BG/UW Predictions

[BGSUFootballFan]

I see that a lot of people have been dodging predictions for this game, and that is pretty understandable seeing all the variables that are going to be still unanswered going into this game. However, the matter of winner and loser of this game came very easy to me. As for the score? Well that took a little more thinking on. BG is a perfect 5-0 in games that I have attended in person, including 2 wins over Ball St, and 1 win over UT, Marshall, and Purdue respectively. Thats pretty impressive because we werent favored in all of those games, and none of them were "easy W's" unless you want to count Ball St. which I will allow you to for the '03 game, but not for the '05 game. Ok, so I have my 3 tickets in hand for this game and have been waiting for this game to come for quite some time now... and I just happen to come down with a case of mono so bad, that even I am too sick to do my favorite thing in the entire world which is watch BG football. Coincidence? I think not my friends. Just as God made it rain on Stewart Cink yesterday during the playoff so that we could all see Tiger win his 4th in a row (10-1 in playoffs lifetime ), God is sending me a message that we will not win this game. Sad, but I believe it to be true. Its not really a big deal, because this IS NOT a must win game for us and I actually think we will have a decent showing. Here is my breakdown and analysis quarter by quarter!

1st Q: Wisconsin comes out fired up and ready to start the season off with a bang. BG's newcomers look nervous and play tenative the 1st few series. UW puts together a successful 12 play drive mostly on the ground and draws 1st blood 7-0. The BG offense finally settles down a bit and gets into a rythmn. What looks to be a TD scoring drive gets stopped on 3rd and short, and Big Bird is called on and connects on his 1st FG attempt to end the 1st quarter.

Score at the end of 1Q: UW 7 BG 3

2nd Q: With the offense settling in and scoring points the defense fires up and begins to stop the run much better. Whoever QB's for UW still looks uncomfortable in 3rd and long and cant keep the chains moving. BG moves the ball some and takes time off the clock but never a big enough play to spark a scoring drive. UW gets the ball with 2mins before half and puts together a morale crushing drive to increase their lead going into the locker room.

Score at halftime: UW 14 BG 3

3rd Q: In typical BG fashion we start off the 2nd half looking lethargic and out of rythmn as though halftime was a 4 month break. UW capitalizes on a silly turnover, and also puts together another long, time consuming drive on the ground..

Score at the end of 3Q: UW 28 BG 3

4th Q: With the game looking to be well in hand for UW, the newcomers for BG finally relax and get back to playing some sound fundamental football. The UW defense plays a conservative zone D and BG marches down for its 1st TD of the season! UW keeps the ball on the ground and milks the clock, but with a tired D they even manage a few 1st downs before we finally hold. BG gets the ball back again and another impressive drive for a TD although Wisconsin sees to it that a lot of the clock is used up. BG tries and onside kick and doesnt recover. We get the ball back with not enough time to do anything with it. A reasonable showing for our team, especially coming together at the end, but too little too late...

Final score: UW 28 BG 17

[Rollo83]

With Wisconsin's size advantage, do you really think in the fourth quarter we will out score them 14-0?

[BGSUFootballFan]

Yes, that is what I said so that must be what I think! Why? What you got?

[JohnnySwoop '85]

Predictions???

Wisconsin 38
BGSU 27


Final 2006 record: 7-5, maybe bowl eligible.

Leading rusher: The Doyt Perry Stadium rabbit

Bleeding Orange will churn out full screen thread responses

Flippers' responses will be short, to the point, and very funny.

We will have 1 hour and 15 minute minute waits for tables at Frickers after the game.

I promise to cheer, to swear in frustration, to attend as much as swim meets and fall baseball allow us to, to cook something on Freaks grill (finally), to help defray the expense of the AZZ tent, to try and not get another ticket as I head through Norwalk, if bowl eligible I will continue to get my tickets through the University despite an unblemished record of being given lousy seat assignments.

and finally...
'87 will at some point write something that reminds me ( yet again) that it's not about the game as much as it is doing something with our son's

[Rollo83]

By the fourth quarter our defensive line is going to be spent. The Badger's O-line outweighs our D-line by about 30-50 lbs. apiece. I see them having a comfortable lead and simply pounding the ball at us in the fourth quarter to work some clock. I hate to admit it but this could get ugly. I see the Falcons on the losiong end 42-13. I hope I am wrong! Either way, I 'll be sitting in the club seats enjoying every minute of it.

[MACMAN]

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.

and that is all almost true except for the fact you leave out the obvious...BCS=Monopoly designed to keep bowl money in BCS schools, go to a play off system that is inclusive with D1 con champions and with in 5 years the separation of BCS and non BCS is gone, You ,nor any time have ever been a Champion of anything, because all the answers are left on the field, as the monoply votes in the populairity contest known as the Limp wristed BCS election.
Badgers will finish 6-6 this season, yall are in bottom 50% of the big ten ... OH!!! but you know what...that still puts you in play for a big ten "championship" a 5 way tie is not out of the question im sure.
Ill take BG and the MAC any day over rooting for a team that folds like a dress on prom night like season in and out like
WI please...Ill take Dartmouth or Maine over WI, and I bet you loose to indiana this year to boot as one of your 6.

[maddogmarty]

OK, we can, that is hyperbole of course. However, I'm much more confident about UW winning this year compared to last year. I thought last year was a toss up and the UW's main advantage being at home in Camp Randall. This year, with all the talent BGSU has lost on offense and not much to start with on D, the only way the Badgers lose this is if they are completely flat and have several turnovers. Sorry if that's arrogant/cocky... The difference between a BCS school and MAC is that we have talent waiting in the wings and can re-tool faster than a mid-major. It's the reason why Ohio State is the chic pick to win the National Championship even though they only return 2 defensive starters. And before you go crying that UW can't compare themselves to OSU, check the record (not only head to head but overall) over the last decade as well as how many players have been drafted into the NFL from each school. And as for the BCS, yes it's somewhat of a monopoly, or collusion at a minimum, but the reason is simple. The 60-70 schools that make up the BCS conferences bring in a majority of the TV revenues for the rest of D-1. They also pay for a majority of the mid majors athletic budgets by paying your types $500K to play a road game at one of our shrines (home stadiums). So before some of you bite the hand that feeds you, remember what schools are paying your way to be able to play at the D-1 level.

[Bleeding Orange]

The 60-70 schools that make up the BCS conferences bring in a majority of the TV revenues for the rest of D-1. They also pay for a majority of the mid majors athletic budgets by paying your types $500K to play a road game at one of our shrines (home stadiums). So before some of you bite the hand that feeds you, remember what schools are paying your way to be able to play at the D-1 level.

Thank you daddy, may we have another?



You didn't sound like a self-diluted prick until that last part.

[jacojdm]

The 60-70 schools that make up the BCS conferences bring in a majority of the TV revenues for the rest of D-1. They also pay for a majority of the mid majors athletic budgets by paying your types $500K to play a road game at one of our shrines (home stadiums). So before some of you bite the hand that feeds you, remember what schools are paying your way to be able to play at the D-1 level.

Thank you daddy, may we have another?



You didn't sound like a self-diluted prick until that last part.

I still don't think he sounds self-diluted. Self deluded? Perhaps.

[Bleeding Orange]

The 60-70 schools that make up the BCS conferences bring in a majority of the TV revenues for the rest of D-1. They also pay for a majority of the mid majors athletic budgets by paying your types $500K to play a road game at one of our shrines (home stadiums). So before some of you bite the hand that feeds you, remember what schools are paying your way to be able to play at the D-1 level.

Thank you daddy, may we have another?



You didn't sound like a self-diluted prick until that last part.

I still don't think he sounds self-diluted. Self deluded? Perhaps.

GAH!

I blame TG...somehow.

[maddogmarty]

Rather than name calling, wouldn't a better method (and more adult) be to refute what you disagree with? Or is it that you agree but are upset nonetheless and have nothing further to add?

[Jham]

Forget decaf, some people in these parts need a freaking punctuation/spelling lesson.

I have no doubt BG fans as a whole are being made fun of in parts Wiscy because of this horrid display.

As for predictions, I agree with most of the stuff here, especially the trenches analysis. Good work, whomever did that. Wisconsin will be a preview of OSU, only on a smaller scale. Too much size, too little BG offense.

Wisconsin 44, BG 19

[Bleeding Orange]

Rather than name calling, wouldn't a better method (and more adult) be to refute what you disagree with? Or is it that you agree but are upset nonetheless and have nothing further to add?

The comment to which I responded was so inaccurate, so naive, and so obviously intended to be a backhanded insult that I did not, and nor do I now, see the need to refute it with anything resembling a fact. Indeed, were I to attempt to correct all of the inaccuracies and exagerations in that statement, we would be here for quite a while.

[bgsufalcon24]

By the fourth quarter our defensive line is going to be spent. The Badger's O-line outweighs our D-line by about 30-50 lbs. apiece. I see them having a comfortable lead and simply pounding the ball at us in the fourth quarter to work some clock. I hate to admit it but this could get ugly. I see the Falcons on the losiong end 42-13. I hope I am wrong! Either way, I 'll be sitting in the club seats enjoying every minute of it.

44-19? 42-13?! I'm sorry, but I cannot take this loser mentality that has so thoroughly gripped this board any longer. I have never seen a fanbase that is more down on their team before a damn down is played that what I've seen here the last few weeks. I have come to the conclusion that the majority of you on AZZ cannot possibly be representative of what the majority of the Falcon fanbase thinks.

Last winter, I was getting absolutely drilled by all of you (except you Hammb) for my roasting of Dan Dakich and our basketball team as they played poor, lifeless basketball night in and night out en route to a 9-23 season. Apparently there was something wrong with criticizing a bad team that didn't look like they gave a rats ass out on the court, just as there is apparently something wrong with thinking we even have a chance of beating a wisconsin football team that barring a miracle won't be nearly as good as last year. I'm just disgusted. Gregg Brandon and the footballers have put up 5 straight winning seasons, they deserve a lot more respect than this.

[JohnnySwoop '85]

Dude, take a 'lude..

Loser mentality? for predicting an 11 point loss? The way I see it, only dropping by this much should actually be a good showing and point to signs of competing for the MAC East and the MACC.

11 point loss with a 2nd string qb,, a new backfield, absent one of the primary WR's, and a whole bunch of RS-F or true frsh starters and players elsewhere....with all that and only 11 points loss I'll be charged for the rest of the year!