5. Ohio
Caesars Win Total: 5
Win Total Should Be Set At: 7
– Bet on this, BetMGM latest line
2008. That was the last time Frank Solich won fewer than six games as the head coach of your Ohio Bobcats.
In his 21-year head coaching career going back to his days at Nebraska, he went 4-7 in his first season at Ohio, came up with a four-win campaign in ’08, and that’s it.
The guy is a career 19-2 at coming up with seasons with more than six or more wins, so this Bobcat team might be a dud, right?
QB Nathan Rourke is done, but the O is loaded at running back. The receiving corps is okay, and the line is fine for an attack that gets back eight starters. So the D is the problem …
Nine starters are expected to return.
It’s the schedule … it has to be the schedule.
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North Carolina Central, Texas State, Akron, Bowling Green. Ohio can fall out of bed and win those four, and it’s not going to sputter in enough MAC games – it’ll be a player in the East race – to worry hitting five total wins even if the wheels totally come off.
Ohio should on the way to the 11th bowl appearance in Solich’s last 12 seasons.
He went 6-6 the one year in that mix when he didn’t go bowling.