I was working on a post-mortem for the Kill/Claeys era when I couldn’t help but think “How would things look if we had different (Wisconsin’s) crossovers?” My gut reaction was 2014 and 2015 would have better records while 2016 would be worse. Since the off-season is the perfect time to talk about hypotheticals I decided to investigate further.
I used every B1G team’s final Massey Composite ranking to determine if a given game should have been a win or a loss. I plugged in Wisconsin’s conference schedules and assigned any game the Gophers did not already play based on who had the better ranking.