Forecast

We don't feel like football has arrived until we can look up the weather forecast for the first game. The forecast in Dublin has arrived (67 and sunny) so here is the full season forecast for our Cyclones:

8-4. 

A nice season, with twice the wins than losses, (8-4 would be in the top 10% of Cyclone football seasons, all-time), but it will be tough to match 2024's insanity. 

It's really, really hard to go 5-1 in games of 8 points or less. It's impossible to do that two years in a row.

Perhaps the program improves enough to avoid those one-score-margin-late games. but we doubt it. The B12 is too even, and too many fluky things can happen.

So here's the guess:

Win in Dublin over KSU (Campbell has their number)

Lose to awa. At home. Again. In some new, painful, awful way. (They have our number in Ames.)

Lose at TCU and at home to KU. (The Jayhawks have our number)

Lose another random game where things don't go well.

Win eight games, and hopefully have some fun in the process. 

Nice bowl game. Nice season. Enjoy.