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Originally Posted by TateMosersneighbor

Looks like we are up to 30 according to Sagarin. Favored against Nebraska in Lincoln...has a nice ring to it.

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Just be a little careful as the numbers are not well connected yet. Some historical stuff still in there. I still, very intentionally, quote last years numbers when I tell my Husker friends that last year, NDSU was clearly the superior team.

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Originally Posted by westnodak93bison

Uni will choke

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Thats a lot of travel, I dunno, there are lots of good teams that go out there and look crappy against Hawaii

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Originally Posted by missingnumber7

Thats a lot of travel, I dunno, there are lots of good teams that go out there and look crappy against Hawaii

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Hopefully they're not as dumbfounded by the Polynesian war chant as USA basketball was.

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Originally Posted by bisonaudit

Hopefully they're not a dumbfounded by the Polynesian war chant as USA basketball was.

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HMMMM...If they are I see that happening alot.

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Originally Posted by THEsocalledfan

Just be a little careful as the numbers are not well connected yet. Some historical stuff still in there. I still, very intentionally, quote last years numbers when I tell my Husker friends that last year, NDSU was clearly the superior team.

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I get it, it's early.

My point was more around this...holy shit it's Nebraska. Holy shit we'd probably hang with them...reagardless of the score it's just cool to be in such a different echelon right now. We are 5 or 6 years removed from losing 8 games in a year to teams like Mankato State. We just beat Iowa State and it was dominating. I LOVE this thread as it's one of the only ones (maybe the only one) that deals with facts/data...so I do know what you're saying. I go to Massey and Sagarin every week and run the simulations and nerd out...yep don't care.

So again, my post was more around the regard I have for Nebraska Football...and that at least in the last few years, we'd give them a run for their money anywhere.

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Originally Posted by TateMosersneighbor

Looks like we are up to 30 according to Sagarin. Favored against Nebraska in Lincoln...has a nice ring to it.

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Originally Posted by stevdock

That seems about right since McNeese gave Nebraska everything they could handle last weekend.

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Let's not forget Weber State gave us all we could handle as well. We need to get much better by the time we play SDSU and UNI or we will be looking at 3rd place in the conference and possibly watching the playoffs from our easy chairs.

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Originally Posted by LITTLEGUYSINGREEN

Let's not forget Weber State gave us all we could handle as well. We need to get much better by the time we play SDSU and UNI or we will be looking at 3rd place in the conference and possibly watching the playoffs from our easy chairs.

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Not that I propose we rest on our laurels and accept UNI and SDSU as losses, but I think that even with three conference losses, we still get into the playoffs.

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Originally Posted by thebootfitter

Not that I propose we rest on our laurels and accept UNI and SDSU as losses, but I think that even with three conference losses, we still get into the playoffs.

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Yeah, well there were 6 teams in the MVFC last year that were good enough to make the playoff and we only got 2.

Agree, this team doesn't have the margin for error that last years team did. Feels more like a better, little deeper 2010 team.

It's early...arm chair QBs (like me) are antsy.

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Originally Posted by TateMosersneighbor

Agree, this team doesn't have the margin for error that last years team did. Feels more like a better, little deeper 2010 team.

It's early...arm chair QBs (like me) are antsy.

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In my opinion, I believe this year's team ranks somewhere between the the 2011 and 2012 National Championship teams.