One of the highlights of the sports year comes in June. That’s when Phil Steele publishes his College Football Preview.

As we do every year, we catch up with Phil and preview the college football season. He joins us on Schooled with the Professor. Steele is the absolute best at previewing the season.

He discusses the many statistical formulas he’s perfected throughout the years. He believes teams that lose an abundance of close games make major position jumps the next year. If teams win a huge portions of games decided by a touchdown they usually drop. Steele tells us how he puts together a magazine that has more info than any other. He spends an hour talking to more than 100 head coaches and goes over every player on the roster.

Because he wants the best information, he delays sending the magazine to print until June. We also talk about the impact of the transfer portal and what it’s doing to teams. Steele has more positive reviews of the PAC-12 than the past two years when he had the PAC-12 as No. 5 of the five major conferences. He gives us the forecast of Washington and Washington State.

College football is the topic on Schooled.

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