Revised Record Predictions?

1977Hawkeye

1977Hawkeye

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Ok, now that the NW game is in the books, what are your revised season predictions?

I'm not going to go crazy with optimism after one win and predict us to go 9-3 or 10-2, but the NW game was one of those 50/50 games in my mind, so I'm going to add 1 win to my previous season prediction.

Last week I was thinking 6-6 or 7-5.. Now that we've beaten NW, I will say 7-5 or 8-4.

Guess I will go with the following:

Wins against IU and Minnesota (puts us at 6-2)

Split UM and MSU (put us at 7-3). If I was going to pick, I'd say we beat UM and lose to MSU.

50/50 on Purdue - A game we should probably win, but this seems like a trap game if there ever was one. It's sandwiched in between two big games (MSU & Nebraska) so we could either have hangover and/or look-ahead syndrome, and is on the road. I just worry about us coming out flat, but hopefully we take care of business. (so 8-3 or 7-4???)

Lose the Nebraska game (8-4 or 7-5)

It's too hard with this team to nail down what I think the exact record will be. But I'm thinking 7-8 regular season wins plus a bowl game, to maybe get us to 8 or 9 wins overall. I'll take it.
 
This is a 6-6 team that was capable of being being either 4-8 or 8-4

I expect the team to finish 7-5
 
Great win last night, and I am hopeful we will improve throughout the year. With that being said, if we can't make massive improvements on defense we could be looking at 6-6 or 7-5. Purdue played Penn State better than we did, and we have been awful on the road. Unless something changes Michigan and MSU will have a ton of success running against us. We will put up points against MU but MSU is going to be tough.
 
Had PSU as a toss-up W and NwU as a definite loss, so simply back on track to 6-6 or 7-5 ...

Homecoming win over Indiana.

I really want a gopher beat-down for the inexcusable loss in 2010 but it's Halloween weekend (scary), on the road and I don't like the match up of Gray's running threat against Iowa's D. Iowa has little experience against him and history says newbies look like AA's against Iowa. None the less, I'll give Iowa the uncomfortable W.

Losses to both Michigan (DR will carve Hawks up and their D will be improved enough to eek out 38-35) and MSU (it's their turn).

Win at Purdue (because they are more beat up than Iowa but this one is 50/50.)

Loss at Nebraska.

W's = Indy, Minny, Purdue(???)
L's = UM, MSU, Neb
 
Do we get to revise after every game? I'll stick with 8-4 I predicted in August. We could easily be 6-0 and that is what I expected the season to be like. We have six games left. Two should be locks and Purdue a little less of one due to being on the road. We have 4 of the next 5 at home. Setting up nicely!
 
6-6? I understand wanting to be cautious but that seems needlessly skeptical. If we go 6-6 I'll ban myself for life from this board.

I've said 8-4 all along (going back to last spring), and I stand by it.
 
I have a real expensive ticket in Vegas for over 7.5 wins. I think I'm going to lose by the half. I predict 7-5 but my pocket book sure hopes I'm wrong.
 
Indiana W
@ Minnesota W
Michigan W
Michigan State L
@ Purdue W
@ Nebraska L

Michigan and Purdue are both possible losses. Michigan because of Iowa's erratic offense/defense.

Iowa ends up between 8-4 and 6-6.
 
Originally, I thought they would be 9-3. At this point in the season, I'd say 8-4 is much more realistic, but I feel 7-5 is what the team will be.
 
HawkeyeDenis said:
Indiana W
@ Minnesota W
Michigan W
Michigan State L
@ Purdue W
@ Nebraska L

Michigan and Purdue are both possible losses. Michigan because of Iowa's erratic offense/defense.

Iowa ends up between 8-4 and 6-6.
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we will beat MSU before Michigan.....MSU plays to our usual strengths on defense(most years).....Michigan not so much.
 
The next 2 weeks are must wins.

Indiana SHOULD be a lock.

Minnesota is horrible but they will be amped and thinking they can beat us again. Can we play better on the road?!

Michigan will be be tough. I am not sure how we slow down Denard Robinson after watching Northwestern go for 495 yards of offense last night. We will need to score 30+ again.

Michigan State is a better version of Penn State. Can we score more than 3 points?

Another road game at Purdue. I can't comment on this one because i really haven't seen Purdue play. This will be another close "toss-up" game.

Finish at Nebraska. Tough to say the least.

I know what I am hoping for but this team is just too hard to predict this year.
 
After one game against Northwestern (they are 2-4 you know), I don't think it's safe to call this squad an 8 or 7 win team. One thing I realize with this team (and this coaching staff) is that you never know what you're going to get. No win...and I am pretty confident in saying that, is a lock for this Iowa team. I expect that Michigan, MSU, and Nebraska will be tough to beat given our inconsistent offense and our still terrible defense. Minnesota beat us last year when we had much more talent and Purdue is still going to be a tough one for us on the road. Also, Indiana may be really bad but we should have lost to them last year (again, when we had IMO a much more talented team). I think it's possible that this team splits the rest of its games (3-3), but it's also possible that this team loses the rest of these games.
 
ajones1996 said:
we will beat MSU before Michigan.....MSU plays to our usual strengths on defense(most years).....Michigan not so much.
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Iowa is a young an inexperianced team. This is not the Iowa of the past. Against strong defense's, Iowa's play is irratic not predictable. Michigan State has a good defense. Michigan not so much.

Michigan is not an automatic win but, they are the weaker of the two Michigan's. Stop Denard Robinson and Iowa wins. Michigan is better on defense than they were last year, but given their defense last year thats not a big step. On offense they are a little more diversified but not much. Iowa will have their hands full with Michigan but given the flaws of both teams Iowa has a shot at a win.

Michigan State may not be a national competitor, but they have fewer problems than Nebraska. And while they may not win when they host Wisconsin next week, they are not an automatic win for Wisconsin either. A loss to Wisconsin puts them even with Nebraska when they travel to Lincoln. After that they get a home game tuneup against Minnesota before traveling to Kinnick. Iowa could be the last team with a chance of keeping them out of the championship game.
 
bb4hawks said:
The next 2 weeks are must wins.

Indiana SHOULD be a lock.

Minnesota is horrible but they will be amped and thinking they can beat us again. Can we play better on the road?!

Michigan will be be tough. I am not sure how we slow down Denard Robinson after watching Northwestern go for 495 yards of offense last night. We will need to score 30+ again.

Michigan State is a better version of Penn State. Can we score more than 3 points?

Another road game at Purdue. I can't comment on this one because i really haven't seen Purdue play. This will be another close "toss-up" game.

Finish at Nebraska. Tough to say the least.

I know what I am hoping for but this team is just too hard to predict this year.
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Denard doesn't do any of the things that Persa did last night. He's not an accurate thrower, he doesn't read coverage well, and he isn't patient enough to dink and dunk. The one thing he does that NW did do is run the option, and we stuck that pretty nicely last night. Why any team would try to run the option on us rather than just go up the gut is beyond me.
 
Iowa Vs TTech in the Miencke Car Care bowl...It seems like the hawks have played TTech in about 5 or 6 Alamo bowls, but it will be just the third matchup, which will be enough to get 8-9000 fans to Dallas.
 
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