While the dust has barely settled from the 2022 college football season, thoughts are already on the next season.
There were plenty of first-year head coaches that made impacts on their new teams, including the Bayou Bengals. Brian Kelly led his new team to 10 wins and the SEC West crown. It didn’t go their way in the title game but Rome wasn’t built in a day. There was plenty of progress from finishing last in the division in 2021 to what transpired last season.
Other coaches in their first year to make an impact include Dan Lanning at Oregon and Joey McGuire at Texas Tech. Neither had been a head coach at the collegiate level but they won a combined 17 games in 2022. The sky is the limit for these two leaders.
From coast to coast, there will be plenty of storylines to follow in the next college football season. With that said, I decided to break down my 10 teams to follow when the games kick off in September.
These aren’t ranked in any way, just the list of the 10 teams that I am interested in following in the 2023 season. The list begins in the Pac-12 with Prime Time.
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Everywhere you look you will find Prime Time Deion Sanders. He has Boulder buzzing in a way they haven’t felt in some time. It has also pumped more excitement into the Pac-12 Conference. Still, they need to see results on the field.
Why they made the list:
It is simple, Deion Sanders has taken hold of the college football world. Former five-star signees such as Travis Hunter and players in the portal want to come to play at Colorado. Regardless of how the team performs in year one, this is must-see TV.
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