Bowl Projections

NCHawker

NCHawker

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Since the hawks don't have a heisman candidate, I'll just prognosticate about Bowls. ESPN's projection is below - I've put in my guess.


Rose Bowl (Jan. 1): Michigan State Purdue
Capital One Bowl (Jan. 1): Michigan MSU
Outback Bowl (Jan. 1): Nebraska Michgan
Gator Bowl (Jan. 1): Purdue Nebraska
Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl (Dec. 29): Northwestern
Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas (Dec. 28): Wisconsin
TicketCity Bowl (Jan. 1): Iowa
Little Caesars Pizza Bowl (Dec. 26): Illinois
At-large (TBA): Minnesota


Iowa rises above Minny and Illinois on the strength of fan following - not W/L
 


I have to tell you, after watching Michigan play, and I'm not just talking about Alabama, this team is no where near what people were expecting. Contain Denard, and force him to actually throw it consistently, and you beat them. I'm not that impressed. Right now, we don't really know how good NW is either. MSU's offense is one dimensional...and Wisconsin absolutely sucks.

At this point in the season, if our offense can improve and the defense continues to improve...who is to say we can move up the ranks a little. IMO, Michigan, Nebraska, and Purdue are one injury away from being extremely mediocre on offense. Terbush is terrible at Purdue, and if pressured will complete more to the other team. Given the right gameplan defensively, and if JVB can start to play better, we could beat any of those three teams. Then again, we could be down to playing one of TE's at running back in the next few weeks.

What a great year for The Big Ten. Penn State, the moral ambiguity in Columbus, and everyone sucks so bad it's a complete dogfight. At this juncture our Championship game may a 3 or 4 loss team. Pretty impressive.
 


WinOneThisCentury said:
I have to tell you, after watching Michigan play, and I'm not just talking about Alabama, this team is no where near what people were expecting. Contain Denard, and force him to actually throw it consistently, and you beat them. I'm not that impressed. Right now, we don't really know how good NW is either. MSU's offense is one dimensional...and Wisconsin absolutely sucks.

At this point in the season, if our offense can improve and the defense continues to improve...who is to say we can move up the ranks a little. IMO, Michigan, Nebraska, and Purdue are one injury away from being extremely mediocre on offense. Terbush is terrible at Purdue, and if pressured will complete more to the other team. Given the right gameplan defensively, and if JVB can start to play better, we could beat any of those three teams. Then again, we could be down to playing one of TE's at running back in the next few weeks.

What a great year for The Big Ten. Penn State, the moral ambiguity in Columbus, and everyone sucks so bad it's a complete dogfight. At this juncture our Championship game may a 3 or 4 loss team (This will not happen). Pretty impressive.
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I hope your right, but my fear in watching the NIU and ISU game against D-1 Teams that Iowa fans might be in for a rude awakening. I really hope I'm wrong.

Go Hawks!!
 


NCHawker said:
Since the hawks don't have a heisman candidate, I'll just prognosticate about Bowls. ESPN's projection is below - I've put in my guess.


Rose Bowl (Jan. 1): Michigan State Purdue
Capital One Bowl (Jan. 1): Michigan MSU
Outback Bowl (Jan. 1): Nebraska Michgan
Gator Bowl (Jan. 1): Purdue Nebraska
Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl (Dec. 29): Northwestern
Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas (Dec. 28): Wisconsin
TicketCity Bowl (Jan. 1): Iowa
Little Caesars Pizza Bowl (Dec. 26): Illinois
At-large (TBA): Minnesota


Iowa rises above Minny and Illinois on the strength of fan following - not W/L
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Move Wisconsin and Iowa up one and put NW in the TicketCity Bowl and it would probably be about right. No way any bowl will select NW over both Wisconsin and Iowa even if both those teams are 6-6 and NW is at 8-4.
 


hawkeyescott said:
Move Wisconsin and Iowa up one and put NW in the TicketCity Bowl and it would probably be about right. No way any bowl will select NW over both Wisconsin and Iowa even if both those teams are 6-6 and NW is at 8-4.
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I may be wrong on this, but doesn't B1G rules prevent a team from being jumped by a team with 2 less wins? 1 less wins, fair game, but not two.
 


Eda said:
I may be wrong on this, but doesn't B1G rules prevent a team from being jumped by a team with 2 less wins? 1 less wins, fair game, but not two.
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You're more or less right. The 2011-2012 rules were as follows (new season, new bowls, but the rules should be similar):

Cap One: Any team after Rose/BCS except a team that has two fewer wins or two more losses than any other eligible team.
Outback: Same as above.
Insight: Any eligible team, regardless of record.*
Gator: Same as above.
Meineke: Same as above.
Ticketcity: Same as above.
Pizza: Same as above.

*There used to be an NCAA rule that said 6-6 cannot be picked ahead of a 7-5, but I don't know if that exists anymore.
Source: http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools...-12/misc_non_event/B1GFootballRelease1128.pdf
 






in the 80s Fry to the Hawks to Rose Bowl with like 3 or 4 losses/ties (it was like 3 way tie). This could be one of those years for B1G, sending a team to Pasadena with unimpressive record.
 


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