Way Too Early Football Poll - Ranked 11
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On the other end of the spectrum…the Athletic doesn’t rank isu at all.
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Way too early Top 25 rankings for the 2025 college football season — The Athletic
Only three SEC teams in the top 10. Ohio State outside of the top five. Florida ranked head of Alabama.
Clear drop off behind Verdon yes, Freyler not so much. He was an amazing leader for us, and played the majority of his career hurt, but by the end his body just wasn’t allowing him to play at a high level anymore. I don’t see a drop off with Surges taking over at that position, at least not physically.
Having a proven experienced QB is key for me. Playing KSt in Ireland instead of Manhattan is a plus. Colorado lost their 2 best players & their QB was under pressure with a bad OL for 2 years. We can win both games along with Iowa at Ames, again an experienced QB in early games helps, Iowa lost their go to workhorse RB. I can envision a 9 win season. The unknown is the loss of Noel/Higgins.
We have been successful at bringing in WRs in the portal. You think this staff’s judgement got worse or they were just lucky with them? We have a seasoned QB which is huge.
Why would someone put Iowa in the likely loss column and ASU in the toss up column? ASU will be a tougher game than Iowa.
I think there's a bit of a return to the mean and we're like 8-4. I really have no specific feel on which games we win or lose either. Just seems that a bunch of close wins tend to lead to some close losses in the following season.
I think there's a bit of a return to the mean and we're like 8-4. I really have no specific feel on which games we win or lose either. Just seems that a bunch of close wins tend to lead to some close losses in the following season.
Key contributor, plus such a cool name.
Conjures SNL sketch.
"Stevo! The Steve-ster. Steve-o-Rama!"
We haven't beat Iowa at Jack Trice in 14 years so until we do it seems like a safe prediction. ASU lost Scattebo to the NFL, plus its at home.
So are you expecting us to win in kinnick then next year? Since we’ve beat them there 2 times in a row. Past results have no bearing on future games.
I think Campbell has cracked the Ferentz code. I'm not saying we're going to win that game, but it's firmly out of "likely loss" for me and very much a toss up.
I don’t think it’s fair to assume that next years schedule is automatically harder. Going into this year we would have liked to have ASU and BYU on the schedule and felt relieved we were missing OK State.
Right. In this current era, it's going to be harder to accurately prognosticate.
And then you just have the parity of the Big 12. In the regular season, of our 2 losses, 1 was a game we really should have won. Of our 10 wins, there were 3 games we really should/could have lost. This could have easily been a 7-5 season or an 11-1 season.
Or maybe you’re being pessimistic?
They’re considering the other teams as having losses as well. If we had a few more pieces back, we’d be even higher.
Solely using the past to determine the future in the face of multiple diverse dynamics is… odd.
Perhaps. Lots of unknowns - which I agree is not unlike other teams.
I look at the other names at top of that list and they’re more “reload” than “rebuild” historically. Hoping we can consistently do the same going forward.
