Saturday's prediction
Every season there is some team that sparks a magical turnaround from the previous season. We see a team that went 3-9 turn it around and go 9-3 and go to a good bowl game. This is common among BCS conferences as well as non-BCS conferences. I will pick my biggest BCS turnaround today.
#54: The University of Washington will have the biggest BCS turnaround, winning at least 5 more games this season than last season's 0-12 trainwreck. 1) the new head coach, Steve Sarkisian, will make a HUGE difference. He is a winner, he won as a player at BYU (14-1, top 5 finish) and he won while coaching as an assistant at USC. He knows how to attack Pac 10 defenses as he did it very successfully with the Trojans. 2) Good old Ty, who unfortunately is not a very good coach, is a great recruiter. There is some size, there is some speed, and there is some talent on the roster. With a healthy Jake Locker (who should be more accurate this year), they will get out of the Pac 10 cellar this season. In 2010, look for UW to get back to a bowl game. Mush Huskies.
Alternate is the University of Michigan, coming off a 3-9 season: but they'd have to get to 8 wins this year to match Washington's turnaround, and they still have issues at quarterback. Coach RR is building for the future: i.e. he isn't adapting his offense to his personnel, he's trying to adapt his personnel to his offense. That's a good long-term strategy, but not so good in the short run. That's why the Michigan turnaround will be slower.
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