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AP top 25
- Thread starter litespeedhuskerfan_rivals19671
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Anyone remember when the last time we made the pre-season top 25? I assume it was during the Pelini era.
More important where you finish - hopefully the team sees our conference opponents and Tulane, Oregon State and keeps grinding!!!
Not that surprising to me. They finished at #17 last year and they picked up QB DJ Uiagalelei from Clemson in the transfer portal. They should be pretty good.
I remember watching some highlights of their spring game and it looked way more impressive than ours. Defenders were flying to the ball, and at least it seems like they'll make an attempt to open up their offense this year.
kst's quarterback is the real deal
could be a very high draft pick in a couple years
agree with UT and wisc
top 4 will have to lose at least 2, maybe 3 to miss the playoff
top 25 shouldn't come out until October 1st, IMO
pre-season top 25 is one of the reasons college football is the most predictable, least variable sport going by 100 miles
becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy more times than not for these dorks who absolutely don't watch as many teams/games as the average Husker Board poster
top 25 shouldn't come out until October 1st, IMO
pre-season top 25 is one of the reasons college football is the most predictable, least variable sport going by 100 miles
becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy more times than not for these dorks who absolutely don't watch as many teams/games as the average Husker Board poster
You do know they have been rating teams forever at the beginning of the season right..
It all works itself out anyway…
A&M wasn’t very good last year usually unusual a team with a losing record gets ranked..
Dumb ? alert....is the 12 team playoff starting this year?? I thought it was next season.
Other than AP #1-7, this list is an absolute crapshoot.
My 2023 hot takes:
Brian Ferentz is not going to score enough points to keep his job and McNamara will struggle this year.
Sark confuses me at Texas. They have a favorable schedule but I see his seat warming up and losing 3+ games.
Fickell and Ferentz won’t win the West. Bielema will.
Ohio State will win the Big 10, not Michigan.
My 2023 hot takes:
Brian Ferentz is not going to score enough points to keep his job and McNamara will struggle this year.
Sark confuses me at Texas. They have a favorable schedule but I see his seat warming up and losing 3+ games.
Fickell and Ferentz won’t win the West. Bielema will.
Ohio State will win the Big 10, not Michigan.
There are a handful of years where it didn't work out for certain teams.
2004 Auburn for example ended up #2, but didn't get to play in the CCG partly to starting the pre-season being ranked #17. Southern Cal & Oklahoma being pre-season #1 & #2.
After Week 5 (Oct 2nd games) you had;
OU: 4-0 beating no one in the Top 25
USC: 4-0 beating no one in the Top 25
Auburn: 5-0 beating 2 teams in the Top 25
Side note:
Georgia: 4-0 beating 1 team in the Top 25
Miami: 4-0 beating 1 team in the Top 25
I have a hard time believing that Auburn would've been left out of the Top 2 had the ratings waited until Oct.
Okay that’s real good example but USC and Oklahoma still never lost a game so that was a little unusual wouldn’t you say?
Maybe Texass will get the Nebraska treatment in their way out?? Would be tough to stay at that spot if so.
UT haven't played in a big 12 championship game since 2018
people acting like they're the class of the league are woefully mistaken
I thought someone posted a graphic rhat compared us and Texas since we left. Eerily similar paths. Hopefully ours changes.
Based on what? Doesn't Michigan have majority of their starters back and Ohio State is playing with a new QB
Only they haven’t had 7 of the last 8 years of losing seasons they have had 3 of the last 8 years with losing seasons and have been to 4 bowl games..
They do have a lot returning (13), but Ohio State has nearly the same amount (12). I think Harbaugh will be a little too distracted at some point this year with the NCAA stuff.
I also don’t see how “generationally talented” JJ McCarthy is, and I have a hard time seeing Ryan Day losing 3 straight to Michigan.
How did we watch that different of a spring game? Wisconsin looked terrible! Multiple QBs, including Mordified, with time, dawning green jerseys, throwing it straight at defenders miles away from their wide receivers. Those were NOT forced turnovers dude. Wtf were you watching??
You may be right, but I personally don’t see them scoring that many points (again) this year. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Daddy Ferentz retire soon.
I am guessing a few things here...
New AD, that could change things a bit.
Dad totally won't let his kid get canned BUT maybe he creates some fake position for him in the department for 200k a year.