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You have added another variable but sure I agree that by NDTwice

if we get routed by Georgia or anyone else the seat will be much hotter for our coach.

Regarding our schedule it is ranked the 53th most difficult by Steele but the bad teams on our schedule are unduly influencing the mean [pulling it down]. If you take the average of our five toughest teams according to Steele [Michigan 3, Georgia 4, Stanford 22, Virginia Tech 25, and USC 32], the average is 17.2. This might be a truer measure of a top and low level schedule. Unfortunately, our three hardest games (Michigan, George, and Stanford are also away.

Personally I think there is a reasonable chance that we can go ten and one and be in the play off conversation. I am, of course, biased but the offense should be particularly hard to stop and the defense while inexperienced here and there, it does have notable players scattered across all facets of it. Our young linebackers could surprise due to their speed.