Michigan Football: Wolverines resume stock is rising

October 9th, Nebraska Cornhuskers & November 6th, Indiana Hoosiers

I felt that these two teams deserved to be lumped in the same category as similar rules apply. Both Indiana and Nebraska are good football teams. Their record simply does not indicate how competitive they are.

For the Nebraska side of things, the Huskers have had to tee up against not one, not two, not three but four top 10 teams this season (Oklahoma, Michigan State, Michigan, and Ohio State) which is no fun at all. To add to all that, they had to play three of these games on the road.

Nebraska lost by an average of 5.5 points to those teams. A few different plays/snaps and Nebraska could literally be a top 15 team in the country right now.

Instead, Nebraska sits 3-7 on the season and is faced with two more ranked opponents Wisconsin and Iowa… Good luck Huskers.

Indiana who undoubtedly has had the hardest schedule in College Football this season sits at the bottom of the Big Ten East and at an unimpressive 2-7 record after being a preseason top 20 team. That sounds bad, but hear me out.

While Indiana has not been as close as Nebraska has been in games against very good teams, they’ve held their own in many cases. They’ve faced 6 ranked teams, 5 being ranked inside the top 10 when playing them.

The only team that’s fallen off that they’ve lost to was Penn State, and even then Penn State is still a 6-3 team who is just on the outskirts of being reranked.

Indiana was Michigan’s latest foe and the Hoosiers showed in the first half that they can move the ball if they play clean and consistent football but that’s tough to get out of them.

While neither will make a Bowl Game this season, you can expect people to understand the reasoning as to why they did not do as well as projected.