Tell Right Now - How Many Victories This Year

But hoping for more. Losse to BYU, MSU, OSU and PSU. We can't score enough points

I want to believe 8-4 but think 7-5 is possible.  Ask this question this time next week.....

The problem is that I don't know if we've seen what we're capable of.  I can honestly say that by game 4 the last few years I and I suspect most of us had a better Idea of who or what this team was.   

At this weeks game, I couldn't tell if we were really that vanilla or if Harbaugh just wasn't going to tip his hand if he didn't have to.  

The game against BYU will be revealing.

Losses against MSU and OSU

Toss ups against BYU, Northwestern, Minnesota........these three games are the difference between 8-4 or 7-5

FWIW - Northwestern has replaced Penn State on this list

Hope I'm wrong.

7-5, down from 9-3. didn't really account for the OL changing to a power scheme, which they are terrible at playing. Also, Rudock is just not that comfortable with the WRs and the offense in general.

I thought 7 wins going into the season and I haven't seen anything to change that. QB play has just been brutal so far and I don't see this team doing anything of substance against a defense with a pulse (not blown away by that late td drive against Utah while they were in prevent defense)

Probable losses (2) MSU/OSU (sorry we match up horribly with MSU's DL and our QB is meh so wont test that defense's weakness

Probable wins (3) rutgers, maryland, indiana, 

That takes us to 5-3 if you go along the chalk. With 4 tossups with @Minn, @PSU, NW, BYU.

If you are ranking the teams we played we already finished with the 2 worst or  2 of the 3 worst in OSU and UNLV along with maybe the 4th best.  So that still leaves a lot of the tough ones (in my view 9 of the 10 toughest opponents remain - tough being relative) as we eliminated the 2 worst opponents already.  Until rudock looks like a game manager and not a less explosive Devin Gardner hard to see us blowing up many B10 defenses not named Indiana.  Thankfully we face a lot of shitty offense in the conf still as well.   So a lot of M00N games ahead of us I believe esp with Minn, NW, PSU types.  All 3 appear to have sturdy defenses.

Split the toss ups and you get 7 wins, go 3-1 in tossups you get 8.  If you do worse than 2-2 in tossups you get pain.

If we lose to BYU this week we have to win all 3 toss up games in conf , 2 on the road to get to 8.

If this is all Jake rudock can be with Jim H coaching the hell out of him, 7 seems probable. 

10. We will not have more than 2 losses come November

My heart says we only drop OSU and one other to go 9-3. 

My mind says we drop OSU, MSU, and one other (potentially Northwestern) to go 8-4. Considering how weak Rutgers, Penn State, Indiana, and Maryland are, one would hope we don't end up with fewer than 7 wins. 

However, like other people have said, I think we'll know a lot more at about 3:30pm this Saturday. 

 

After today's debacle, Jed York is fired by his parents and they work a trade, persuading Harbaugh to come back to SF by making him 50% owner of the franchise, general manager, director of player personnel, and head coach.

The other part of the trade? Jim Tomsula is now the J. Ira and Nicki Harris Head Football Coach at Michigan.

 

I'm going to go with 8-4. But hoping for more.

11-1 or 12-0 (It is found that Utah used an ineligible player).

I love the people on here that say the team will get better week to week but then wants Rudcock benched. I guess he can't get better week to week.

I was thinking 8 or 9 wins at the start of the season, but I am leaning toward 8-4 now that I have seen them a few games.  Losses to MSU, OSU, and BYU.

This team is still 2 years away from competing for Big Ten titles and more. The defense is good, borderline great, but still no legit difference makers have emerged yet. Maybe Wormley, but still too early to tell.

Wideouts and TEs definitely have potential, but I think what will hold this team back, yet again, is the QB play. Rudock is still just not playing up to expectations. If he plays going forward like he did yesterday, he will cost Michigan several more games. But it's not all on him. The OL did not play very well yesterday against a vastly undersized UNLV DL. Failing to get one measly yard on two tries against those guys still really bothers me. And I don't doubt for a second that it bothers Harbaugh more.

I trust in Harbaugh fully. He's a winner and he'll get Michigan back on track, but he'll undoubtedly need time. My gut says 7-5, maybe 8-4.

I'm sticking with 9-3. 

 

I always thought Utah was the third hardest game on our schedule, so losing to them really didn't change my predictions.

 

I think we lose one of the rivalry games, but notch an upset in the other, and then drop one more of the tossups (BYU, Northwestern, Minnesota, Penn State). I think our team is better than Minnesota and PSU, but the road environments could maybe give us a negative outcome. I'm still not sold on Northwestern either, but we'll see.

 

I think BYU is our hardest remaining game outside of the rivalries.

I initially predicted 7-5 with losses to Utah, MSU and OSU, a loss to Minnesota or PSU, and a completely unexpected loss against one of the remaining teams since that is the nature of college football.

I am now revising my prediction to 8-4 with losses to Utah, BYU, MSU and OSU. I have changed my opinion on Minnesota, which has a horrific offense. Michigan may be limited offensively but still has more playmakers and should win. PSU showed some improvement last week but I with any semblance of a passing game, Michigan wins since I don't see PSU moving the ball much against Michigan. Northwestern is the most surprising team in the B1G, but they too are limited offensively and the game is at home.
 

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I predicted going into this season 8-4, but if not, then 7-5. I'm sticking with that. Our defense is good in some places and pretty pedestrian at others. I think any spread team will beat us, any team that plays with screens, sweeps, passes to the flats, exploits our LBs outside of an inside run will beat us. That has been a glaring weakness of ours through 3 games and I wouldn't be surprised to see teams that don't run their offense that way to attack us that way going forward. I think we have a top tier run defense, top tier pass defense, and a mediocre to poor LB core. Our LBs are only good at playing up the middle stuffing gaps. Our tackling has been mediocre, but we are playing disciplined football (penalties). I think we find a way to beat either Minn or MSU, and lose to OSU, MSU or Minn, and BYU. We might drop homecoming to NW or lose to Maryland on the rd if the better Maryland shows up.

We will be prepared for our rivalry games. I think both will be close games. If we beat BYU, I think this could be a 9 or 10 win team, if we lose, I think we are 7 or 8 wins. Regardless, I think we will be tough as nails in every game this year.

8-4

We have 2 so far.

We make a bowl game.

Is definitely realistic. Picking which games we win and lose is the trickiest part. I think we beat one of the rivals and lose to either BYU or someone we shouldn't lose to.

With Rudock we win 7 games. With Morris we win 9-10. If we're all fine with Turnover prone Rudock we may as well have the upside of Shane's arm talent. Yeah, Morris may throw some interceptions but he can also connect on some deep balls which should open up holes in the running game.