Game by Game Odds - give me yours

Sept. 5 Western Michigan (70%)

Sept. 12 Notre Dame (40%)

Sept. 19 Eastern Michigan (95%)

Sept. 26 Indiana (Homecoming) (80%)

Oct. 3 at Michigan State (60%)

Oct. 10 at Iowa (45%)

Oct. 17 Delaware State (90%)

Oct. 24 Penn State (25%)

Oct. 31 at Illinois (40%)

Nov. 7 Purdue (65%)

Nov. 14 at Wisconsin (50%)

Nov. 21 Ohio State (35%)

This has been done before, but its always a good time.

WMU - Win (They get crushed when they play teams with a pulse not named Illinois. See, e.g., Nebraska, Ball state, and Rice last year.)

ND - Close Loss (Should have beaten them last year, its a home game, but Weis's whole career might ride on doing well in this game to kick off their season. They'll probably get 4 turnovers from us and then win with a last second field goal)

Eastern - Win

IU - Win

State - Close Loss (Eh this is probably one of those games we should win on paper, but will lose. It's at state. Gotta pick an "upset" somewhere. I think they lost to all ranked teams they played last year though, so there's that.)

Iowa - Loss. (They were pretty good last year and its @ Iowa.)

Del State - Win

Penn State - Loss

Illinois - Close Win - (They went like 5-7 last year and only beat terrible teams, but its @ IU)

Purdue - Win (we almost beat them last year and we practically let them score the entire game...and its at home this year. no way we lose this time)

Wisconsin - Close loss

OSU - Loss (But at least not a total blow out this time)

That makes 6-6. Pretty likely scenario if you ask me. I'll give myself a +/- 1 window.

IU is Indiana.

I predict 8-4 this year.

5-0 vs so called "gimmes."
(Western, Eastern, Indiana, Delaware, Purdue.)

2-3 vs "even odds."
(ND, MSU, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin)

1-1 vs "probable losses."
(OSU, Penn State)

Won't predict who exactly the 4 losses come against. Too many variables with team health, weather, backs to the wall, etc., etc.

...What kind of Michigan fan predicts a loss against Ohio State. I don't care what our record is and what theirs is going into the game. Michigan fans predicting a loss to Ohio State amongst each other is a sad day. Has everyone forgotten Biakabutuka destroying an "unbeatable" Ohio State team in 1995 or us doing it again to another "unbeatable" team the next year. Or the 28-0 drubbing in 1993 of another undefeated OSU team. Predict the rest of the games if you want...but I don't want to come on this blog and read Michigan fans predicting a loss to those bastards. They are coming to our house this year and they are gonna come in overconfident...and we are gonna fuck them up and leave them crying after the game. That's my prediction for the game. And if you are predicting a loss to OSU, either keep it to yourself or go to Columbus and just bend over for them. That's all I got to say.

Oh, and Brandon Minor is gonna be the shit this year. He's gonna be the breakout player of the year in the Big Ten.

I would recommend to Brian that anyone who predicts Michigan losing to Ohio State on this website should be banned. Or at least given a warning and suspension for a period of time. I know we can't have an effect on the game, but lets do our own little part to change the Michigan attitude going into the game. At least delete the comments predicting a loss. I know that guy who says we could go 12-0 is somewhat delusional (I think we will go 8-4 or possibly 9-3 if we can avoid a really bad loss), but at least he isn't predicting the assholes from Columbus to beat us. Cause that is just disgusting.

Every game is 50/50, you either win or lose.

Defining %s based on if we played 100x, how many I think we'd win.

Sept. 5 Western Michigan (60-75%) Lots of experience vs. Tate = worrisome

Sept. 12 Notre Dame (50-60%) favored slightly, should win, might not

Sept. 19 Eastern Michigan (98%) If Ron English weren't there, this might be 100%

Sept. 26 Indiana (Homecoming) (90%)

Oct. 3 at Michigan State (60%) Is this the year Sparty implodes? Probably.

Oct. 10 at Iowa (30-45%) I still remember the good Ferentz coaching years

Oct. 17 Delaware State (95-100%) Could be a bad DII team vs. a good Michigan team.

Oct. 24 Penn State (40-60%) I have no clue how good they're going to be yet.

Oct. 31 at Illinois (30-45%) Juice as a senior?

Nov. 7 Purdue (75%)

Nov. 14 at Wisconsin (50-75%) I think Wisky might be terrible this year.

Nov. 21 Ohio State (55%) This # goes up/down significantly if the wrong injury hits either team.

Sept. 5 Western Michigan (50/50)

Sept. 12 Notre Dame (50/50)

Sept. 19 Eastern Michigan (50/50)

Sept. 26 Indiana (Homecoming) (50/50)

Oct. 3 at Michigan State (50/50)

Oct. 10 at Iowa (50/50)

Oct. 17 Delaware State (50/50)

Oct. 24 Penn State (50/50)

Oct. 31 at Illinois (50/50)

Nov. 7 Purdue (50/50)

Nov. 14 at Wisconsin (50/50)

Nov. 21 Ohio State (50/50)

Western Michigan - Lots of experience coming back on offense, but will senior QB Hiller be able to come back from ACL surgery this past January. He is sitting out spring practice, so WMU may be starting a freshman come the first game of the year. WMU is also replacing a ton of talent on defense. They will vulnerable here.

Notre Lame - If UM doesn't spot the Irish 21 points to start the game, UM should pull out a victory, especially being at home.

MSU - lost 90% of the offensive production. Pretty decent defense coming back. This one's up in the air because it is at MSU. 50/50.

Iowa - tough to play at Kinnick. Iowa returns a great defense. Replacing Green will be tough. Low scoring game.

Fine, OSU has our number and we will lose. Great attitude.

I don't think you guys understand that the Michigan/OSU game is supposed to be different. But that's fine. Keep building up the Buckeyes as unbeatable against us. Hell, why should we even play the game anymore? Lets just give them the victory. Btw, I wasn't serious about banning people...I was just being dramatic to make a point about the first two out of three posts on here that said we are going to lose to OSU. Do you think Bo had that attitude in 1969? Hell no. But go ahead and shout me down for not talking up Ohio State on a fucking Michigan football blog. How dare I, eh?