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Over/under: 7 Wins

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Cant say tell after BC game, we have a habit of playing down to depleted teams. If we are like sharks in bloody water we can be 7-8 win team. It's never talent here its the attitude and lethargic play against inferior opponents.Hopefully we can get to NC State undefeated and hold off one of the best pro prospects at QB in Glennon and not look ahead to ND.
 
My heart says over, but my head says under. 6-6 is the most likely outcome, anything more than that and we have overachieved. I laugh at people thinking BC is a cake walk. BC is -1 in Vegas, that is a very impartial reality check.
 
I'll say the offensive line doesn't **** the bed this season, and the defense should be better. I take the over.
 
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I want to say push but I don't see it happening. Under, 6. The inexperience will cost us, especially in the secondary.
 
I'm going over at 8.

I'm all in on Golden, and think we'll see significant improvement this year, despite the losses of key contributors from last year. Last year's team wasn't that good, obviously. As has been mentioned many times on this board, addition by subtraction. I think Morris will be good enough, the OL will be better, Hurns and Dorsett are a solid starting 2 WRs, and the D will play with more speed having been in the system an extra year.

BC - W
KS - W (should have had them last year)
BC - W
GT - W
NCS - L (T.O.B. is a good coach, Glennon should be very solid this year)
ND - L
NC - W
FS - L (****)
VT - L (dammit)
V - W
USF - W
Duke - W

It wouldn't shock me to see us jump up and win one of the four Ls I have here, but right now you can't be super-confident about any of those. I think you can about the rest. Maybe swap UVA and NCST. Sure, any of those could go the wrong way, but I think you have legit reasons for thinking we win those 8. So, over.
 
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Under. We've got too many depth issues at key positions. We're an injury away from going under .500.
 
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I'd like to push, but that's a cop out so I'll go with under as the safe bet. Too young, too many questions, too many if's.
 
Over and easily.

2008 team was younger, had a worse QB and worse coach and ended up with 7 wins.
Case closed. turn off the lights.
 
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i see everyone marking KSU as a loss. They stink. That team has a tough QB who runs hard. We played wiht them last year, and our defense was AWFUL. We had to play a soft zone because we had division 9 quality DBs. That's not the case anymore. I'd be surprised if KSU puts 3 tds on the defense, and that will not be enough.
 
Aliveguy said:
i see everyone marking KSU as a loss. They stink. That team has a tough QB who runs hard. We played wiht them last year, and our defense was AWFUL. We had to play a soft zone because we had division 9 quality DBs. That's not the case anymore. I'd be surprised if KSU puts 3 tds on the defense, and that will not be enough.
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I'm as optimistic as they come, but I have us losing to KSU for the following reasons.
Well coached. Synder's teams are always well coached. They won't beat themselves.
Klein is a winner. He can single handly will his team to wins. Not many players like that.
They're an experienced veteran team. Their front 4 are all SRs. OL is mostly SRs. Klien is a SR.
Road game and their stadium will be rocking.

We'll hang with them, but they'll find a way to squeeze out a win. Out of all our games in our schedule I have this one as the one with the highest probability of a loss.
 
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Aliveguy said:
i see everyone marking KSU as a loss. They stink. That team has a tough QB who runs hard. We played wiht them last year, and our defense was AWFUL. We had to play a soft zone because we had division 9 quality DBs. That's not the case anymore. I'd be surprised if KSU puts 3 tds on the defense, and that will not be enough.
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I'm as optimistic as they come, but I have us losing to KSU for the following reasons.
Well coached. Synder's teams are always well coached. They won't beat themselves.
Klein is a winner. He can single handly will his team to wins. Not many players like that.
They're an experienced veteran team. Their front 4 are all SRs. OL is mostly SRs. Klien is a SR.
Road game and their stadium will be rocking.

We'll hang with them, but they'll find a way to squeeze out a win. Out of all our games in our schedule I have this one as the one with the highest probability of a loss.
 
Aliveguy said:
i see everyone marking KSU as a loss. They stink. That team has a tough QB who runs hard. We played wiht them last year, and our defense was AWFUL. We had to play a soft zone because we had division 9 quality DBs. That's not the case anymore. I'd be surprised if KSU puts 3 tds on the defense, and that will not be enough.
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I am really uncertain how you can say that team stinks. Sure we might win this year, but that is a solid, well coached team. Klein had 3000+ total yards with 40 TD's and only 6 INT's. The fact our secondary was weak was not a problem as their running game destroyed us. They beat two-ranked teams last year and barely lost to OSU. Good team, give them credit.
 
Odds say over. 7 os a push. 6 vs. 8 is more or less even, though i'll say 8 > 6 as probabilities go. But probabilities are a distribution. No way we should win only 5, so 9 > 5. And ditto 10 > 4. Ultimately, i think 7 is a decent prediction (i'm personally going with 8), but in any case the skew is not normally distributed.
 
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Odds say over. 7 os a push. 6 vs. 8 is more or less even, though i'll say 8 > 6 as probabilities go. But probabilities are a distribution. No way we should win only 5, so 9 > 5. And ditto 10 > 4. Ultimately, i think 7 is a decent prediction (i'm personally going with 8), but in any case the skew is not normally distributed.
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The odds say under, heavily.
 
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