For a continually updated projection, there is always Team Rankings:
https://www.teamrankings.com/college-football/team/ohio-b...

Based on performance so far, Ohio looks to be a better than average MAC team, but has their three tough road games, including both their key MAC East foes, WMU, Miami, and Kent. Thus, the current projections are:
Wins: 6.4
Bowl Eligible Chance: 69.7%
Chance of winning MAC East: 23%
Chance of being MACC: 6.9%

These numbers will change weekly. FWIW, ESPN thinks enough of them that they use their numbers for their game projections.

-After Iowa State:
Wins: 6.0
Bowl Eligible Chance: 56.1%
Chance of winning MAC East: 12.3%
Chance of being MACC: 3.9%
Favored to beat Akron, Fordham, Buffalo, BG, and maybe one of Ball State or NIU.

After Fordham, Ohio continues to drop in wins, and in odds of winning the East and MACC:
Wins: 5.6
Bowl Eligible Chance: 52.1%
Chance of winning MAC East: 6.9%
Chance of being MACC: 1.9%
Favored to beat Akron and BG, and maybe 2 of Ball State, Buffalo, WMU and NIU.

After Kent, Ohio continues to drop:
Wins: 5.3
Bowl Eligible Chance: 45.1%
Chance of winning MAC East: 3.5%
Chance of being MACC: 1.0%

The win over Akron, plus a few other things, such as WMU's loss, gave Ohio a bounce:
Wins: 5.7
Bowl Eligible Chance: 55.2%
Chance of winning MAC East 6.8%
Chance of being MACC: 1.8%
To make it to 6-6, Ohio needs to beat BG, beat either NIU or WMU, and win one of the other games (Miami, Ball St, Buffalo).

After WMU, Ohio continues to rise:
Wins: 6.5
Bowl Eligible Chance: 78.6%
Chance of winning MAC East: 15.4%
Chance of being MACC: 3.8%
Chance of winning the MACC, if they get there: 24.7%

Not surprisingly, Ohio moves up again after NIU:
Wins: 7.1 (Highest yet)
Bowl Eligible Chance: 93.2% (highest yet)
Chance of winning MAC East: 18.4%
Chance of being MACC: 5.6%
Chance of winning the MACC, if they get there: 30.4%

The win over Buffalo made Ohio jump again:
Wins: 7.7 (Highest yet)
Bowl Eligible Chance: 100.0% (highest yet)
Chance of winning MAC East: 51.6% (highest yet)
Chance of being MACC: 17.8% (highest yet)
Chance of winning the MACC, if they get there: 34.5%

After the win over Miami:
Wins: 8.3 (Highest yet)
Bowl Eligible Chance: 100.0%
Chance of winning MAC East: 70.1% (highest yet)
Chance of being MACC: 25.6% (highest yet)
Chance of winning the MACC game, if they get there: 36.5%

The losses by BG and Buffalo further improved Ohio's chances:
Wins: 8.4 (Highest yet)
Bowl Eligible Chance: 100.0%
Chance of winning MAC East: 89.5% (highest yet)
Chance of being MACC: 31.0% (highest yet)
Chance of winning the MACC game, if they get there: 34.6% (slight drop)

Looking at Power Ratings after 5 games, remaining on the schedule MAC teams with higher ratings are Bulls and RedChickens. Considering RedChicken is without their 4 year star QB and OHIO has shown the ability to move the ball and score losing only one more game in a lousy league is entirely possible.

One game at a time: Zips fans say their team has a lousy secondary so the OHIO receivers light them up on Saturday and conversely the OHIO secondary does enough to stop an inconsistent Zips offense to win on Homecoming Saturday in Athens.

You can rest easy my friend.

And, showing how quickly things can change in the MAC, Buffalo is now the favorite to win the MAC East. Ohio gets Buffalo in Athens, and could disrupt that, hopefully.

Ohio's remaining schedule:

Oct. 15 at Western Michigan W
Oct. 22 NORTHERN ILLINOIS W
Oct. 29 BYE
Nov. 1 BUFFALO W
Nov. 8 at Miami W
Nov. 15 at Ball State W
Nov. 22 BOWLING GREEN W

WMU - doesn't have the offense to keep pace with Ohio whatsoever. Win
NIU - is dreadful this year, already dead in the MAC West and lost their QB. Win
UB - can't win in Athens. If the game was in Buffalo I might say an L. But it's not. Win
Miami - if Gabbert wasn't injured, I might say an L. But he is. Win
Ball State - will have come back to reality by then. Win
BG - is still bad. Easy win.

See you in Detroit!

If Northern gets their QB back, that will be an uphill battle, and probably the toughest game left.

They still beat EMU (and EMU probably would have been favored to beat Ohio coming into today) easily. It feels like a step up in play for NIU today even if he wasn't all there. If he is any healthier next week then it feels like this will be a tough one to pull out.

I keep my expectations of Ohio football fairly low. If you told me, after last season, we would have a winning record this year through 7 games, I'd take it in a heartbeat. We have a pulse, we have seen positive things, we have glimmers of hope. After last year, and the years I endured here when I was a student in the post-Grobe era, I will take it.

Ha-ha . . Just waiting for that Vietnam rice paddy grunt to chime in next! ;-)

Out did yourself with that one, dogface!

These posts go back to 9/1.

What took so long to respond ?

I think the point was the previous AD did respond to BA nut jobs like rpbobcat and myself. Sometimes his responses shouwed an inability to comprehend our nut-job brilliance, but at least he did respond.