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Teams most likely to be most improved teams of 2009

By Bruce Feldman

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Since optimism is brewing around Seattle and the Washington Huskies are coming off an 0-12 season, Bob Condotta looks at some of the biggest one-season improvements in college football and detects one key similarity in most of these upstarts: A soft schedule is one of the biggest common threads among teams that made huge leaps in recent years. Minnesota was the most improved team last season, going from 1-11 to 7-6. But four of those wins came against Northern Illinois, Bowling Green, Montan ...

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