Which 2023 preseason CFB takes did you get right/wrong?

Best: Texas is back!!!

Worst: Miami is back!

Best: Michigan would beat OSU and 3-peat 

Worst: Corum would have a better year stats wise than 2022, which he did TD wise but otherwise not so much

Good:   Picking Michigan to beat PSU and OSU

Worst:  Thought PSU would be another blowout win

Best: bet a Sparty friend of mine they would not make it to a bowl game and would be below .500 for their record.

Worst: Sparty friend above backed out of the bet after the Mel debacle. Said bet doesn't count if a coach gets fired.

Bet another Sparty friend that Harbaugh would coach this year. He was sure Harbaugh was going to the NFL. Asked to bet $100, friend said the most he could go was "The Trading Places bet" ($5). Took till the fourth game but I won. Friend said he didn't remember the bet. Still haven't gotten paid. Not that I'm expecting it.

Sparties...........Sigh.

I expected starting QBs for Georgia, Ohio and Alabama would end up causing them losses that would keep them from winning it all. Just one more on that list left (and it should have been completely accurate had FSU not been cheated out of their playoff spot).

Best. UofM to go undefeated and win the Big Ten.

2nd Best. MSU would be dog shit.

Missed. The Mel Tuck Cumin thing. 

Best: UM would go undefeated and that Colorado would not “shock the world”

Worst: no way Harbaugh gets suspended for 3 games in which a rogue staffer filmed opponents games with a Verizon StarTac flip phone. 
 

I thought UM would trail in the 2nd half of a game this year. Silly me

I had Michigan losing to PSU, OSU, and the bowl game. 

I still think I will be right about the latter.

I didn't make much in the way of specific predictions, and nothing about the larger CFB universe.

All of the crucial predictions about the Michigan football team focus on the OSU game and the two games to follow. 

Which is a great position for the program to be in, but also means that that they are tbd. My major concerns about the defense involved hypothetical matchups against "Georgia or Alabama." Well, we find out a week from Monday. 

My offense prediction turned out to be pretty dead-on in the regular season (albeit using a pretty subjective "vibe" standard to evaluate) as did my prediction that it wasn't important if the slight less-than-optimist concept for that prediction proved correct. But the regular season isn't what we're worried about. 

Best: Rutgers would make a bowl; Washington would make the playoff.

Worst: Clemson would also make the playoff.

Best: Washington in the playoff, Penix wins Heisman (was close)

Worst: TCU wins the Big 12 again

Michigan would go undefeated and play USC in the Rose Bowl. 
 

Michigan would then beat USC and play for in the final. I bought tickets, flights, rooms back in August for Houston. 
 

Worst? Betting OKST as part of my parlay on championship weekend. Mullet man let me down. 

Best : Michigan will win the BIG TEN again and go undefeated

Close 2nd: MSU was going to epically fail - too many transfer out to something wrong in EL

3rd one I nailed: Washington is going to make the CFP

4th: Colorado is all bluster no sustance

Worst: FSU was a fraud

Didn’t put anything on paper but I thought JJ and the offense would be slinging it around more than they did.  Up until Purdue I was sorta right but then everything changed after that.
 

Donovan Edwards would be up there with Barry Sanders and Walter Payton...

/too soon?

We still have work to do for my season prediction to come to pass.

I thought Ohio would have at least 2 losses in the regular season.

Let's see.

On the plus side, I predicted that Mel Tucker was a total wanker. And, on the minus side, I predicted that Josh Gattis wasn't.

Again on the plus side, I predicted "Never trust an online used vacuum cleaner salesman". And on the minus side, I predicted "The worst thing about Brown Jug cheeseburgers is  indigestion later". Maybe that was a correct call after all...hmmm.

My prediction Harbaugh would coach every game was way off.

Best:

• Oregon would continue to build momentum from Lanning.
  • Yeah he lost to Washington x2, but that program is on a Georgia trajectory and is going to be a force in the conference.
• Deion would be a huge story throughout the year but wouldn't do much.
  • This one was looking in doubt until Colorado fell apart for the final 2/3 of the season.

Worst:

• Despite being Harbuagh's best team, they would drop a random game at some point and miss out on the conference championship and/or CFP.
• McCarthy was going to be the first QB to throw for 26+ TDs in a season.
  • He is sitting at 19 TDs, so unless he goes full-Burrow in the playoffs (12 passing TDs in the 2019 CFP), this isnt happening.
• Corum would see a large drop in usage as Edwards started taking half of the snaps and would continue to produce mega numbers.
  • Edwards was a shell of himself this year.
• OSU would see little to no drop off from Stroud to McCord - because they have had megastar QBs for 15+ years now.
  • There was finally a drop off.
• Maryland would finally pull it together and challenge for at least 3rd place in the division.
  • Their season apparently ended at halftime of the OSU game.
• UTSA would struggle to make any progress in the AAC.
  • They kicked butt and only lost once.
• Illinois would be the B1G West champion and be 8-4 or so.
  • WTF happened here?
• Caleb Williams was going to contend (if not win) the Heisman.
  • Epic fall from grace. Still a lock to be the top pick though.
• USC was going to win the Pac-12 and be a borderline CFP team at worst.
  • USC decided the season should end in mid-October.
• Utah was going to be a NY6 team.
  • Team was cursed with injuries.
• Texas was going to be see a repeat of their first few seasons under Sark and underachieve - with an very outside shot of Sark getting fired like Herman was after year 4.
  • Sark finally got his shit together.
• Georgia would likely win their 3rd straight title.
  • This was looking like a strong possibility until the SEC championship game.

TBD:

• Harbaugh wins a major bowl, but gets pulled back to the NFL.

After winning their first few games I predicted Colorado would go 4-8 this season.

I don't talk about my worst takes.

Best: TCU is going to be bad.

Worst: Joe Milton will be a Heisman finalist in Tennessee's system

Best: that Michigan would get caught cheating. After going 2-4 in a rando season where Indiana was a TD from the Big Ten title, Northwestern won the BIG West, Cincinnati made the playoffs, 4-3 Oregon was the Pac 12 champ, and Iowa State was the class of the Big 12, there was no way a coach who'd had three 10-win seasons out of six and would've had at least three conference titles had he not been cock blocked by a single team could suddenly turn it around by completely overhauling his entire coaching staff, addressing the locker room culture, cleaning up things around the margins (procedural penalties, regularly getting the play call in with more than 7 seconds left on the play clock, etc.), and running out a QB he'd developed from the jump rather than a transfer wildcard who didn't know his receivers' names. Nope, the more likely explanation is that all the success predicated on finally beating a vexatious, final hurdle of a team was that they went to elaborate measures to decipher opponents' signals rather than just asking a Rutgers staffer to send them over on WhatsApp.

Worst: That Ryan Day was only a small piece of biopsied testicle skin. Turns out he was the entire tumor.

After watching Northwestern play their first game of the season, I thought they were the worst team I have ever seen and expected them to win one game at most.