After two weeks who do you think wins the BIG?

Submitted by Brandon_L on
After the embarrassment of Saturday overall, the BIG seems to be reeling nationally. I have had the opportunity to see just about every big ten team play over the last few weeks and it doesn't seem like there is a real runaway threat to win the BIG ten this year. With the opportunity of a playoff spot for the big likely out of the question, who has the best opportunity to win the BIG Ten? The variables I am looking at are schedules, injuries to key players, who has looked the part and so far I don't believe anyone stands out. Lastly, does anyone believe that Michigan has a chance? My personal opinion is that the conference is wide open on both sides. I think the next few games for Michigan will tell us how much heart this team has. If we can do to Miami OHio what we did to App State the team will have a shot at putting the Notre Dame loss to bed. I think michigan has a shot at the east if they can get past Penn State without anymore losses I think a loss to Michigan State will not kill our shot at the east, but a loss will certainly mean Michigan needs to beat OHio State in Columbus. Now this is obviously hyperbole and everything needs to set us perfectly for Michigan to win the east. The other reality is this team could just lay down and quit on the coaches and end up 6-6 or worse. I know we are all on the edge of the cliff with this staff and ready to jump, but there still is hope abut there that we could hypothetically make it to the Big ten title and have a shot to win.
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September 7th, 2014 at 9:33 PM ^

Are we sure?  They just gave up 46 points and nearly 500 yards to Oregon while scoring 13 of their points on drives that totalled 83 yards.  Sure, Oregon is a good team, but elite teams that have been the class of their conference have shut them down the last few years (Stanford a couple times, LSU, Auburn, Ohio State).

MSU is getting a lot of credit for winning the Big Ten last year (which we know shouldn't mean much) and one excellent win.  I'm far from ready to crown them when their defense is at least a couple steps behind last years squad.

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MI Expat NY

September 7th, 2014 at 9:48 PM ^

Oregon's defense is not good.  I'm confident a few Big Ten teams could go in there and score enough to keep it to about 20.  I'm really not sure Oregon is all that good this year.  Wouldn't be surprised to see them dropping a couple in the pac 12 this year.

Whatever the case, I'm not elevating a 20 point loss to some big damn accomplishment.  As far as I'm concerned, everyone in the Big Ten is wanting and a few teams could win it.  

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ST3

September 7th, 2014 at 9:10 PM ^

They are the one team that played a good opponent this season and didn't stink up the building. I haven't checked their schedule, but I can see them running over teams like they normally do.

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ST3

September 8th, 2014 at 12:06 AM ^

and the final score was 28-24 LSU. That's all the voters are going to look at. Ohio lost by 14 at home to an unranked team, MSU lost by 19 (?), we got destroyed on the scoreboard, Iowa barely beat ball state, and Nebraska barely got by McNeese State, so by process of elimination, Wisconsin is all that's left, unless you're like me and think Minnesota might surprise teams this year. It is year 4 of the Kill era, and that historically means 9-10 wins.

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evenyoubrutus

September 7th, 2014 at 9:10 PM ^

Michigan. I am not joking. We win big in Columbus this year. Our only Big Ten loss is to msu but they lose 2 and we beat the Huskers in the title game. I plan to link to this comment at the end of the year so I can laugh at all of you for calling me delusional or whatever you come up with.

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Brandon_L

September 7th, 2014 at 9:16 PM ^

Count me in. This is what I believe could happen for Michigan. I think Nuss keeps developing the offense as we go and we get peppers and hopefully Taylor back in our secondary. I really thought the injury to Taylor last night hurt us in the secondary because we were forced to take Lewis from the nickel and play him at corner. I know we have more issues than just our secondary, but I also believe Gholson is legit and would have lit up anybody else in the big the same way.

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aiglick

September 8th, 2014 at 1:07 AM ^

There's no sugar coating: last night was terrible. Maybe not App State 2007 terrible but pretty bad. I was at both games.

Now, there certainly is a chance we run the table/lose only to State but right now that is looking pretty slim. If we play like we did last night I see 7-5 or worse. If the team plays together and works even harder then maybe we'll get to where we want to go considering the conference has been pretty terrible to date.

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evenyoubrutus

September 8th, 2014 at 7:31 AM ^

I am not trying to be a dick but I have never understood why people think that it somehow adds to their credibility to mention they were at the game. Callers do it on the radio all the time. It's like "I was at the game, so I know better than those who watched on TV who had multiple camera angles, Twitter, and play by play commentary to refer to constantly." I was at the App State game in 2007 too. And you know what? Notre Dame 2014 is a better team than App State 2007, by a little,  I think. But regardless Michigan recovered that year and went 9-4. So I don't get your point. 

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