3 Overrated/Underrated Big 10 Teams

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3 vastly overrated and 3 criminally underrated teams from the Big Ten media poll

 

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A lot of people think Nebraska is going to be pretty good this year.

 

[RUdude]

.. "insightful" that slightly better QB play would have made a difference last year and will this year...

Underrated: Rutgers Scarlet Knights​

And we have arrived at the one team that definitely, maybe, might be good in the Big Ten this year. That would be the Rutgers Scarlet Knights. Since Greg Schiano returned to Piscataway, the Knights have emerged as a perennial bowl team, one that usually plays up to its level of competition. The defense is back to what it was when he was first leading the program back in the old Big East days.

With divisions going away, Rutgers benefits tremendously. The Scarlet Knights no longer have to play the likes of Michigan, Ohio State and Penn State annually, only just every so often. With so many of their great players returning, if they get slightly better quarterback play, this could be an 8-4 team. If a team goes 8-4 in the new Big Ten, that is a top-25 team. This is much better than the 10th-best team.

It would not shock me if Rutgers had a better year than Washington, Wisconsin, Nebraska and Iowa.

This article was originally published on fansided.com as 3 vastly overrated and 3 criminally underrated teams from the Big Ten media poll.