The Colts schedule offers some early opportunities.
Success or failure does not always follow you from year to year
Strength of schedule can be misleading. I think that like many of you, upon seeing the Colts’ schedule ranked as the 4th easiest on release night, I was in full on “huh? ” mode.
That strength of schedule (SOS) was based on team records from last year. I saw a newer release, based the projected over/under win totals for all teams for the coming year. Mike Kadlick, over on SI reranked the schedule, which saw the Colts move to tied for the 12th easiest schedule.
It tells a more accurate story and still offers a path to some wins, but not the cakewalk that the first release suggested. Much of the difference in the rankings comes from our first two games. The Ravens only counted as 8 wins toward last year’s SOS, but brings a projected 11.
5 wins to this year’s. The Chiefs were similar in that they only had 6 wins last year, but get a projected 10. 5 this year.