Here are some of his predictions over the summer of teams that could disappoint this year.
Kansas State
No one gets on the right side of every close game two years in a row. Nine of the 13 Wildcat games last season were decided by a touchdown or less, and Kansas State went 8-1 in the tight ones. They weren’t lucky last season, but they managed to come up with tight victory after tight victory with an offense that didn’t show much through the air and with a defense saved by the O that dominated the time of possession. Collin Klein will throw more and the team will still be good, but another 10-win season is asking for a lot...
Notre Dame
Schedule, schedule, schedule. There might be measurements or formulas that say someone else has the nation’s toughest slate, but they’d be wrong. The Irish only have one back-to-back home tilt, and it’s not exactly easy facing Stanford and BYU. They have to start out by going to Ireland to face Navy before coming back to turn it around in a hurry to deal with Purdue, at Michigan State, and Michigan in a three-game Big Ten run. With road games at Oklahoma and USC and no dates with anyone from outside a BCS Conference...