Wins: Wyoming, North Texas, ILL, Purdue
Probable wins: ISU, Sprarty, MN
Toss Ups: NW, Nebby
Probable losses: Penn St, Wisc
Loss: OSU
If you take the 4 wins and figure we win half of the probable wins, toss ups and probable losses, that's 7.5.
We know we should be good at OL, RB and LB.
I'm hopeful on the DL, CB, TE and QB leaving my biggest question marks being safety, WR and the kicking game.
At safety we have 1 returning starter and at WR we have Vandeberg. I'm also confident that the passing game will be improved based on scheme and having KOK and Polasek both involved with their OC experience.
For all of these reasons, I went with 8. The schedule doesn't allow for many more wins but I also think that with the quality of players, it's hard for me to imagine less than 7 wins.