me more than most of the other games.

 
Same odds as Washington and Florida.  Not far behind Texas. Schedule definitely plays a bit of a role, but obviously a lot of people are buying Nebraska right now.

 
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