Ok, time to own up. On the Futility '05 tour, I badly over estimated the Falcon football team. I had them losing one game--@Boise--and other than that we were set to run the table. We had too much talent not to--and I wasn't even factoring in that the MAC was down this season.
Well, not so much. I'll look more in a while on what happened, but here's the game by game.
@Wisconsin W WRONG
@Ball State W RIGHT
@Boise State L RIGHT
Temple W RIGHT
OU W RIGHT
@Buffalo W RIGHT
WMU W WRONG
Akron W WRONG
@Kent W RIGHT
@Miami W RIGHT
Toledo W WRONG
MAC Championship (NIU) W NOT APPLICABLE, THOUGH I TAKE SOME SOLACE IN PICKING NIU TO WIN THE WEST.
I got 7 right and 4 wrong. Nothing in the world would have made me think we would lose to WMU and Akron. And we never should have lost to Akron. I was wronger than this, though, because I envisioned us just dominating the weak teams in our conference, and it wasn't to be.
As solace, I decided to look at how the media did picking the standings.
Here's what the media picked for the West. Clearly, they saw NIU as a strong contended, and correctly id'd two of the top contenders in the division. They overshot EMU, and missed the resurgence of programs in K-zoo and Mt. Pleasant.
1. Toledo (31) | 237 |
2. Northern Illinois (11) | 220 |
3. Eastern Michigan | 133 |
4. Central Michigan | 111 |
5. Western Michigan | 103 |
6. Ball State | 73 |
In the West, they badly missed the Akron run to the title. BG and Miami did end up in a tie for the title, so that's not too bad...still, I doubt if that was what they were seeing when the whole season started. The overestimated OU, and knew exactly what they were getting in Buffalo.
1. Bowling Green (30) | 241 |
2. Miami (12) | 221 |
3. Ohio | 125 |
t-4. Akron | 122 |
t-4. Kent State | 122 |
6. Buffalo | 51 |
where's the politics?
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