Don’t Define Ryan Walters’ Success With Wins in Year 1

Photo by James Black/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesJudging a first time head coach at the major college level on wins alone is always a bit of a bad proposition. Judging based on wins alone when that head coach is in the B1G and playing what is one of the toughest schedules in the country that includes two early contenders for the CFP in Michigan and Ohio is even worse. Ryan Walters has as hard of a job to continue the success his predecessor left him than anyone else who was just hired. Places like Nebraska, Colorado, and Wisconsin have had some rough seasons lately and are performing well below what their expectations have been and should be. Nobody in major college football is replacing a head coach who just took his program to a conference championship appearance and certainly no first year coach has the schedule ahead of them that Walters has.

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