With one of the best freshmen in the country and a schedule devoid of true road games until the start of conference play, Florida State tops our list of college basketball teams that could get out to surprisingly hot starts in 2016-17.

But there's a flip side to that coin, as Michigan State might have the most surprisingly cold start of any team in the country, likely to suffer at least four losses before the end of November.

To find these candidates, we scoured the 351 nonconference schedules in search of good teams facing tough schedules that could lead to a number of early losses, as well as middling teams facing schedules against which they could be one of the last undefeated teams standi...

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