Week 10 Big Ten Bowl Projections

Submitted by oriental andrew on

This idea was a lot more fun last week, when nobody was projecting Michigan into the TicketCity bowl.  At least CBS still loves us!

Last week, I looked at 6 sources (ESPN Blogs, ESPN Schlabach, ESPN Edwards, CBS, BTN, and CFN/Scout).  Four had Michigan going to the Cap1, CBS said Fiesta, and Rittenberg said Insight.  For reference, here is my google doc with Week 9 projections for the other Big Ten teams, as well as for BCS games.  (ignore the fact that Week 11 is already filled out - just a copy/paste so I wouldn't have to rewrite a lot of the matchups/opponents if I didn't have to). 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aot7bzViRlbidGFjbFF6U0ljWjRwbmdvM0MydlpsdUE

Now, on to week 10 (which covers games through this past weekend).  And yes, chart. 

Post Week 10

ESPN

Rittenberg

 ESPN-
Schlabach		 ESPN-
Edwards		 CBS Sports BTN CFN
MNC Game   LSU LSU LSU   LSU
    Ok State Ok State Stanford   Oklahoma
Rose msu msu Wisconsin Wisconsin Wisconsin Wisconsin
    Stanford Oregon Oregon Stanford Oregon
Sugar Wisconsin Alabama Alabama Alabama   Alabama
    Boise St Stanford Boise St   Boise St
Fiesta   Oklahoma Oklahoma Michigan   Ok State
    Oregon Stanford Oklahoma   Stanford
Orange   Clemson Clemson Clemson   Clemson
    Cincinnati Cincinnati Cincinnati   Cincinnati
Capital One Penn St Wisconsin Michigan Nebraska msu msu
    Arkansas Arkansas Arkansas Arkansas Arkansas
Outback osu Michigan msu msu Penn St Michigan
    S Carolina S Carolina Georgia S Carolina S Carolina
Gator Nebraska Nebraska osu osu osu Penn St
    Florida Florida Florida Florida Florida
Insight Michigan Penn St Nebraska Penn St Nebraska osu
    Texas A&M Kansas St Texas KSU Texas A&M
Care Care Iowa osu Penn St Illinois Iowa Nebraska
    Missouri Missouri Missouri Baylor Texas Tech
TicketCity Illinois Iowa Iowa Iowa Michigan Iowa
    FIU SMU Tulsa SMU SMU
Little Caesars NW Illinois Illinois NW Illinois Illinois
    Ohio (NTO) NIU Toledo NIU Toledo
Pinstripe   NW        
    Rutgers         

 

   Ok, I haIn summary, Rittenberg kept Michigan in the Insight; CBS kept Michigan in the Fiesta (!); Brad Edwards kept Michigan in the Cap1; CFN and Schlabach dropped Michigan from Cap1 to Outback; and BTN dropped Michigan all the way from the Cap1 to the TicketCity bowl (screw you, Dienhart!).  And not that you can average this sort of thing, but seems like the Outback is a likely destination for our Wolverines.  And yeah, I'd be happy with that

And last week, 4/6 had Wisco in the Rose, with the other 2 having msu and Nebraska.  This week, it's 3 Wisco and 3 msu.  

Anyway, if this seems interesting, I'll do it again the next few weeks until bowl selection.  Also, let me know if there are other bowl projections out there worth adding.  I'm not doing Joe Schmo's blog or anything, but a local or national media outlet's projections might be interesting.

EDIT: source links:

Rittenberg: http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/37700/big-ten-bowl-projections-week-10 

Schlabach/Edwards: http://espn.go.com/college-football/bowls/projections 

CBS: http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/bowls/predictions 

BTN: http://btn.com/tag/bowl-projections/ 

CFN/Scout: http://cfn.scout.com/2/557866.html 

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Comments

funkywolve

November 9th, 2011 at 1:27 PM ^

Who's the SEC team they project in the Cotton Bowl?  Georgia? I'm pretty sure the Cotton has first pick of the SEC West.  I was figuring Arkansas would be in the Cotton. 

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Logan88

November 9th, 2011 at 3:23 PM ^

Was his pick intended as a joke? There is no way a 10-2 B1G team, let alone a 10-2 UM team, would fall all the way to the Gator Bowl, which gets the 5th pick this year.

I think UM is going to finish 8-4 (losses to Illinois and OSU, win over Nebraska) and wind up as high as the Outback (3rd pick) or as low as the Gator (5th).

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beevo

November 9th, 2011 at 2:01 PM ^

I'd like to see an Outback or Capital One versus South Carolina, Georgia, or Florida.  I am biased toward the Outback as that is where I dwell.  In addition the Outback personnel give a better experience than the Capital One.  Plus, RayJay is a great stadium and Ybor can offer plenty of bars/restaurants for those visiting Wolverine fans. 

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joeyb

November 9th, 2011 at 7:01 PM ^

Insight against TAMU or Outback against SCAR would be fantastic. I think we could take either of those teams, especially TAMU because they have issues in the latter half of games when we turn the jets on.

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joeyb

November 10th, 2011 at 10:10 AM ^

You can't win them all. Iowa was coming off of a humiliating loss. It was expected to be a very close game.

If we are going to play a team from another conference with a similar record, we are likely going to get beat. These are just our best chances for wins, IMO. I think that with 6 weeks to prepare for a team at a neutral site location is much more in favor of us than 1 week to prepare for a team whom will be playing at home.

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oriental andrew

November 10th, 2011 at 3:10 PM ^

i checked the cnnsi site, but must've missed it.  For the record, Stewie has:

Rose: Wiscy/Stanford

Cap1: PSU/UGA

Outback: Michigan/SCar

Gator: Nebraska/Florida

Car Care TX: msu/TAMU

Insight: osu/Baylor

Pizza Pizza: Iowa/Ohio (NTO)

TicketCity: Illinois/Tulsa

 

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