Washington won’t look like they did last year and it’s not going to be even close on either side of the ball.
I think the OSU-Oregon game will tell us a lot. OSU's recruiting is always top 5 but now they have those insane Portal additions over the offseason. Many of their following think that this is the most talented OSU squad in quite a long time.
Both are top 5 in several preseason rankings. In fact, I've recently seen OSU #1 in a poll or two after those Portal gets. Gonna be a blockbuster early in the year. The TV ratings could go through the roof
Ryan day is the only thing holding ohiost back
Sure starting to look that way. He better have a HUGE season or they might have a lynching party in Downtown Columbus after the season is over. God, their talent is off the charts
Agreed. I was just pointing out that the narrative that the Pac 12 is soft isn't necessarily true. In fact, I would love to have a bunch Pacific Islander's like those Pac 12 teams have.
7 of the first 15 players picked in the draft this year were from Pac 12 schools, including the first defensive player off the board
When I see your name, I think, Boiler for Nebraska, just like that southwest Iowa guy who has a crush on us.
Yea, Colorado and Utah and at at times Pullman Wash. are more likely to be closer to weather conditions in November..
Agree. I might have it wrote down somewhere still, but I looked up our weather for the last few seasons. Way overblown. Some people confuse the Big 10 with NFL playoff games. You get a couple colder games a year. For the most part it's either hot or just a nice fall day.
I think even Husker fans think every Husker home game after September is 0 degrees with freezing rain.
True, but most people from LA think 30-50 degrees is freezing and act like it's Antartica.
You make a good point, but using Minnesota from 2023 isn’t a regular occurrence. Going to games here the last 3 years, there were a fair number of colder games than what last year presented.
No.. October has some of the best fall days in Nebraska, so that a huge false narrative..
Call it what you want. Idc. I enjoy seeing Nebraska win and enjoy going to games in Memorial stadium. So I follow them closer.
Ummmm… help me out here. Who did USC play last year from the B1G?
Oregon is the only scary team imo
It confuses them. True story, I saw a young woman in Orange county in a parka and shorts. It wasn't cold just not their normal warm.True, but most people from LA think 30-50 degrees is freezing and act like it's Antartica.
Iowa is a real question here. How much better their offense will be if.......and if........Kirk lets the new guy open up the play book. We know they will have a stout defense. They return a lot of starters. One thing I think is important is that in spite of how good Iowa's defensive ranking was last year. Like Nebraska, they played some pretty weak offensive teams.
Kind of interesting looking at the schedule. Week 11 only one pac team is on the road to a B1G team. Week 12 is the same. Only 1 former pac team traveling to a B1G opponent. In week 13 and 14 there are no games scheduled between B1G and former pac teams. So in short, they won't have weather factoring them this year.
Yeah, I don't like the cold, but Big 10 games in October are usually fine. November, not so much.
I don’t think it’s possible for them to have a worse offense then they had last year, and it looks like they return the entire defense for the most part less the one draft pick guy. They’ll probably be pretty good especially if their offense can do something.
Luckily it sounds like Kirk is spending more time with the OL and it’s gonna be Lester’s show. Still working on a WR and a QB in the portal. Anyone will be better than Deacon freaking Hill.
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Lainez looks to be the starter since he went through spring drills and McNamara is Questionable to start the season and he looks to be less mobile than he was last season..7.Big Ten post-spring power rankings: Ohio State over Oregon for No. 1, USC lands in top five
Here's how teams in the Big Ten stack up now that spring practice is in the rearview mirror
Nebraska
We've reached the portion of these rankings where you can toss these teams into a lottery ball machine, pick a random order and nearly all would be defensible. I'm putting Nebraska at the top not because it's an annual tradition to get Husker fans' hopes up, but because the addition of Dylan Raiola gives this offense a ceiling I'm not sure anybody else in this group has. A lot will have to go right for that to be the case. True freshman QBs typically don't come out guns blazing, but if Raiola lives up to his potential, this team may surprise. At a minimum, it should finally get back to a bowl game.
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Iowa
Most years, I look at Iowa questioning nearly everything about the roster and offensive philosophy before deciding it doesn't matter because the Hawkeyes will figure out a way to win at least eight games anyway. Ironically, I'm not nearly as confident now that Iowa has replaced offensive coordinator Brian Ferentz with Tim Lester. This is not because of Lester, rather it's because last year's third-string quarterback, Marco Lainez, is the only healthy quarterback on the roster right now. There's hope Iowa can land a transfer soon, but for the most part, the QBs remaining in the portal come May are there for a reason. Oh, and superstar punter extraordinaire Tory Taylor is gone.
UCLA lost a lot as well. I’m not really sold on them yet. Washington and USC will be probably 6-8 win teams? Oregon will be tough.
Agree on Franklin. Guy underperforms like mad with the talent he gets.
McNamara should be back to full strength (for him) by the end of June. They just grabbed Sullivan from NW also so not as bare as it once was.
