aik
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We can play with Washington. Their road victory by several scores at Cal tells me we probably don't beat them.
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We can play with Washington. Their road victory by several scores at Cal tells me we probably don't beat them.
o_robbie
I don't think before I post
Seems like we play Utah pretty strong every year. They don't have the fire power to run away from us like a USC or Oregon. If we can catch a couple breaks and play decent defense we might be within a TD in the 4th qtr. CU will have to play a very good offensive game and have zero turnovers.
Just worried about Ucla right now. We play like we did Saturday, we won't beat anyone.
hate to piss on the parade, but we have seen all the wins for this year. Buffs just do not have the talent to overcome what we are facing. Had our chances against cal and osu, the other games were not as close as we think. Would love to upset ucla or utah, but I just do not see it. CU has a knack for making average QB's look great and great QB's look world class. we're furked.
2015 I guess after another long off-season.
2015 I guess after another long off-season.
Math and statistics would disagree with you.
| Wins | Probability |
| 0 | 30.09% |
| 1 | 40.85% |
| 2 | 22.18% |
| 3 | 6.02% |
| 4 | 0.82% |
| 5 | 0.04% |
Our expected wins is also 5.3 according to the pythagorean expectation. As it stands right now we have a 31% chance against UCLA, 24.8% chance against Washington, and a 28.6% chance against Utah and all of those will change since the method takes into adjusted points per game and home field advantage. Despite not being favored in a game, the stats still say we win one more as the most likely outcome.
I'm not really sure where you're getting that we're making QBs look better than they are. Kessler is the only one, but USC is also the only team we've played who has high-4*'s and 5*s stacked in the WR corps.
seattlebuff
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This is one time when math and stats don't mean ****, IMO. All you need is eyeballs. Anyone who thinks we have enough talent to beat anyone left on the schedule is just pumping sunshine. Our only chances at conference wins were OSU and Cal, many people were saying that in the spring. If anything, its more true now than it was then, with Arizona, Utah and ASU being better than expected. So now someone will say "Well, **** it, let's not even show up then!" That's crap. There's tons of value to our future in going out and competing and hanging into the second half, and maybe into the 4th at home. Absolutely. That helps us at least with the kids who are here now, to feel they've taken a step forward. But us winning again? Not gonna happen.
BuffaloChuck
Member
Really? Which ones?
BuffaloChuck
Member
I think there could be three games essentially over by Halftime. That's what I call an "easy win". Maybe one more in there because it only takes one quarter's worth of fumbles, misplays, INTs, etc. to have pinball scoreboards.
So, easy wins by us or by them?
:doh:
Week in, week out, we tend to beat ourselves.
BuffaloChuck
Member
Ah! The RIGHT question!
you nailed it here ^^ . Stats mean **** sometimes, really need to show win or playing close, followed by we have seen the wins we are going to see this year. I hope we win the rest of them, but just don't see it.
Nice sentiment but completely false.
Our level of talent right now is never going to play with USC or Oregon's level of talent right now.
If we continue to get better to a point where we actually have athletes on the field who are close then what you say is true.
Any given day we might have a chance against Oregon State and Cal and Washington State, against the teams with elite athletes, not so much.
:lol:
Would love for you go tell Kenpom.com his method doesn't mean shut because of your bias.
BuffUp is right. The stats are based primarily on point differential and strength of schedule. It doesn't mean they aren't of value, but using a very basic statistical method, we can conclude that CU is an even match up with Oregon (CU lost to Cal by 3, Cal lost to Arizona by 4, Arizona beat Oregon by 7). If you include a 3 point adjustment for home field advantage, my stupid model makes CU a 6 point favorite at Oregon. Obviously this is a simple and flawed model with a very small sample size, but even extremely complex statistical methods are flawed (and the sample size is still pretty small even six games in to the season). And the "stats" can't take into account that ASU lost Kelly in the first half against us or that USC would've put between 80 and 90 points on us if they didn't call off the dogs. I'm guessing those numbers would skew the statistics in favor of 0 more wins.
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Call me an idiot(which 98% of you already do) but does this guys own Buffscoop?
Obviously there are flaws, but if it is good enough for KenPom then it's good enough for analysis that's going to happen on a message board. I'm not saying we are gonna win again, just that the odds are in our favor. I would love to perform a logisitc regression for game odds, but I don't have the money to purchase the dataset I've found and I haven't found a suitable free data set.
No.
Tini - that is a reasonable explanation, even though I just don't see it. I like us against Arizona about as much as against anyone else.
I think Arizona is tied for the worst mstchup with Oregon. I still like us against Utah and UW. I do find it odd that right now our best odds are this weekend.
ahoelsken
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Jared Goff did throw for 7 touchdowns against us-but I agree. Let me say this before I make my next point-Talentwise, we are the worst team in the South division, and the weaker team in all five games. That being said, this schedule isn't as tough as it looks. Why?
UCLA has dramatically underachieved, other than running the likely South Division champ IMO (ASU) off the field.
I'm having a hard time reading Washington-They took a half off against Georgia State, didn't show well at Hawaii, but blew out the same Cal team we couldn't outscore.
Arizona is overrated. Its clear to me that Rich Rod owns Oregon like CU owned Texas Tech----as evidenced by the fact that they lost their first game coming off that win. Sure, theres no harm in losing to USC, but the way they lost...poor special teams play.
Oregon is a loss. If we can play them a little tougher (lead into the 2nd quarter), great.
Utah is overrated. They are the beneficiary of the failure of a season that UCLA is having. Watch for USC to bring them back to earth in a big way.
Likely. Will also be interesting to see how Utah's offense responds to losing Dres.
Yes, by far. uphill battle though. Lot more talent than us.