Perception or Reality....? This years most disappointing teams...

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Quick personal thoughts...

FSU talent was down and not many teams transition that well with a new regime. Unless you walk into talent and a winning environment right away (Meyer at OSU, Riley at OU for example).

USC with bad coaching and starting a High School kid at QB. What did we really expect? You can have all the talent in the world but it doesn't matter when the coaching isn't there.

MSU was one of those teams that won a lot of close decisions last year. They have limited depth to begin with and were certainly hyped a bit more than they should have been. It had 8-4 written all over it, 7-5 with the injuries isn't bad. In retrospect, they 'upset' Utah State way back in August.

Miami had a great fortune with the TO's last year, as noted, but still had QB questions too. Those were never fully answered. Why were they top 10 again?

Wisconsin brought back a lot at the skill positions on offense. But, the defense lost a lot of starters. And, back to the offense... look at the QB... that Bowl Game bought a whole lot of perception as did a weak division.

The other two on the list need no mention.

Who else do you think disappointed this season?
 
Auburn - nice win over UW to start the season but Stidham didn’t live up to some of the hype he was getting.
Arizona - wasn’t a fan of the Sumlin hire so I’m not totally surprised but returning a heisman candidate qb + weak conference/division set them up to at least make a bowl game imo
Iowa- classic Ferentz type of season, not necessarily disappointing just think they probably should’ve won the west
Ohio- I don’t follow the MAC as closely as some folks here and I was pretty high on buffalo, but I’d think finishing third in mac east is disappointing considering they had a lot of key offensive players return
 
Depends on what you classify as a disappointment, but Penn St, Washington, Stanford, TCU and OK St come to mind outside of those already listed as not meeting expectations, or at least maintaining their recent success. Also think most were expecting more out of Miss St
 
I have miss st in my top ten pr right now. Not sure if that counts as disappointing in my eyes but their record is
 
Stanford and USC the two most overrated programs in the nation IMO going into the season...Love finished 2nd in the Heisman race last year and was hardly noticable this season. Plus Shaw is probably the most overrated coach in CFB IMO. When your whole offense consists of throwing up “jump ball” passes to your WR, you suck.

Helton did zero to improve anything on that team, but still 5-7 is insanely bad. Lynn Swann making decisions at USC is laughable. Both were huge underachievers in my book and happily so as I played them both as RSW unders :-)
 
Wisky and FSU for me. I thought the schedule played out for Wisky to sleep walk to Indy. Having watched the FSU Florida game Saturday, that was flat out embarrassing what FSU turned into this year.
 
^^well Love was hurt or playing hurt most of the season but in general Stanford is tough to watch year in and out

No doubt Iowa was disappointing, they lost every game that in some years at least a couple would go their way. Favored in every game they won, lost the games they were dogged and lose to NW as a DD favorite. Oof. And you know if Purdy was starting there would be another loss on that schedule ;)
 
Kansas State Wildcats. So disappointing that Bill Snyder is being forced out. Lost to ISU by 3 after leading by 17 late, lost to TCU by 1, Baylor by 3 in OT and Texas by a couple in a game they should have won.
 
Miami is just as much of a mess as FSU. Richt running the offense and having his son as the QB coach was a disaster in the making from day one. The Manny Diaz defense was outstanding but terrible playcalling and even worse QB play sunk this team.
 
gps_3 said:
Depends on what you classify as a disappointment, but Penn St, Washington, Stanford, TCU and OK St come to mind outside of those already listed as not meeting expectations, or at least maintaining their recent success. Also think most were expecting more out of Miss St
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Disagree on Washington and PSU. Wash about to save face if they can get in Rose which will be third straight year of playoff or NY6. PSU still ranked 12 while not a very good team, found a way to win out with chance at 10 wins and good bowl after losing a lot of fire power. Their coach is going to cost them one win or two a year and surely he did vs OSU and MSU. Both those teams were in a bit of reload mode this year and I expect them to improve quite a bit in 2019.
 
if someone already said Wisky then my apologies. they were preseason 4 or 5 i believe. brought tons of guys back from a DD win team the last two years including Hornibrook but they disappointed greatly.
 
This far in and no one has mentioned VPI?

Injuries, sure, but players fighting coaches and other insubordination and disregard for team rules?
 
detroit187 said:
Disagree on Washington and PSU. Wash about to save face if they can get in Rose which will be third straight year of playoff or NY6. PSU still ranked 12 while not a very good team, found a way to win out with chance at 10 wins and good bowl after losing a lot of fire power. Their coach is going to cost them one win or two a year and surely he did vs OSU and MSU. Both those teams were in a bit of reload mode this year and I expect them to improve quite a bit in 2019.
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I agree that in a vacuum that neither Washington or Penn St are having disappointing seasons, but I think they both expected to make the jump this year from very good team to elite. I don't know much about their teams for next year, though aren't McSorley and Browning both leaving?

Also, while the overall record looks great, hard to imagine there's a more disappointed program than Michigan right now.
 
Wisconsin is funny. A lot of their fans were expecting Hornibrook to do well because he thrived against a Miami pass defense that was garbage against everybody at the end of the season. But alas, once a Hornibrook always a Hornibrook
 
gps_3 said:
I agree that in a vacuum that neither Washington or Penn St are having disappointing seasons, but I think they both expected to make the jump this year from very good team to elite. I don't know much about their teams for next year, though aren't McSorley and Browning both leaving?

Also, while the overall record looks great, hard to imagine there's a more disappointed program than Michigan right now.
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Higher expectations for Washington this year than PSU. I think PSU kind of got what they expected and with another win or two that Franklin blew were real close to an amazing 11-1 season with not a very good team. Washington benched their QB earlier in the year and it seems like he's really reached his ceiling, two years ago. John Ross had a lot to do with it. Because this season for all intents and purposes is over for M, I've been looking at next year in the B1G. At this moment, if Haskins leaves I'd predict PSU to win the conference. McSorley leaves but if no one else leaves early for draft, they will have 18 of 21 starters back and more depth than ever before as this senior class leaving is the last of the sanction era (which means it wasnt littered with 4 and 5 stars and was short on scholarships). They also have two capable QBs behind McSorley, one who has been waiting 5 years for his turn and reminds me of Tebow with an arm (dont know about the intangibles) Washington would seem to be the favorite out in the Pac 12 next year but I have not dug into the conference, i know losing Gaskin wont help but they continue to recruit very well, have an easy conference and a very good coach. I think that if both programs would be dissappointed with 9-10 win seasons and Peach and Rose NY6 Bowl possible is a testament to how far both programs have come the last three years.
 
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