Once Deshaun Watson dethroned Alabama in 2016, I began to develop my theory that spread passing wins championships these days at the college level. I then began to look around at the 2017 rosters for teams that could mimic Clemson’s method and take down Alabama, settling on the Sam Darnold USC Trojans who were returning … [Read more…]
Who’s making the playoffs in 2019? I’ve been pretty bad at prognosticating this over the years. Usually I’m pretty dialed in on a handful of potential teams. Last year I nixed Ohio State amidst concerns over program distractions but I elevated Michigan and committed the error for the second consecutive year of overlooking problems at … [Read more…]
Over at Football Outsiders I’ve got the stats breakdowns and some thoughts on every bowl game (eventually, with the most recent post breaking down the playoff semi-finals. Over there you can read about how I’m picking an Alabama vs Notre Dame finale, which will probably disappointingly feature a 20 point spread for the Tide. This … [Read more…]
They released them the other night I think. Me and the wife have been watching “Stranger Things” recently so we aren’t super up to date on the World Series or this playoff show. The whole goal of these weekly rankings is to amp up the anticipation and talk around the sport and maintain the entertainment … [Read more…]
Over at SB Nation I broke down how Notre Dame’s two new coordinators will change up their schemes in the coming year. The offense is a Spread RPO attack which will feature a new QB (Brandon Wimbush) yet return two NFL OL on the left side of their line and their top wideout in Equanimeous … [Read more…]
Notre Dame hopped aboard the spread offense much more quickly than many other blue blood powers but it’s taken them longer than many to adopt RPOs in their offense. Well it looks like that’ll no longer be the case with the hiring of new OC Chip Long from Memphis. I broke down some of Memphis’ offensive … [Read more…]