Athlons: Early Big Ten Football Predictions for 2016 (West Division: #5. Minnesota)

[BleedGopher]

per Athlons:

5. Minnesota
New coach Tracy Claeys begins his first full season on the job. The first order of business for Claeys this offseason was to address the coaching staff, and three new assistants join the program for 2016. New play-caller Jay Johnson is tasked with improving an offense that averaged only 22.5 points a game last season. Quarterback Mitch Leidner closed out 2015 on a high note with a solid performance against Central Michigan and needs to take another step forward for the Golden Gophers to return to the postseason. Shannon Brooks and Rodney Smith are a promising duo at running back. Claeys is handing off the defensive play-calling to Jay Sawvel and each level of the defense has voids to fill this offseason. Standout cornerbacks Eric Murray and Briean Boddy-Calhoun depart the secondary, while Theiren Cockran (DE) and linebacker De’Vondre Campbell are key losses in the front seven.

http://athlonsports.com/college-football/early-big-ten-football-predictions-2016

Go Gophers!!

 

[caliGopher]

Athlons 2015 picks:

1. WI (7-1 pred/6-2, 3rd act)
2. NE (5-3/3-5, 4th)
3. MN (5-3/2-6, 5th)
4. IA (4-4/8-0, 1st)
5. IL (3-5/2-6, 6th)
6. NW (3-5/6-2, 2nd)
7. PU (1-7/1-7, 7th)

If you give them +/- 1 game leeway the were 43% right last year, so, yeah. Good luck with those predictions.


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[everybody knows my name]

Commentators always predict last year's result. They don't have much expertise, and virtually no imagination.

 

[A_Slab_of_Bacon]

New HC, even with our schedule Iowa still has an easy path again this year. Not much reason for anyone to project us high unless they're going full on speculation mode.

 

[caliGopher]

New HC, even with our schedule Iowa still has an easy path again this year. Not much reason for anyone to project us high unless they're going full on speculation mode.

Wasn't commenting on us in particular. We're getting what I expect based on this year. The whole ball of wax is just dumb.


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[A_Slab_of_Bacon]

Wasn't commenting on us in particular. We're getting what I expect based on this year. The whole ball of wax is just dumb.


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Oh yeah most of these have just stock comments that I think are copied and pasted.

Hell I've seen some that don't even bother to mention Brooks.... I mean come on.