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Originally Posted by donniccolo
i respectfully disagree. i've been at games that we could "never" lose only to see the team totally stb. if pryor goes down, we can lose any of the 3 games you mention.
even w/ a healthy pryor, we can lose to iowa, wisc, and michigan. psu is pretty bad but they are still psu and anything can happen.
Most of those cases are just plain overconfidence where a team is underestimated. Purdue last year was not one of those teams. There may be bad performances, but I can't think of any BCS years that we've actually were in legit danger of losing against absolutely awful teams. The only one I can think of is Marshall 2004.
Minnesota, Purdue, and Indiana are worse than 80+ DI-A teams. They are really really awful. Possibly worse than anyone we have played so far except EMU.