College Football Rankings: CBS Sports ranks every Big Ten team for 2025 (11. Minnesota)

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11) Minnesota​

There’s no easy wins for anyone playing P.J. Fleck’s Minnesota team. While Fornelli won’t pick them to win the league, he recognizes it’s tough to fight against the Golden Gophers. They’re bound to shock a team or two in 2025.

Fornelli: “This is one of the more disrespected programs in the Big Ten. Even I feel I’m disrespecting the Gophers by having them this low. … You’ll never pick them to win the league, but you can’t look at Minnesota on your team’s schedule and chalk it up as an easy W, either.”

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Go Gophers!!
 

Fornelli's quoted comment is a good summation of where we sit in the current college football landscape.

All things considered, I'm good with having a team that is good most years while rarely being great but also rarely being bad in the chaotic world that is today's college football.
 


nitramnaed said:
Again with Nebraska. This team barely made a bowl game last year.
When are people just going to accept that Nebraska is done?
Makes no difference who their coach is.
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I love Nebraska being down, but do seem to be improving. This year is a big one for them! Their only bad loss last year was to a better than expected UCLA team that almost beat us. They have a five star QB coming back for his second year starting and we have a three star starting for the first time. The range of outcomes for Drake is way wider than for Dylan Raiola, especially to the downside. I'm bullish on Drake, but we really have no idea how he'll pan out. Nebraska routinely out recruits us and has way more NIL money. The middle of the B1G is so close I can see them saying the arrow for Nebraska is pointing slightly up and for us slightly down. We just lost one of the best QBs in our history to the NFL.

I do hope you're right however! And while Nebraska may still be getting the benefit of the doubt, at least Wisconsin no longer is.
 

SeaBee_Gopher said:
I love Nebraska being down, but do seem to be improving. This year is a big one for them! Their only bad loss last year was to a better than expected UCLA team that almost beat us. They have a five star QB coming back for his second year starting and we have a three star starting for the first time. The range of outcomes for Drake is way wider than for Dylan Raiola, especially to the downside. I'm bullish on Drake, but we really have no idea how he'll pan out. Nebraska routinely out recruits us and has way more NIL money. The middle of the B1G is so close I can see them saying the arrow for Nebraska is pointing slightly up and for us slightly down. We just lost one of the best QBs in our history to the NFL.

I do hope you're right however! And while Nebraska may still be getting the benefit of the doubt, at least Wisconsin no longer is.
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Nebraska will be better this year than last. New OC and DC coordinators are jelling, Raiola is one of the best in the nation, their defense will be tough, their running game will be better. Should win 8 at least.
 


Great Plains Gopher said:
Nebraska will be better this year than last. New OC and DC coordinators are jelling, Raiola is one of the best in the nation, their defense will be tough, their running game will be better. Should win 8 at least.
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I'm seeing seven losses on Nebraska's schedule
 


Great Plains Gopher said:
Nebraska will be better this year than last. New OC and DC coordinators are jelling, Raiola is one of the best in the nation, their defense will be tough, their running game will be better. Should win 8 at least.
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He threw 9 TDs and 10 INTs against P4 competition in 10 games.

He is not a runner.

What shows him as one of the best in the nation besides his ranking out of high school?
 





Great Plains Gopher said:
Nebraska will be better this year than last. New OC and DC coordinators are jelling, Raiola is one of the best in the nation, their defense will be tough, their running game will be better. Should win 8 at least.
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I am one that usually argues Nebraska has a large amount of talent and should be better than a lot of B10 teams. Over the past 5-10 years or so they may be one of the largest underachieving teams in the country. Every year people predict that Nebraska will be good, and they have not won more than 3 B10 games since 2016. So 8 straight years of losing records. They need to show it before I will jump on board.

Also Raiola's freshman stats were about equal to Tanner Morgan in 2021 or 2022. I know he was a freshman and obviously has talent, but one of the best in the nation?

This coming from a guy who likes Nebraska, has family in Lincoln, and besides the Gophers this is a team I actually root for...
 

gopherbadgerman said:
I am one that usually argues Nebraska has a large amount of talent and should be better than a lot of B10 teams. Over the past 5-10 years or so they may be one of the largest underachieving teams in the country. Every year people predict that Nebraska will be good, and they have not won more than 3 B10 games since 2016. So 8 straight years of losing records. They need to show it before I will jump on board.

Also Raiola's freshman stats were about equal to Tanner Morgan in 2021 or 2022. I know he was a freshman and obviously has talent, but one of the best in the nation?

This coming from a guy who likes Nebraska, has family in Lincoln, and besides the Gophers this is a team I actually root for...
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Gopherbadgerhuskerman then???
 

I see the B1G going down like this:

1. OSU
2. PSU
3. Illinois
4. Oregon
5. Iowa
6. Michigan
7. GOPHERS
8. USC
9. Washington
10. UCLA
11. Indiana
12.Nebraska
13. Rutgers
14. MSU
15. Skunks
16. Northwestern
17. Maryland
18. Purdue

That’s the way I see it with fatty benefitting with an easy schedule!
 




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