For every college football team, the season often can swing on one person, position group or situation. If this one thing comes together as planned -- or even better than expected -- the season could be a big success. If it doesn't go well, the team's season could go south.
Though the quarterback position often fills that role, especially when there's a new player at the helm, other concerns can be shoring up a weakness from last year, incorporating a key transfer or having an important player return from injury.
For the teams in our post-spring Power Rankings, the stakes are particularly high.