College football breakthrough and bounce-back candidates for 2024 - ESPN
For the most part, what we believe heading into a given season is whatever we believed at the end of the season before. Take the preseason coaches' poll released last week: Among this year's top 11 teams are nine that finished last year in the top 10. It took last year's No. 2 Washington losing its head coach, coordinators, star quarterback and 20 of 22 starters for the Huskies not to start the season ranked pretty high.


