How many games do we win in 2017?

[TravelingPanther]

[TravelingPanther]

Curious to see what people think after 1 game. Some bright sides and nervousness on both sides of the ball.

[strike00]

I think we go a solid 7-4 and get back to the playoffs.

NDSU and SDSU are both on the road and those games will be extremely tough to come away with a win. I also think we lose one other random game we probably shouldn't.

[sevelev711]

5. Cal Poly, @So Utah, @So Ill, @Mizz St, InSU. I'd very much love to be wrong and get called out for being a glass half empty shmuck. But for the first time in a long time, the offense looked better than the defense, and there were two pick sixes and an O-line which struggled quite a bit

[GonzoCat]

Since the poll goes to 13, I'm assuming you are counting playoff games if any?

[Blue42]

5. Cal Poly, @So Utah, @So Ill, @Mizz St, InSU. I'd very much love to be wrong and get called out for being a glass half empty shmuck. But for the first time in a long time, the offense looked better than the defense, and there were two pick sixes and an O-line which struggled quite a bit

Man that's a pessimistic view after that game.

We had 120 rush yards and 380 total yards of offense. The D gave up 7 points in 1st half to what many have said is the best O talent ISU has had.

We get YSU and South Dakota at home. And a trip to Western where we've been successful.

Think bigger things this year fellas.

[TravelingPanther]

5. Cal Poly, @So Utah, @So Ill, @Mizz St, InSU. I'd very much love to be wrong and get called out for being a glass half empty shmuck. But for the first time in a long time, the offense looked better than the defense, and there were two pick sixes and an O-line which struggled quite a bit

This is actually where I'm at. I think we could lose one of these and snag one from the other group.

[TravelingPanther]

Since the poll goes to 13, I'm assuming you are counting playoff games if any?

Yes. If we win 13 regular season games I will be impressed.

[TravelingPanther]

Man that's a pessimistic view after that game.

We had 120 rush yards and 380 total yards of offense. The D gave up 7 points in 1st half to what many have said is the best O talent ISU has had.

We get YSU and South Dakota at home. And a trip to Western where we've been successful.

Think bigger things this year fellas.

Western Illinois is Homecoming.

[GonzoCat]

Well then the answer is 9. 8 regular season, 1 playoff. We could win more playoff games, but we will undoubtedly be sent to one of the DSU schools for the second round and that will be a tough one.

['70 Grad]

The Valley in general had some pretty good scores Saturday. Beware.

[vbfan19]

The Valley in general had some pretty good scores Saturday. Beware.

NDSU played a terrible SWAC team, so it is no surprise that they put up a good score.
South Dakota and Illinois State played non-scholly Pioneer League teams
YSU did make a decent showing at Pitt, and I have no clue what happened with the Missouri State/Missouri game. I think they switched to basketball.

[clenz]

8-3 at the end of the regular season
The only games I'm not confident in is SDSU and NDSU.

Cal Poly has been pretty bad through their first two losses. They have no passing game. They won't run on this defense. We named the score on them in 2015 with Aaron Bailey at QB and a 9:40 Iowa kick off.

Southern Utah looked much worse than I thought they would vs Oregon. They are a Big Sky team, that means no defense. Oregon returned the opening kick of the season for a TD and were up 42-7 with 3 min left in the first half. It was 42-21 at half due o a 64 yard TD pass on broken coverage and a TO on Oregon ensuing possession giving a 24 yard field. 77-21 was the final. Ran for less than 100 yards, threw for 200 on 47 attempts outside of that broken coverage. Dink and dunk offense with no run game (2.6 ypc) on top of it. Gave up 355 yards passing on 23-27 passing and 348 yards rushing on 52 carries (6.7 YPC)

SIU - good offense. REALLY bad defense. They still aren't very good.

WIU - homecoming, not going to lose that one

YSU - played Pitt tough - still not sold on them this year

USD - killed Drake...great for them. still a win

MSU - It's still MSU. They are still very bad

ISUb - worst team in the conference.

[TravelingPanther]

Only 35 votes so far. Do we really have that few active users these days?

[Big Cats]

Only 35 votes so far. Do we really have that few active users these days?

I just don't feel like I know enough about this team to make an educated guess. So rather than look like a fool, I chose to remain on the fence. That way, no matter how the season goes I can say, "see? that's just what I predicted." Haha