2018 Record

2018 Wins

  • Less than 6

    Votes: 29 10.9%

  • 6-8

    Votes: 114 42.9%

  • 8-10

    Votes: 90 33.8%

  • More than 10

    Votes: 19 7.1%

  • IIWII

    Votes: 14 5.3%
  • Total voters
    266
smokey_wasp said:
I'll bite. Out of curiosity, what makes you think that? We bring back most of what should have been at an 8-3 or 7-4 team, we have a new DC and nowhere to go but up on Defense. The only way I can see pessimism is if you assume zero improvement from the QB position. I went with 6-8, but would have said 7-9 if that were an option.
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The way I see it, we have 2 easy wins (Alcorn, Bowling Green).

@USF, @Pitt are likely wins, but tough to lock in road wins considering recent history. Split those and that’s 3, win both road games and that’s 4.

Duke, UNC, Virginia are 50/50. So, 1 or 2 more wins. Now 4-6 wins.

Clemson, @Louisville, @VT, Miami are games I cant expect to win, but say we win 1 and we’re 5-7 wins.

7 wins means sweeping the winnable road games, taking 2/3 from UNC, Duke, Virginia, and stealing one from the really tough games... that is too optimistic for me, so 6 wins is me being optimistic.
 
Schedule and my personal predicted chance of winning for each game:

1 Alcorn State (95%)

2 @South Florida (75%) Will probably take a step back from last year, but it's a road game early in the season and Strong is still a very good coach.

3 @Pitt (65%) A very winnable road game, but they did manage to knock off Miami on the road last year

4 Clemson (15%) One of the two toughest games on the schedule, but it's at home so that helps a little

5 Bowling Green (90%)

6 @Louisville (50%) Hard to predict this team without Lamar Jackson, but it's a road game and will still likely be a good offense

7 Duke (55%) Slight nod to us since it's at home, but a pretty even match up

8 open

9 @Virginia Tech (40%) A road game against a likely Top 25 team, but could be the most likely game we could steal away as an underdog

10 @North Carolina (65%) Road game, but UNCheat isn't very good right now

11 Miami (35%) A tough loss last year against a team on the rise and Richt seems to have our number, but it's at home and his teams seem to let one or two slip away each year. Here's to us being one of those games.

12 Virginia (65%) A home game and hopefully our boys can use the revenge factor here

13 @Georgia (15%) No comment

With all that said, I'd say 6-6 to 7-5 with a 3rd place finish in the division is reasonable. 8-4 if we're being optomistic.
 
gte490v said:
The way I see it, we have 2 easy wins (Alcorn, Bowling Green).

@USF, @Pitt are likely wins, but tough to lock in road wins considering recent history. Split those and that’s 3, win both road games and that’s 4.

Duke, UNC, Virginia are 50/50. So, 1 or 2 more wins. Now 4-6 wins.

Clemson, @Louisville, @VT, Miami are games I cant expect to win, but say we win 1 and we’re 5-7 wins.

7 wins means sweeping the winnable road games, taking 2/3 from UNC, Duke, Virginia, and stealing one from the really tough games... that is too optimistic for me, so 6 wins is me being optimistic.
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Fair enough. I consider Louisville and VT tossups, and Duke and UVA likely wins so that explains the difference in expectations.
 
buzzbuzz said:
Schedule and my personal predicted chance of winning for each game:

1 Alcorn State (95%)

2 @South Florida (75%) Will probably take a step back from last year, but it's a road game early in the season and Strong is still a very good coach.

3 @Pitt (65%) A very winnable road game, but they did manage to knock off Miami on the road last year

4 Clemson (15%) One of the two toughest games on the schedule, but it's at home so that helps a little

5 Bowling Green (90%)

6 @Louisville (50%) Hard to predict this team without Lamar Jackson, but it's a road game and will still likely be a good offense

7 Duke (55%) Slight nod to us since it's at home, but a pretty even match up

8 open

9 @Virginia Tech (40%) A road game against a likely Top 25 team, but could be the most likely game we could steal away as an underdog

10 @North Carolina (65%) Road game, but UNCheat isn't very good right now

11 Miami (35%) A tough loss last year against a team on the rise and Richt seems to have our number, but it's at home and his teams seem to let one or two slip away each year. Here's to us being one of those games.

12 Virginia (65%) A home game and hopefully our boys can use the revenge factor here

13 @Georgia (15%) No comment

With all that said, I'd say 6-6 to 7-5 with a 3rd place finish in the division is reasonable. 8-4 if we're being optomistic.
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Glad we don’t play the other central Florida team again this year.


Maybe a hurricane blows this game out too and the Mutts have their highest hopes dashed again!!
 
Yukonwreck said:
Didn't we lose to Tennessee and Miami? Did I miss something? Clempsen, Georgia, Miami, Virginia Tech, Duke, Virginia. There's six losses right there. USF, North Carolina, and Louisville will be tough, too.
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USF lost their center QB best lbs and dbs and most of the rest of the Oline.

Go to Tampa, watch the Jackets win (guaranteed) and take your ticket stub to the Mons right down from the stadium. You will forget about your mom.
 
I see Tech going 9-3 in 2018, with the only losses coming against Clemson, VT, And Georgia. Tech will beat Miami.
 
Dirty Jacket said:
When you’re on the ground doing belly flops, learn to crawl before you try to run.
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So making becoming bowl elegible with a 6-6 record or better is running and beating a top 10 rival fresh off a NCG appearance and a conference title is crawling? Logical. I'm all for a W over the dwags but not making a bowl game is much more embarrasing than a loss to them would be.
 
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