All offseason, websites and bloggers and television pundits make projections and assessments about the college football schedule.
Plenty of perfectly valid points are raised. It’s not as though these analyses are incorrect or misguided. They work with the information they have available.
Team X gets a midseason bye week before its biggest road game.
Team Y has to face its toughest conference opponents in late September, when its new quarterback might not be fully settled into the new coordinator’s offense.
Team Z has to play its two toughest games back to back and on the road.
You know the drill.
What you can’t account for in the offseason, of course, are injuries and spectacular flameouts by important players (Jeremy Johnson, cough, cough). We’ve seen boatloads of both scenarios so far this season, with more injury hits coming Wednesday morning, as it was announced that UCLA linebacker Myles Jack will be out for the rest of the season with an injured suffered in a Tuesday practice. That College GameDay visit to Tucson for UCLA-Arizona just got overshadowed a bit.
Timing really is everything.
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