2022 expections

[laxwyo]

Well, the boys hit most your numbers for 4 wins. Knowing what you know now. Do we go 0-5 the rest of the way? I say there’s at least 2 wins out there but nothing is given. BSU D can handle our O. I seem to recall a few people saying 6 wins would be a miracle coach of the year type performance for Bohl.

Teams left on schedule are 2-4, 1-4, 1-4, 3-2 and 1-3.

They’ve outperformed my expectations. Partly because the conference is not good. I think we make a bowl which is a good accomplishment with the inexperienced team.

I’d love to be able to write in wins against hawaii and csu but history says we lose one of them. Fresno isn’t the same without their good qb. My head says we pick up 2 wins and my heart says we pick up 3. As it currently stands, we should beat usu,csu,hawaii and probably Fresno and drop it to Boise but that definitely would be coach of the year type ending. We could go 0-5 though lol.

[LanderPoke]

The bye week comes at a good time. We are banged up

[laxwyo]

If Fresno can pull an upset tonight, mtn division is in our hands again.

[DamThatRiver22]

I wasn't on this board prior to the season, but I did say a few times on r/cfb (Reddit) that 6-6, 7-5 was most likely.

Something to keep in mind:

Haener and a few other key injuries are due back by the time we play Fresno State in their house. Fresno State is not going to be anywhere near "lost to UConn" levels of bad when we play them.

Boise State still has a good defense and we still have a bad offense. Also, Greene is the exact kind of mobile QB we struggle with, and Koetter is a MUCH better playcaller than Plough ever was.

Utah State appears to have figured their stuff out; Bonner was not a good QB and even USU fans knew it. He was Anderson's "guy" and he held onto him longer than he should have both last year and this year. They are not to be overlooked. Legas is a good QB and he's backed up by Williams, who we know is a more than capable QB and would be be playing in an offense much better suited to him than ours was.

Also, some aggression is required to beat all three teams at their best; Bohl's conservatism was on clear display tonight and it almost cost us the game twice...against one of the worse teams in the conference. Craig Bohl gets outcoached more often than not.

UH and CSU appear to be the only "gimme" wins here...and as we saw for long stretches against UNM, even "gimme" games are not gimmes.

I'm still pretty optimistic about 6 wins. Seven isn't entirely out of the question. Anything more would be a miracle, and beating BSU is an absolute must if we are to even sniff a championship berth (they have a pretty easy schedule as well)...and even then it's not guaranteed.

[307bball]

I predicted 5 on this thread back before the season started. Looks like the surprise win over AFA may get them to 6 if they can take care of Hawaii and CSU (definitely not a given). That would also get them to .500 in conference play.

I agree that this team is not good. Very limited offensively and need help from the opponent to win. UNM really played poorly after the first quarter and they aren't that good to begin with so, to Wyoming's credit, they got the W.

[ragtimejoe1]

MWC is even worse than I thought it would be. The D is pretty solid which is what I predicted. The O isn't very good, and even with a terrible MWC, there are no gimmie games. There aren't any sure losses either.

4 wins at this point? I'll take it. If the O can just start clicking a little bit, this could be a decent season all things considered.

Can we get 3 or 4 wins out of usu, hi, csu, bsu, and fresno? Maybe.

[J-Bone]

Air Force could give us a little breathing room by dropping Boise State next week. That should be a good game.

[laxwyo]

I wasn't on this board prior to the season, but I did say a few times on r/cfb (Reddit) that 6-6, 7-5 was most likely.

Something to keep in mind:

Haener and a few other key injuries are due back by the time we play Fresno State in their house. Fresno State is not going to be anywhere near "lost to UConn" levels of bad when we play them.

Boise State still has a good defense and we still have a bad offense. Also, Greene is the exact kind of mobile QB we struggle with, and Koetter is a MUCH better playcaller than Plough ever was.

Utah State appears to have figured their stuff out; Bonner was not a good QB and even USU fans knew it. He was Anderson's "guy" and he held onto him longer than he should have both last year and this year. They are not to be overlooked. Legas is a good QB and he's backed up by Williams, who we know is a more than capable QB and would be be playing in an offense much better suited to him than ours was.

Also, some aggression is required to beat all three teams at their best; Bohl's conservatism was on clear display tonight and it almost cost us the game twice...against one of the worse teams in the conference. Craig Bohl gets outcoached more often than not.

UH and CSU appear to be the only "gimme" wins here...and as we saw for long stretches against UNM, even "gimme" games are not gimmes.

I'm still pretty optimistic about 6 wins. Seven isn't entirely out of the question. Anything more would be a miracle, and beating BSU is an absolute must if we are to even sniff a championship berth (they have a pretty easy schedule as well)...and even then it's not guaranteed.

Haener should prepare for the draft

[laxwyo]

Not to toot my own horn, but I got it exactly right last year predicting 6-6. I said it would be the end of the Bohl era. Sadly, I was wrong about that. I'm going to take the average number of wins in Bohl's first 2 seasons. That should get us a total of 3 wins. We get 2 wins OOC and 1 in conference.

I will also predict that attendance will start to decline. High ticket prices along with 9 dollar beers are hard to stomach when the team wins 1 home conference game. This year will probably be no different.
Then, Burman will be forced to act.

I think this is award for the lowest win total predicted.