There are plenty of obvious hazards to starting a full offseason preview series in February. Players get hurt, players transfer, things change. But at least coaching changes usually don't play a role.
Usually.
When I wrote the MAC East preview last March, Lance Leipold's Buffalo Bulls and Frank Solich's Ohio Bobcats appeared to be the most proven entities. The Bulls were 24-10 over the previous three seasons, and while the Bobcats barely had a chance to play the year before (they went 2-1 in 2020), they had finished over .