*** 2024 Pre-Season Previews Megathread ***

[Saunders]

As is tradition, This thread will serve as a Megathread/reference guide for all the pre-season previews for the 2024 season. Click the team links for each dedicated preview thread. Once I have an initial preview for each team, just click the team name below to be taken to the thread for each team’s previews.

2024 Nebraska Previews
CollegeFootballNews: Nebraska 2024 Preview & Prediction
Phill Steele Big Ten & Nebraska Preview

Bill Connelly/SP+ Big Ten & Nebraska Preview

 

2024 Opponent Previews
08/31 - UTEP
09/07 - Colorado
09/14 - Northern Iowa
09/21 - Illinois
09/28 - @ Purdue
10/05 - Rutgers
10/19 - @ Indiana
10/26 - @ Ohio State
11/02 - UCLA
11/16 - @ USC
11/23 - Wisconsin
11/29 - @ Iowa

 

Post Spring Analysis
CBS: Four things Matt Rhule must do to get the Cornhuskers back to relevancy

CBS Sports: Big Ten post-spring power rankings

Joel Klatt's Post Sprint Top 25

CFN Big Ten 2024 College Football Primer

Bill Connelly's SP+ Post-Sprint Rankings & Takeaways

On-3 College Football post-transfer portal Top 25

Athlon Sports - Big Ten Coaches Talk Anonymously

 

 

Pre-Season Over/Unders & Picks
CBS Sports Big Ten Win Totals, Picks, & Predictions

 

Pre-Season Rankings
Coming soon...

 

If you find a new preview, post it in the relevant thread, and we'll embed it in the root post.

[Saunders]

Spring football is over, May is here, and the magazines are only a few weeks away! We should start seeing the previews being posted soon, plus the new CFB game!

[Red Five]

Post spring SP+ out.  Rankings are based on returning production, recent recruiting rankings, and recent program history.

 

https://www.espn.com/college-football/insider/story/_/id/40186201/college-football-2024-post-spring-sp+-rankings-takeaways

 

7-0 is there for the taking.

 

First 7 teams average rank: #78

Last 5 teams average rank: #20

 

#40 Nebraska

#125 UTEP
#69 Colorado
FCS Northern Iowa
#66 Illinois
#72 @ Purdue
#49 Rutgers
#85 @ Indiana
#2 @ Ohio State
#26 UCLA
#21 @ USC
#27 Wisconsin
#22 @ Iowa

[Saunders]

51 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Post spring SP+ out.  Rankings are based on returning production, recent recruiting rankings, and recent program history.

 

https://www.espn.com/college-football/insider/story/_/id/40186201/college-football-2024-post-spring-sp+-rankings-takeaways

 

7-0 is there for the taking.

 

First 7 teams average rank: #78

Last 5 teams average rank: #20

 

#40 Nebraska

#125 UTEP
#69 Colorado
FCS Northern Iowa
#66 Illinois
#72 @ Purdue
#49 Rutgers
#85 @ Indiana
#2 @ Ohio State
#26 UCLA
#21 @ USC
#27 Wisconsin
#22 @ Iowa

Just posted the thread, thank you!

 

 

[Saunders]

Looks like Athlon Sports isn't doing a CFB Preview magazine. Another victim of Sports Illustrated/Parade.

 

[Mavric]

 

[Saunders]

 

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[Toe]

Come again? How is this "an objective method"? Applying stats to human-made estimates does not an objective method make.

[BigRedBuster]

 

[Saunders]

All teams are now on the board.

[Mavric]

 

[Dogs In A Pile]

I'd be pretty happy with 7th which would mean we had a winning record in the B1G. Combine that with at least 2 wins in the OOC games and that would put us at 7+ wins for the season. Now if we can actually pull it off is another matter but hopefully.