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I had GROK put together a consensus top 25 post-spring college football, aggregating all the major media outlets and analysts. Needless to say as you'll see in this thread, this wasn't even close to what happened during the 2025 season.
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Covering everything Big Ten, because somebody has to provide equal time with all the SEC SIDs masquerading as college sports media.
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- Reminder, since KenPom analytics began in 2002, every national champ but 1 has been top 25 in both offensive and defensive efficiency. This year that’s these 8 teams: Arizona Auburn Connecticut Creighton Houston Marquette North Carolina Purdue
- Since KenPom began in 2002, every NCAA Tournament champion but 1 was top 20 in both offensive & defensive efficiency. At the end of the regular season, that's the following 8 teams: Virginia Gonzaga Duke Michigan St North Carolina Michigan Kentucky Houston
- Iowa: this is only the second time since the existence of the Big Ten football conference championship game that the same school has participated in the B1G FB championship, the WBB championship, and the MBB championship games in the same academic year. Sparty won 2/3 in 2015-16.
- Is there a team that replay review has absolutely screwed more than this Iowa team?
- “As soon as the Big Ten starts doing to the SEC what the SEC did to the Big Ten, we must change the rules.”NIL & transfer portal have helped give us 1 of the greatest college football seasons of all-time. But when the 4th richest man in the world gives a recruit $12 million to please his wife/GF, it's pretty we're at an inflection point that NIL has turned into a runaway arms race
- Indiana likely wins out. Ohio St has toughest game at Michigan. What happens with tiebreakers if multiple 1-loss teams? If OSU, USC, and Mich all 1-loss, USC to Indy. If OSU, Oregon, and Mich all 1-loss, Oregon to Indy. If OSU, Iowa, and Mich all 1 loss, Iowa to Indy.
- Purdue lost four starters, 5 thousand points, and started this season 6-5. Boilermakers still won Big Ten title and are headed to Sweet 16 for third straight year. Phenomenal coaching job by Matt Painter.
- Big Ten power ratings after Week 1: 1) Penn St 2) Ohio St 3) USC 4) Oregon 5) Iowa 6) Michigan 7) Nebraska 8) Maryland 9) Purdue 10) Washington 11) Illinois 12) Northwestern 13) Minnesota 14) Wisconsin 15) Rutgers 16) Indiana 17) UCLA 18) Michigan St 60% eye test, 40% resume
- Congrats to Purdue and Ohio State -- the only Big Ten teams to make a bowl game, the NCAA basketball tournament, and the NCAA baseball tournament this academic year.
- There were 72 college football games that had over 3 million TV viewers last season. 32 included the Big Ten and 31 included the SEC. The rest of college football had 9 combined.
- Latest Big Ten power ratings: 1) Ohio St 2) Wisconsin 3) Iowa 4) Michigan St 5) Penn St 6) Nebraska 7) Minnesota 8) Maryland 9) Michigan 10) Illinois 11) Indiana 12) Purdue 13) Northwestern 14) Rutgers
- Updated Big Ten power ratings: 1) Michigan 2) Iowa 3) Ohio State 4) Penn State 5) Wisconsin 6) Purdue 7) Michigan State 8) Northwestern 9) Indiana 10) Maryland 11) Nebraska 12) Minnesota 13) Illinois 14) Rutgers
