1. Patrick Laird is going to win the Pac-12 rushing title and finish top ten nationally. Ronald Jones, Royce Freeman and Phillip Lindsay all graduated. That leaves Bryce Love and a hodge-podge of other runners to compete with Laird for the crown.
But even Love has the rising Cameron Scarlett to tag-team the Stanford run attack. Laird is going to be the focal point of a Cal offense that isn’t explosive nor flashy. With no likely running backs behind him to get more than a handful of snaps, he’s going to be fed that football a lot this season.