Whose 2012 season would you rather have?

Whose season would you rather have had, Nebraska's or Wisconsin's?

  • Nebraska's: 10-4 with two blowout losses, losing your final two games

    Votes: 38 65.5%

  • Wisconsin's: 8-6, no blowout losses, Big Ten Champs, Rose Bowl

    Votes: 20 34.5%
  • Total voters
    58
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Nebraska

10 Wins

4 Losses

Average losses: 21 points

Four wins after trailing by double-digits, including the 2nd-biggest comeback in school history.

Final AP Ranking: 25th

Wisconsin

8 Wins

6 Losses

Average losses: 20.1 4.16 points

Two losses in OT, earned their way into the Big Ten Championship due to ineligibility of Ohio State and Penn State, beat Nebraska in blowout fashion to win the Big Ten Championship and go to the Rose Bowl, lost bowl game by six points to #6 Stanford.

Final AP Ranking: Unranked

EDIT - I edited Wiscy's average points lost by stat. I was smoking something when I put 20.1 in there. Not sure where that came from.

 
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If it wasn't for OSU and PSU being in the position they were in, Wisconsin would have ended their season 7-6 with no CCG or Rose Bowl appearance. NU earned everything they accomplished last season, regardless of the blowout losses.

 
I have stated several times I would much prefer Wisconsin's season. Continual progress, played everyone close, showed marked improvement, by the destruction of Nebraska and playing Stanford close. I am more about how the game is played than wins and losses. Eventually you play the game right, keep marching forward and learning, you get the wins we all want.

Last year, was a fun year, that we won some games that took effort and luck. We were weakened most likely by not managing the roster correctly, but we have a young head coach, lacking that level of experience. If Bo learned from last year, we will see it down the road.

 
skersfan said:
I have stated several times I would much prefer Wisconsin's season. Continual progress, played everyone close, showed marked improvement, by the destruction of Nebraska and playing Stanford close. I am more about how the game is played than wins and losses. Eventually you play the game right, keep marching forward and learning, you get the wins we all want.

Last year, was a fun year, that we won some games that took effort and luck. We were weakened most likely by not managing the roster correctly, but we have a young head coach, lacking that level of experience. If Bo learned from last year, we will see it down the road.
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Maybe it's just me but I don't see Wisconsin's season as progression at all. A loss is a loss and they had 6 of them. They only made it to the CCG because the top two teams in their division were ineligible. Only thing they can tip their hat on was their performance in the CCG due to so many doubting them and counting them out accompanied with NU's lack of depth and athleticism on defense accompanied with crucial injuries in the trenches.

2011 Wisconsin went 10-2 in the regular season 1-1 in the post season

2010 Wisconsin went 11-1 in the regular season 0-1 in the post season (no CCG that year in the B1G)

2012 Wisconsin went 7-5 in the regular season 1-1 in the post season (undefeated OSU & 8-4 PSU was ineligible)

I don't care how many times you play a team close, if NU finished this past season with 6 losses, I'm not sure the fan base would be too happy or optimistic as they are about the future with him.

 
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skersfan said:
I have stated several times I would much prefer Wisconsin's season. Continual progress, played everyone close, showed marked improvement, by the destruction of Nebraska and playing Stanford close. I am more about how the game is played than wins and losses. Eventually you play the game right, keep marching forward and learning, you get the wins we all want.

Last year, was a fun year, that we won some games that took effort and luck. We were weakened most likely by not managing the roster correctly, but we have a young head coach, lacking that level of experience. If Bo learned from last year, we will see it down the road.
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So a team that won 10,11 and 11 games the last three years then drops to 8 wins after losing four of their final six games of the season is making "continual progress"? We must have different definitions of "progress".

 
AllNRed said:
If it wasn't for OSU and PSU being in the position they were in, Wisconsin would have ended their season 7-6 with no CCG or Rose Bowl appearance. NU earned everything they accomplished last season, regardless of the blowout losses.
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I agree with this. everything of substance that Wisconsin accomplished, they backed into based on technicalities. Nebraska "won" ten games. Without OSU on sanctions, the CCG woulda been a rematch with possible us turning the tables on them, as happens so many times in collegiate sports rematches.

 
I have yet to vote in this poll. The stink of our two prime-time TV blowout losses and the inept defense of the UCLA loss make choosing our season over a Big Ten Championship win in blowout fashion, playing everyone close, two losses in OT and a BCS bowl berth very difficult.

 
This is a tough question. I prefer the BIG Championship, but it seems tainted if 2 teams must be disqualified for your team to participate in the CCG. Then, by destroying one of the most storied programs in the history of college football, some of the taint is washed away.

On the other hand, the 5 game streak of incredible comebacks was amazing to watch. It was some of the most enjoyable football I have ever experienced. On the other hand, I never wanted to know how Florida or Tennessee felt when they were totally dominated. The CCG game gave me this horrible experience.

I prefer the 2013 season when Bo get his first conference title by making defensive adjustments based on feedback from the HuskerBoard :ahhhhhhhh

 
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If we'd a had a 7-5 regular season-close losses or not-and got into the CCG game because Michigan and Northwestern were ineligible because of sanctions and still won that game, Bo probably would not have been around to coach the bowl game.

Or am I reaching to far on that scenario?

 
accountability said:
If we'd a had a 7-5 regular season-close losses or not-and got into the CCG game because Michigan and Northwestern were ineligible because of sanctions and still won that game, Bo probably would not have been around to coach the bowl game.

Or am I reaching to far on that scenario?
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Bo may have been fired. Wisconsin lost 3 of their last 4 regular season games, so Wisconsin was not showing any improvement going into the CCG. Wisconsin's only bright spot in 2012 was the beat down of NU, unless you consider a blowout of Indiana something to celebrate.

 
I would be feeling better about my team right now as a Wisconsin fan, than I am as a Nebraska fan. Our season was 2 plays from being far worse than theirs...and we nose dived the second half including one of the worst games I've witnessed in my 20ish years as a fan. They lost a game they should have won at Nebraska, MSU by 3 points (we obviously struggled there), OSU by 8, Penn by 3, Stanford by 6. We were down more points after the first half against 2.0 than all their losses combined.

The Wisconsin 2012 season is what I am looking for Pelini to put up. There were no blowouts. They had some hard fought battles against top-tier teams they came up short in, had a championship, and top tier bowl game they played close to the end. Had OSU/Penn been out - they never would have had those opportunities, but they did and they capitalized on them. There were no 600 yard defensive breakdowns, no 40 point blowouts (unless you count the ones they doled out.

From a W/L perspective it didn't end as well as it could have. But that just goes to show you that this Nebraska team is just as close to being a 7 win team as they are an 11 win team...and the 9 win thing means little in college football.

 
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accountability said:
If we'd a had a 7-5 regular season-close losses or not-and got into the CCG game because Michigan and Northwestern were ineligible because of sanctions and still won that game, Bo probably would not have been around to coach the bowl game.

Or am I reaching to far on that scenario?
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This was kind of my thought process on the poll. Which is why I voted for our record last year. Ideally, I'd rather not live through either of those types of seasons, but that's what makes this question a little perplexing.

 
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