The BigTen Network has a nice page summarizing all the watch lists for this season. Which nicely highlights OSU’s challenge this year — compared to years past, OSU has way too few players on these lists. For OSU to achieve the top 5-10 finish predicted by a lot of pollsters, some relative unknowns are going to have to have breakout seasons. OSU certainly has the talent but will it develop and gel?
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UConn (after signing a home and home series last week with Michigan) doesn’t feel like they have to bend over for Notre Dame anymore. ND has been able to stuff a schedule full of lower rank Div I opponents, but these are the teams that are exactly in demand by the top tier of Div I teams. So the price in dollars and return visits for all these games are heading up. It will be interesting to see how this plays out for ND, as the price rises for them to maintain their schedule, though obviously they still are doing fine economically as an independent.
The UConn/Michigan linkup tho is especially pointed, as teams from the two conferences which have been most desirous of ND inclusion have joined up to put a hole in ND’s schedule.
Willingham by the numbers – UW Dawg Pound — wow a crushing analysis of UW recruiting. This pretty much lays out exactly why there will be a coaching change.
My buddy Tim runs a little pickem content and the first week slate is out:
- August 28 North Carolina State vs. South Carolina. I don’t think NC State is there yet
- August 29 Temple vs. Army. ugh. Army i guess
- August 30 Utah vs. Michigan. I think Michigan will have a lot of emotion and will win this
- Syracuse vs. Northwestern. Northwestern. Never take Syracuse
- Virginia Tech vs. East Carolina. VT
- Michigan State vs. California. Hmm, MSU is the favorite darkhorse in the big10 this year. But hard to win on the west coast.
- Hawaii vs. Florida. Florida
- Alabama vs. Clemson. Oh damn, Clemson is a trendy pick, but I have never won picking Clemson
- Missouri at Illinois. Mizzou. Illinois strugges to repeat last year’s breakthru
- Washington vs. Oregon. Hmm, Oregon is confused at QB, UW is not.
- August 31 Kentucky vs. Louisville. Ugh, no respect for these teams. Probably take Louisville
- Sept 1 Fresno State vs. Rutgers. Take Rutgers at home
- Tennessee vs. UCLA. UCLA not ready for primetime yet