Arizona’s Sagarin rating isn’t accurate. I am buying stock in that team.
Sometimes. His team last year punched above their weight in a lot of games. That was a bad roster and it’s upgraded. I would expect a fight.
NDSU needs to make them pay for a below average Oline. If you don’t, they will have above average skill players. They also have a good DL.
How so exactly? They had one 7 point win over Cal, and a 2 point loss to Big Sky Northern Arizona.
NAU was 5-6 (4-6 FCS) last year. Cal was an impressive 5-7 (4-7 FBS)
Most the other games weren't even close, and some big losses like 0 - 34 against Colorado.
Colorado was 4-8 (3-8 FBS), and throttled Arizona.
Another NDSU beatdown. And another one where NDSU Haters say "Wow you beat up on a shitty FBS team, congrats."
The Colorado game was an outlier. There were a lot games where they were in it late but absolutely crumbled at the end. They had zero qb talent and they’d be forced out of their game plan late and mistakes would happen. They should’ve won the UW game. They were in it against BYU and Oregon.
Cruz and Plummer were dogshit. McCloud was okay with a game-plan designed around his strengths.
Their additions such as de Laura and Fifita are worlds better than last year’s group. McMillan may have been the best overall recruit on the west coast last cycle. He was underrated and 247’s explanation was that he didn’t fit the 1st round prototype for a WR. Now that Drake went #1, they look foolish. Cowing, McMillan and de Laura will cause most teams headaches. de Laura has been really streaky though.
Jedd Fisch seems to game-plan, adjust and get max effort out of his players.