Philsteele.com – teams that are getting an easier schedule than last year and thus will benefit from it. He’s been doing this for 10 years, and teams improve their record or have a better record 79% of the time. There are 21 that make the list, and I will touch on a few –
1. Navy – (41) – They will most likely team to have a better record than last year.. Is it because they moved into the AAC ?
8-5 last year – had Ohio St, Notre Dame, to highlight their schedule.
Notre Dame (away) They will likely be at 9 or 10 wins.
2. North Carolina – dangerous team as always. 6 wins last year, put up 40+ 6x – Marquise Williams returns at QB.
3. Boise St – 12 wins – noteable games – Utah St on the road, Virginia on the road.
4. Ole Miss – 9 wins – best defenses again – new QB, but this team really folded down the stretch 3-42 in bowl game 0-30 vs. Arkansas although they did manage to win the Egg Bowl in between.
5. Tennessee – 7 wins came on red hot last year – Josh Dobbs back at QB and so much talent at WR and on defense. Butch Jones?
GOINGDOWN
Even more accurate is Philsteele’s predictions for teams that will lose more games. 84% chance these teams will lose more games because they have a tougher schedule this year than they did last year.
Only 12 on this list so here it goes –
1. East Carolina –8 wins just lost their QB that was replacing Shane Carden to season ending ACL –
2. Miss State – 9 wins – Sr QB Dak Prescott is back too –
3. BYU – 8 wins – QB tasem hill back – but will he be the same? He also loses Jamaal Williams to injury his starting SR RB.
4. Michigan State – 11 wins.
5. Arizona State – 10 wins – did not face Oregon last year, and had UCLA, Stanford, Notre Dame, and Utah all at home. Now they get a challenging schedule –
Mike Bercovici at QB be that QB that gets early praise – Kenny Hill.
