Wyoming Football: 5 bold predictions vs Central Michigan in Famous Idaho Potato Bowl
By Zach Bigalke
2. But Josh Allen won’t be perfect as he throws at least one pick to CMU
Josh Allen checks off all the physical tools one might expect from a professional prospect at quarterback.
Prototypical quarterback build? At 6-foot-5 and 233 pounds, check!
Can he heave a great long ball? You bet he can!
Those measurables are going to polish up a lot of the tarnish that Allen took from a rough final season in Laramie. His numbers improved slightly in terms of completion percentage, it must be said. But with 122 fewer passing attempts than he put up in 2016, it was inevitable that Allen’s raw numbers were not as impressive as they were during Wyoming’s MWC Mountain-winning season last year.
Coming into the postseason, only Florida Atlantic has intercepted more passes in 2017 than the Central Michigan secondary. The Chippewas have 19 picks so far this season, and with one more they would tie the Owls atop the national rankings in that category.
Allen is going to have a solid day, but he will not have a perfect one. For a quarterback that completed just 56 percent of his passes this year, mistakes are inevitable. Allen will make at least one big gaffe as he tosses a pick to Central Michigan on Friday.