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2013 Rose Bowl: Wisc +6.5 vs Stanford (ov/un 47.5) Jan 1st 5:00

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I think this will end up being a good game. Stanford's run defense may be good, but Ball is a beast. Stephon Taylor isn't shabby either. I think it's going to come down to Hogan's performance versus Phillips. Hogan looked pretty good late, but he's still young and will face a better defense than Oregon and UCLA imo.
 
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The way the cards fell this year was so bizarre. We have the mediocre Domers in the championship game where they'll almost certainly score single digits in a snooze-fest; An SEC full of flawed teams and void of undefeateds for the first time in as long as I care to remember; a 5-loss, third-in-conference-division, entirely one-dimensional Bucky in the Rose Bowl on a technicality against a team that is not Oregon or USC; A 7-5 Trojan team that was a pre-season NCG lock headed to the Sun Bowl; a MAC team in the Orange Bowl after losing to the second-to-worst team in the B1G during one of the conference's worst seasons ever; and an undefeated Buckeye squad sitting the postseason out after finishing with a losing record last year.

What a year of disappointments. I predict a game-of-the-century style 6-3 Bammer win in the finale of a boring bowl season.

EDIT: And since I apparently thought this was the NCG thread, let me just add that I also predict a low-scoring, close game in which Bucky shits the bed yet again.
 
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Stanford has a good run defense and can run the ball effectively also, but Wisconsin has an entirely different kind of running game. I think the Badgers get some going in this game and make it one of the best BCS games of the year. The biggest key for Wisconsin is on defense vs the two excellent TE's from Stanford.
 
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I think predicting anything one way or the other is pretty tough with this Wiscy team. How do they react to Bielema's departure? Does Alvarez still have what it takes, especially against one of the brightest young coaches in college football? How motivated will they be? Who the hell knows?

I can see this being a blowout either way. Or a close game either way. :biggrin:
 
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redguard117;2284223; said:
I think predicting anything one way or the other is pretty tough with this Wiscy team. How do they react to Bielema's departure? Does Alvarez still have what it takes, especially against one of the brightest young coaches in college football? How motivated will they be? Who the hell knows?

I can see this being a blowout either way. Or a close game either way. :biggrin:
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I think the jury is still out on David Shaw. He inherited a good squad from Harbaugh and it's only been 2 years. He wouldn't be the first coach to look good his first couple years then slide as his own recruits take over. Time will tell.
 
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They need to kick this off. The pre game chatter is getting annoying. I know they have to hype it but they keep talking about how Wisconsin "magically" won the Big Ten despite 5 losses with no mention of how they got in the title game in the first place. There wasn't anything magical about it.
 
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Jake;2284351; said:
I think the jury is still out on David Shaw. He inherited a good squad from Harbaugh and it's only been 2 years. He wouldn't be the first coach to look good his first couple years then slide as his own recruits take over. Time will tell.
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Quit readin my mind, Jake:

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