12 wins- Deep down we are all secretly hoping to see this. This would leave no doubt that Nebraska football is back and getting close to swinging with the heavy hitters of the country. Recruiting would be a cake walk, we would be the media darlings and similar to UCF only we would actually get respect.
11 wins- I don't see this happening. I think we need those recruiting flood gates to open first before we can get to this range, but you never know. If we can get past Ohio St early on and give a confidence boost, we could easily run the table and maybe have a hiccup game vs a team like, MN, Iowa, or Wisc.
10 wins- if 9 might get us the west 10 would for sure get us the west. While some think 10 is a pipe dream. When looking at our easy schedule. There is no reason to think it shouldn't be possible. Hitting 10 should really tell everyone around the country that Nebraska is on the way back. . This should open up the flood gates for recruiting and attention even more so. I could see us pulling in a top 10 class.
9 wins- getting to 9 would probably give us the West. This would be huge for confidence no only for players and coaches but for fans. I don't see anyone being disappointing with hitting 9 wins. This could put us in line for a ny6 bowl game. Also hitting this number should start drawing even more attention from national media and national recruits.
8 wins- In my opinion this is the magic number. I think we need to hit 8. It would at least tell me we are gaining ground and beating those teams we should beat. I would feel confident in the direction of the program.
7 wins- 7 should still be considered a fail, we have enough talent and we all believe the coaches are talented enough to at the very least get to 7 wins. However not the end of the world. We could still justify it and say, well we still have Riley players. We need another year in S&C. We at least gained significant ground over last year. But this turn around is going to take awhile.
6 wins- If we have 6 or anything under we have big problems in Huskerland. We have the talent to be better than this. 2 years in there is no reason to have 6 or less. There are other issues besides talent going on. Frost would probably need to take a look at coaching/ coaches, scheme in the BIG10, or full player buy in. Something would need to be adjusted.