Updated Feb 8, 2012 - 1:49 pm
College football teams with huge voids to fill
Editor's note: Brock Huard writes columns on college football for ESPN.com. His latest column looks at five programs with major voids to fill heading into next season.
Now that the 2012 recruiting classes have been signed, sealed and delivered, it's time to take a look at the programs around college football with the biggest voids to fill between now and the start of next season.
This is an evaluation not based simply on returning starters' numbers. Instead, it is a look at everything from teams facing critical statistical deficiencies to programs that will have to overcome identity crises after the departure of key players. After taking all those factors into account, it became clear that the following five contending programs from 2011 are facing the toughest personnel challenges heading into the offseason.
The rest of the column is available to those with an ESPN Insider account, and can be read here.
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Brock Huard has co-hosted "Brock and Salk" since 2009. After earning Gatorade Player of the Year honors at Puyallup High School, Brock went on to a record-setting career at Washington and then spent six years in the NFL, including four with the Seahawks. Brock has also spent five years with ESPN working as a college football analyst in the booth and the studio. Brock makes his home on the Eastside with his wife Molly and their three young children.
Mike Salk is the host of "Brock and Salk" on 710 ESPN Seattle and "SportsCenter Saturday with Mike Salk" on the ESPN Radio Network. He is also the regular fill-in host for the "Doug Gottlieb Show," also on ESPN Radio. Born and raised in Boston, Salk is a graduate of Pomona College (Go Sagehens!) and also lived in Los Angeles. He has been at 710 ESPN Seattle since its launch in 2009 and lives in Phinney Ridge with his wife Heather, daughter Avery and their french bulldog Wendell. 
