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Why Can't We Row the Boat to 14-0?
Most people are saying we are going to get beat in a blowout to Wisconsin. Some are saying that it is going to be a close game but most of those people think Wisconsin will win and only a handful of people say the Broncos will win in a close game. So I ask you?

Why can't we win in a blowout? Why can't we win by 3 or more touchdowns?

Just because it's a Big Ten team? I'm sick of this narrative. We have beaten 2 Big Ten teams this year. Northwestern was ranked in the preseason. How were we supposed they would be average this year? Illinois was supposed to be better under Lovie Smith! How were we supposed to know they would be hot garbage this year?

Ohio's defense is the 5th best in the land. Their mirror defense is Wisconsin's 11th ranked defense. if anything we should be able to score a few more points off of Wisconsin's defense than we did off of Ohio's defense.

They have a stud running back, but so did several of the team's we played this year and sure we gave up a lot of yards in between the 20's but for the most part we kept them out of the endzone this year.

We have an NFL caliber offensive line, an award winning quarterback, a first round NFL draft pick at wide receiver, two of the best running backs in the country and a tight end who is starting to make a name for himself, albeit a little to late in the season. We have a return specialist/defensive back who has returned 3 interception's for touchdowns and has returned kicks and punts for touchdowns

The only thing that I see that holds us back is our slow (rope-a-dope) starts.

Sure, I read that there may be disinterest in playing us from Wisconsin's standpoint, but it is a "New Year's" game and I don't think Wisconsin is going to be as disinterested as everyone makes it out to be. They haven't lost to a MAC team in 17 straight games and they will want to keep that streak alive, but I think it ends here.

The Broncos have not lost a game since they became a ranked school after beating CMU. Last year they won their first game playing a ranked opponent and in 25 days they can win their first game playing a top 10 opponent. How fitting would that be to start the 2017 year with a win in the Cotton Bowl, heading into the final push of the recruiting season?

So why can't we win by 21+ points? Anything can happen once the game begins.

I'm not predicting a score, as I have not done so all season, but I'm rowing the boat all the way to a Broncos victory over the Badger's and one that we be talked about for years to come, not just by Broncos Nation but by media alike wondering what we could have actually done if we were given a chance in the P5 love fest know as the CFP!

Go Broncos!
Row the Boat!
12-08-2016 10:34 AM
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RE: Why Can't We Row the Boat to 14-0?
Oops. Wrong board. LOL Oh well.
12-08-2016 10:36 AM
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RE: Why Can't We Row the Boat to 14-0?
If the Bs go 14-0 and get the signature win over Wisconsin they better be Top 5, minimum. Like Dave Jones, I'm a believer.
12-08-2016 10:37 AM
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(12-08-2016 10:34 AM)John52168 Wrote:  Ohio's defense is the 5th best in the land. Their mirror defense is Wisconsin's 11th ranked defense. if anything we should be able to score a few more points off of Wisconsin's defense than we did off of Ohio's defense.

I wouldn't look too deep into Ohio's defensive ranking. They have a pretty good G5 defense but their stat rankings are helped by playing in the weak MAC East. They only played one good non-conference opponent (UT). NIU was awful this year and we went 3-0 vs. the East.

Needless to say, I hope WMU wins. It would be good for the conference to notch a big bowl win. Then maybe in the future a 13-0 MAC team will make it higher than a #15 ranking.
12-11-2016 09:57 AM
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RE: Why Can't We Row the Boat to 14-0?
Saying Ohio has the fifth best defensive statistics and saying they have the fifth best defense in the country are two very different things.
12-11-2016 12:34 PM
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RE: Why Can't We Row the Boat to 14-0?
I don't know whats worse playing a really fast team or a power team .
I thought Wisconsin was the best team Michigan played all year they just didn't get the breaks.
12-11-2016 01:11 PM
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RE: Why Can't We Row the Boat to 14-0?
Outsider perspective here. Personally I think WMU is a very talented team and will hang with Wisconsin, though I'm not putting my money on the upset. The college football world looks down on you guys because of the conference you're coming from. Let them, it'll only make victory that much sweeter if you pull it off. As a UH fan, we heard non-stop leading up to game day about how FSU was gonna work us over. Well needless to say that didn't happen. Being in the access bowl kind of feels like its you against the world but believe me when I say the rest of the G5 will be rooting for you guys. Good luck in Dallas, shock the world!
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RE: Why Can't We Row the Boat to 14-0?
Quote:Why can't we win in a blowout? Why can't we win by 3 or more touchdowns?

As I said in the WMU board... it'd be silly for Ohio State to say the same thing, and we aren't nearly as good as Ohio State (even though we're a dangerous team with our O). Thus, it'd be silly for us to have any realistic expectations of blowing them out.

Quote:Saying Ohio has the fifth best defensive statistics and saying they have the fifth best defense in the country are two very different things.

Well, it's run D. I'll agree they are two different things, but Ohio proved it can step up with that run D among the best of them at least. It was a great test for WMU, as Wisconsin is surely going to have that, and they don't need a "grand performance" to do so, unlike Ohio who did.

I don't think Wisconsin is going to be sub-par coming in. They're not like that as a team. I do think there's a good chance they won't be Pumped up for it like the LSU game in the early season or Ohio State/Michigan/Penn State.

What I expect from their mentality & focus coming in would be on the level of a game against Minnesota or something, a good team, where they have to win to clinch their Division in a last-game-of-reg-season. It's taken Seriously as an Important Game, but not on the level of a OSU/UM or B1G-Champ game.
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RE: Why Can't We Row the Boat to 14-0?
Why, you ask?

1. The Badgers lost their last game (which makes them angry).
2. They (Badgers) are not happy about this matchup (they're not about to
be embarrassed).
3. Tickets are currently selling for the replacement cost of a mop head ($6.00).

There, you have it.
12-12-2016 04:43 AM
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RE: Why Can't We Row the Boat to 14-0?
(12-12-2016 04:43 AM)CHIPPEWA ENEMA Wrote:  Why, you ask?

1. The Badgers lost their last game (which makes them angry).
2. They (Badgers) are not happy about this matchup (they're not about to
be embarrassed).
3. Tickets are currently selling for the replacement cost of a mop head ($6.00).

There, you have it.

you could also easily say

1. The badgers lost their last game and now have nothing to play for.
2. The badgers are not happy about this matchup and will have trouble getting excited for it, they likely believe they can win by "going through the motions"
3. Cheap tickets means Wisconsin fans aren't interested in this game, WMU fans can buy them up and create a home field advantage.
4. 49-10
(This post was last modified: 12-12-2016 08:14 AM by Bronc33.)
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RE: Why Can't We Row the Boat to 14-0?
I think the main reason people are picking Wisconsin is because they are a better team than WMU.

Oh and Ohio does not have the 5th best defense in the land.
12-12-2016 09:25 AM
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(12-12-2016 09:25 AM)george14 Wrote:  I think the main reason people are picking Wisconsin is because they are a better team than WMU.

Oh and Ohio does not have the 5th best defense in the land.

Ohio = 6th best run defense: http://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fbs/current/team/24
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(12-12-2016 01:49 PM)OUBobcat9092 Wrote:  
(12-12-2016 09:25 AM)george14 Wrote:  I think the main reason people are picking Wisconsin is because they are a better team than WMU.

Oh and Ohio does not have the 5th best defense in the land.

Ohio = 6th best run defense: http://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fbs/current/team/24

Like it's been said, stats =/= quality. OU has a good defense sure, but playing in the MAC East (including Miami before we started playing well) and having a non-conference schedule of Gardner-Webb, Kansas, Texas State, and Tennessee isn't much to stand on.
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(12-12-2016 04:26 PM)Love and Honor Wrote:  Like it's been said, stats =/= quality. OU has a good defense sure, but playing in the MAC East (including Miami before we started playing well) and having a non-conference schedule of Gardner-Webb, Kansas, Texas State, and Tennessee isn't much to stand on.

says the team that has lost 10 of the last 11 to a "weak" Ohio...
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(12-12-2016 09:25 AM)george14 Wrote:  I think the main reason people are picking Wisconsin is because they are a better team than WMU.

Oh and Ohio does not have the 5th best defense in the land.

On the first point, you have no idea if that's true.

On the second, I agree.

Thirdly, 49-10.
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(12-12-2016 11:10 PM)OUBobcat9092 Wrote:  
(12-12-2016 04:26 PM)Love and Honor Wrote:  Like it's been said, stats =/= quality. OU has a good defense sure, but playing in the MAC East (including Miami before we started playing well) and having a non-conference schedule of Gardner-Webb, Kansas, Texas State, and Tennessee isn't much to stand on.

says the team that has lost 10 of the last 11 to a "weak" Ohio...

Doesn't make what I said less true. And I never said OU was weak, I said you have a relatively weak schedule, and a result your rush defense is not the 6th-best run defense in the nation even if unadjusted stats say so on paper.

As for your swipe at Miami, congrats for having your best decade ever coincide with by far our worst decade ever, but your joyride against a bad Miami program is coming to an end. Congrats on your MAC title drought since 1968 btw...
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(12-13-2016 03:29 AM)wmubroncopilot Wrote:  
(12-12-2016 09:25 AM)george14 Wrote:  I think the main reason people are picking Wisconsin is because they are a better team than WMU.

Oh and Ohio does not have the 5th best defense in the land.

On the first point, you have no idea if that's true.

On the second, I agree.

Thirdly, 49-10.

Not sure what the CMU-WMU outcome has to do with anything, but I digress. Wisconsin is ranked higher and perceived as the better team.
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