The few quotes I saw from Napier he mentioned the "holistic approach". I'm sure he loves it when the family does their own thing instead of surgery, etc.
this is a concern I have as an outsider. I think on paper they have the potential to be pretty good. They have top 15 talent and a kid who could be elite if he puts it all together. odds are that schedule is still too tough to win 9+ games, but also you gotta worry if Lagway can even last the entire schedule as well as he's got two injuries currently and got dinged last year
I'm fascinated to see if he makes it through the LSU/Miami/Texas/Texas A&M stretch. That stretch runs 9/13 through 10/11
Not so much my expectation as that is just how the math works I would probably pick Clemson if the game was tomorrow given it's in their building. But it is interesting to note Dabo is just 1-5 vs ranked non ACC teams 2021-24 scoring just 15 ppg The lone win was vs ND in 2023
I’m not a big vote of confidence for LSU in this spot. Brian Kelly hasn't beaten a top-20 away opponent during his tenure at LSU, and LSU’s last road top-10 victory was in 2020 vs. UF.
it was just two picks, but you're right, he wasn't good; 4.9 ypa on 13 of 30 passing crazy thing to me, is despite how poorly he played, ND still had late in the 4th with a chance to tie (trailing 31-23) Klubnik was equally as awful too lol
updated talent acquisition data 2022-25 for just the P4 you can see what the Top 30 average rating of players signed is, what all of FBS looks like, standard deviation, etc. also can see it if we isolate just for "P5 programs" Spoiler: expanded top 30 data
I effectively have them a toss up between 9-3 and 8-4 right now with 5-3/6-2 in SEC play I think they'll be good, I just don't really like the schedule but if they can get through the 1st month at no worse than 3-1, I think they have a good chance to go 6-2 the rest of the way Ole Miss is a real question mark USCe lost a ton on D and that game is in BR A&M has become a portal built team so no real clue what to expect there @ Bama is probably a loss and @ OU might not be bad to close out, particularly if they have quit on Venables in November 3-2 on road and 6-1 at home seems feasible though 2-3 and 5-2 is definitely on the table at which point LSU may have to find a way to divorce themselves from Killy Spoiler: the schedule
I like how there's two games on that Sunday, one has a definite time but the other is TBD because nobody wants to watch South Carolina and VT diarrhea squirt a football game onto the field for their entertainment.
what fucking sub-human VT administrator agreed to a neutral field game anyway. the program is two steps away from DII and you schedule a neutral field, spotlight game on a fucking Sunday?
Week Zero this year looks a lot better: Fresno-Kansas, Farmaggedon, Sam Houston-WKU, and a Stanford-Hawaii night cap.
I guess I don't really know how the network draft goes anymore other than Fox has more than one first pick. Our AD says he's trying to work with Fox so we don't get stuck on it all the time but who knows if that will go anywhere
I'm not projecting 2-10 or even missing a bowl, tbh I have them at 9-3 with a floor of 7-5 and ceiling of 11-1 but the side by side is certainly interesting
Fox has the first 3 picks of weeks every year. OSU/Michigan is always number 1. I don’t think there’s an amount of lobbying or bitching that exists to get them to pass on the ratings bonanza of OSU/Texas. OSU/PSU and Oregon/PSU I could see swapped for that third spot but they love PSU/OSU and have said they will take that game again last year
Also doubt they make Oregon play a game of that magnitude at 9am body clock Fair or not, time zones will impact tv windows and if ratings and ultimately performance could be impacted by that, the networks will likely avoid it No one gives a shit about UCLA playing a nooner on the east coast but it's way different conversation when it's a couple top 10/cfp contenders
Washington played 9am body clock @ Iowa and Indiana UCLA was 9am @ Penn St and 9am @ Rutgers SC and Oregon never played before 12:30 eastern for any game in 2024 only game on Big Noon was UCLA @ PSU. the Washington @ Indiana had Gameday on location
it's not house settlement is 20mil, and y'all probably spent about 20mil on nil last year it's just the combination of the two
Last year top programs spent $20-25m. Add $12-15m from Rev Share on top of that allocated to football (of the $21m max), and yeah those numbers aren’t surprising