CBS Sports: Big Ten post-spring power rankings

[Saunders]

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They say there's no such thing as a college football offseason anymore, but I beg to differ. The only thing that's changed is the offseason has shrunk, and we're at the beginning of it as spring practice has wrapped up around the country and the transfer portal window has closed. 

While some players continue looking for new homes, college football fans can finally take a breath, for the most part. They no longer have to fear waking up to the news that one of their star players has entered the portal for greener pastures. Instead, they must find ways to fill time between now and when the season starts this fall.

The best way to do that is to rank things and have pointless debates with your friends and enemies alike. That's precisely what I'm doing with these post-spring Big Ten power rankings. You may agree with them, you might not. What matters is that I'm right, and so are you.

Also, as a friendly reminder for those of you who may have been lost at sea for the last 24 months, the inclusion of Oregon, UCLA, USC and Washington is not a clerical error. They are members of the Big Ten now. We live in interesting (and absurd) times, don't we?

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/big-ten-post-spring-power-rankings-ohio-state-over-oregon-for-no-1-usc-lands-in-top-five/

 

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#7 Nebraska

We've reached the portion of these rankings where you can toss these teams into a lottery ball machine, pick a random order and nearly all would be defensible. I'm putting Nebraska at the top not because it's an annual tradition to get Husker fans' hopes up, but because the addition of Dylan Raiola gives this offense a ceiling I'm not sure anybody else in this group has. A lot will have to go right for that to be the case. True freshman QBs typically don't come out guns blazing, but if Raiola lives up to his potential, this team may surprise. At a minimum, it should finally get back to a bowl game.

 

 

I'd take it in a heartbeat.

[whateveritis1224]

Seems like there's the first 6 (with questions about Washington), and then everyone else. It does feel like Nebraska is with Wisconsin and Iowa as teams with a lot of questions, but also a good core of returning players that could possibly set things up for a good year (I've been burned too much by Nebraska to trust 100%). But their argument makes sense, if Dylan plays like the 5 star he is, Nebraska has the best QB of the 2nd tier teams by far.