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This schedule isn’t brutal. It seems like a fairly standard non-SEC/ACC schedule to me. Two mediocre to bad G5 programs and a P5 program that won 4 games last year, all of which are in Colorado. Sure, we replace OSU and Cal with Stanford and Oregon, but are we sure Stanford and Cal aren’t more of a wash than we want to admit this year?
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Colorado: I see a lot of people out here counting games vs. Colorado as victories. I was guilty of it too. The Buffs are low-hanging fruit when you're trying to figure out a path to meet or exceed expectations for anyone that has Colorado on its schedule. But the doubt is misguided when you dig a little bit. Colorado has maybe the best player in the Pac-12 in Laviska Shenault and it was 5-0 before Shenault's injury last fall. It also has an upper tier quarterback in Steven Montez, plenty of running mates on offense like KD Dixon at wide receiver and true freshman Jaren Mangam at running back. The defense will stabilize, the offense will be explosive and Colorado will overachieve and blow past the three or four wins that most are projecting. -- Barton Simmons
2019 Pac-12 expert picks: Overrated, underrated teams and predicted order of finish
Taking a close, detailed and opinionated look at the Pac-12 as the 2019 college football season gets underway
Analytics will change when models get populated with real data. I hope.
Yep. The numbers can only reflect what the team was in 2018 at this point. I don't think that tells the story of what these players are capable of. It's going to be a long season if what we saw the last half of the year is predictive of what we'll see in 2019.
I can understand why someone would say that @Oregon, Washington and @Utah were very low chance games with CSU and AFA being the only games that would be penciled in as likely wins. That leaves another 7 games as somewhere around the 40-60% range for a win. I don't understand an expectation that we'd only get 1 or 2 of those toss-up type games. More normal would be to get 3 or 4 of them, so I'd think that the "no hype prediction" should have people guessing that this is a 5 or 6 win team.
It's bizarre to me that he felt a need to blow UCLA up and go with a total youth movement last year. Mora wasn't winning enough and there were likely some culture problems, but that cupboard was not bare by any stretch. Bruins were putting a lot of guys in the NFL, just underperforming -- which is kind of their program DNA. UCLA is the Pac-12's Texas A&M.
Balls deep?
All I got out of that was the vision of Head Coach Burrito standing in front of the media post practice saying “This was our best Tuesday leg humping ever!”
