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Who are the 10 best Arkansas State players going into the 2022 season?
Arkansas State Red Wolves Preview 2022: Who are the top 10 players going into the season?
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Arkansas State Red Wolves Preview
Offense, Defense Breakdown | Keys To The Season
Season Prediction, What Will Happen | Schedule
Who are the 10 best Arkansas players going into the 2022 season?
Arkansas Razorbacks Preview 2022: Who are the top 10 players going into the season?
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Arkansas Razorbacks Preview
Offense, Defense Breakdown | Keys To The Season
Season Prediction, What Will Happen | Schedule & Analysis
Who are the 10 best Army players going into the 2022 season?
Army Black Knights Preview 2022: Who are the top 10 players going into the season?
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Army Black Knights Preview
Offense. Defense Breakdown | Keys To The Season
Season Prediction, What Will Happen | Schedule
Who are the 10 best Arizona players going into the 2022 season?
Arizona Wildcats Preview 2022: Who are the top 10 players going into the season?
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Arizona Wildcats Preview
Offense. Defense Breakdown | Keys To The Season
Season Prediction, What Will Happen | Schedule & Analysis
Who are the 10 best Appalachian State players going into the 2022 season?
Appalachian State Mountaineers Preview 2022: Who are the top 10 players going into the season?
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Appalachian State Mountaineers Preview
Offense. Defense Breakdown | Keys To The Season
Season Prediction, What Will Happen | Schedule
Who are the 10 best Akron players going into the 2022 season?
Akron Zips Preview 2022: Who are the top 10 players going into the season?
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Akron Zips Preview
Akron Offense. Defense Breakdown | Keys To The Season
Season Prediction, What Will Happen | Akron Schedule & Analysis
Who are the 10 best Air Force players going into the 2022 season?
Air Force Falcons Preview 2022: Who are the top 10 players going into the season?
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Air Force Falcons Preview
Air Force Offense. Defense Breakdown | Keys To The Season
Air Force Season Prediction, What Will Happen
Air Force Schedule & Analysis
Independents college football rankings and predictions with realistic best and worst case records and quick analysis – the 2022 spring version.
Independents college football rankings and predictions with the realistic best and worst case records and quick analysis – the 2022 spring version.
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The independents are all in interesting situations.
Former Big 12er BYU won’t be on its own for much longer, Liberty will once again be a thorn in the sides of several Power Five teams, Army should rip through its schedule, and New Mexico State, Notre Dame, UConn, and UMass are all starting the 2022 season with new head coaches.
The rankings are based on how good the teams should be and not the final projected records. Keeping in mind that this all could/might/will change when we make the final calls in August …
MAC college football rankings and predictions with realistic best and worst case records and quick analysis – the 2022 spring version.
MAC college football rankings and predictions with the realistic best and worst case records and quick analysis – the 2022 spring version.
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It’s the MAC. It’s the conference where worst-to-first is the norm, with 2020 winless Northern Illinois winning the MAC championship in 2021, everyone can beat anyone else, and Toledo will end up somewhere in the middle of it all.
It’s about as settled as the league has been in a long time with the strength still in the West, Buffalo about to be better in the East, and with Akron and Bowling Green still questionable.
Again, though, it’s the MAC. The Zips or Falcons could end up in Detroit in January playing for the title.
The rankings are based on how good the teams should be and not the final projected records. Keeping in mind that this all could/might/will change when we make the final calls in August …
Oklahoma’s Brent Venables and Oregon’s Dan Lanning are two of the most interesting new head coaches, mostly because they have to win right away.
22 College Football Thoughts for 2022, No. 13: Brent Venables and Dan Lanning are new head coaches expected to win immediately. No pressure.
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– 2022 College Football Schedules: All 131 Teams
22 College Football Thoughts For 2022
22, College football is changing, and it’s okay
21, Texas & Oklahoma, you really want the SEC?
20. SEC is really, really good if you like it or not
19. James Madison, welcome to the show
18. Sun Belt is the cool conference
17. Transfer Portal will only get bigger
16. NFL, keep your hands off our announcers
15. Big 12: Get bigger and stronger, or else
14. Big Ten expansion. NOW what does it do?
Dan Lanning will turn 36 when he coaches his first game as the head man for the Oregon Ducks. New Oklahoma head coach Brent Venables is 51.
They might be from slightly different eras, but beyond being new first time head coaches at Power Five programs they have one other key thing in common.
They aren’t about to get the slightest bit of a grace period.
There are other first time head coaches at Power Five programs – Joey McGuire at Texas Tech, Tony Elliott at Virginia, Brent Pry at Virginia Tech, and Mike Elko at Duke – but no one’s expecting anything too massive right out of the gate from those four.
No pressure, Coach Lanning and Coach Venables – just have massive seasons and win your respective conference championships.
Oh, and by the way Coach Lanning, as your welcoming present you get to kickoff your career against Georgia in Atlanta on September 3rd.
The opener might be tough, but the rest of the schedule isn’t all that bad in a relatively down Pac-12 North. As long as the Ducks can avoid the flaky loss – like last year against Stanford – they should be able to roll with the pieces still around and QB Bo Nix coming in to help the cause.
The Big 12 should be stronger, but Oklahoma has the parts to rise back up and be better than the 2021 version – with a little tweaking – and getting UTEP to start should help. The Sooners are used to reloading after losing key parts, and now there’s a new vision and a new style.
But can the new guys not only keep the momentum going, but improve things right away?
You never quite know what you’re going to get with new head coaches in big opportunities.
I wrote a big piece a few years ago wondering why and how Oklahoma could hand the keys over to this Lincoln Riley kid when it could’ve brought in almost any head coach it wanted.
I’ll fully admit that I had no clue Sam Pittman was head coaching material when he took over the Arkansas job, and I just assumed that Kirby Smart was going to be yet another great coordinator who’d underwhelm once he got a job like the Georgia gig.
And yeah, when it comes to the veterans, I thought Chip Kelly would turn UCLA into a national powerhouse in a hurry. On a grander scale, I will hang my head in shame for thinking Urban Meyer would do for the Jacksonville Jaguars what Jimmy Johnson did for the Dallas Cowboys – fully wearing that one.
But Venables and Lanning aren’t just supposed to rebuild, or even keep the status quo. Oklahoma and Oregon didn’t win their respective conference championships last year. They didn’t get to the College Football Playoff, and neither one won the national title.
Just start by setting the reasonable goal at winning the conference championship for each of these two.
No pressure.
22 College Football Thoughts For 2022
22. College football is changing, and it’s okay
21, Texas & Oklahoma, you really want the SEC?
20. SEC is really, really good if you like it or not
19. James Madison, welcome to the show
18. Sun Belt is the cool conference
17. Transfer Portal will only get bigger
16. NFL, keep your hands off our announcers
15. Big 12: Get bigger and stronger, or else
14. Big Ten expansion. NOW what does it do?
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– 2022 College Football Schedules: All 131 Teams
