Over on the mothership, Bill Connelly has been putting up articles diving into the various components of his pre-season S&P rankings*: Recruiting, previous team performance, and returning production. All of them are worth reading, but I’d like to dive into returning production in particular, because I think it says something interesting about the larger Pac-12 landscape.
*Spoiler alert: Cal ranks 47th in average recruiting, 52nd in returning production, and 59th in prior on-field performance, so you can feel pretty confident that our 2019 pre-season ranking will be in the 50s.