2022 B1G Season Thread

[ELA]

it could get much worse

not that I'd know anything about that

You never played in the Pac 12 though.

Nebraska would have absolutely been favored over ASU last year.  Granted they would have found a horrific way to lose it, but they would have deserved to win

[FearlessF]

yup, going 1-8 in the PAC would have been much worse

might be where ASU is headed this season

[MrNubbz]

  Michigan's floor looks like 10-2

I was thinking you'd found Dean Martin's liquor cabinet with all those departures. Checked their schedule and it appears you may be on to something. But then again how much prosperity can the Skunkweasels stand?

[ELA]

I was thinking you'd found Dean Martin's liquor cabinet with all those departures. Checked their schedule and it appears you may be on to something. But then again how much prosperity can the Skunkweasels stand?

Yeah, if you give them 2-2 @Iowa, vs. MSU, vs. PSU, @OSU; good luck finding a loss in their other 8 games

[FearlessF]

Only 8 football programs have won 70% of their games in the last 50 seasons. The B1G has 4 teams that have done just that.

Ohio State, Michigan, Nebraska, and Penn State have all won 70% of their football in the last 50 seasons. The Buckeyes leads the nation, and the B1G in that stat with the best overall win percentage. Not too far behind them is Michigan, followed by Nebraska and Penn State. Being that the B1G is 1 of the oldest conferences in college football, there is bound to be some great traditions like this.

Here is the where the B1G schools ranked overall on the list, and what their win percentage is over the last 50 seasons:

No. 1: Ohio State .787
No. 5: Michigan .727
No. 6: Nebraska .726
No. 7: Penn State .719

[847badgerfan]

[FearlessF]

Go Big Red

[medinabuckeye1]

Only 8 football programs have won 70% of their games in the last 50 seasons. The B1G has 4 teams that have done just that.

Ohio State, Michigan, Nebraska, and Penn State have all won 70% of their football in the last 50 seasons. The Buckeyes leads the nation, and the B1G in that stat with the best overall win percentage. Not too far behind them is Michigan, followed by Nebraska and Penn State. Being that the B1G is 1 of the oldest conferences in college football, there is bound to be some great traditions like this.

Here is the where the B1G schools ranked overall on the list, and what their win percentage is over the last 50 seasons:

No. 1: Ohio State .787
No. 5: Michigan .727
No. 6: Nebraska .726
No. 7: Penn State .719

Per Srassen (note, I've required 90% of years or 45 to be included which excluded Boise thus moving Michigan up):

• .787 tOSU
• .772 OU
• .757 Bama
• .727 M
• .727 UNL
• .719 PSU
• .716 UGA
• .698 FSU
• .694 USC
• .689 Clemson
• .688 UF
• .686 BYU
• .679 Miami, FL
• .679 ND
• .677 TX
• .663 Auburn
• .659 LSU
• .641 aTm
• .641 TN
• .623 VaTech
• .607 Washington
• .603 WVU
• .599 ASU
• .593 UW
• .592 UCLA

• #32 .573 IA
• #36 .556 MSU
• #56 .511 UMD
• #71 .467 RU
• #75 .463 MN
• #77 .455 PU
• #89 .394 IU
• #92 .381 NU

[medinabuckeye1]

Two notes on the above:

First, I long ago adopted @ELA 's typical format of listing all of the top-25 with B1G schools in bold then listing the rest of the B1G schools. It is going to be a LONG time before I'm fully accustomed to bolding USC/UCLA.

Second, for as bad as Purdue has been overall (77th nationally and only ahead of IU and NU in the league) they have a remarkable number of wins over #1 Ohio State. In the 50 years from 1972-2021 the Boilermakers are 8-25 against the Buckeyes for a winning percentage of .242. That may not sound like much but it is better than:

• .167 IA
• .125 UNL
• .054 IU
• .051 MN
• .029 NU

Also, Purdue's eight wins over tOSU in the last half century is tied with USC for sixth most, trailing only:

• 20 M
• 11 IL
• 11 UW
• 10 PSU
• 9 MSU

[ELA]

50 years is a rough cut off point for MSU

[Mdot21]

fact that Michigan is #4 considering the RichRod years and Hoke years (minus the first fluke season) is pretty wild to me. Seems like Michigan would be lower- but then again they've been consistently very good, rarely awful, and rarely truly great- so kinda makes sense.

[MrNubbz]

At Camp Randall !!!

[ELA]

fact that Michigan is #4 considering the RichRod years and Hoke years (minus the first fluke season) is pretty wild to me. Seems like Michigan would be lower- but then again they've been consistently very good, rarely awful, and rarely truly great- so kinda makes sense.

Yeah, that was still only 7 years, and they still were above .500 in 4 of them, and (as you said) 11-2 once.

[medinabuckeye1]

Yeah, that was still only 7 years, and they still were above .500 in 4 of them, and (as you said) 11-2 once.

Different time frame, but I calculated rolliing 10-year winning percentages for the helmets and a few near-helmets for every 10-year period from 1927-1936 through 2012-2021. Then I looked at each school's best and worst. Here they are ranked by worst:

• .6319 tOSU
• .5542 USC
• .5112 OU
• .5103 TX
• .5094 ND
• .4947 M
• .4918 TN
• .4762 LSU
• .4757 BAMA
• .4660 FSU
• .4458 PSU
• .4159 Clemson
• .3876 UF
• .3738 Miami. FL
• .3370 UNL

Michigan's worst was 1958-1967, not the RRod years. They are still high on the overall lists because everybody else has rough times too.