You may or may not recall that I wrote a similar column last year (hey, what can I say, it’s an easy source of #content!) and I think it holds up as reasonably accurate.*
But last year was also pretty easy to predict. We knew the strengths and weaknesses of the previous coaching staff, and we had a roster with obvious strengths and weaknesses as well. But thanks to graduations/departures on the strongest side of the ball and an entirely new coaching regime, creating these rankings was harder than last year. I struggled putting these in the order seen below, and I expect more of what I have written will look dumb in a few months.