Texas A&M (5-7)
If any team needs a bounce back season, it’s Texas A&M. They had lofty expectations coming into 2022 and fell flat on their face. They thought they had a great coach, a top ten team, and one of the top recruiting classes ever. They ended up not even making a bowl game. Jimbo Fisher and the Aggies severely need a season where they live up to expectations, because it hasn’t happened yet.
Miami (5-7)
Miami is another team that has fallen short of expectations a lot in recently memory. The ‘Canes began Mario Cristobal‘s inaugural season ranked 16th and got as high as 13th. However, they only won three more games the rest of the season after starting 2-0. It was only Cristobal’s first season in Coral Gables and he has been recruiting very well, so it will be important to see if that new talent can take over on the field, something we did not see in year one of the Cristobal era.
Michigan State (5-7)
Sparty seemed to have a lot of momentum coming into the 2022 season, coming off an 11-2 2021 campaign which saw them beat Michigan. They had also just signed Mel Tucker to a huge extension which made him one of the highest paid head coaches in the game. In reality 2022 would not go the way they expected. Just like A&M and Miami, Michigan State missed out on a bowl game. Mel Tucker needs to have his team ready for next season if they want to compete with the likes of Ohio State, Michigan, and Penn State.
Oklahoma (6-7)
The Sooners had a wild offseason following 2021 which saw them lose their head coach, quarterback, and countless other members of the program. They also hired one of the best defensive minds in the game in Alumni Brett Venables, so there was reason for some optimism. That optimism soon ended however when Oklahoma started losing. They ended the season with a losing record for the first time since 1998. Coach Venables gets the same treatment as Cristobal. You get time to get recruits and turn the program around, but you don’t get forever. There must be improvement next season for Oklahoma.
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Wisconsin (7-6)
Wisconsin’s season started off slow as they went 2-3 which included home losses to Wazzu by 3 and Illinois by 24, leading to the somewhat surprising firing of head coach Paul Chryst. They went 5-3 the rest of the way and finished 7-6. AD Chris McIntosh opted not to keep interim head coach (and long-presumed coach-in-waiting) Jim Leonhard and instead hired Luke Fickell from Cincinnati. This is a great hire that I believe will work out well for the Badgers. With a big transfer portal class – 13 players in all — Wisconsin could be back to their winning ways next season.
