With Georgia‘s resounding 65-7 triumph over TCU in the College Football Playoff national championship game not even a week old, that means we’re still eight months and change away from the 2023 college football season.
That won’t stop the predictions machine from rolling on full force. This time, ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg managed to get some assistant coaches in on the action to offer up some predictions and thoughts on what might lie ahead.
A pair of Big Ten teams, Ohio State and Wisconsin, were featured prominently.
The first claim from one coach should perk everyone in the Big Ten’s ears up. After a run of 11 conference titles from 2002 to 2020, the Ohio State Buckeyes’ reign over the Big Ten is over. After back-to-back Big Ten championships and wins over the Buckeyes, it’s the Michigan Wolverines that coaches view as the team to beat in the conference.
“They’re the team in this league now,” an assistant said.
“Michigan’s going to find another good coach if Harbaugh leaves, and they’re still going to be good,” a Big Ten coordinator said. – ESPN.
This is perhaps of more direct importance to Iowa. With neither Ohio State or Michigan on the Hawkeyes’ regular season schedule, what’s next at both Nebraska and Wisconsin with the hirings of head coaches Matt Rhule and Luke Fickell, respectively, will be interesting to monitor.
Coaches expect Wisconsin’s offense to look radically different.
“They’ve kind of always looked the same, and that’s going back to Barry Alvarez and then Bret [Bielema],” a Big Ten coordinator said. “When [Gary] Andersen was there, they still looked the same, but they got away from their market in terms of recruiting. Luke Fickell is not part of that Alvarez-Bielema thread, but I do think he’s a good coach, and I do think he’ll recruit well there. It’s just a matter of what that product looks like, and how that meshes with the history of Wisconsin.” – ESPN.
It’s going to be fascinating to…
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