On3: Phil Steele 2026 preseason poll, ranking all college football teams, 1 to 138

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Wisconsin is going to suck.
This is really similar to year 4 Brewster

Dude takes a program with an identity. Changes it. Sucks or is below average. Change identity back. Suck even worse, get fired mid season.

The only difference is Fickell should’ve been better.
 

wisconsin was a lot worse than Minnesota last year, recruited significantly worse (28 vs 78 by 247 composite), comparable in transfer rank (38 vs 51). Minnesota returns 68% of production from last year and wisconsin 59%.

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What returning production looks like for the 2026 college football season

Notre Dame and Texas have a lot coming back, but 2025 showed that might not mean as much.
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but I guess they are now better by the same magic pixie dust sprinkled each summer upon the Platte River of Nebraska
 





GVLCGopherFan said:
Over the last five years he’s had pre-season Wisconsin at:

2022 = 19
2023 = 13
2024 = 25
2025 = 32
2026 = 27
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Having them at 32 when anyone with half a brain could tell you how Wisconsin's season was going to go six months before the season started tells you all you need to know
 

ergopher said:
Having them at 32 when anyone with half a brain could tell you how Wisconsin's season was going to go six months before the season started tells you all you need to know
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I’m sure it’s not easy to rank every team before one game’s been played. The silly part is expecting people to accept the dart pattern as analysis.
 


Some guy said:
Wisconsin is going to suck.
This is really similar to year 4 Brewster

Dude takes a program with an identity. Changes it. Sucks or is below average. Change identity back. Suck even worse, get fired mid season.

The only difference is Fickell should’ve been better.
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Yeah I don't get all the badger love, same with the huskers, sure both teams added decent pieces in portal, but what are those pieces joining? As far as QB play goes Old Dominion ain't the big ten, perhaps they've given up on their high four star true freshman they threw out their against us last year
 



The Deliberate Stranger said:
Yeah I don't get all the badger love, same with the huskers, sure both teams added decent pieces in portal, but what are those pieces joining? As far as QB play goes Old Dominion ain't the big ten, perhaps they've given up on their high four star true freshman they threw out their against us last year
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I think the Huskers love is because they were 7-3 with close losses to USC and Michigan when their QB went down.

Now, that QB left but
 

fmlizard said:
wisconsin was a lot worse than Minnesota last year, recruited significantly worse (28 vs 78 by 247 composite), comparable in transfer rank (38 vs 51). Minnesota returns 68% of production from last year and wisconsin 59%.

www.espn.com

What returning production looks like for the 2026 college football season

Notre Dame and Texas have a lot coming back, but 2025 showed that might not mean as much.
www.espn.com www.espn.com

but I guess they are now better by the same magic pixie dust sprinkled each summer upon the Platte River of Nebraska
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The weird thing is in conference standings predictions Steele has Gophs tied for 9th with Nebraska and Illinois and Wisconsin 12th. So IDK
 


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