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My updated Win/Loss Predictions before PAC-12 Play

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    • #67022
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      Wilson’s Mustache
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      Before teh season started I post a Pre-season Win/Loss Prediction.

      Now thave we’ve seen two games I thought I’d update my predictionos for the season before we enter PAC-12 Play.

      Aug. 30 Weber State – W (Won 41-10)
      Sep. 8 @ NIU – W (Won 17-6)
      Sep. 15 Washington – W
      Sep. 22 BYE
      Sep. 29 @ Washington State – W
      Oct. 6 @ Stanford – L
      Oct. 12 Arizona – W
      Oct. 20 USC – W
      Oct. 26 @ UCLA – W
      Nov. 3 @ Arizona State – L
      Nov. 10 Oregon – W
      Nov. 17 @ Colorado – L
      Nov. 24 BYU – W

    • #67024

      yea, that colorad9 game could be a real nut punch… again

    • #67025
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      Wilson’s Mustache
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      I don’t see us winning more than 6 games in the Pac-12 and I don’t know how we can win the South without everyone else having at least 3 losses. The team is capable but the schedule still looks daunting.

      USC & Ariona look like less of a threat, but ASU & Colorado look better than expected. I also wouldn’t sleep on Wazzu in pullman.

      • #67027
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        Onlyu
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        ASU’s schedule is worse than ours…way too difficult.  They’ll disappear quickly but might help us along the way by beating someone.  USC losing to Stanford is huge in the grand scheme of things and if we beat them at home in a few weeks you hold the tie breaker with two losses.  Avoiding the third loss will be key.  The USC game is bigger than this weekend, though, if we beat Wash it puts us in a great spot able to lose 2 the rest of the way and still win the South

        The best thing coming out of this weekend (besides the fact that we’re still undefeated) is easily the SC loss.  Find a way to win 2 of 3 at home (Wash, SC and OR) and I think we win the league.

        Head to head against SC is a massive game provided we don’t stumble at Wash St.  

      • #67028
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        EagleMountainUte
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        San Jose st was shut out by Wazzu.   Now I think it is a great accomplishment to shut any team out. Even what Utah has done defensively is impressive through two games. Sheer difference in athletes offensively Utah should be able to hang with Wazzu. 

        Same with Colorado you gotta play defense. Just a little bit of defense please. They sure got tons of help to win in Nebraska. Which is always good to have on the road but luck runs out at times. 

        ASU I am still scratching my head on this team. Want to see more JUST like Utah. Show me MOAR! 

        Is it September 15th yet?

      • #67031
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        KoolWhitt
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        ASU has Washington, Colorado, USC, and Oregon all on the road, and Stanford and Utah at home.  Easily the toughest schedule in the conference.  They will almost certainly have three conference losses by the time we play them, and could quite possibly have four.  Their conference schedule is heavily front loaded, with the exception of a game against Oregon State.

        So long as Utah doesn’t take too many Ls in our games against the South, we should win our division even with three conference losses, though two would obviously be better.  Make no mistake, USC is still the roadblock because of their schedule.  We absolutely have to own the tiebreaker against them to win the division.  ASU will be out of the running before October ends and Colorado, while perhaps a bit overrated at this point (beating a Colorado State team that was thoroughly worked by Hawaii and a Nebraska team that no one knows anything about doesn’t say a lot), looks to be our second biggest threat to the division title.  This is, again, based largely on schedule, but Colorado does get both USC and Washington on the road.

        Utah will win the division if they can limit their south division losses to one (and that loss isn’t to USC or Colorado) and limits north losses to two or less.

    • #67030
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      Utah
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      OOOOoooooohhh. You’ve upped us a win. Nice. I like it. 

      • #67033
        Wilson’s Mustache
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        It helps that the two teams I originally predicted losses to (due to short weeks game on the road) are the worst two teams in the division, possibly the worst two teams in the PAC-12.

    • #67063
      WhiteyFisk
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      I’d be pretty happy with 8 wins. 

    • #67111
      UtMtBiker
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      I see the same record but different losses:

      Weber – W, NIU – W, Wash – L, WSU – W, Stan – L, AZ – W, USC – W, UCLA – W, ASU – W, Ore. – L, CU – W, BYU – W

      I don’t see the optimism for this weeks game.  I’m going to be sufficiently sauced by game time because it’s not going to be enjoyable.  I’m seeing 31-13 Wash.  

       

      • #67113
        ironman1315
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        These exact same teams played last year in Seattle and Utah about pulled it off. Have some faith.

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