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Topic: What comprises a "good year" for your team?

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Cincydawg

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What comprises a "good year" for your team?
« on: November 27, 2019, 11:53:47 AM »
I think the floor has to be 6-6 and a bowl game.  Maybe for Rutgers et al. 4-8 would be a good year?

Then I think 9-4 is credible for many programs, you could claim it as a year your team finished ranked.  (This is fire the coach time in Columbus etc.)

A ten win season is a pretty good year, you might be 10-4 with a division championship.  (You'd be close to top ten.)

An 11 win season is nearly always going to be top ten ranking for a P5 team.

A 12 win season means you won your conference and/or competed for it and lost a CG but made an NY6.

A 13-14 win season means you made the playoff and probably finished top 6 or so.  If this is your floor for "a good year", your program is really elite.
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Re: What comprises a "good year" for your team?
« Reply #1 on: November 27, 2019, 11:58:04 AM »
9-4 is satisfactory

10 wins is pretty good

11 wins is very good

12 wins is great
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Re: What comprises a "good year" for your team?
« Reply #2 on: November 27, 2019, 12:00:22 PM »
10 wins is a good year.
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Re: What comprises a "good year" for your team?
« Reply #3 on: November 27, 2019, 12:19:01 PM »
For a team like Purdue, you want to be bowl eligible or better every year.

9-10 wins would be an outstanding season.

In most cases, given 9 conference games and at least 1-2 P5 OOC, 7-5 or 8-4 is still a pretty respectable season.
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« Reply #4 on: November 27, 2019, 12:30:36 PM »
It depends.  If MSU could defend 4th and 13, they'd have beaten ASU and Illinois, and be playing for 8-4.  But what's their best win?  Indiana?  And in those 4 losses, even though all were to top 15 teams (OSU, UW, PSU, UM) they weren't competative in any of them.

So generally I'd say 8/9 wins going into the bowl is good, but it depends on (a) the schedule and (b) how they looked in the games against the best teams
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Re: What comprises a "good year" for your team?
« Reply #5 on: November 27, 2019, 12:40:40 PM »
Depends on the team. Sliding scale.

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Re: What comprises a "good year" for your team?
« Reply #6 on: November 27, 2019, 12:57:51 PM »
Going to a bowl, any bowl.
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Re: What comprises a "good year" for your team?
« Reply #7 on: November 27, 2019, 01:11:52 PM »
For OSU beating Michigan is enough for about 25% of the fan base. Winning the Big Ten would satisfy another 25% of the fan base. Qualifying for the CFB Playoffs would degrouchify a third quarter of the fan base. It would take a NC to keep the final 25% from finding a bunch of stuff to complain about.
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Re: What comprises a "good year" for your team?
« Reply #8 on: November 27, 2019, 01:12:27 PM »
Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on November 27, 2019, 12:40:40 PM
Depends on the team. Sliding scale.


Right.  So for your team....
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Re: What comprises a "good year" for your team?
« Reply #9 on: November 27, 2019, 01:13:10 PM »
Being in the hunt in November...in the hunt for the SEC East, the SEC, and the NC.  Mattering, being on the national radar, etc - that's 'being in the hunt'.
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Re: What comprises a "good year" for your team?
« Reply #10 on: November 27, 2019, 01:41:17 PM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on November 27, 2019, 01:12:27 PM
Right.  So for your team....
See the post just above yours (the one that I am quoting in this post).
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Re: What comprises a "good year" for your team?
« Reply #11 on: November 27, 2019, 01:45:26 PM »
Beating Minnesota and winning the bowl game. I'd settle for beating Minnesota and being competitive against a high-quality opponent in a bowl game.

Otherwise, not a good year. Losing to Minnesota would make for an ok year, with the highlight of the season coming in week 4.
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Re: What comprises a "good year" for your team?
« Reply #12 on: November 27, 2019, 01:49:53 PM »
This obviously hinges heavily on expectations.  I thought preseason this would be "UGA's year" to make a "deep run".  Ten or even 11 wins would be a bust.  

Minnesota is assured of having had a great year.  If Kansas State gets 9 wins, it's a great year.  Wisconsin is having a quirky year thus far, that could end up being very good to great.  Michigan is trying to finish strong, which would salvage what had looked like a disappointing year into a something.  Tennessee has done the same (probably), add VaTech and USC to that list.  Ohio State and LSU and Clemson can't all win it, so two fan bases will be somewhat disappointed, perhaps all three.  I know for Bama fans this year is disastrous (for many), really a terrible terrible year without recent parallel.  Ha.
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Re: What comprises a "good year" for your team?
« Reply #13 on: November 27, 2019, 03:40:27 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on November 27, 2019, 01:49:53 PM
This obviously hinges heavily on expectations.  I thought preseason this would be "UGA's year" to make a "deep run".  Ten or even 11 wins would be a bust. 

Minnesota is assured of having had a great year.  If Kansas State gets 9 wins, it's a great year.  Wisconsin is having a quirky year thus far, that could end up being very good to great.  Michigan is trying to finish strong, which would salvage what had looked like a disappointing year into a something.  Tennessee has done the same (probably), add VaTech and USC to that list.  Ohio State and LSU and Clemson can't all win it, so two fan bases will be somewhat disappointed, perhaps all three.  I know for Bama fans this year is disastrous (for many), really a terrible terrible year without recent parallel.  Ha.
Hey, Bama's not out of it yet!  They could back-door into the CFP (without winning their division) and win it all.  It's happened before!
For OU, right now, the floor for a "good year" might be winning a NY6 bowl game.
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