Michigan's 2016 schedule projects to be 2nd easiest

Submitted by I Like Burgers on

Thought this was kind of interesting. ESPN released some early 2016 projections, and has Michigan with the second easiest schedule out of the power 5 teams.  I knew they had an easy schedule, but didn't realize it was THAT easy.  Only Minnesota has a bigger cakewalk.

 

1. Minnesota

2. Michigan

3. Purdue

4. Maryland

5. Nebraska

 

You can also poke around on their FPI page: espn.com/fpi to look at some of the projections.  FWIW, they have Michigan with the best odds (29.3) to win the Big Ten, and have the projected W-L at 10.0-2.4 which seems about right.  I'd imagine Vegas will have the over/under around 10.5 wins.

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Duke of Zhou

April 7th, 2016 at 4:14 PM ^

The non-conference schedule is pretty weak, but the Big Ten schedule looks fairly tough, with a few challenging road games. I disagree with this assessment, but this is part for the course for ESPN.

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drzoidburg

April 7th, 2016 at 6:20 PM ^

Face it that 4 real opponents out of 12 is lousy indeed, and that's if wisconsin is any good. But scheduling is so bad across the country that it's difficult to pry apart which is actually the worst

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Harbaughs_Pants

April 8th, 2016 at 12:32 PM ^

MSU and Iowa laid enormous eggs in front of the world for the B1G. At least Bucky and Michigan did their parts. That egg laid by MSU hurt the B1g for the next 10 years unless we go in there and change their minds by force. Only way to do that is keep winning.

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