With Indiana basketball teetering on the brink, we’ve already started the hype train for the 2017 Indiana football season. Tom Allen’s Hoosiers will see a favorable schedule & return more quality starting talent than any team in recent memory in Bloomington. There’s absolutely reason to suspect this could be Indiana’s best team in nearly 25 years — and 8 or more wins could be in the horizon.
Now there’s quantifiable data to prove it.
Last season, SBNation’s Bill Connelly began calculating “returning production” — a far better figure than returning starters for projecting success into next season.