Team | Realistic Worst Case Scenario | Realistic Best Case Scenario |
---|---|---|
(obviously 0-12 is worst case) | (I'm dead serious about this) | |
Toledo | W | W |
@ Kansas | L | W |
#7 Penn State | L | W |
FAU | W | W |
@ Purdue | L | W |
Nebraska | W | W |
@ Maryland | L | W |
Wisconsin | L | W |
@ Minnesota | L | W |
Indiana | W | W |
@ #25 Iowa | L | W |
Northwestern | W | W |
Record: | 5-7 | 12-0 |
A few notes:
- I think if Kansas, Purdue, and Minnesota were home games, I'd put those on the win side.
- If any of those teams I predict losses to are even the tiniest bit worse than I'm envisioning, I think we can win them all. It's weird how "eh" I feel about any of the teams on our schedule (even Penn State)... but also how "eh" I feel about Illinois being "comfortably" better than any of them either (except Northwestern)
- Likewise, if Illinois is even the tiniest better than I am envisioning, we could truthfully go 12-0 with this schedule. And I 100% mean that.
So, let's average and give the ol' Illinois Orange Kool-aid rounded up value: 9-3
What a weird time to be an Illinois fan.