This response in the article was interesting
Recruiting rankings from 2011-2015.
Florida is fielding players from #12, #3, #4, #8, and #23 ranked recruiting classes.
Michigan is fielding players from #21, #7, #5, #31, and #50 ranked recruiting classes.
Nebraska is fielding players from #15, #25, #17, #32 and #31
The difference is that Nebraska’s best class provides us with some redshirt seniors this year. However, of the stars in that class, Aaron Green transferred to TCU, Bubba Starling never enrolled opting to collect a $7 million check to play pro baseball, Mauro Bondi transferred to Hawaii, Ryan Klachko transferred to Illinois, Tyler Moore transferred to Florida, Todd Pete Jr transferred to a junior college, and finally Max Pirman and David Santos were kicked off the team.
The only players seeing the field from that class of seniors are:
Taariq Allen
Daniel Davie
Givens Price played one snap against South Alabama
Ryne Reeves
Zach Sterup saw snaps yesterday in place of injured Nick Gates
David Sutton was hurt against BYU and won’t be back until late november
Jamal Turner
Kevin Williams
I found this incredibly interesting so I looked up who the star players were that made up the other top 20 class to see who was still on the team.
Randy Gregory (left for the NFL)
Johnny Stanton (transferred to a juco)
Kevin Gladney (dismissed from the team)
Courtney Love (transferred to Kentucky)
Greg Hart (transferred to Kentucky)
Drake Martinez (transferred to Michigan State)
Earnest Suttles (dismissed from team and playing at Memphis)
also in that class currently in the program and getting significant time on the field:
Josh Banderas (out due to injury)
Kevin Maurice (out due to injury)
Kevin Williams (out due to injury)
So before you go spouting off about how easy Jim Harbaugh and Jim McElwain are making it look, just remember what Bo Pelini put in the cupboard.
I’ll take 4 losses by a total of 11 points over watching double digit losses to Ohio State (25), Wisconsin (31, 39, and 35), Iowa (21), Missouri (35), UCLA (20), Michigan State (13), Oklahoma (34), Minnesota (11), Georgia (14), South Carolina (17), Washington (12), Texas Tech (21), and Michigan (28) any day.