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<blockquote data-quote="the juiceman cometh" data-source="post: 1576158" data-attributes="member: 747321"><p>Perhaps, but I'm looking at last season's schedule, and I don’t see an equivalent to last night's game in conference play. Our only home losses were to Maryland (ranked #9 at the time) and MSU. Those were tough games against opponents that were just better than us. We also lost some tough away games, but won more of those than we lost. We hit a tough stretch where we lost against 4 difficult opponents in a row, but we made up for it by winning all the games we should have been favorites for, and some we were not favorites for (at #9 Penn St. - that was a fun game). We haven't hit our tough stretch yet, and we just lost a home game against a team we should really be beating, so we're running behind the pace last year's team set. Hopefully we can catch up. That tough stretch is coming soon:</p><p></p><p>1/23 - at MSU</p><p>1/29 - Iowa</p><p>2/2 - at Indiana</p><p>2/6 - Wisconsin</p><p>2/11 - at Michigan</p><p></p><p>Then we end the season at Wisconsin 2/27 and at OSU 3/6. </p><p></p><p>I'm not super confident we can come out with even 4 wins out of those 7 games, after yesterday's performance (even that would put us at 5 losses, if we win all remaining games)?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="the juiceman cometh, post: 1576158, member: 747321"] Perhaps, but I'm looking at last season's schedule, and I don’t see an equivalent to last night's game in conference play. Our only home losses were to Maryland (ranked #9 at the time) and MSU. Those were tough games against opponents that were just better than us. We also lost some tough away games, but won more of those than we lost. We hit a tough stretch where we lost against 4 difficult opponents in a row, but we made up for it by winning all the games we should have been favorites for, and some we were not favorites for (at #9 Penn St. - that was a fun game). We haven't hit our tough stretch yet, and we just lost a home game against a team we should really be beating, so we're running behind the pace last year's team set. Hopefully we can catch up. That tough stretch is coming soon: 1/23 - at MSU 1/29 - Iowa 2/2 - at Indiana 2/6 - Wisconsin 2/11 - at Michigan Then we end the season at Wisconsin 2/27 and at OSU 3/6. I'm not super confident we can come out with even 4 wins out of those 7 games, after yesterday's performance (even that would put us at 5 losses, if we win all remaining games)? [/QUOTE]
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