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The chances of the TCU Horned Frogs duplicating their impressive run to the College Football Playoff in 2023 are slim. So slim in fact that oddsmakers set their win total at just 7.5. Nobody expected TCU to have an undefeated regular season and play for the Big 12 title in 2022; they did. Nobody had the Frogs getting an invite to the playoff party; they did that as w... 

You’ll have to forgive fans of the South Carolina Gamecocks if they were a little overzealous over last year’s 8-5 record. You see, winning eight games or more in season isn’t a regular occurrence. Prior to 2022 it happened just once in eight years. There is reason to be excited about the 2023 edition following massive wins over Tennessee and Clemson ... 

If the Penn State Nittany Lions weren’t in the same division as two other college football heavyweights, they would get more recognition as being an elite program. For the fourth time in seven years the Nittany Lions won 11 games and both setbacks last year were to the teams ahead of them in the Big Ten East. There’s no shame in losing to Michigan and... 

After seeing nearly all their Pac-12 brethren abandon ship for other leagues during the latest round of realignment and getting overlooked themselves, the Oregon State Beavers might just have that added incentive to do something special in 2023. Last year the Beavs had one of the most successful seasons in school history winning nine regular season games to easily ec... 

Before the Oregon Ducks begin their journey in the Big Ten they have one more chance to extend their legacy as a member of the Pac-12. And it might be a good idea to stay focused on football in 2023 instead of beyond since the Ducks are loaded for another run. Last season had its ups and downs with nine regular season wins and a Holiday Bowl victory over North Carolina. We a... 

The Oklahoma State Cowboys have long played second fiddle to their nemesis OU in the Panhandle State. But as far as success on the gridiron goes the Pokes have strung together 17 straight winning seasons under Mike Gundy while being a competitive force in the Big 12. There are some questions surrounding the program ahead of the 2023 campaign, though, afte... 

Maybe Lincoln Riley read the tea leaves leaving Norman just before the Oklahoma Sooners posted their first losing season since John Blake was running the outfit in 1998. There was some bad luck in the first year of the Brent Venables era with injuries and the inability to win close games leading to a 6-7 record. Oddsmakers, and I’m sure fans of the program, expect a ... 

If the Notre Dame Fighting Irish are going to get back to the College Football Playoff they certainly will have earned it. There are some positives to being an independent in the chaotic landscape these days. Several conferences were bolstered by the latest round of realignment yet the Irish pick and choose who they play. And they have a few dandies in 2023 with matchups against Ohio State, USC and Clemson. The first full season under Marcus Freeman didn’t start so well with losses to OSU and Marshall. There was also a head-scratching setback to Stanford. The club picked it up over the second half winning six of their final seven games, including a Gator Bowl win over South Carolina to finish 9-4. The schedule is tough but the Irish should be better with their projected win total of 8.5 definitely within reach. ... 

It seems like all the Ohio State Buckeyes have to do is step on the field and they’ll win 10 games. Over the last 10 full seasons they’ve won at least 11 games hitting that mark last season before dropping their final two contests. OSU’s perfect season ended with a loss to arch rival Michigan in the regular season finale yet the Buckeyes still earned a College ... 

There was a mixture of good and bad with the North Carolina Tar Heels from a season ago. The club won nine games, the second-most in a single season since Mack Brown was in his first stint with the program in 1997. And they did that in their first 10 games of the year before ending the campaign with four consecutive losses. The Heels won the ACC Coast... 

Only once in the entire history of the program has the North Carolina State Wolfpack hit double figures in wins. Under current coach Dave Doeren they’ve been close winning nine games three times and eight games on three other occasions, including last year when the Pack went 8-4 during the regular season. In fact, NC State has won at least e... 

Right when the Mississippi State Bulldogs were succeeding on the gridiron the program, and all of college football, suffered a terrible loss with the untimely passing of Mike Leach. A winner at every stop of his coaching career with an innovative game plan, Leach has the team on the rise. In his first season the Bulldogs won four games but improved to 7-6 in 2021. The 2022 season ranked as one of the best in program history. The club went 8-4 during the regular season and somehow found a way to ... 

The Michigan Wolverines return a number of key players from a club that went 12-0 last regular season, rolled over Purdue for the Big Ten Championship and reached the College Football Playoff for the second consecutive season. An upset loss to TCU as a 9-point favorite in the CFP semifinals denied Jim Harbaugh and his group a chance at a national championship a... 

The first year of the Mario Cristobal era didn’t go according to plan for the Miami Hurricanes, who went 5-7 matching the 2007 team for the fewest wins since the turn of the century. The Canes aren’t going to suddenly become a powerhouse and challenge Clemson and FSU at the top of the ACC. What they can do with the talent assembled is post a winning record and return... 

The first season under Brian Kelly was a banger for the LSU Tigers winning 10 games and the SEC West. Kelly has been a winner at every stop of his coaching journey and turning the program around after a two-year stretch that produced an overall 11-12 record was epic. Now, with the bar raised the task is getting back to the conference championship and into the CFP, which is no ea... 

With Texas and Oklahoma grabbing the headlines for their impending move to the SEC and TCU with its run to the College Football Playoff last year, let’s not forget that it was the Kansas State Wildcats who won the Big 12 championship in 2022. Coming off a 10-win season that included an upset of TCU in the Big 12 title game, the Cats posted their first doubl... 

They’re not flashy and a lot of times they’re downright boring and difficult to watch, but the Iowa Hawkeyes have won a lot of games over the years. Getting eight victories last season marked the seventh time in as many full seasons that the program reached that number with an average win total of more than nine wins in those seasons. And in order to cash the OVER on the 2... 

The two-time defending national champion Georgia Bulldogs enter the 2023 college football season as the favorite to claim another title. Coming off an undefeated season and boasting a 29-1 record over the last two years, the bar has been set high in Athens. Helping accomplish that was Stetson Bennett, unfortunately the Dawgs have to move on from their record-setting ... 

Prior to last season’s breakout campaign the Illinois Fighting Illini hadn’t won more than six games in over a decade. You could say their 8-win season came out of nowhere since that’s more victories than the previous two seasons combined. Oddsmakers are skeptical and not overly excited about the Illini’s prospects of continuing their upward trajector... 

Lofty expectations are nothing new for the Florida State Seminoles; they just haven’t had them in a few years. Ending a string of four straight losing seasons, the Noles went 10-3 in 2022 winning their first bowl game since Jimbo Fisher’s final season. A five game improvement from the 2021 campaign and the favorite in many people’s eyes to win the ACC, ... 

The Clemson Tigers haven’t reached the College Football Playoff in two years, their longest stretch since the tournament was instituted for the 2014-15 season. Don’t believe the Tigers are in a decline, though, as they still rule the ACC. One could make the argument that Clemson was just a field goal away from reaching the playoff last season only to lose the regular season fina... 

The Florida Gators haven’t strung together three consecutive losing seasons since the mid-1950s and another disappointing campaign can put them in the program’s history books. The team made a good hire in nabbing Billy Napier from Louisiana ahead of the 2022 campaign and the coach’s ability to get the most out of his team will be key to a quick rebuild in Gainesville. Former Wis... 

The biggest news in Boulder was the hiring of Deion Sanders to be the new head coach of the Colorado Buffaloes. Suddenly everyone forgot that the team managed to win just one game in 2022 and instead focused on the soundbites Coach Prime provides. Sanders knew exactly what he inherited and immediately went to work telling players from last season’s squad that the... 

If the Baylor Bears follow a familiar script in 2023 they should be around the 10-win mark putting them over their projected total of 7.5. In 2019 the Bears went 11-3 followed by a 2-7 mark in 2020, Dave Aranda’s first with the program. The Bears established a school record in 2021 winning 12 games, including the Big 12 championship and knocking off Ole Miss in the Sugar Bow... 

The grass isn’t always greener on the other side, as the Auburn Tigers can attest. Firing Gus Malzahn after eight straight winning seasons wasn’t the answer leaving the program to pick up the pieces from the failed Bryan Harsin era. Two straight losing campaigns and Auburn again has a new coach in Hugh Freeze. No stranger to the rigors of the SEC with a previous stint at O...