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Official 2021 Football Season Prediction Thread
- Thread starter The Alabaster Yak
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Same, but I would say NOBODY saw this level of suck coming. I didn’t think Lewis could possibly be this bad and didn’t expect the coaching to look significantly worse than last year.
@manhattanbuff disagrees.
The thing is, I still think I was relatively accurate with my assessment of the talent….but **** me, can’t do anything with it because OL and QB play
I honestly expected 4-5 wins. I felt like I was being fairly negative, but realistic.
I felt bad for being realistic, which is why I didn't pump my thoughts much - I hate being the guy that brings everyone else's optimism down.
I did not expect to be looking at a 1 or 2, maybe 3 if we're really lucky type of season.
But here we are...
At this point I think you win an "overly optimistic prize."
I said 5 W's. I really thought adding Wray and getting Filip back would stabilize the OL. I thought last year's OL play was not bad at all. They are worse this year, which is a mystery. I thought the QB situation would have some growing pains, but coupled with a pretty solid D, CU would win some, but fall just short of bowl eligibility.
Actually, I overestimated the P12S. Pretty much everybody not named fUCLA looks pretty bad. The problem is, however much I overestimated the P12S as a whole, I overestimated CU by a factor of 3. AZ may be the only P12 game CU really has a good shot at. Even Oregon St. in the P12Norte has played well.
This weekend will tell a lot. If a down USC squad comes into Folsom and curb stomps the Buffs, then AZ might be the only P12 game that CU wins. If CU gets up off the canvas and at least makes it respectable, there may be some hope. If CU somehow shakes off the SC slump, I am going to buy a lottery ticket immediately after the game.
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Is it though?
Fair question. Yes, I think the OL is worse. Last year's version wasn't dominating, but they ran the zone running plays fairly well. Brou had some holes.
Outside of some moments in the 3d and 4th Q of the ASU game, they really did not open up holes against any of the P5 opponents yet this year. Even against UNC, the real success was a stretch play where the RB simply outran the defenders to the edge. Pass pro has been much worse this year.
Part of it, of course, is a new QB. I imagine defenses are loading the box more. I think Lewis has a pretty huge upside, but he is having a trial by fire, and all that entails. So there is more pressure on him, and the OL.
The offense has simply been ineffective, to put it as mildly as possible.
You misinterpreted my question.
I wasn't questioning whether it worse. It most definitely is.
I was questioning whether or not there's a "mystery" as to why.
Sorry. I missed your point. My bad. No, it probably isn't really a mystery. I think we all know, I was just trying to be nice about it.
I agree with your view. To counter, Chev needs to run quick hit run and pass plays. Seems like all our schemes and plays are very slow developed
I said 4 and that was at least a factor of 2 two much and my be a factor of 4 more than we are capable of
Bliff Cranch
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I thought they’d maybe get to six. Losses to Minn and Cal were the difference.
SeanMSan
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They left a few games on the table - aTm and fUCLA. The Minn and Cal games were winnable, if the Buffs had shown up.
I had to go back and look. Not sure what I was thinking when I said 7 wins
In my defense I thought Clayton was going to break out along with JBrew continuing. We would see Shenault and Rice with Stanley stretching the field, and a stout D.
Honestly, the difference in the offense immediately post-Rodrigue firing makes me think that if we had had a real offensive line coach this whole time, we might have won a couple more games. We've drifted back toward the norm the past 6 quarters, but that's because of the inescapable fact that our OC is garbage.
I’m gonna hedge your action by putting $25 on the CU Money Line. My local already bought me out with a 95% payout so I’m good.
I voted on four wins during the Pre-Season when this poll closed. After watching the team play and seeing the schedule, I thought they were a max 3 win team. The only game I got wrong was the UDub game.
I said 5 and thought that was maybe a bit too pessimistic after seeing the poll results
. . . only game you got wrong so far!
Before the season I only saw 2 likely wins, but enough potential to figure that we'd find 2 more. I'm utterly shocked we found those wins after seeing us play.
You got lucky to get to four wins. Now you’re gloating….
Let's just say I am unexpectedly relieved.You got lucky to get to four wins. Now you’re gloating….
I voted for 4, but didn't really flesh out a big why because it was pre-season and I don't like to be debbie downer in pre-season threads where we should be trying to get some optimism for the season.
I figured we would win UNC & UA, and then split Minn, Cal, OSU & UCLA, with no hope against USC (until we finally beat them one time, I'm never picking this as a win no matter bad they are), ASU, UU, UW and UO.
Way too early 2022:
W: UA
L: Minn, UCLA, USC, UU, ASU, UO
Split: AFA, TCU, Cal, OSU, UW
so 3.5 wins - I'm an optimist, so I'll call it 4.
I figured we would win UNC & UA, and then split Minn, Cal, OSU & UCLA, with no hope against USC (until we finally beat them one time, I'm never picking this as a win no matter bad they are), ASU, UU, UW and UO.
Way too early 2022:
W: UA
L: Minn, UCLA, USC, UU, ASU, UO
Split: AFA, TCU, Cal, OSU, UW
so 3.5 wins - I'm an optimist, so I'll call it 4.
I already booked my reservation at Baltaire in anticipation!