Yard Dash: College Football’s Nine Biggest Busts at Midseason
Sports Illustrated identifies several college football teams that have underperformed expectations at the midseason mark. The report highlights coaching struggles and offensive regressions, specifically focusing on Texas A&M.
Why it matters
College football is a massive industry in the U.S., and midseason performance analysis influences recruiting and coaching job security.
Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college sports, where at least nobody had a self-inflicted disaster as bad as the Washington Commanders did at the NFL level . First Quarter: Mamas, Don’t Let Your Sons Grow Up to Be Five-Star QBs.
It’s midseason, more or less. We have information beyond the early blowouts of overmatched teams. Everyone has played a road game by now, and almost everyone has played multiple conference games. We know some stuff.
And some of what we know isn’t good for a few teams that began the season with high hopes and are now on a salvage mission. The Dash midseason bust list:
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