Well, you could be right. But I'm still keeping a neutral opinion about Auburn until I see what they do in the second year of Malzahn's system. Having a second look at a team's offense and still being able to stop it are two different things. But like you said, their defense could be their downfall...Could
Last year in this spot I think I had Florida and Texas as teams I thought would implode. This year, I am going to say Notre Dame and unfortunately Arizona St. ASU will score a ton of points, however they have a pretty rough 6 game stretch early on and if the defense does not come out strong, it could ruin the entire season. They have UCLA, USC, Stanford, Wash, Utah and Notre Dame. They are replacing 9 starters from the defense.
Certainly will not lose 4 games; but if they lose even 1 game, that will be considered an "implosion" in Tallahassee and in the CFB Nation. I believe they will lose at least 2 games this year. Dealing from the top of the deck is no easy task when you're expected to turn face cards week in and week out. The bulls-eye will be squarely on the Noles' backside this year. We shall see. You did qualify an implosion by being a top 15 team that loses at least 5 games; so my answer was a bit presumptuous and out of the parameters but you get the gist.
I don't really think FSU's schedule will allow for 4 losses. Not considering how they dominated these same ACC teams last year, and are by far the most talented team in the conference. The closest any team got to them last year was 27 points. Has the ACC improved THAT much overnight? It's kind of like Ohio State. Their schedule really doesn't allow for this team to lose more than 3 games despite their weaknesses on the OL, defensive backfield and starting a talented but green QB. I'm thinking they go 9-3 or 10-2 this year. With the loss of Miller, if they were in the Pac-12 they would most definitely be looking at 3 or 4 losses. But the Big 10 hasn't changed or improved enough in my mind to believe it won't be the same 2 or 3 teams at the top...Since this is a betting board, the thing we need to be looking at with FSU is how well they will do ATS this season. I'm betting they don't come near the 11-1-1 ATS that they did in 2013. I think what will happen is after they win and cover against Okie State in their first game, they'll lose a ton of line value the rest of the way. The Vegas lines will be set ridiculously high for them to cover most of their games the rest of the way...
They also don't play 3 of the top 5 Big Ten teams of 2013: Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska. Put those three on the schedule and now we are looking at a potential 3 or 4 losses. But if you are saying the Big Ten bottoms out pretty fast, then, yes I agree. As is, I still could see tOSU losing 4 games (dont think they will). THose being MSU, PSU (lions off bye in Oct), Maryland (I think they will surprise some teams) and Michigan (rivalry changes everything).
Notre Dame will be very lucky if they finish in the top 25 this year.
From the looks of things, the implosion has already begun with Kelly
throwing 4 of his academically rotten players (3 of them starters) under
the bus for who knows how long? Last year it was his QB Everett Golson
leading the charge and he would up counted out for the year. I bet this
isn't just a shallow incident limited to whoever is involved today according
to the press. It looks like this one is gonna be big. Kind of distracting to
the rest of the team too. This issue runs deep. Minimum 4 losses.
From the looks of things, the implosion has already begun with Kelly
throwing 4 of his academically rotten players (3 of them starters) under
the bus for who knows how long? Last year it was his QB Everett Golson
leading the charge and he would up counted out for the year. I bet this
isn't just a shallow incident limited to whoever is involved today according
to the press. It looks like this one is gonna be big. Kind of distracting to
the rest of the team too. This issue runs deep. Minimum 4 losses.
