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I'd put Washington at 7-5 (worse case,) to 9-3 next year.

L's - @Oregon @PSU, TTUN

Toss Up's - @Iowa, USC

W's - Weber, Eastern, WSU, NW, @Rutger, @Ind, UCLA

Rutgers is going to be pretty solid next year.  I would not count them as an automatic win.

Way-too-early rankings from Yardbarker have Washington as high as #12. Which I think is ridiculous. Their assessment:

“With coach Kalen DeBoer bolting for Alabama, several Huskies entering the transfer portal as a result and star receiver Rome Odunze and running back Dillon Johnson declaring for the NFL Draft, everything — and seemingly everybody — is up in the air at Washington. Now, regardless what the Huskies look like come August, and with new hot-shot coach Jedd Fisch in charge, they're probably good enough to rate among the top half of the new-look Big Ten, but maybe too early to predict a CFP repeat.”

I don’t know how a program can lose so much — in Washington’s case coaching and especially all the departing star power on offense — and be considered Top 25. Much less #12. Washington is too unproven across the roster to expect much. This is definitely a case of a team generating too much hype based on their recent success.

My projection: 6-6

3-1 or 4-0: Weber State, Eastern Mich, Washington State, Northwestern

1-3: @Rutgers, Michigan, @Iowa, @Indiana

2-2 or 1-3: USC, @Penn State, UCLA, @Oregon

Here’s one of those articles we see after most every change – how under new coach DeShaun Foster there’s “a different energy at UCLA now.” And as a younger, player’s oriented coach there’s “a stark contrast from how distant the program felt for recruits over the previous six seasons.” How post-Chip Kelly, “the Bruins have charted a different blueprint.”

Much like Kenny Dillingham taking over Arizona State, there’s badmouthing the former coach (Herm Edwards) for the sake of hyping the younger coach’s youth and energy as a promise for a brighter future.

In Chip Kelly’s case, what’s bemoaned is his well-known lack of effort and enthusiasm for recruiting, which, as DeShaun Foster takes over, has left a very shallow Bruins roster: “Under Kelly, only Clemson was offering fewer scholarships than UCLA among FBS teams, yet perhaps most damaging to his roster construction was how late the Bruins were getting involved in recruitments. By the time UCLA threw its name in the hat for a recruit, it was already three or four steps behind. In two short months, the pace has seemingly picked up — more than 70 high schoolers in the 2025 class hold UCLA offers and nearly two dozen official visits are on the calendar…”

Good luck to coach DeShaun Foster: “The 44-year-old Foster has yet to coach a game, of course, so there are still many questions left to answer about the on-field product, especially considering the quality and depth of the Big Ten. Yet it's clear the former Carolina Panthers star running back has, at the very least, provided a reinvigorating jolt to a team that desperately needed some electricity off the field.”

I’m plenty critical of Washington in this thread, but UCLA is transitioning into the Big Ten with notably less to work with across the roster.


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Jedd Fisch is the prime example of failing upwards. When he was the OC here he royally screwed up Adam Weber's throwing motion.