More or less confident in team after Cincinnati?
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More or less confident in team after Cincinnati?
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I like a test like this and then take the next two lower tier competition games to adjust based on last night versus beating two lower tier teams and then losing this game if it was our third game because we didn’t see what needed to be fixed.
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I don't think it's spin
These are the predictions from the SVC
38-20 Nebraska by @Havoc34
31-21 Nebraska by @doublewing
34-21 Nebraska by @Gman1228
Margin of victory isn't the only factor, but you can understand someone feeling less confident if they predicted a 2-3 score win (as most people did) but it ended being much closer. Even isolating your example, someone can think we'd be weak at DL, and watch the game, and come away thinking we're even weaker than they presumed.
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Also look at every other B1G team who played Thursday & they managed to look worse than us vs NON-P4 teams. And they all played in their home stadium.
1. We won in an opening game against a P4 opponent.
2. Raiola completion percentage almost 80%
3. New offensive players looked solid.
4. Special teams, better.
5. Won a one score game.
6. Won a one score game in the final minutes.
7. Defense holds opponent to under 20pts.
8. We didn’t lose on the turn over margin.
9. D-Line/run defense still needs work.
So many of the things that have lost us games in the past, didn’t in this one.
That’s a step forward and one that improves confidence.
Are we a well oiled perfect team yet? No. Do we have many new contributors? Yes.
A lot to be said for that win. We now have two more games to improve.
I’m confident we are looking at an 8-4 team or better.
Just a reminder about Cincinnati: they beat a CFP team last year. Granted it was a CFP team w their backup QB and granted that QB was Jeff Sims. But you have to have athletes to beat that ASU team last year. I think people are rating this win like it's a home game vs Bethune Cookman. Cincinnati has some dudes. I think they'll be decent in the Big 12. I think they'll finish middle of the conference. They're certainly better than UCF lol.
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We're huffing vibes here buddy. We're beating Michigan 70-0.
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I like it IF and only if we win it LOL. But it's risky. Pretty much every B1G team looked like shit yesterday. Boise St looked like shit.
That Thursday night game before week 1 is looking to me like a trap game. Especially when you play away from your home stadium. Just thinking about this and that Thurs opener vs Minnesota. I would advise against scheduling something like this for a while. Too much to manage while you're breaking in all these new portal guys and breaking in new OC/DC/ST coords.
I don't mind a game like this if you have it at Saturday at Memorial Stadium at like 11am. A national TV game at a neutral site where literally EVERY CFB in the world is watching is a lot to do vs a P4 bowl team. That was a bit riskier than I realized.
I thought our offense would score more points and look more explosive.
The defense was about as I expected. We don’t have any dudes, we are small & we are slow.
ST’s were good outside of kickoff and KOR.
Our Dline & LB’s are so undersized and just not good.
Lindenmeyer was a huge positive at TE but we have absolutely nothing behind him. HH was so bad.
Oline was pretty average, about what they’ve been the last 2 years. Again, we are so weak at the point of attack, we can’t move anyone.
We will be 6-6 or possibly 7-5 if ST’s stay improved.
The defense was about as I expected. We don’t have any dudes, we are small & we are slow.
ST’s were good outside of kickoff and KOR.
Our Dline & LB’s are so undersized and just not good.
Lindenmeyer was a huge positive at TE but we have absolutely nothing behind him. HH was so bad.
Oline was pretty average, about what they’ve been the last 2 years. Again, we are so weak at the point of attack, we can’t move anyone.
We will be 6-6 or possibly 7-5 if ST’s stay improved.
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I’ll go with 8 as the ceiling partly because we have an easy BIG schedule. I agree on the last part.
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Agreed the view on this game by many is slanted in ways it shouldn’t be. Bottom line for me is a quality first game win against a P4 team.
One where we’ve look much better than past seasons and better than other ‘ranked’ teams who’ve played as well.
Questions remain and it’s a good first win.
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Valid point.
I don’t typically like playing someone who can potentially beat you in week one, but this did likely speed up the progression of the team for ‘25.
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Week 1 I feel good. Two get right games before Michigan is good.
The good:
Special Teams
Pass defense
Tackling was ok for first game
Third down efficiency was decent
Scheme adjustments were improved
Penalties were down
0 turnovers (that near pick 6 was bad)
Won a close game, made the plays to win
The bad:
Run defense was sub par
Mobile QBs have me worried
OL wasn’t as dominant as I expected
Dylan almost had a pick 6 that would’ve changed the game
Edge blocking seemed pretty bad
Some penalties killed scoring opportunities
The good:
Special Teams
Pass defense
Tackling was ok for first game
Third down efficiency was decent
Scheme adjustments were improved
Penalties were down
0 turnovers (that near pick 6 was bad)
Won a close game, made the plays to win
The bad:
Run defense was sub par
Mobile QBs have me worried
OL wasn’t as dominant as I expected
Dylan almost had a pick 6 that would’ve changed the game
Edge blocking seemed pretty bad
Some penalties killed scoring opportunities
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Agree, I hate how it seems like a necessity for us to make games ugly in the 2nd half instead of putting our foot on the gas when we get up a score. Not sure if it’s coaching or player mentality or what but I won’t be confident until I see them be able to take a TD lead in the second half and turn it into a 20+ point lead instead of letting the other team hang around. I will be sandy until I see this.
Next two weeks would be a good start, we could absolutely hang 60-70 on both Akron & Houston whatever but unfortunately I think we’re going to see UNI type games that don’t really help give the team an attitude boost.
Its week 1 and you won a game you have lost a million different ways years prior. Thats progress.
But we badly miss Dowdell to spell EJ and Jeudy/RVP need to improve or we are going to get run on in b1g play. Nash and Ty were way better than even we realize, probably.
But we badly miss Dowdell to spell EJ and Jeudy/RVP need to improve or we are going to get run on in b1g play. Nash and Ty were way better than even we realize, probably.
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I don’t believe you’ve ever watched football if you truly believe that.
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I called 42-10.
I remember watching NIU last year beat the national runner up in week 2. Its college football and week 1 is such a bad way to gauge how a team is going to perform.
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I hope we aren’t talking next Saturday night about how Akron held Wyoming to 10 points in week one.
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I’m not sure I can take that shit.
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