BleedGopher
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per the World Herald:
Overall talent
Nebraska wins on the recruiting class rankings spanning the last four classes. According to 247Sports composite ratings, NU’s five-year average recruiting rank is 27, Wisconsin’s is 42 and Minnesota’s is 60. The Huskers generally have better skill players — certainly more speed at those positions — but Wisconsin and Minnesota have had better offensive lines the last two years than the Huskers. The Badgers and Gophers have good offensive linemen in their home states, guys who are probably overlooked by the recruiting services to some degree. From a depth perspective, Minnesota probably has a slight advantage over Wisconsin. The Badgers have struggled with retaining players through several coaching changes.
1. Nebraska
2. Minnesota and Wisconsin
Quarterback
As I wrote earlier this summer, Wisconsin, Nebraska and Minnesota’s quarterbacks are in a dead heat. Tommy Armstrong was the biggest playmaker of the three, and he wasn’t as erratic as UW’s Joel Stave could be. But in Nebraska’s two biggest road games — Wisconsin and Michigan State — Armstrong struggled badly, and he waited until late in the third quarter to get hot at Iowa. Those stretches are too debilitating. Minnesota’s Mitch Leidner has the least polish of the three, but he’s durable and doesn’t make as many mistakes. And when he had notable road games at Michigan and Nebraska, he showed up. Stave will have a better 2015 than 2014, when he contracted the anxiety yips after losing the starting quarterback job.
1. Minnesota, Nebraska and Wisconsin
http://www.omaha.com/huskers/mckewo...cle_2db5b99d-6cd2-5fab-9a26-72e9a456b140.html
Go Gophers!!
Overall talent
Nebraska wins on the recruiting class rankings spanning the last four classes. According to 247Sports composite ratings, NU’s five-year average recruiting rank is 27, Wisconsin’s is 42 and Minnesota’s is 60. The Huskers generally have better skill players — certainly more speed at those positions — but Wisconsin and Minnesota have had better offensive lines the last two years than the Huskers. The Badgers and Gophers have good offensive linemen in their home states, guys who are probably overlooked by the recruiting services to some degree. From a depth perspective, Minnesota probably has a slight advantage over Wisconsin. The Badgers have struggled with retaining players through several coaching changes.
1. Nebraska
2. Minnesota and Wisconsin
Quarterback
As I wrote earlier this summer, Wisconsin, Nebraska and Minnesota’s quarterbacks are in a dead heat. Tommy Armstrong was the biggest playmaker of the three, and he wasn’t as erratic as UW’s Joel Stave could be. But in Nebraska’s two biggest road games — Wisconsin and Michigan State — Armstrong struggled badly, and he waited until late in the third quarter to get hot at Iowa. Those stretches are too debilitating. Minnesota’s Mitch Leidner has the least polish of the three, but he’s durable and doesn’t make as many mistakes. And when he had notable road games at Michigan and Nebraska, he showed up. Stave will have a better 2015 than 2014, when he contracted the anxiety yips after losing the starting quarterback job.
1. Minnesota, Nebraska and Wisconsin
http://www.omaha.com/huskers/mckewo...cle_2db5b99d-6cd2-5fab-9a26-72e9a456b140.html
Go Gophers!!
