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with this years schedule, if we're anything worse than 11 wins and vying for cfp birth again, it's a bust.this is pre-conf champ weekend. which basically means i fully expect to rep the west in atl.

6 and 6

Conference championship. Nothing more, nothing less.

What you expect and what makes you happy are 2 different things.

With Iowa this season I expect 8-4 but it would take 10-2 to make me happy.  

Sometimes its about the quality of the wins too.  When Iowa went 12-0 in the 2015 regular season,  it was an odd feeling for a variety of reasons.  Mainly because Iowa skipped OSU, Mich,  PSU and MSU on the regular season schedule so the 12-0 record did not feel "earned".

Its not that Iowa did not have any quality wins.  It beat top 25 teams Wisc and NW.  In fact they blew out NW 40-10.  They also had some exciting close wins over some average teams.  Yet when you look at the total package, the team did not feel much different from the 2013 Iowa team that went 8-4, that lost games to top 10 OSU & MSU but still managed to beat NW, Mich and Neb down the stretch.

But getting back to that 2015 team, Iowa was basicly just 1 play from beating MSU in the CCG and playing in the CFP.    Its just a weird team to figure out.  I am still am not sure how I actually feel about that team.   They were this close to playing in the playoffs, yet even I question if they were a great team.  

Its just another  reason I don't understand why any team would want to play a weak schedule if they legitimately think they are national title contenders.  If you want to prove you are a great team, you got to earn it by beating all the good teams.

7-6. Play competent football, improve as the season progresses.  Keep our frosh QB alive. 

I'd really like to see us pick off Sparty or Iowa as one of those Ws. Mich, tOSU and Wisco are outside that realm of possibility. 

Beat all the rivals, Notre Dame, Michigan State, and Ohio State, on the road.

And no, Harbaugh's seat is not even slightly warm whatever happens this year.

Good luck with that!
Seriously, not just as an Ohio State fan, beating three top-12 teams on the road is a VERY tall order for any team.  If Michigan goes 2-1 through those that would be pretty impressive.  

This is why I don't favor an 8 team playoff, among other reasons.  The winner would have to beat 3 "top 8 teams", which is a tall order for anyone, even the "best team".  You generate a playoff champion rather than the "best team".  On occasion, a 2 loss Number 8 seed would happen to win out and be the champion over a 14-1 1 seed.