re: College Football returning production

If you don't think having a bunch of returning players means anything then you are wrong.

Sure, there are a few elite programs that stay stacked with top talent and good coaching that can appear to pop that balloon, but for the vast number of programs it means plenty.

Now, I ask myself, would I prefer to have lost 65% of starters coming into this season or would I rather return the bulk of them having a year under their belt. I know what my answer would be and any knowledgeable football fan would agree.

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Now, I ask myself, would I prefer to have lost 65% of starters coming into this season or would I rather return the bulk of them having a year under their belt. I know what my answer would be and any knowledgeable football fan would agree.

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That's fine. But this guy is producing his S&P projections which rate teams. It's not the only factor, obviously.

But when you get results that suggest Kansas State returning a starting DB in any way makes them more valuable than LSU breaking in a new DB, maybe this metric isn't all that useful.

Give me a rookie DB that won the starting job at LSU over a 4-year starter just about anywhere else.

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College Football returning production by LSU PatrickI doubt LSU has led in returning production since the 1990s.

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LSU will replace experience with "Talent". The same "Talent" that was not good enough to start over a bunch of guys who lost to State by 30.

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And in your case. an easy as frick schedule.

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Including Auburn.