2016 Washington Huskies Football Predictions and Season Win Total Picks

by Robert Ferringo - 8/11/2016

2015 Record: 7-6

2016 Las Vegas Season Win Total: 9.0

2016 Season Win Total Picks NCAA Football: 'Under'

If you are looking for a big buzz team out West, look no further than the Washington Huskies. Washington enters this season with its most talented team since the 2000 Rose Bowl-winning Huskies squad. Expectations are soaring for this team as major media members from coast to coast are piling onto the bandwagon.

There is good reason for optimism. Chris Petersen, whose career coaching record is a gaudy 107-24, is one of the best head coaches in the game. Washington has 15 starters back from last year's squad, including highly-touted quarterback Jake Browning, and they boast future pros on both sides of the ball.

Offensively, Browning made huge strides as a freshman. UCLA's Josh Rosen stole most of the hype going into last season. But Browning arguably did more with a lot less around him. Speedy Myles Gaskin and four starting linemen are back to support a group that was just hitting its stride late in the year, averaging 38.3 points in their final six games and 47 points in their final three.

Washington also welcomes back seven starters from the best defense in the league. They allowed just 18.8 points per game last season (No. 13 in the country), and their up-and-down pass defense should be even better with a trio of three-year starters in the secondary.

This year's Washington team reminds me a bit of Tennessee last year. Last season the Vols were the big buzz team coming into the season…and they showed their lack of savvy and experience while giving away several winnable marquee games. I have a feeling we will see something similar from the Huskies this season. Washington hasn't won more than five league games in more than a decade and has won more than eight games just three times in 20 years.

Washington has an easy nonconference schedule and should be 3-0 with three blowout wins. They also get Stanford and USC up in Seattle and should throttle Oregon State and Arizona State at home as well. Those seven games should yield six wins. UW has five league road games, and how they handle those will tell the tale of their season.

I think that 8.5 would be a better number here. An 'over' play at 9.0 means Washington can lose only twice. There's a really strong argument to be made that they will go 10-2 and win the North. But I think the odds are a little better that this team is one year away from a potential run at the playoff (they only have four senior starters), and that some disappointment this season could set up a big year in 2017. Play 'under'.

2016 Washington Huskies Schedule

DATE	OPPONENT	TIME (ET)	Location	Result
Sat, Sep 3rd, 2016	Rutgers	02:00 PM	Alaska Airlines Field
Sat, Sep 10th, 2016	Idaho	05:00 PM	Alaska Airlines Field
Sat, Sep 17th, 2016	Portland State	08:00 PM	Alaska Airlines Field
Sat, Sep 24th, 2016	at Arizona	03:00 PM	Arizona Stadium
Fri, Sep 30th, 2016	Stanford	09:00 PM	Alaska Airlines Field
Sat, Oct 8th, 2016	at Oregon	03:00 PM	Autzen Stadium
Sat, Oct 22nd, 2016	Oregon State	03:00 PM	Alaska Airlines Field
Sat, Oct 29th, 2016	at Utah	02:00 PM	Rice-Eccles Stadium
Sat, Nov 5th, 2016	at California	03:00 PM	Kabam Field
Sat, Nov 12th, 2016	USC	03:00 PM	Alaska Airlines Field
Sat, Nov 19th, 2016	Arizona State	03:00 PM	Alaska Airlines Field
Fri, Nov 25th, 2016	at Washington State	03:30 PM	Clarence Martin Stadium

All Times EST

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Pick:	CHICAGO BEARS +3
Start:	November 24, 2024 @ 1:00 PM
Expert:	Doc's Sports

Analysis:

Free Play from Doc’s Sports. Take #256 Chicago Bears +3 over Minnesota Vikings (1p.m., Sunday, November 24 FOX) We used the Bears as a free play winner last Sunday and easily covered the spread and should have been an underdog outright winner. Now we will ride them for a second straight week against another NFC North rival, the Minnesota Vikings. The Vikings are 8-2 on the season, yet are only around a field goal favorite. I still do not trust Sam Donald to win consistently over the course of a 17 game regular season. Minnesota is not as good as their 8-2 record would indicate and playing outdoors in Chicago on Sunday will cause issues for them on both sides of the ball. Chicago has been hit or miss this season, but they will be up to play another divisional rival and we expect them to take this down to the wire as well. Do not miss out on Doc’s Sports Weekend Card featuring top plays in college and NFL football. Read More Read Less

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