Saturday Edge Podcast – Compu-Picks Matthew Smith
This week on the podcast I talk with College Football News writer Matthew Smith. Matthew is also the author of Compu-Picks, the most accurate preseason publication of 2012.
Matthew has a lot of interesting insights as we talk about season win totals, GOY lines, conference odds and which teams are likely to win their respective divisions and conferences.
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Any way to listen to this on mobile?
I actually submitted it to Itunes last night so it should be up there shortly.
I will keep you posted.
Very impressed with all the detail. It will diff. help me get stared wth my preseason picks. I love the insights from the moderator and guest. Thanks for all the insighs. Great to think about the recruiting aspect of the game. Thanks for keeping us posted.
ps.. GO BOMBERS!
Listened to the podcast this am some very interesting tidbits and I actually agree with Matthew on Stanford. Good stuff and keep up the good work. This site is awesome.
I agree with him that Stanford has a difficult schedule, but I do not agree that the Stanford offense will take a step back this season.
They get a HUGE upgrade at the QB position. Nunes was simply not a good QB. I don’t know that Hogan is going to be as good as some people are saying he will be, but he is still a better passer than Nunes and adds a running element to the position.
They lose a stud RB but are loaded w/ solid talent at that position and they’ll be working behind arguably the best offensive line in the country.
The big unknown are the receivers. Yes they lose 2 stud TE’s, but I expect an underachieving WR corp to pick up some of that slack.
In any case (whether the WR corp replaces the production at TE), Stanford is still going to pound the football. So this offense should be as productive (or unproductive, depending on how you look at it) as last season. And if Hogan and the passing game can improve just marginally, they will have IMO a better offense.
WR/TE are definitely big question marks. At some point the WR’s could eventually be good, but I’m not sure why we should assume this is going to happen all of a sudden.
Part of why this matters is that if Stanford isn’t a clear threat to throw the ball, teams will overload the box and force the Cardinal to win through the air. This was (IMO) part of why the run game was less successful early in the year vs later (when there was a better pass threat).
I do agree that Hogan is a good upgrade over Nunes, but Stanford already got that upgrade for nearly half the year, and while the offense did improve, it wasn’t amazing. And it’s fairly hard to see the offense being better than the late season version given the heavy TE/RB losses.
Well that “Temple will have a winning record ATS” prediction is off to a good start