Huskers NOT in SI Post Spring Power Rankings

StPaulHusker said:
Andy Staples does not have Nebraska in the Top 25 Post-Spring Power Rankings.

By Comparison, he has:

Ohio State at #4-We got killed

Georgia at #11-We stayed with them until 4Q

Michigan State at #14-we beat

Michigan at #16-We beat

UCLA at #21-6 point loss

Northwestern at #22-We beat

Vanderbilt at #23-Did not beat a ranked opponent or anyone with a record above .500 last year

Northern Illinois at #24-Seriously? I know they are a good team but we are not even above this team?

Any opinions?
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If graduation hadn't happened, and no teams changed at all...this might matter. But that's what's great about college football.

None of us had Ohio State going undefeated, few had KState having the season they had. Last year you'd have bashed Utah State, San Jose State, Northern Illinois, likely Florida/FSU, Northwestern, Texas, Oregon State etc...yet they all ended up in the AP top 25 ahead of us.

There are going to be half a dozen teams you never thought of ranked above us next year if we finish similar to how we have the last 5 years. All he's saying is, we're likely going to finish similar, and here are a bunch of teams that could end up ahead of us. He's not exactly going out on a limb. We haven't finished worth a sh!t in the polls the entire Pelini era...but hey, at least we've always won 9.

 
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While many of the picks are questionable, it is easy to justify not putting NU in the top 25. I am expecting the best offence under Bo and a better defense than last year. Combine that with a much easier schedule, and NU should finish in the top 25. The big question marks for me are special teams and turnovers. Bo's return and return stopping teams have been terrible, and this could be the 1st year Bo hasn't had a great punter and place kicker. I am hoping Bondi comes through. Bo's huskers, with the exception of 2003, fumble way too often and don't force enough turnovers. I don't see how the TO margin could get worse, so I am hoping it improves.

 
Andy is a joke, IMO. Not a big deal. NU has had it's struggles but any team that has finished their last two seasons with 10 wins deserve to be top 25 in any preseason poll. Michigan St. #14......what is this guy looking at? Vandy........what? And Kansas St not even in the top #25......really.....didn't they just play in a BCS?

 
AllNRed said:
Andy is a joke, IMO. Not a big deal. NU has had it's struggles but any team that has finished their last two seasons with 10 wins deserve to be top 25 in any preseason poll. Michigan St. #14......what is this guy looking at? Vandy........what? And Kansas St not even in the top #25......really.....didn't they just play in a BCS?
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happens all the time when you lose your Heisman contending - all everything QB. Ask the Texas 2010 team, or Florida post-Tebow, or Auburn after Cam Newton...and I think we can all agree that KSU is NO Texas/Florida/Auburn.

 
MSU will struggle to win 8 games and OSU might have run out of luck after last year, Miller took a POUNDING and hardly made it out alive, this year I could see him going down.

 
teachercd said:
MSU will struggle to win 8 games and OSU might have run out of luck after last year, Miller took a POUNDING and hardly made it out alive, this year I could see him going down.
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It is understandable why tOSU should/could be #4. MSU at #14 is indefensible.

 
saunders45 said:
QMany said:
teachercd said:
MSU will struggle to win 8 games and OSU might have run out of luck after last year, Miller took a POUNDING and hardly made it out alive, this year I could see him going down.
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It is understandable why tOSU should/could be #4. MSU at #14 is indefensible.
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Exactly.
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Narduzzi helps. Great coordinator. They've had the #1 B1G D for a couple years now. They might drop a little from the #4 (overall) defense they were last year, but it won't be a huge fall. I'm thinking something like our 2009-2010 transition. That defense will win you a lot of games. We're singing an entirely different tune right now if the 2010 defense had showed up in 2012. That enough to reach top 25? Probably. top 15? That's going to require an offense quite a bit better than they showed last year...and it isn't looking promising. Maxwell is back for his second year - and we know how much can change from year 1 to year 2. There's hope there. New coordinators, some more hope there. A mobile QB waiting in the wings, maybe some more hope if they employ a 2 QB system. Add in the fact that their schedule might just be as easy as ours and top 15 is certainly possible.

Is see MSU kind of like Wisconsin - they lost 5 games by a combined 13 points. If they return a similar defense, face a similar schedule - and have an even marginally improved offense it's not a stretch to think they could win 9-10 games. The margin of error for Nebraska, MSU, and Wisconsin last year was very, very small. We got lucky (i really don't know any other way to put it) and came out on top of these two when it came to wins/losses, but the gap isn't as big as it appears. MSU could have just as easily ended the season with a record very similar to ours.

 
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I don't blame him too much for leaving us off the top 25. The defense is one huge question mark, and although the offense is productive, it's extremely erratic. Personally, I would put us in the preseason top 25 just based on our cake schedule (somewhere in the 22-25 range sounds right).

I was, however, surprised we weren't at least included in this list:

Teams I might regret not including*: Arizona, Arizona State, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, Oregon State
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Arizona and Arizona State, what? Is he not aware of our cake schedule?

 
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QMany said:
kchusker_chris said:
If they return a similar defense, face a similar schedule - and have an even marginally improved offense it's not a stretch to think they could win 9-10 games.
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Losing Gholston, Bell, and Sims. Good luck with that.
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Exactly. Gholston being their primary man on the front, who caused most, if not all the ruckus, and Bell, who carried 90% of their carries, and I know more than half of their plays, they will not even be close to what they were last year. 6-6 is what I think they will go next year.

 
Like us, Michigan State has the benefit of playing an easier schedule this year. So theoretically, both teams could have a better record without actually improving. Michigan State has more room to improve in their W/L, and aren't nearly as susceptible to being clobbered. It shouldn't be that controversial Michigan State is on the list, but if you include them, you should probably include us too.

 
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kchusker_chris said:
StPaulHusker said:
Andy Staples does not have Nebraska in the Top 25 Post-Spring Power Rankings.

By Comparison, he has:

Ohio State at #4-We got killed

Georgia at #11-We stayed with them until 4Q

Michigan State at #14-we beat

Michigan at #16-We beat

UCLA at #21-6 point loss

Northwestern at #22-We beat

Vanderbilt at #23-Did not beat a ranked opponent or anyone with a record above .500 last year

Northern Illinois at #24-Seriously? I know they are a good team but we are not even above this team?

Any opinions?
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If graduation hadn't happened, and no teams changed at all...this might matter. But that's what's great about college football.

None of us had Ohio State going undefeated, few had KState having the season they had. Last year you'd have bashed Utah State, San Jose State, Northern Illinois, likely Florida/FSU, Northwestern, Texas, Oregon State etc...yet they all ended up in the AP top 25 ahead of us.

There are going to be half a dozen teams you never thought of ranked above us next year if we finish similar to how we have the last 5 years. All he's saying is, we're likely going to finish similar, and here are a bunch of teams that could end up ahead of us. He's not exactly going out on a limb. We haven't finished worth a sh!t in the polls the entire Pelini era...but hey, at least we've always won 9.
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I have a hard time believing that they were deserving of their ranking.

 
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