With all the talk recently about BTN being down on us, I find it equally interesting that ESPN (who perennially hates us it seems) is really pretty sold on the Big Red this year. Most ESPN people have picked us to win the West, we were named a Blue Blood program, routinely mentioned as a contender in the conference, projected the 3rd most wins in the conference by a couple metrics, named an offense that could upset the CFP, etc. Sort of refreshing to have the evil empire saying good things about us.
