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I think its a good list. I think Colorado is going to be awful in the first year so that doesn't make sens, its just the Deion hype machine is why they are on the list. Auburn is going to have a tough year but Hugh freeze has proven he can win against the big programs in the SEC.
 
Cane26 said:
I think its a good list. I think Colorado is going to be awful in the first year so that doesn't make sens, its just the Deion hype machine is why they are on the list. Auburn is going to have a tough year but Hugh freeze has proven he can win against the big programs in the SEC.
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What did A&M do to become so improved? It seemed like they lost a **** ton of talent from that crazy class they had but they did hire Bobby. I am fine with us on the list but its like we sucked so bad last year you almost hope it was an anomaly and can only go up .

You also have to remember for Colorado that the team was 1-11, same thing they do not need to do much to "improve" and no doubt there is more talent on that team than there was last year.
 
Cookie917 said:
What did A&M do to become so improved? It seemed like they lost a **** ton of talent from that crazy class they had but they did hire Bobby. I am fine with us on the list but its like we sucked so bad last year you almost hope it was an anomaly and can only go up .

You also have to remember for Colorado that the team was 1-11, same thing they do not need to do much to "improve" and no doubt there is more talent on that team than there was last year.
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I'm with you, A&M had a freshman QB last year who's going to be good and they still have a ton of talent. I guess Colorado can only go up from here but Deion is unproven at a P5 level and its a full blown circus with that guy.
 
Cookie917 said:
What did A&M do to become so improved? It seemed like they lost a **** ton of talent from that crazy class they had but they did hire Bobby. I am fine with us on the list but its like we sucked so bad last year you almost hope it was an anomaly and can only go up .

You also have to remember for Colorado that the team was 1-11, same thing they do not need to do much to "improve" and no doubt there is more talent on that team than there was last year.
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It's just a bet on their blue chip ratio. They don't know anything else about ATM.
 
Decent list.

Texas A&M is always hyped and always fails. They’ll lose games they shouldn’t but pull an upset or two and finish with eight or nine wins in typical Jimbo Fisher fashion.

Wisconsin is a wildcard with new coach Luke Fickell. Will he turned around the program in year one or will he have a transition year with his team adjusting?

Oklahoma is a lot like Miami, suffering a poor first year with a new coach. Lincoln Riley did not leave his successor a stacked defense, but they are talented offensively. Oklahoma’s 49-0 lost to Texas must pain them like our 45-3 lost to FSU.

Texas certainly is stacking chips on the roster but I’m not sold on Sark as an elite head coach.

Auburn will be interesting to watch with Hugh Freeze returning to the $EC.

I certainly don’t think Colorado is ready for “Prime Time”. They open with TCU in a non-conference game, and week four and five play Oregon on the road and USC at home. But as posters stated it’s not hard to improve from 1-11; a 5-7 or 4-8 season would look successful as long as they were competitive in most of their losses.

The remaining teams on that list are not on my radar to watch.
 
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TemplarCane said:
Decent list.

Texas A&M is always hyped and always fails. They’ll lose games they shouldn’t but pull an upset or two and finish with eight or nine wins in typical Jimbo Fisher fashion.

Wisconsin is a wildcard with new coach Luke Fickell. Will he turned around the program in year one or will he have a transition year with his team adjusting?

Oklahoma is a lot like Miami, suffering a poor first year with a new coach. Lincoln Riley did not leave his successor a stacked defense, but they are talented offensively. Oklahoma’s 49-0 lost to Texas must pain them like our 45-3 lost to FSU.

Texas certainly is stacking chips on the roster but I’m not sold on Sark as an elite head coach.

Auburn will be interesting to watch with Hugh Freeze returning to the $EC.

I certainly don’t think Colorado is ready for “Prime Time”. They open with TCU in a non-conference game, and week four and five play Oregon on the road and USC at home. But as posters stated it’s not hard to improve from 1-11; a 5-7 or 4-8 season would look successful as long as they were competitive in most of their losses.

The remaining teams on that list are not on my radar to watch.
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ATM hype is off the change at OC. so a lot of their improvement is based on that. they werent awful on D. they still return a lot of good talent.

OU isnt a lot like us bc their coach is a brand new HC not an experienced one. first time HCs often make first time mistakes as they learn on the job (BV hasnt HCed before). we had a coach going on 10 years as a head man. those mistkaes shouldnt happen.

Texas is more similar to us imo. experienced HC with a bad season but they are recruiting at a higher level currently. i think mario gets us close enough to their level recruiting wise.
 
Looking like a bottom 20 team most of the year means you can move up 40 spots and still suck.
 
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A&M has pretty much been an 8-9 win team forever so expecting a return to form isn’t all that crazy.

Colorado was so bad last year that 3-8 would be a huge improvement for them.

Brett Venables pulled a Mario and managed to set expectations so low that winning 8 games would be considered a great improvement whereas it would have been considered a huge failure for Lincoln Riley
 
Cane26 said:
I think its a good list. I think Colorado is going to be awful in the first year so that doesn't make sens, its just the Deion hype machine is why they are on the list. Auburn is going to have a tough year but Hugh freeze has proven he can win against the big programs in the SEC.
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I agree that Colorado won’t be good but 4-5 wins will be a massive improvement for them.
 
I don't think Chryst deserved firing but I think Wisky is probably the safest bet on that entire list- especially so as they have a relatively weak B1G schedule.

Corch Grime getting to 2 or 3 wins shouldn't qualify here just based upon loose verbiage.

I can see Freeze getting Auburn to around 8 wins so that's probably the second strongest one on the list.

Nothing in either direction would surprise me about us and TAMU.
 
Midlo Cane Fan said:
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- List gets blown up early G2 w/ AtM or Miami...losing fanbase will go full Linda Blair
- AtM better win big...I think they get better from last season
- Big Manny needs to get a signature win over quality G5 opponent...JFC I want to throw up typing that
- Badgers...meh
- Gut tells me Venables is in BIG trouble...for that matter I think Dabo is too
- Hook'em faithful will burn 6th St if Cutty Sark doesn't have big wins...has to prove they won't disappoint (like Miami and AtM)
- Iowa? IDGAF
- I believe Coach Stumpy Toes is going to struggle...he will have zero advantages he enjoyed at Fear The Hat State
- Tigers will be better than putrid Harsin...expect T-Mobile Freeze to beat Bama sometime in future...War **** Eagle
- Nebraska...see Iowa
- Arkansas...serial disappointer..
see AtM, Miami, and Texas
 
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We can certainly improve tremendously over last year's dismal performance. If Mario wants to get this program headed in the right direction while competing with the big boys he MUST have a big win. No better team to be his first victim than Texas A & M with NO excuses Mario. A well coached team gets this done and I hope he's up for the challenge.
 
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**** good list. A2M with Petrino and Miami with its complete overhaul have to be headliners. Also, I agree with no UF which runs counter to the hype machine there. Colorado won't win a lot more games, but despite the fact I think Deion is a narcissistic ******* who will churn through kids, I do believe he'll improve what was an abysmally bad program there.
 
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