BG/UW Predictions

[Falcon30]

BG 36 (on 12 Big Bird FGs),
Wisconsin 35

Macon rushes for 145. Team rushes for over 250. Ball moved effectively, but not in the red zone. #41 sets NCAA record by going 12-12

PJ Mahone intercepts Stocco 3 times.

BG's band bests UW's band.

Stadium colors mesh well with fans.

I will sing "on North Olmsted" whenever I hear that wisconsin song.

[Strouse]

BG's band bests UW's band.
Stadium colors mesh well with fans.

I'll second both of those right there.
"On Wisconsin" is just about as bad as "We Know Three Notes"

[Schadenfreude]

I believe a random perusing of your score prediction thread from last year had the average score 45-17 ...

It was about half right.

with BGSU winning.

Not that half. The other half.

[Schadenfreude]

Here's an honest question: Why did Omar Jacobs jump to the NFL? While he lit us up last year, the rest of the season was up and down for him and then he got hurt. Wouldn't one more year of seasoning have been more beneficial to him?

I don't know whether or not he would have learned a whole lot more, but I do think he could have improved his stock with NFL scouts.

Others disagree with some or all of what I have just written.

This has been debated a lot here.

[Falconfreak90]

Either way the Big 10 rewards the conference winner who goes on and proceeds to play in the BCS game. Co-champions or not we still won it hense the word champion and then went on and won all 3 Rose Bowls. See this isn't a MAC title game, this is a BCS birth. 6-6 record huh?
Let me know if you want to make that bet right now because I will take everything you own. See we may lose 3-4 games a year but the competition is tough. You lose 2-3 a year but you play people like Eastern and Western Michigan every game throw toledo in there and akron LMFAO. If you played in the big 10 you might only win 1 or 2 games a year and that's me giving you a wins against Illinois and Indiana.
So keep playing the little man card as we will roll on you this year...again. Oh by the way macman you could win all of your games except for 1 and bg will still be playing sometime around christmas in the motor city bowl.........cold ase detroit, whereas we could lose 3 and still be playing on January 1st somewhere in Fla or Texas. I will send you a postcard if you want.

This is laughable. Even in this difficult, challenging, rebuilding year, we'd have a shot at winning more than two games in the Big Ten.

You are saying Minnesota is an automatic loss for us? Northwestern? Michigan State? Automatic?

What I liked about my trip to Madison last year was the fact that fans were respectful. The terror of giving up 35 first half points helped reinforce that, of course.

It's a shame last year's lesson has already been lost.

My favorite phrase from the BSC "experts"..."You wouldn't win more than a couple games a year in our conference!"

Wrong. If BG were in a BCS conference, we'd have comparable facilities, fan bases and recruiting tools. We'd be eligible for bowl games by being an average team. Look at Northwestern. What Randy Walker (I truly respect what that man was all about) accomplished there proves my point. They don't take dummies at NW and yet he won Big Ten titles and played in bowl games. They don't compare to OSU, UM, PSU, UW...ect as far as facilities and recruiting pull but they are successful.

I hate that lame, bs argument.

SF's right. BG is still better than Indiana, Illinois, Michigan State and NW. Minny and Purdue would be toss ups.

GO FALCONS

[Falcon30]

Either way the Big 10 rewards the conference winner who goes on and proceeds to play in the BCS game. Co-champions or not we still won it hense the word champion and then went on and won all 3 Rose Bowls. See this isn't a MAC title game, this is a BCS birth. 6-6 record huh?
Let me know if you want to make that bet right now because I will take everything you own. See we may lose 3-4 games a year but the competition is tough. You lose 2-3 a year but you play people like Eastern and Western Michigan every game throw toledo in there and akron LMFAO. If you played in the big 10 you might only win 1 or 2 games a year and that's me giving you a wins against Illinois and Indiana.
So keep playing the little man card as we will roll on you this year...again. Oh by the way macman you could win all of your games except for 1 and bg will still be playing sometime around christmas in the motor city bowl.........cold ase detroit, whereas we could lose 3 and still be playing on January 1st somewhere in Fla or Texas. I will send you a postcard if you want.

This is laughable. Even in this difficult, challenging, rebuilding year, we'd have a shot at winning more than two games in the Big Ten.

You are saying Minnesota is an automatic loss for us? Northwestern? Michigan State? Automatic?

What I liked about my trip to Madison last year was the fact that fans were respectful. The terror of giving up 35 first half points helped reinforce that, of course.

It's a shame last year's lesson has already been lost.

My favorite phrase from the BSC "experts"..."You wouldn't win more than a couple games a year in our conference!"

Wrong. If BG were in a BCS conference, we'd have comparable facilities, fan bases and recruiting tools. We'd be eligible for bowl games by being an average team. Look at Northwestern. What Randy Walker (I truly respect what that man was all about) accomplished there proves my point. They don't take dummies at NW and yet he won Big Ten titles and played in bowl games. They don't compare to OSU, UM, PSU, UW...ect as far as facilities and recruiting pull but they are successful.

I hate that lame, bs argument.

SF's right. BG is still better than Indiana, Illinois, Michigan State and NW. Minny and Purdue would be toss ups.

GO FALCONS

Not to mention the fact that we would play half our "conference" games at home.

[Falconfreak90]

And most of our OOC game as home as well.

[Schadenfreude]

SF's right. BG is still better than Indiana, Illinois, Michigan State and NW. Minny and Purdue would be toss ups.

Not quite what I said. A lot of unknowns this year. Would we hve a shot at more than two wins against that bunch? Sure, I think it's possible.

Back to talking up ourselves though...

For the Badgers' fans benefit: 2003 was a fine year for our program. We beat Purdue and Northwestern and came very close against Ohio State.

And I can say, with confidence, that the best team on our schedule that year was none of those teams. It was Miami (Ohio). No doubt in my mind.

These things go in cycles. I think Bowling Green may be at a low ebb this year. But the last two? We would have been competing for bowl bids playing a Big Ten schedule. I don't have much doubt about that.

[Falcon30]

Back to talking up ourselves though...

For the Badgers' fans benefit: 2003 was a fine year for our program. We beat Purdue and Northwestern and came very close against Ohio State.

And I can say, with confidence, that the best team on our schedule that year was none of those teams. It was Miami (Ohio). No doubt in my mind.

Miami was better than Ohio State that year, hands down. They were top ten and probably deserved a BCS bid. I still don't know how they lost to Iowa.

Who was their QB that year?

[Schadenfreude]

Who was their QB that year?

I'm just glad he declared for the draft and got the hell out of Ohio.

[Jacobs4Heisman]

Back to talking up ourselves though...

For the Badgers' fans benefit: 2003 was a fine year for our program. We beat Purdue and Northwestern and came very close against Ohio State.

And I can say, with confidence, that the best team on our schedule that year was none of those teams. It was Miami (Ohio). No doubt in my mind.

Miami was better than Ohio State that year, hands down. They were top ten and probably deserved a BCS bid. I still don't know how they lost to Iowa.

Who was their QB that year?

Ben -- who threw about 10 interceptions against Iowa. He and the rest of the team were locked in from then on.

[BGSUFootballFan]

Yeah Miami was awesome that year! They just played like crap making silly turnovers the opening game and then ran the table the next 13 games! But I think a little known fact is how hard it is to win at Iowa, they have thee most underrated home field advantage in all of college football IMO.

[maddogmarty]

Little Man Syndrome Alert: Take your hand off your belly all you Neopolitans. The cat is out of the bag. The MAC is a respectable conference and capable of beating any team at any time. But the days of these mid-majors being taken lightly is long gone. BCS teams prepare well for you now and that should be a compliment and the ultimate sign of respect. A decade ago, the MAC would have been a warmup game in the minds of these schools. But let's stop the IF we were in your conference we'd do X and be in Y bowl. You're not, that's not our fault nor yours, just the way it is. If this were the BGSU of a couple years ago, I'd be real scared. But at this point it appears from all the prognosticators that it's an average UW team against an average BGSU team. And in that scenario, 90% of the time the UW will win. Most in Badger Nation feel this is an above average UW team that has a chance to win 10 games...thus we feel this game is a near lock.

[Bleeding Orange]

But let's stop the IF we were in your conference we'd do X and be in Y bowl. You're not, that's not our fault nor yours, just the way it is.

To wit: it was not Bowling Green fans who initiated this line of conversation - it was the arrogance of you and yours.

You would recieve a much better reception around here if you weren't so...fatherly...with all of your comments. No one enjoys being talked down to, especially by the likes of Big Ten fans given our recent history (read: our winning record vs. the Big Ten over recent years).

[ChicagoFalcon]

AW heck...just let BG into the Big 10 and we'd harness more respect with all the wins we'd generate! GO BG!