Western Michigan Broncos: CFN College Football Preview 2021

College Football News Preview 2021: Previewing, predicting, looking ahead to the Western Michigan football season with what you need to know

College Football News Preview 2021: Previewing, predicting, and looking ahead to the Western Michigan football season with what you need to know.


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– What You Need To Know: Offense | Defense
Top Players | Keys To The Season
What Will Happen, Win Total Prediction
Western Michigan Football Schedule
– Western Michigan Broncos Previews
2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015

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2020 Record: 4-2 overall, 4-2 in MAC
Head Coach: Tim Lester, 5th year, 24-20
2020 CFN Final Ranking: 97
2020 CFN Preview Ranking: 103
2019 CFN Final Ranking: 42

Western Michigan Broncos College Football Preview 2021: Offense

The offense was a blast and it’ll be every bit as strong again. It finished 16th in the nation overall averaged 480 yards per game and was ninth in scoring as it pumped out 42 points an outing. The ground attack was solid and the downfield passing game was the best in college football, but …

– Top target D’Wayne Eskridge is now a Seattle Seahawk. He averaged over 23 yards per game with eight scores, but 6-4, 185-pound all-star Jaylen Hall returns after averaging 27 yards a pop with seven scores. 5-9 speedster Skyy Moore was second on the team with 25 catches and averaged 16 yards per catch.

The receiving corps has its veteran bomber to keep things going. Kaleb Eleby was terrific in his first year at the helm hitting 65% of his passes with 18 touchdowns and two picks, and he can run a bit, too. No. 2 Nick Kargman is also back.

The offensive front that was among the best in the nation in pass protection loses Jaylon Moore to the San Francisco 49ers, but it gets back four starters around all-star left guard Mike Caliendo.

The receivers are the stars, but the Broncos have the backs, too. 223-pound junior La’Darius Jefferson ran for a team-high 624 yards and five scores, and 5-9 scooter Sean Tayler added well over six yards per carry. Fellow speedster Jaxson Kincaide is back for his super-senior season after averaging over seven yards per carry and finishing third on the team with 218 yards.

– What You Need To Know: Defense
Top Players | Keys To The Season
What Will Happen, Win Total Prediction
Western Michigan Football Schedule

NEXT: Western Michigan Broncos College Football Preview 2021: Defense

CFN 1-130 Rankings: Where do Notre Dame, opponents fall?

Where does CFN rank Notre Dame and all their opponents ahead of the 2020 season? Find out here what the Irish are in store for this fall!

We’re in the time that we’re supposed to be counting down the days until college football kicks off.  Although we’re counting days, nobody has any clue what date we’ll actually see games since the pandemic doesn’t appear to be going away anytime soon.

However, Pete Fiutak over at College Football News did his annual project where he puts together team previews of all 130 teams in Division 1 and ranks the teams 1-130.

Where does Notre Dame rank?  And where do the teams Notre Dame’s scheduled to play fall in?

We’ll give them to you in different categories that we determined on our own:

Great: Top 5
Really Good:  Top 20
Pretty Solid:  21-40
OK:  41-55
Meh:  56-75
Bad: 76-90
Awful:  91-130

Let’s start with the lowest and work to the highest:

College Football News Preview 2020: Western Michigan Broncos

College Football News Preview 2020: Previewing, predicting, looking ahead to the Western Michigan Broncos season with what you need to know.

College Football News Preview 2020: Previewing, predicting, and looking ahead to the Western Michigan Broncos season with what you need to know.


Contact/Follow @ColFootballNews & @PeteFiutak

– What You Need To Know: Offense | Defense
Top Players | Key Players, Games, Stats
What Will Happen, Win Total Prediction
Schedule Analysis
– Western Michigan Previews 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015

2019 Record: 7-6 overall, 5-3 in MAC
Head Coach: Tim Lester, 4th year, 20-18
2019 CFN Final Opinion Ranking: 84
2019 CFN Final Season Formula Ranking: 42
2019 CFN Preview Ranking: 96

No one knows what’s going to happen to the 2020 college football season. We’ll take a general look at where each team stands – doing it without spring ball to go by – while crossing our fingers that we’ll all have some well-deserved fun this fall. Hoping you and yours are safe and healthy.

5. College Football News Preview 2020: Western Michigan Broncos Offense 3 Things To Know

When the offense worked and scored, the team won. Duh – that’s how this whole thing is supposed to work – but WMU was 6-0 when it scored more than 35 points, and 1-6 when it scored fewer.

The rushing offense averaged 2-5 yards per game, the passing attack was efficient enough to get by, and there weren’t a whole lot of giveaways. Consistency, though, will be the key going forward with a group full of potential All-MAC talents.


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No, the running game didn’t get better after losing LeVante Bellamy – who ran for 1,472 yards and 23 scores – but the backfield just got very, very interesting. No. 2 back Sean Tyler is back after averaging close to six yards per carry with five scores, and coming in is La”Darius Jefferson from Michigan State for more thump, and Jaxson Kincaide from Nevada for more splash.

They’ll work behind a line that gets back four starters and was excellent in pass protection and blasted away for Bellamy. Second Team All-MAC performer Mike Caliendo is the best of the bunch at left guard, and Jaylon Moore is a good one at tackle. Replacing all-star C Luke Juriga its the one blip.

All-star QB Jon Wassink is done, but Kaleb Eleby is ready to go after getting a little work in as a freshman in 2018, but redshirting last year. Backup Griffin Alstott – a former Purdue transfer – is back, too.

All-MAC TE Giovanni Ricci is done along with 50-catchWR Keith Mixon, but Skyy Moore is a dangerous playmaker coming off a team-high 51 catches for 802 yards and three scores.

Also back is D’Wayne Eskridge, who missed most of last year and might end up working as a defensive back. It’s going to be a deep overall group as the season goes on.

NEXT: College Football News Preview 2020: Western Michigan Broncos Defense 3 Things To Know