247 Big Ten Predictions for 2021 Season

[vailhusker]

NEBRASKA CORNHUSKERS (6-6)​

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The fourth year of the Scott Frost era at Nebraska is going to be a crucial one. The Cornhuskers limped out of the gates last year to a 1-4 start and finished at 3-5 on the year, making it three straight years under Frost that Nebraska has been under .500. It’s clear the Cornhuskers need to get over the hump and be over .500 this season but it won’t be easy. Adrian Martinez is the veteran quarterback but the pressure is on in Lincoln

 

[Kaladin]

I think it will be easy

we win 10 mothafuckas

 

[Kaladin]

This is the year everything starts to go our way

 

[LoudHogRider]

This is the year everything starts to go our way

 

[NEHusker54]

This is the year everything starts to go our way

 

[Kaladin]

 

[Black5hirt]

 

[...TrueColors...]

I think 8-9 wins is a good spot.

 

[NEHusker54]

I think 8-9 wins is a good spot.

You’re being sucked back in. Don’t do it to yourself man.

 

[Fargo Husker]

I think 8-9 wins is a good spot.

I would be absolutely ecstatic if this came to fruition.

 

[...TrueColors...]

I would be absolutely ecstatic if this came to fruition.

Moos has been more right than wrong with where he sets his predictions/baselines for the seasons. This team is talented enough to do it. Will they? I think they’ll get to that spot.

 

[Faux Sean Callahan]

I have said 8 wins is what it would take for me to be excited.
6-7 would be ok
anything less would be a shit show.

I frankly see 4 games that should be 2 score plus wins (Illinois, Buffalo, Purdoodoo and FU).
I then see 4 games that should be 1 score games tilted in our favor. (Mich, Sparty, Northwestern and Minnesota).
Then I see 2 games that should be 1 score games tilted in a loss. (Cockeye and Wisconsin).
Then 2 games we just don't have the horses. (Ohio State and Oklahoma).

You return a ton of experience on defense. You have to feel really good about your DL and DBs. You have 3 guys in your DBs that will be paid to play football next year. You have Jojo and all his experience at OLB. You really like Reimer, Heinrich and Kolorvic at ILB with a few other solid guys behind them. You have Stille who was the 3rd ranked 3tech in pass rush according to PFF (take that fwiw) Casey, Ty, Daniels, Reilly and Nash who all seem like they up and coming.
You return a 4 year starting QB. Who I think will have the most talent around him since his freshmen year.
You feel pretty good about your WRs and TEs. You have a pair of guys who are NFL dudes at TE. Toure who is an NFL dude. Martin and Betts who are elite athletes. Then Manning can be the cherry on top.
You are returning the B1G kicker of the year. You are getting your punter back and you have a pair of walk ons who are basically Adi. That coupled with an investment in special teams coaching with Busch and Dawson.
Shit if we can get some OL play and a RB to emerge we might be pretty dangerous.

Problem is that us getting to 8+ wins requires some positive assumptions.......That is something Frost has yet to earn the respect to assume that will happen here at Nebraska

 

[Saudi_aurora]

I have said 8 wins is what it would take for me to be excited.
6-7 would be ok
anything less would be a shit show.

I frankly see 4 games that should be 2 score plus wins (Illinois, Buffalo, Purdoodoo and FU).
I then see 4 games that should be 1 score games tilted in our favor. (Mich, Sparty, Northwestern and Minnesota).
Then I see 2 games that should be 1 score games tilted in a loss. (Cockeyes and Wisconsin).
Then 2 games we just don't have the horses. (Ohio State and Oklahoma).

You return a ton of experience on defense. You have to feel really good about your DL and DBs. You have 3 guys in your DBs that will be paid to play football next year. You have Jojo and all his experience at OLB. You really like Reimer, Heinrich and Kolorvic at ILB with a few other solid guys behind them. You have Stille who was the 3rd ranked 3tech in pass rush according to PFF (take that fwiw) Casey, Ty, Daniels, Reilly and Nash who all seem like they up and coming.
You return a 4 year starting QB. Who I think will have the most talent around him since his freshmen year.
You feel pretty good about your WRs and TEs. You have a pair of guys who are NFL dudes at TE. Toure who is an NFL dude. Martin and Betts who are elite athletes. Then Manning can be the cherry on top.
You are returning the B1G kicker of the year. You are getting your punter back and you have a pair of walk ons who are basically Adi. That coupled with an investment in special teams coaching with Busch and Dawson.
Shit if we can get some OL play and a RB to emerge we might be pretty dangerous.

Problem is that us getting to 8+ wins requires some positive assumptions......That is something Frost has yet to earn here at Nebraska

We definitely have the horses to do it, and I’ve felt like we’ve had the talent to be better than 4-5 wins each year. The problem always seems to be head scratching calls, penalties, and turn overs… things that could turn a hand full of those one score loss games our way.

 

[dsbigred1]

I have said 8 wins is what it would take for me to be excited.
6-7 would be ok
anything less would be a shit show.

I frankly see 4 games that should be 2 score plus wins (Illinois, Buffalo, Purdoodoo and FU).
I then see 4 games that should be 1 score games tilted in our favor. (Mich, Sparty, Northwestern and Minnesota).
Then I see 2 games that should be 1 score games tilted in a loss. (Cockeyes and Wisconsin).
Then 2 games we just don't have the horses. (Ohio State and Oklahoma).

You return a ton of experience on defense. You have to feel really good about your DL and DBs. You have 3 guys in your DBs that will be paid to play football next year. You have Jojo and all his experience at OLB. You really like Reimer, Heinrich and Kolorvic at ILB with a few other solid guys behind them. You have Stille who was the 3rd ranked 3tech in pass rush according to PFF (take that fwiw) Casey, Ty, Daniels, Reilly and Nash who all seem like they up and coming.
You return a 4 year starting QB. Who I think will have the most talent around him since his freshmen year.
You feel pretty good about your WRs and TEs. You have a pair of guys who are NFL dudes at TE. Toure who is an NFL dude. Martin and Betts who are elite athletes. Then Manning can be the cherry on top.
You are returning the B1G kicker of the year. You are getting your punter back and you have a pair of walk ons who are basically Adi. That coupled with an investment in special teams coaching with Busch and Dawson.
Shit if we can get some OL play and a RB to emerge we might be pretty dangerous.

Problem is that us getting to 8+ wins requires some positive assumptions......That is something Frost has yet to earn here at Nebraska

I am not saying you are wrong, but IL by 2 scores is what we thought last year. Granted, we will be very different, but Frost teams have not exactly lit it up out of the gates. I will be happily surprised by 8 wins, but it would be uncharacteristic of this team to win the "toss-up" games. To get to 8, we need to win most of them.

 

[Faux Sean Callahan]

I am not saying you are wrong, but IL by 2 scores is what we thought last year. Granted, we will be very different, but Frost teams have not exactly lit it up out of the gates. I will be happily surprised by 8 wins, but it would be uncharacteristic of this team to win the "toss-up" games. To get to 8, we need to win most of them.

That is why I said...........

Problem is that us getting to 8+ wins requires some positive assumptions......That is something Frost has yet to earn the respect to assume that will happen here at Nebraska

I think Illinois will be a win. FWIW, but I can see us losing a game to like Sparty later who I think we are better than.

 

[Baron Winnebago]

I am not saying you are wrong, but IL by 2 scores is what we thought last year. Granted, we will be very different, but Frost teams have not exactly lit it up out of the gates. I will be happily surprised by 8 wins, but it would be uncharacteristic of this team to win the "toss-up" games. To get to 8, we need to win most of them.

If Frost can't beat fat Bert in his first game coaching Illinois, the rest of the season is pretty much irrelevant.

 

[Faux Sean Callahan]

If Frost can't beat fat Bert in his first game coaching Illinois, the rest of the season is pretty much irrelevant.

Illinois is having their Kicker move to WR and their Back up WR move to kicker because they don't have bodies.
Do you think the defensive guys returning (Jojo, D Will, CTB, Desmuke,Stille) are coming back to get embarrassed again?
Martinez has unreal stats against Illinois.

I think we beat Illinois, but I get the worry of us pissing our pants against a team that we should beat by 2 scores. In order for us to get to 8 wins we either need to avoid pissing our pants or beat IA/WIscy

 

[dsbigred1]

If Frost can't beat fat Bert in his first game coaching Illinois, the rest of the season is pretty much irrelevant.

is fat Bert worse than grandpa Lovie?

 

[...TrueColors...]

is fat Bert worse than grandpa Lovie?

Without Paul Chryst as his OC, Bert’s record as a HC is pretty awful. Add that to the fact he hired an All-star staff at Arkansas that RSS would cream over and it’s easy to come to the conclusion he’s an awful leader.

 

[God is a Husker]

I think it will be easy

we win 10 mothafuckas

This is the year everything starts to go our way