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If this is what happened, would you be:

1.  Thrilled
2.  Satisfied
3.  So so
4.  Disappointed
5.  ranting

Obviously thrilled.  You get a national title, an undefeated season and a win over an undefeated Michigan in the Game.  Then you also get to beat 2 SEC teams in the playoffs.  Was this thing written by Buckeye fan fiction?

Satisfied

was a good early run that kept folks excited

and I'd assume Frost would still have his job with the possibility of the better 2023

besides, we beat the Sooners!

Obviously thrilled.  You get a national title, an undefeated season and a win over an undefeated Michigan in the Game.  Then you also get to beat 2 SEC teams in the playoffs.  Was this thing written by Buckeye fan fiction?

AAA (ann arbhor adam) --> ELA (east lansing adam) --> TCA (the columbus adam)  or maybe BAA (benedict arnold adam)?

So So

8-5 isn't bad, and we were certainly a bit ahead our boots last year, but taking a step back when the trajectory is building up, never feels good.  But if you had told me before last year we'd go 6-6 last season, and then 8-4 in 2022, I would have been very happy with that

I've just been entering the preseason power ranking votes and what a difference a year makes. Last year MSU was #13. 

That said, I think the schedule is unhelpful for the Spartans. They get Ohio State at home but the next two toughest B1G-E teams (M, PSU) on the road. Then they get Wisconsin as a crossover at home. 2-2 against that group would be great but I think 1-3 is most likely with 0-4 about as likely as 2-2. 

I've just been entering the preseason power ranking votes and what a difference a year makes. Last year MSU was #13.

That said, I think the schedule is unhelpful for the Spartans. They get Ohio State at home but the next two toughest B1G-E teams (M, PSU) on the road. Then they get Wisconsin as a crossover at home. 2-2 against that group would be great but I think 1-3 is most likely with 0-4 about as likely as 2-2.

Yeah OSU is a loss no matter where, so the two coin flip division games go from home to away.  Trading Nebraska for Wisconsin as the marquee crossover opponent certainly doesn't help.  Then the big OOC game we trade @Miami for @Washington.  Washington is a mess, but so was Miami last year, and that west coast September road trip seems to always be unnecessarily difficult for Big Ten teams.

So to be honest I think 7-1 otherwise should be the expectation, with a loss to OSU.  Then how they do from 7-5 to 11-1 depends on @Washington, WISCONSIN, @Michigan, @Penn State.  I would hope they would win 1 of those, to go 8-4, but 2-2, to go 9-3 I think would be a great season

AAA (ann arbhor adam) --> ELA (east lansing adam) --> TCA (the columbus adam)  or maybe BAA (benedict arnold adam)?

Don't say baa around a Michigan fan, or you'll get them all excited