Yahoo Sports names two B1G teams among 'most disappointing' in 2018
This isn’t the list any team wants to find itself on.
As we’ve reached the midway point of the season, Yahoo! Sports released a list of the five most disappointing teams at this point in the college football season. Two of those teams came from the B1G.
And they were listed as No. 1 and No. 2.
Yahoo! Sports listed Nebraska (No. 1) and Michigan State (No. 2) as the most disappointing teams in the sport this year. And it’s not really much of a reach, either.
Considering all they hype that swarmed Lincoln after Scott Frost was named the Huskers’ new head coach, the 0-5 start was unpredictable. Though nobody really expected Nebraska to compete for a B1G title immediately, bowl eligibility seemed like a feasible goal.
The Huskers will be lucky to hit three wins this season.
Michigan State was thought to be a contender in the B1G East and potential threat to the College Football Playoff. Instead, the Spartans are 3-2 and have lost games to Arizona State and Northwestern. Now, bowl eligibility is a huge question mark for the team.
Here’s what Yahoo! Sports had to say about Nebraska:
Nebraska fans were ecstatic when Scott Frost left UCF to come home and coach his alma mater. But Nebraska’s return to glory is clearly going to take a while. So is its return to mere competitiveness. The Huskers are one of four college football teams without a win in 2018. The 0-5 record matches the worst start to a season in program history.
And on Michigan State:
Michigan State returned 19 starters from a team that won 10 games in 2017. Naturally, expectations for a potentially special season were there in East Lansing. That has not come to fruition. The Spartans dropped to 3-2 with a miserable 29-19 loss to Northwestern over the weekend. The performance pretty much summed up the season so far. As noted in the Forde-Yard Dash, the offense, in year six with Dave Warner calling plays, had a rough afternoon, especially in short-yardage situations.
The Northwestern game wasn’t the only rough moment this season. The Spartans barely escaped Utah State in Week 1 at home, lost to Arizona State 16-13 and looked sluggish in a 31-20 win over Central Michigan, a team that has only beaten Maine in 2018. Next on the schedule are No. 8 Penn State and No. 12 Michigan. MSU better get things turned around quickly.
There’s still half a season remaining and both teams will have an opportunity to turn their seasons around. But so far, there’s been plenty of disappointment in Lincoln and East Lansing.
the other three teams on the list were Florida State (No. 3), Boise State (No. 4) and Louisville (No. 5).