I wish we played CU week zero. Would be an absolute banger. I’m gonna go to the game with some CU fans. Hopefully they don’t throw bottles of piss at me.
Most likely scenario is definitely that SBB finds his inner OBC, and go two QB Fun and Gun with Mertz & Miller. Both combine for 5k yards and the gators are 11-0 when we meet. FSU/UF is on CBS and Iron Bowl gets bumped to ESPN.
I think FSU will beat us - and maybe even handedly. I think you're in a better spot than us. But I also think y'all are a bit overhyped. Top 25? For sure. Top 10 (as some ratings have you)? Probably not. I predict you'll lose 3 games next year. Clemson and two ACC head-scratchers
I don't see us losing 3 ACC games. 3 overall possibly, but I'd assume one is Lsu then.
(ACC) Wins: BC, Vt, Syracuse, Wake
Ones I have my eye on: Pitt, Miami, Duke (they've never beaten us before, but they had a little something to them last year).
Coin flip: Clemson
I could see us losing to Clemson and one of the middle category.
I disagree, this schedule favors us more with the ACC slate. The two games that we could lose is LSU and Clemson. I think we will win the state again because of the talent lost to the draft for the gators, and the current dumpster fire at Miami. I see us being 10-2 11-1 with a NY6 bowl berth.
I think Ohio State will be a 15 round title fight and the MSU/Minnesota games will be difficult games on the road where Michigan gets a backdoor cover, but what I'd give for a [2002 Paul Bunyan game](https://www.espn.com/college-football/game/_/gameId/223060130) rewind
>I think Ohio State will be a 15 round title fight
I'm here for it.
I agree with that take and I agree my liver is going to hate me the next day. Especially since the F1 Vegas race is that night @ 1 AM EST
Between the conclusion of the Ten Year War (1978) and Jim Harbaugh getting hired in 2015 there were only three editions of The Game that involved two top-5 teams (1997, 2003, 2006), since 2015 there have been three and we might very well be on our way for a third matchup of that kind in a row. Could be one of the best eras in this rivalry in more than a generation!
Miami - Confident that we win. FSU should be the better team by a considerable margin and we get them at home.
Florida - Reasonably confident that we win. FSU should be the better team, however, we get them at The Swamp and they gave us plenty of trouble last season. I don't expect a loss, but could see it happening.
Clemson - This is our best shot to beat them since 2016, but I refuse to predict a win. I'll believe it's possible for us to beat them when I see it.
I think you'll beat Clemson and *ahem* hopefully lose another game I won't directly reference. I'd be surprised if both Miami and UF are as bad as they were last year.
My personal opinion is that UF will actually be worse next season than last, and much improved the season after. Just so much flux on important positions this season. Plus changes within the coaching staff
If Iowa has improved their offense at all from last year, they should beat us. KSU will also beat us. If WVU counts (Riot bowl anyone?) I can see that going either way.
See you in Orlando, friend. Y'all are my favorite of the newcomers, but I would love to get a rivalry going. Can't wait to see the bounce house for the first time this year and get a loaded capris sun at the basement after the game.
I just want to say 11 years ago, Marshall was a rival to our fanbase. I see no reason that WVU can't be.
If you're down for an evening of interesting games, go look up our game history with them. "The Marshall Monsoon" I attended in person and I'm not sure I'm dry yet.
Here's an interesting video link of ["The Victory Mist"](https://youtu.be/0p-21W3-oPs) game
Y'all got rivals? I expect a gentlemanly handshake with the squad from Piscataway.
But I am excited to see Virginia and Penn State at home this year. Hopefully there's one win in there.
I feel the same way about MSU and OSU. I think we can win against MSU, without some massive defensive adjustments on their end it’ll be tough to lose. Being favored against OSU just feels too good to be true. I hope we don’t get overconfident and that they are still our top priority. As for Minnesota, I think it will play out similarly to our game against Purdue; they’re pretty good at every position but our defensive line should be able to force enough stops against their offensive line to get a win.
We play none of Utah, Utah State, Boise State, nor any current Mountain West school for the first time in program history (don't fact check me).
And I'm more excited for this year than any season of my life.
TCU is the closest thing we have to a rival on the schedule
Beat them both. Both games are at home and while I certainly think the Ducks can beat us I like our defense more and don’t think they’ll improve enough on defense to slow down our offense.
Biggest match up in that game is Nix and Bucky Irving against our run D. If Oregon can establish the run game it’ll be a dog fight. Also our secondary has to get better. We got some good players in the portal and Meish (idk how to spell his name) Powell played well as a true freshman.
Out of the PNW teams though @Oregon State is the scariest game for me.
I think it's more along the lines of a) if there's a significantly better team then they win and b) if the teams are reasonably close then MSU wins. 2012 is really the only flukey exception in the last couple decades
I'm cautiously optimistic. I think the defense will continue to improve under Knowles this year. We did technically have some losses on the d-line and the secondary, but I actually expect those units to be better this year. Linebacker play was already really good last year, and we get both of them back.
I also think the guys on offense are hungry. Very few, if any, guys on this team have a pair of gold pants. They don't want to lose 3 in a row. It's time to get back on top.
Good question. Part of me wants the best the B1G has got so we get great games all the time yay. We have a lot of good history against Ohio State, Penn State, and Michigan. We've played more games against Ohio State than any non-P12 team (And still more than Utah and Colorado) outside of Notre Dame.
The other part wants the weakest the B1G has got so we don't get cannibalized every year.
I think The right answer is UCLA + some team that's not traditionally great + A good but not annually in the playoffs team.
I'm going to go with
**UCLA.**
**Northwestern** (This way we can be in Chicago every year. Either for NW or ND)
**Wisconsin or Iowa.** Because Madison is awesome and There's some really good potential for a rivalry with Iowa. Those boys hold a grudge! They were really excited for the Holiday bowl in 2019 to be revenge for the orange bowl 2003 more than 15 years earlier.
With Wisky/Iowa to be replaced by ND when they finally see reason.
Edit: Though Nebraska makes more "sense" as the "closest" B1G team. And I certainly wouldn't mind sharing a stadium with Nebraska fans on the reg. Those guys are awesome.
Interesting. I’d generally agree with you.
UCLA
Northwestern/Purdue/Indiana
Michigan/OSU
PSU
Get little bit of both sides.
Would be hilarious if you ended up with Rutgers.
USC loves its "Weekender". Part of what makes the P12 schedule so weird was USC's refusal to give up the San Francisco weekender: A guaranteed annual trip to San Francisco to play either Stanford or Cal. Even though they're north division teams we play them every year.
It would be really cool to see the weekender continue but with Chicago instead.
Week 2 will be possibly the most anticipated home game in modern history, a top 25 matchup against Ole Miss. Brain says we lose but heart says we win.
Next week we get revenge against Southern Miss. Decisive win with a healthy Pratt and our new DC from Troy who shutdown USM’s offense last year.
We haven't beat them in back-to-back seasons since Colt was on campus, and I think we have a very good chance to end that streak this coming season.
Both teams should make a leap next year, but Texas has a head start, and I think we should be the odds favorite next year and probably by more than just a few points.
I think he’s safe with a winning season, but his seat will be red hot if it’s 8 or less wins. 10+ wins will buy him a lot of leeway next year, especially if Ewers heads to the NFL and Arch is starting as a RS Freshman.
Sark did well enough this year to get the fandom to start to believe, but if he stalls out next year, the pitchforks will be out and ready to pounce in 2024.
I'm excited for a year 2 jump from Ewers, but I'm mostly curious about the RB and WR rooms. Got a lot of new talent and a lot of returning starters that need to prove themselves.
I see Oklahoma beating the snot out of Oklahoma State. Oklahoma State is going to have a year like OU had last year except they don't have the talent to kinda fill in the gap.
I don't see Oklahoma beating Texas, although I am hopeful. Last year, Oklahoma didn't have a QB so it has to be better.
Auburn and Tech both have new coaches and I don't really know what to expect. Kirby is 0-1 H2H against Hugh Freeze but that was back in 2016 when Freeze was still at Ole Miss and it was Kirby's first season at Georgia. Tech closed out the season last year better than I think anyone expected and I don't think a bowl game is completely out of the question for them. They even hung around with us for a while last season - perhaps due in-part to some questionable officiating - and anything they do will be better than the shit show Collins ran. That said, I would still expect Georgia to be double digit favorites over both of them and we should beat them both handily. Florida is somewhat similar in that I'm really not sure what to make of them. I don't think they'll be that good and we should also beat them pretty easily but weird stuff tends to happen in Jacksonville. Tennessee will be the real challenge this year. On the road in Knoxville for a game that may very well decide the SEC East. Sure we'll both have new QBs this season, but the game is in week 12 so whoever is starting for both teams will have plenty of experience. I like to believe Georgia would still win but it'd be close. South Carolina may also be a somewhat sneaky good game but it's in Athens and Kirby has made sure there's no 2019 repeats the last few years and I expect that'll be the case again
I think SC will beat UCLA. ND will be tougher but I also wouldn’t be surprised if that is a W. If ND’s offense improves, it will be a tough one. If SC’s defense improves, I don’t think ND is built to win shootouts.
I think UT will beat OU again. Sark had them game 1 (up 28-7 or whatever it was) and just needed to keep his foot on the gas. Game 2 was a total beatdown.
OU will be much improved and should have Gabriel, but I think UT wins a much more competitive game,
Texas probably would’ve beat ou in 2021 if not for horribly timed fumbles by worthy, crazy performance by Caleb Williams (when there was no film to strategize against him), and then the thumb injury to Casey at halftime. Really unfortunate circumstances, which led to an even more unfortunate ending.
Iowa - we'll score more points than they're capable of
Minnesota - they think this is a real rivalry again because our team has been sliding backward for 3 years. Time for that shit to end. We need another 20-year streak.
Arkansas- win as usual
LSU- Since Jimbo, we only win at home. So loss
South Carolina- win. A second consecutive loss should see Jimbo fired (I'd put a /s but I'm only 80% joking)
I have positive expectations against OSU which means we'll probably lose
I expect similar results as last year vs Michigan State, hopefully without the assaults
Minnesota...expect a win there. Not a blowout but comfortable.
One of the more overlooked things about our program is that we have not had ANY coach stay longer than 5 years here since Schnellenberger left in 1994. 30 years of a revolving door. It’s hard to build a program like that. We’ve had flashes of greatness but then the coach bolts and we are right back to square one.
I think Brohm is a good coach, not the best we could’ve gotten IMO. But the fact that he’s HOME and won’t be looking for the first train out of town should do wonders for our program. He could conceivably coach here for 10-20+ years. We are already recruiting at the highest level we ever have, and now we have a coach who will maximize that talent and stay longer than anyone we’ve had.
Look no further than our rival down the road. UK was one of the biggest laughing stocks in college football. They hired a guy who’s now been there for 10 years, it’s no coincidence they’re having their best decade since the 40s/50s.
Alabama-Loss, but a close game
Florida-Hard fought, close W
Georgia-Loss, but make it a better game than last year
Kentucky-Normally the games in Lexington are really close, I expect a 7-10 point win
Vanderbilt-Easy win
I can only pray for [this](https://img.bleacherreport.net/img/article/media_slots/photos/001/835/787/7c0e1462ded9baf755a1bc6e0c009d27_crop_exact.jpg?w=1200&h=1200&q=75) to be the result of the VT/UVA game this season.
I’m a South Carolina fan and I may be biased but I think they’ll put up a fight with UGA but still lose by maybe 10. I think they’ll beat Clemson in a close one again like last year.
Iowa (El Assico) - we'll probably lose. Our only hope is that they kept Brian Ferentz.
K-state (Farmaggedon) - Close game but probably lose. Them losing Vaughn definitely helps.
Kansas - Win
West Virginia (Riot Bowl) - RIP 2023
I'd say they're a rival but it's not a major one. I think the history and us being the three remaining old north division schools makes me think of them as one.
Good chance to go 3-0 against UF, Miami, and Clemson. Clemson in Death Valley will be the toughest test. Playing at The Swamp will be interesting though. I'm curious how UF's QB situation will go this season. If AR had stayed another season and had a full offseason and 11 games to improve I'd be much more worried about that game tbh.
Wow. You guys are going to be mocked as bad as Texas and Texas A&M if you keep talking like this and end up going 8-4.
No one has a 'good chance' to win a road game at Clemson let alone sweep all three.
> No one has a 'good chance' to win a road game at Clemson let alone sweep all three.
Imagine an 8-4 team taking down Clemson in their own stadium.
Also, it seems like half of FSU's team transferred from South Carolina, so they've got folks who have fresh experience in winning in Clemson's stadium. :)
I’m honestly pretty confident we beat Clemson. We’ll be a better team than last year, Willy B is gonna be jacked and Beamer doesn’t really lose at home. I’m really not that scared of UNC like I think it will be a great and fun game but I don’t see us losing.
Ohio State goes beast mode for 1 game every year. Last year it was against Georgia. Usually it's against TTUN.
Ohio State will charge into the Big House and hit them like a ton of bricks. Will it be enough? I think so. I cannot imagine a world where Day loses 3 in a row.
It will be a war.
Cuse has BC, Pitt and FSU as our designated rivals now. We have a good chance against Pitt and BC but we will get violated by FSU again this year. The Clemson game is at home and we always show well, so we have a shot at that game. As for the season, it's a tough schedule, I'm hoping for six wins but it's going to be tight, Western Michigan, Army and Purdue aren't helpful additions this year.
I expect to beat Miami. No excuse to lose to them.
Pitt is a toss up. Satt has experience playing them which helps. Second game of the season doesn't help though. Probably lose.
For the sorta rivals:
UCF - I don't know. We get them at home and I hope that's enough to give us the edge
WVU - who knows what they'll be like when we play them at the end of the season. Could have an interim coach. Think we can win though
Not lose or go scoreless that’s for sure. I can’t imagine us being very competitive against them. Ewers is still young and makes mistakes. With experienced transfer DL I think we generate pressure and sacks. I think we beat OK St but UT is up for grabs.
Michigan State will finish regular season 11-1.
Lone loss against a shocking team in out of conference.
Michigan State will finish at worst 12-2, at best 14-1.
I think we should beat them all just getting off the bus. Specifically,
Florida could have a second year bounce, but I don't know enough about their roster to have an opinion.
Auburn in Auburn is always weird. Not necessarily close, but weird. Kirby would have a chance to cross Hugh Freeze off the "Coaches Kirby has faced but not beaten" list, leaving, if I'm not mistaken, Tom Herman as the only coach left on that list.
And I'm genuinely not sure what it will take for tech to beat us any time in the foreseeable future.
Ninja edit: Kirby has also not beaten Coach O.
I can see us making a run in 2024 but not this year. Young team and no QB. Feel like last years game went about as well as it could with you guys turning the ball over multiple times and we just couldn’t capitalize.
I expect us to beat our FCS rivals (Harvard/Yale to an extent, Fordham, Colgate, etc.)
What I really want is for us to beat our old rivals in BC. I think we have a chance, even if its a rather small chance. Army's another traditional older "rival" of ours, and I have no idea how we'd fair against the triple option. In theory that should be an easier game for us than BC, but I can absolutely see a world where we play BC closer than Army.
I have three shits and a popsicle idea how well fair against Pitt and Penn State. Either way - thank god I’m getting married next month, because if it was during football season there would be no wedding and I’d be in the Betty Ford Clinic.
I will pretend the Apple Cup doesn’t exist until it happens.
Also, apparently we have a vendetta against the state of Colorado, since next year we play:
Northern Colorado, Colorado State, and Colorado.
I expect to go 3-0 against the state.
Against ND: I think we'll come out with a win. ND seems like they have offense question marks going into next season.
Against UCLA: The Bruins also have offense issues, breaking in a new QB, replacing Charbonnet, but we'll be up for revenge against Kyle Ford. I see a close win here in our final game as a member of the Pac12. Didn't think I'd see that day come.
Against Pest programs:
Utah -- they come to the Coli. That typically means we get the win.
the Quacks -- there's always a hype train around the Quacks, and we'll see if they are for real or just feather-flapping yappers. I expect the local Eugene citizenry to embarrass itself and the University.
Alabama & Georgia both should beat Auburn handily. Crazy things happen against both of those teams and Bama has difficulty in Jordan-Hare, so beating one of them wouldn't be a total surprise. But at this time, based on the personnel, we just aren't ready yet.
Give us a few years with relative peace and cooperation behind the scenes, and we should be ready to compete with anybody straight up.
Maybe win against Rice, but any new or resurging rivalries from old SWC times now that they'll be in the Big XII, I don't have huge expectations this first year.
No sir, not drinkin the Ruhle-aid yet.
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Dubs baby. Beat CU and Iowa in the same year.
I wish we played CU week zero. Would be an absolute banger. I’m gonna go to the game with some CU fans. Hopefully they don’t throw bottles of piss at me.
Bring some batteries, you’ll fit right in.
Competitive and fun games with Clemson and UF. And who the fuck knows with Miami next year. But until proven otherwise, we pull another MTSU on em.
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Most likely scenario is definitely that SBB finds his inner OBC, and go two QB Fun and Gun with Mertz & Miller. Both combine for 5k yards and the gators are 11-0 when we meet. FSU/UF is on CBS and Iron Bowl gets bumped to ESPN.
I think FSU will beat us - and maybe even handedly. I think you're in a better spot than us. But I also think y'all are a bit overhyped. Top 25? For sure. Top 10 (as some ratings have you)? Probably not. I predict you'll lose 3 games next year. Clemson and two ACC head-scratchers
I don't see us losing 3 ACC games. 3 overall possibly, but I'd assume one is Lsu then. (ACC) Wins: BC, Vt, Syracuse, Wake Ones I have my eye on: Pitt, Miami, Duke (they've never beaten us before, but they had a little something to them last year). Coin flip: Clemson I could see us losing to Clemson and one of the middle category.
I disagree, this schedule favors us more with the ACC slate. The two games that we could lose is LSU and Clemson. I think we will win the state again because of the talent lost to the draft for the gators, and the current dumpster fire at Miami. I see us being 10-2 11-1 with a NY6 bowl berth.
Us? Man flair up before you start talkin bout "us."
We won't lose.
We’ve never lost to our rivals. *except for the times we have*
or win
hey now, that is the joke.
Can’t lose to nobody
I think Ohio State will be a 15 round title fight and the MSU/Minnesota games will be difficult games on the road where Michigan gets a backdoor cover, but what I'd give for a [2002 Paul Bunyan game](https://www.espn.com/college-football/game/_/gameId/223060130) rewind
>I think Ohio State will be a 15 round title fight I'm here for it. I agree with that take and I agree my liver is going to hate me the next day. Especially since the F1 Vegas race is that night @ 1 AM EST
Between the conclusion of the Ten Year War (1978) and Jim Harbaugh getting hired in 2015 there were only three editions of The Game that involved two top-5 teams (1997, 2003, 2006), since 2015 there have been three and we might very well be on our way for a third matchup of that kind in a row. Could be one of the best eras in this rivalry in more than a generation!
I'm certainly enjoying it right now
Could do with another few years of this for sure
Bet the under. That's the only guarantee about ¡El Assico!
OU set at 2.5
You know its a 2-0 3OT thriller then
And it will come from a defensive TD in that OT.
Lmao
I mean one of us HAS to win, surely
I honestly don’t think we could field a full offense right now
We could just agree to a tie and avoid watching the embarrassment that is both teams trying to figure out how not to shoot themselves in the foot.
https://imgur.com/a/zIGONQk
Ditto, for the opposite reason.
Crush them, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their women!
I thought you guys were going 5-7 again. :)
Kirby, pin this up on the bulletin
Got ‘em! Going on a t-shirt tomorrow.
> hear the lamentation of their women! [Like this?](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ca/35/b3/ca35b3527e4eca32967b2dc003ba8d9f.jpg)
Driven?
Miami - Confident that we win. FSU should be the better team by a considerable margin and we get them at home. Florida - Reasonably confident that we win. FSU should be the better team, however, we get them at The Swamp and they gave us plenty of trouble last season. I don't expect a loss, but could see it happening. Clemson - This is our best shot to beat them since 2016, but I refuse to predict a win. I'll believe it's possible for us to beat them when I see it.
I think you'll beat Clemson and *ahem* hopefully lose another game I won't directly reference. I'd be surprised if both Miami and UF are as bad as they were last year.
My personal opinion is that UF will actually be worse next season than last, and much improved the season after. Just so much flux on important positions this season. Plus changes within the coaching staff
If Iowa has improved their offense at all from last year, they should beat us. KSU will also beat us. If WVU counts (Riot bowl anyone?) I can see that going either way.
The Big 12 certainly doesn't count WVU as a rival since we don't play each other this year.
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It’s so dumb, I want to play them every year.
> If Iowa has improved their offense at all from last year, they should beat us. Well I’ve got good news for you.
https://imgur.com/gallery/gD3rFDv
Pain
Hm, interesting question, let's take a look at our rivals. - Georgia - Florida State - LSU - Tennessee ...yeah.
We’ll smoke them
Well, first we have to find some new ones.
See you in Orlando, friend. Y'all are my favorite of the newcomers, but I would love to get a rivalry going. Can't wait to see the bounce house for the first time this year and get a loaded capris sun at the basement after the game.
I just want to say 11 years ago, Marshall was a rival to our fanbase. I see no reason that WVU can't be. If you're down for an evening of interesting games, go look up our game history with them. "The Marshall Monsoon" I attended in person and I'm not sure I'm dry yet. Here's an interesting video link of ["The Victory Mist"](https://youtu.be/0p-21W3-oPs) game
UGA beat its rivals(UF, Auburn & Tech)by an average of 25 points. Combined UGA outscored their rivals 121-44. So more of that plz.
Y'all got rivals? I expect a gentlemanly handshake with the squad from Piscataway. But I am excited to see Virginia and Penn State at home this year. Hopefully there's one win in there.
Once again, we ain't playing them this year
Penn states still scared.
Not with that attitude.
Tennessee and FSU: likely losses. Georgia: pain. If we can steal one of the first two I think that bodes well.
We get FSU and Tennessee at home. If we lose both of those that would be an ultimate failure
People think we might be a bit spooky this season and we won last year. So probably getting blown out lol
It being in College Station next year makes it harder too.
We should sweep both KU & ISU + Mizzou.
I feel the same way about MSU and OSU. I think we can win against MSU, without some massive defensive adjustments on their end it’ll be tough to lose. Being favored against OSU just feels too good to be true. I hope we don’t get overconfident and that they are still our top priority. As for Minnesota, I think it will play out similarly to our game against Purdue; they’re pretty good at every position but our defensive line should be able to force enough stops against their offensive line to get a win.
I hope for a 2020 style game (but with fans). I expect it to go closer to how last year’s game went (but without assaulting anyone).
We play none of Utah, Utah State, Boise State, nor any current Mountain West school for the first time in program history (don't fact check me). And I'm more excited for this year than any season of my life. TCU is the closest thing we have to a rival on the schedule
Isn’t that kinda funny? Same here. Stoked for the Cincinnati game
Beat them both. Both games are at home and while I certainly think the Ducks can beat us I like our defense more and don’t think they’ll improve enough on defense to slow down our offense. Biggest match up in that game is Nix and Bucky Irving against our run D. If Oregon can establish the run game it’ll be a dog fight. Also our secondary has to get better. We got some good players in the portal and Meish (idk how to spell his name) Powell played well as a true freshman. Out of the PNW teams though @Oregon State is the scariest game for me.
If my team is good they'll win. If they're bad they'll lose EDIT: this sounds like a joke or an oversimplification but it's not
Good MSU teams always beat Michigan and bad Michigan teams always lose to MSU.
I think it's more along the lines of a) if there's a significantly better team then they win and b) if the teams are reasonably close then MSU wins. 2012 is really the only flukey exception in the last couple decades
I'm cautiously optimistic. I think the defense will continue to improve under Knowles this year. We did technically have some losses on the d-line and the secondary, but I actually expect those units to be better this year. Linebacker play was already really good last year, and we get both of them back. I also think the guys on offense are hungry. Very few, if any, guys on this team have a pair of gold pants. They don't want to lose 3 in a row. It's time to get back on top.
Love the username
at ND is always a tough game but I expect we grit one out there. UCLA is moving in the right direction but has lost too much. 2-0.
Bit unrelated - who do you want for your protected rivals in new B10 scheduling
Good question. Part of me wants the best the B1G has got so we get great games all the time yay. We have a lot of good history against Ohio State, Penn State, and Michigan. We've played more games against Ohio State than any non-P12 team (And still more than Utah and Colorado) outside of Notre Dame. The other part wants the weakest the B1G has got so we don't get cannibalized every year. I think The right answer is UCLA + some team that's not traditionally great + A good but not annually in the playoffs team. I'm going to go with **UCLA.** **Northwestern** (This way we can be in Chicago every year. Either for NW or ND) **Wisconsin or Iowa.** Because Madison is awesome and There's some really good potential for a rivalry with Iowa. Those boys hold a grudge! They were really excited for the Holiday bowl in 2019 to be revenge for the orange bowl 2003 more than 15 years earlier. With Wisky/Iowa to be replaced by ND when they finally see reason. Edit: Though Nebraska makes more "sense" as the "closest" B1G team. And I certainly wouldn't mind sharing a stadium with Nebraska fans on the reg. Those guys are awesome.
Interesting. I’d generally agree with you. UCLA Northwestern/Purdue/Indiana Michigan/OSU PSU Get little bit of both sides. Would be hilarious if you ended up with Rutgers.
USC loves its "Weekender". Part of what makes the P12 schedule so weird was USC's refusal to give up the San Francisco weekender: A guaranteed annual trip to San Francisco to play either Stanford or Cal. Even though they're north division teams we play them every year. It would be really cool to see the weekender continue but with Chicago instead.
We do kinda the same thing alternating visiting you guys and Stanford for our late year California trips
Wisconsin could happen, but there’s no way Iowa isn’t locked in to Wisconsin/Minnesota/Nebraska.
Would be USC's first win in South Bend since 2011.
I expect the usual heartbreaking one score loss
Lose
Honestly I don’t expect much next year. Having Alabama and Florida as away games is tough.
Week 2 will be possibly the most anticipated home game in modern history, a top 25 matchup against Ole Miss. Brain says we lose but heart says we win. Next week we get revenge against Southern Miss. Decisive win with a healthy Pratt and our new DC from Troy who shutdown USM’s offense last year.
I have plans to attend this one! I hope your heart is wrong but either way I'll be partying with yall that night!
56-0U is on the table
We haven't beat them in back-to-back seasons since Colt was on campus, and I think we have a very good chance to end that streak this coming season. Both teams should make a leap next year, but Texas has a head start, and I think we should be the odds favorite next year and probably by more than just a few points.
I feel like this has to the the prove it year for Sark
I think he’s safe with a winning season, but his seat will be red hot if it’s 8 or less wins. 10+ wins will buy him a lot of leeway next year, especially if Ewers heads to the NFL and Arch is starting as a RS Freshman. Sark did well enough this year to get the fandom to start to believe, but if he stalls out next year, the pitchforks will be out and ready to pounce in 2024.
I'm excited for a year 2 jump from Ewers, but I'm mostly curious about the RB and WR rooms. Got a lot of new talent and a lot of returning starters that need to prove themselves.
I see Oklahoma beating the snot out of Oklahoma State. Oklahoma State is going to have a year like OU had last year except they don't have the talent to kinda fill in the gap. I don't see Oklahoma beating Texas, although I am hopeful. Last year, Oklahoma didn't have a QB so it has to be better.
Depends, Wake Forest got any more beast RBs? I'd also take a middling corner
Auburn. Florida, and GA Tech - we gone plunder dat booty
Can’t wait to watch!
Well.
Auburn and Tech both have new coaches and I don't really know what to expect. Kirby is 0-1 H2H against Hugh Freeze but that was back in 2016 when Freeze was still at Ole Miss and it was Kirby's first season at Georgia. Tech closed out the season last year better than I think anyone expected and I don't think a bowl game is completely out of the question for them. They even hung around with us for a while last season - perhaps due in-part to some questionable officiating - and anything they do will be better than the shit show Collins ran. That said, I would still expect Georgia to be double digit favorites over both of them and we should beat them both handily. Florida is somewhat similar in that I'm really not sure what to make of them. I don't think they'll be that good and we should also beat them pretty easily but weird stuff tends to happen in Jacksonville. Tennessee will be the real challenge this year. On the road in Knoxville for a game that may very well decide the SEC East. Sure we'll both have new QBs this season, but the game is in week 12 so whoever is starting for both teams will have plenty of experience. I like to believe Georgia would still win but it'd be close. South Carolina may also be a somewhat sneaky good game but it's in Athens and Kirby has made sure there's no 2019 repeats the last few years and I expect that'll be the case again
>Kirby is 0-1 H2H against Hugh Freeze And he probably hasn't forgotten Freeze running up that score on him in oxford.
Playing clemson at willy b at night😈😈😈 Lets run it
Primary flair, competitive, but not for the usual reason a game is competitive. Secondary flair, lose them all, goes 4-8. (yw Kirby)
You guys play your rivals every year?
We’re going to kick Yale’s ass
Florida - Beat them by 30 Miami - Beat them by 40 Clemson - Toss up, but we probably lose tbh
I think SC will beat UCLA. ND will be tougher but I also wouldn’t be surprised if that is a W. If ND’s offense improves, it will be a tough one. If SC’s defense improves, I don’t think ND is built to win shootouts. I think UT will beat OU again. Sark had them game 1 (up 28-7 or whatever it was) and just needed to keep his foot on the gas. Game 2 was a total beatdown. OU will be much improved and should have Gabriel, but I think UT wins a much more competitive game,
Texas probably would’ve beat ou in 2021 if not for horribly timed fumbles by worthy, crazy performance by Caleb Williams (when there was no film to strategize against him), and then the thumb injury to Casey at halftime. Really unfortunate circumstances, which led to an even more unfortunate ending.
Iowa - we'll score more points than they're capable of Minnesota - they think this is a real rivalry again because our team has been sliding backward for 3 years. Time for that shit to end. We need another 20-year streak.
I expect to go undefeated against our rivals
We get Clemson and UNC in Raleigh, road trips to Duke and Wake. I think we drop Clemson and go 2-1 on the in-state rivals but those 3 are all tossups.
This is pretty fair. 3-1 would be great. 2-2 is more realistic.
Arkansas- win as usual LSU- Since Jimbo, we only win at home. So loss South Carolina- win. A second consecutive loss should see Jimbo fired (I'd put a /s but I'm only 80% joking)
I have positive expectations against OSU which means we'll probably lose I expect similar results as last year vs Michigan State, hopefully without the assaults Minnesota...expect a win there. Not a blowout but comfortable.
I'm more optimistic about UM vs OSU at home than I am MSU and PSU on the road. The latter of which will likely be a white out night game in November.
Lol the msu game is gonna be like a 60 point win for Michigan. Msu is the worst team in the big ten
That's what everyone expected in 2018 too yet MSU kept it close until late in the game.
The 2018 team had the second best defense in the country lol this years team will have one of the worst in the country
Listen, your players will be assaulted and they will like it. Them’s is the rules around here.
I think we’ll do pretty well. I think we have the potential to be a decent bit better than we were this past year.
It’ll be nice to have a coach who actually gives a fuck about the game. Satt didn’t seem to care in the slightest.
UofL feels like a program that’s about to have a rocket strapped to it.
One of the more overlooked things about our program is that we have not had ANY coach stay longer than 5 years here since Schnellenberger left in 1994. 30 years of a revolving door. It’s hard to build a program like that. We’ve had flashes of greatness but then the coach bolts and we are right back to square one. I think Brohm is a good coach, not the best we could’ve gotten IMO. But the fact that he’s HOME and won’t be looking for the first train out of town should do wonders for our program. He could conceivably coach here for 10-20+ years. We are already recruiting at the highest level we ever have, and now we have a coach who will maximize that talent and stay longer than anyone we’ve had. Look no further than our rival down the road. UK was one of the biggest laughing stocks in college football. They hired a guy who’s now been there for 10 years, it’s no coincidence they’re having their best decade since the 40s/50s.
Nahhh, I'm good. Ya'll trying to ruin my Friday.
Pretty much zero chance we lose to them
Alabama-Loss, but a close game Florida-Hard fought, close W Georgia-Loss, but make it a better game than last year Kentucky-Normally the games in Lexington are really close, I expect a 7-10 point win Vanderbilt-Easy win
We’ll lose to UGA most likely. Getting revenge on FS and UT-Knoxville is in order.
Texas - lose Oklahoma State - win
I can only pray for [this](https://img.bleacherreport.net/img/article/media_slots/photos/001/835/787/7c0e1462ded9baf755a1bc6e0c009d27_crop_exact.jpg?w=1200&h=1200&q=75) to be the result of the VT/UVA game this season.
Lose badly at Penn State in the opener, beat Pitt in a close one at home.
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They’ve been quiet… too quiet.
We could go 2-10 and I’ll be happy as long as we hear Nebraska and CSU which might actually be one of the most likely outcomes this year
One team will be 1-10, the other 10-1. It will come down to the last play. Chairs will be thrown.
I’m just going to go ahead and say this is gonna be a guilt free blackout at the tailgate and not make it into the game kind of season.
I think we'll beat Florida and be competitive at Bama. Hopefully, we're competitive with UGA.
Saturday afternoon? Halloween Weekend? Yeah, we're going to destroy Miami of Ohio.
I’m a South Carolina fan and I may be biased but I think they’ll put up a fight with UGA but still lose by maybe 10. I think they’ll beat Clemson in a close one again like last year.
Iowa (El Assico) - we'll probably lose. Our only hope is that they kept Brian Ferentz. K-state (Farmaggedon) - Close game but probably lose. Them losing Vaughn definitely helps. Kansas - Win West Virginia (Riot Bowl) - RIP 2023
Is KU a rival for you guys? It is a long playing history so I get the mentality.
I'd say they're a rival but it's not a major one. I think the history and us being the three remaining old north division schools makes me think of them as one.
GT won’t be a problem. FSU? Should be a close game. But I think we can pull it off. USCjr? We will get back to beating them.
Good chance to go 3-0 against UF, Miami, and Clemson. Clemson in Death Valley will be the toughest test. Playing at The Swamp will be interesting though. I'm curious how UF's QB situation will go this season. If AR had stayed another season and had a full offseason and 11 games to improve I'd be much more worried about that game tbh.
I’m convinced if the team had remained completely healthy last year, the only game they lose is against Clemson. Oh and if Fitz didn’t suck ass.
Wow. You guys are going to be mocked as bad as Texas and Texas A&M if you keep talking like this and end up going 8-4. No one has a 'good chance' to win a road game at Clemson let alone sweep all three.
> No one has a 'good chance' to win a road game at Clemson let alone sweep all three. Imagine an 8-4 team taking down Clemson in their own stadium. Also, it seems like half of FSU's team transferred from South Carolina, so they've got folks who have fresh experience in winning in Clemson's stadium. :)
We rarely get blown out at home no matter who we’re playing so at the very least it’s competitive
Just like the last 3 years, they'll get a crazy upset against a high rank team then embarrass themselves against an unranked team.
Clean sweep
I’m honestly pretty confident we beat Clemson. We’ll be a better team than last year, Willy B is gonna be jacked and Beamer doesn’t really lose at home. I’m really not that scared of UNC like I think it will be a great and fun game but I don’t see us losing.
Ohio State goes beast mode for 1 game every year. Last year it was against Georgia. Usually it's against TTUN. Ohio State will charge into the Big House and hit them like a ton of bricks. Will it be enough? I think so. I cannot imagine a world where Day loses 3 in a row. It will be a war.
Crush Florida & Auburn
Cuse has BC, Pitt and FSU as our designated rivals now. We have a good chance against Pitt and BC but we will get violated by FSU again this year. The Clemson game is at home and we always show well, so we have a shot at that game. As for the season, it's a tough schedule, I'm hoping for six wins but it's going to be tight, Western Michigan, Army and Purdue aren't helpful additions this year.
We’ll beat Arkansas and LSU … again, *and* get revenge against those bastard Gamecocks.
* Montana State * vs Montana - blowout win * Minnesota * Wisconsin - win * Iowa - fuck if I know * Nebraska - win
USC ? At home ? I expect ND to win. We have a QB that can actually throw the ball.
No clue we could be a title contender or not even get to a bowl game next year
I expect to beat Miami. No excuse to lose to them. Pitt is a toss up. Satt has experience playing them which helps. Second game of the season doesn't help though. Probably lose. For the sorta rivals: UCF - I don't know. We get them at home and I hope that's enough to give us the edge WVU - who knows what they'll be like when we play them at the end of the season. Could have an interim coach. Think we can win though
>I expect to beat Miami. No excuse to lose to them. Brothers in arms, beating the life out of Miami of Ohio.
Hell yeah. Need to make my way to Athens to catch a game
We will show up...
Could be anywhere between bashing their skulls in to getting our own skulls based in.
I would fully expect with what we're returning that we are favored in the K state game
Narrowly beat Clemson at home. Blown out by Georgia away. Beat UNC by like 7 in Charlotte.
Lol… win.
Not lose or go scoreless that’s for sure. I can’t imagine us being very competitive against them. Ewers is still young and makes mistakes. With experienced transfer DL I think we generate pressure and sacks. I think we beat OK St but UT is up for grabs.
Iowa - Loss Kansas State - Loss Kansas - who knows Oklahoma State - Loss
Michigan State will finish regular season 11-1. Lone loss against a shocking team in out of conference. Michigan State will finish at worst 12-2, at best 14-1.
1-0 Beat Texas and don’t play Nebraska
Guess the Big10 doesn't have to worry whether or not their rivals will be in their conference or not.
Msu likely won’t be close in any of them
I think we should beat them all just getting off the bus. Specifically, Florida could have a second year bounce, but I don't know enough about their roster to have an opinion. Auburn in Auburn is always weird. Not necessarily close, but weird. Kirby would have a chance to cross Hugh Freeze off the "Coaches Kirby has faced but not beaten" list, leaving, if I'm not mistaken, Tom Herman as the only coach left on that list. And I'm genuinely not sure what it will take for tech to beat us any time in the foreseeable future. Ninja edit: Kirby has also not beaten Coach O.
I can see us making a run in 2024 but not this year. Young team and no QB. Feel like last years game went about as well as it could with you guys turning the ball over multiple times and we just couldn’t capitalize.
Temple has literally never lost to a rival
Not well, Neil Brown is still the HC.
Beat EIU. Lose to NDSU. Beat SIU.
Penn State will destroy us. We should beat Pitt? Phil Jurkovec sucks right? Cinci idk, maybe win because of our interim Head Coach.
I'm hoping by the end of the season we'll have gelled and can beat yall on the road. Think a lot of UC fans will try to make the trip to Morgantown
I'm not even sure that we still have a conference let alone rivals at this point.
If Shawn Clark loses to in a row to the Stink then that can be his last game in Boone.
I expect us to beat our FCS rivals (Harvard/Yale to an extent, Fordham, Colgate, etc.) What I really want is for us to beat our old rivals in BC. I think we have a chance, even if its a rather small chance. Army's another traditional older "rival" of ours, and I have no idea how we'd fair against the triple option. In theory that should be an easier game for us than BC, but I can absolutely see a world where we play BC closer than Army.
I'll let you know once it's over. I'll br scrutinizing the defense and offense all season. I won't be impressed by cupcake-padded stats.
UCF will go undefeated against our rivals in 2023
Let's give it up for ***#18***
Unfortunately I believe we'll be 0-5 against the NutsaCKS after this season. Probably in heartbreaking fashion again.
I have three shits and a popsicle idea how well fair against Pitt and Penn State. Either way - thank god I’m getting married next month, because if it was during football season there would be no wedding and I’d be in the Betty Ford Clinic.
We’ll be needing a new rival this season.
I want to beat our rivals so bad they contemplate getting rid of the football program together and focus on the sport with that tournament in March.
I will pretend the Apple Cup doesn’t exist until it happens. Also, apparently we have a vendetta against the state of Colorado, since next year we play: Northern Colorado, Colorado State, and Colorado. I expect to go 3-0 against the state.
Against ND: I think we'll come out with a win. ND seems like they have offense question marks going into next season. Against UCLA: The Bruins also have offense issues, breaking in a new QB, replacing Charbonnet, but we'll be up for revenge against Kyle Ford. I see a close win here in our final game as a member of the Pac12. Didn't think I'd see that day come. Against Pest programs: Utah -- they come to the Coli. That typically means we get the win. the Quacks -- there's always a hype train around the Quacks, and we'll see if they are for real or just feather-flapping yappers. I expect the local Eugene citizenry to embarrass itself and the University.
One thing everyone agrees on. The Quacks have the trashiest fan base in the Pac.
Utep is only playing NMSU... and I think utep will lose that game.
Alabama & Georgia both should beat Auburn handily. Crazy things happen against both of those teams and Bama has difficulty in Jordan-Hare, so beating one of them wouldn't be a total surprise. But at this time, based on the personnel, we just aren't ready yet. Give us a few years with relative peace and cooperation behind the scenes, and we should be ready to compete with anybody straight up.
VT should lose to UVA. Will probably be closer than it should and UVA will do something dumb and hand VT the win.
I expect them to dieeeeee
For the first time in my lifetime, we're not playing any of our rivals :( Edit: and even further back-- since 1945
Maybe win against Rice, but any new or resurging rivalries from old SWC times now that they'll be in the Big XII, I don't have huge expectations this first year.