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Dave Miller, a writer for The National Football Post has the Badgers pegged as a BCS Team and facing Florida State in the Orange Bowl.  Is this even realistic?  As I read down his projections I didn't see Wisconsin mentioned anywhere and I couldn't understand it.  Then I get down to his BCS games and lo and behold there are the Badgers in the Orange Bowl on Jan. 3, 2014.  Here are his BCS games:

 

Jan. 1 Rose (Pasadena): Ohio State (Big Ten No. 1) vs. Stanford (Pac-12 No. 1)

Jan. 1 Fiesta (Glendale): Baylor (Big 12 No. 1) vs. Fresno State (BCS)

Jan. 2 Sugar (New Orleans): Missouri (SEC No. 1) vs. Central Florida (BCS)

Jan. 3 Orange (Miami): Florida State (ACC No. 1) vs. Wisconsin (BCS)

Jan. 6 BCS national championship (Pasadena): Alabama (BCS No. 1) vs. Oregon (BCS No. 2

 

Link to all his bowl projections:

 

http://www.nationalfootballpos...rojections-5440.html

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Originally Posted by ammo:

Dave Miller, a writer for The National Football Post has the Badgers pegged as a BCS Team and facing Florida State in the Orange Bowl.  Is this even realistic?  As I read down his projections I didn't see Wisconsin mentioned anywhere and I couldn't understand it.  Then I get down to his BCS games and lo and behold there are the Badgers in the Orange Bowl on Jan. 3, 2014.  Here are his BCS games:

 

Jan. 1 Rose (Pasadena): Ohio State (Big Ten No. 1) vs. Stanford (Pac-12 No. 1)

Jan. 1 Fiesta (Glendale): Baylor (Big 12 No. 1) vs. Fresno State (BCS)

Jan. 2 Sugar (New Orleans): Missouri (SEC No. 1) vs. Central Florida (BCS)

Jan. 3 Orange (Miami): Florida State (ACC No. 1) vs. Wisconsin (BCS)

Jan. 6 BCS national championship (Pasadena): Alabama (BCS No. 1) vs. Oregon (BCS No. 2

 

Link to all his bowl projections:

 

http://www.nationalfootballpos...rojections-5440.html

It would not be pretty....

There's a good chance that O$U could be left out of the NC game.  As of now, they are 4th in the BCS standings behind Alabama, Oregon, and FSU.  If all those teams run the table there is no way the Buckeyes would leapfrog any of them.

 

However, I do agree that it's more likely that a 1 loss $EC team would get a BCS nod over a 2 loss Wisconsin team- if that scenario were to present itself. 

 

As for the "UW has no chance against FSU" all I have to say there is that while a team like the Noles has a very good pass defense they have not or will not have faced any kind of a ground attack like the Badgers offer.   As it is they are allowing about 150 yards per game on the ground.  That's OK but nothing special.

 

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OSU looks great and MSU's D is plenty good, not much O tho.  The Badgers?  Need more consistent QB play to play with the big boys.




 

Well, I am a Stave critic as much as anyone but let's not forget they got jobbed out of 1 win (ASU) and they very well could have beaten the Buckeyes in their place.   Stave played good enough to win in both of those games.  So basically you have 7 points and a botched ref call away from UW being undefeated right now.   So I guess my perspective is they have and can play with the big boys.  Now, if they had to play Oregon or Alabama?   I think that would end badly but I would not lump OSU into the same category as the Ducks or Bama.

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