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No bye week until November. Yikes.

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USC doesn't even have a bye week

Some potential to start 6-0. I could see 7-3 and closing strong to finish 9-3.

For an "easy" schedule, that's pretty rough. Bye week at the end of our season and before two of the most winnable games. 3 toughest home games, Nebraska, WSU, Utah, I would favor us in each game but could certainly see a loss or two. Our three toughest games period are all on the road, UW, Stanford, UCLA. I don't think we'll lose 5 games, but it's not hard to find four losses on the schedule.

ifuwant2 wrote:For an "easy" schedule, that's pretty rough. Bye week at the end of our season and before two of the most winnable games. 3 toughest home games, Nebraska, WSU, Utah, I would favor us in each game but could certainly see a loss or two. Our three toughest games period are all on the road, UW, Stanford, UCLA. I don't think we'll lose 5 games, but it's not hard to find four losses on the schedule.

Depends how you look at it. I only see one "for sure" loss and that's UW. Lots of toss ups and unknowns.

BTW, why do we play Wyoming away? lol

Makes no sense, home and aways with G5 teams are terrible from a financial standpoint. We'd be better off just playing Portland State.

Phenom wrote:BTW, why do we play Wyoming away? lol

That's a trap game for sure after a marquee game against Nebraska. I believe this is the result of previous Big 5 blackouts from UGA and TAMu

Duck07 wrote:

Phenom wrote:BTW, why do we play Wyoming away? lol

That's a trap game for sure after a marquee game against Nebraska. I believe this is the result of previous Big 5 blackouts from UGA and TAMu

Don't they have NDSU's really successful coach too? I think they also have a legitimate NFL prospect at QB. Could get interesting...

Duck24 wrote:No bye week until November. Yikes.

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2017 buddy

Prediction: W, W, W, W, W, W, L, W, L, L, W, W

Wyoming is losing their best player, record setting junior RB, to the NFL and lost their best assistant coach to a HC job so I think we'll be fine there. I'm back and forth on whether we'll beat Nebraska though I think we should. Also I think somewhere in game 4-6 we take an unexpected loss. 8-4

Phenom wrote:

Duck07 wrote:

Phenom wrote:BTW, why do we play Wyoming away? lol

That's a trap game for sure after a marquee game against Nebraska. I believe this is the result of previous Big 5 blackouts from UGA and TAMu

Don't they have NDSU's really successful coach too? I think they also have a legitimate NFL prospect at QB. Could get interesting...

Yes and yes. QB is supposed legit first round talent and coach was at NDSU at the start of their championship run.

Stadium is also 7,000+ feet above sea level so conditioning is going to be huge. It's the definition of a trap game.

Duck24 wrote:
Stadium is also 7,000+ feet above sea level so conditioning is going to be huge.

Too soon

For a team that may have some depth problems, I'm not really liking the fact their bye is coming so late in the season. I'd rather have it in like mid-October. I'm also really wary of the Wyoming game since it's so early in the season, the altitude is going to be an issue, and it's a high risk-low reward type of game.

Phenom wrote:BTW, why do we play Wyoming away? lol

I certainly hope our coaching staff and team show up in Laramie ready to play or Wyoming will beat us. They were a pretty good team last year and Craig Bohl is a great coach. Don't short sell them.