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B1G Thoughts: Can Schiano and the Scarlet Knights win nine games in 2024?
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While the middle class may be disappearing off the field, these groups of teams are hoping to find their way into the Middle Class of the Big Ten.
Every week after the Big Ten games, I will bring you some B1G thoughts on everything that happened! This will include analysis, stats, key players, moments, and more. With the Big Ten expanding from 14 teams to 18 teams in 2024 we will have a bunch of storylines to follow. Ryan Day and Ohio State are all in for the 2024 season.
Is Oregon a national championship contender or will they stumble in their first Big Ten season? How do the former members of the Big Ten West fair in the new divisionless format? This article tracks all these storylines and more as the Big Ten hopes to win back-to-back national championships. Check out the I-80 Football Show for more in-depth analysis and to preview the next week of B1G games.
Greg Schiano is objectively the best coach in the history of Rutgers University’s Football Program, a program that participated in the first-ever collegiate football game in 1869. Despite being the first to play the sport they have been lapped on and off the field and are hoping that Schiano can get Rutgers back to where they were in his first stint. The problem is, that was over a decade ago and the sport has changed considerably.
Despite the struggles to survive in the new landscape of college football, Rutgers may have made a great decision in bringing Schiano back as Rutgers is primed to take advantage of some continuity on their roster and a light conference schedule without Michigan, Ohio State, or Penn State on the roster after the Big Ten got rid of divisions. Rutgers is in a position to have its best season since the 2014 season when they went 8-5 in their first year in the Big Ten.
USC and Washington are entering the Big Ten from different places and with different expectations but may see similar results. Washington was just at the mountaintop, they were one win away from winning a national championship behind one of the best offenses in college football. Instead, they lost to Michigan and between losing their head coach to Alabama, Offensive coordinator to the Seattle Seahawks, and 21 of their 22 starters to the NFL Draft or the transfer portal, Washington is starting over from scratch with new coach Jedd Fisch.
USC is in year three of the Lincoln Riley tenure but it has not gone as well as they hoped. Lincoln Riley came to Southern California with arguably the most talented quarterback in college football the past two seasons but went 19-8 without winning the PAC-12 or making the four-team playoff. Now he must enter a much tougher conference without the best quarterback he’s ever coached, sky-high expectations, and a brutal schedule that includes LSU, Notre Dame, Michigan, and Penn State.
Wisconsin fired long-term coach Paul Chryst and went outside the Wisconsin family to hire Luke Fickell in hopes that he could make them contenders in the new Big Ten and lead them to a college football playoff berth. The first year was not encouraging as Fickell made major changes to their offensive and defensive philosophy and the coaches and players struggled to put a good product on the field. There’s hope that year two will go better but there are still questions namely, did Fickell make a mistake by hiring Phil Longo as offensive coordinator? The 2024 season rest on the hopes that Longo and Miami transfer Tyle Van Dyke can lead Wisconsin’s offense that is turning its back on the three yards and a cloud of dust style that made it successful in the Big Ten’s West Division. Time will tell if Wisconsin will be stuck in the middle class or if Luke Fickell can turn them into a winning machine akin to his former Cincinnati program albeit at a lower level.
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JordanW330 via our friends at Land-Grant Holy Land
Visit their fantastic blog and read the full article (and so much more) here
Photo by Michael Hickey/Getty Images
While the middle class may be disappearing off the field, these groups of teams are hoping to find their way into the Middle Class of the Big Ten.
Every week after the Big Ten games, I will bring you some B1G thoughts on everything that happened! This will include analysis, stats, key players, moments, and more. With the Big Ten expanding from 14 teams to 18 teams in 2024 we will have a bunch of storylines to follow. Ryan Day and Ohio State are all in for the 2024 season.
Is Oregon a national championship contender or will they stumble in their first Big Ten season? How do the former members of the Big Ten West fair in the new divisionless format? This article tracks all these storylines and more as the Big Ten hopes to win back-to-back national championships. Check out the I-80 Football Show for more in-depth analysis and to preview the next week of B1G games.
Greg Schiano is objectively the best coach in the history of Rutgers University’s Football Program, a program that participated in the first-ever collegiate football game in 1869. Despite being the first to play the sport they have been lapped on and off the field and are hoping that Schiano can get Rutgers back to where they were in his first stint. The problem is, that was over a decade ago and the sport has changed considerably.
Despite the struggles to survive in the new landscape of college football, Rutgers may have made a great decision in bringing Schiano back as Rutgers is primed to take advantage of some continuity on their roster and a light conference schedule without Michigan, Ohio State, or Penn State on the roster after the Big Ten got rid of divisions. Rutgers is in a position to have its best season since the 2014 season when they went 8-5 in their first year in the Big Ten.
USC and Washington are entering the Big Ten from different places and with different expectations but may see similar results. Washington was just at the mountaintop, they were one win away from winning a national championship behind one of the best offenses in college football. Instead, they lost to Michigan and between losing their head coach to Alabama, Offensive coordinator to the Seattle Seahawks, and 21 of their 22 starters to the NFL Draft or the transfer portal, Washington is starting over from scratch with new coach Jedd Fisch.
USC is in year three of the Lincoln Riley tenure but it has not gone as well as they hoped. Lincoln Riley came to Southern California with arguably the most talented quarterback in college football the past two seasons but went 19-8 without winning the PAC-12 or making the four-team playoff. Now he must enter a much tougher conference without the best quarterback he’s ever coached, sky-high expectations, and a brutal schedule that includes LSU, Notre Dame, Michigan, and Penn State.
Wisconsin fired long-term coach Paul Chryst and went outside the Wisconsin family to hire Luke Fickell in hopes that he could make them contenders in the new Big Ten and lead them to a college football playoff berth. The first year was not encouraging as Fickell made major changes to their offensive and defensive philosophy and the coaches and players struggled to put a good product on the field. There’s hope that year two will go better but there are still questions namely, did Fickell make a mistake by hiring Phil Longo as offensive coordinator? The 2024 season rest on the hopes that Longo and Miami transfer Tyle Van Dyke can lead Wisconsin’s offense that is turning its back on the three yards and a cloud of dust style that made it successful in the Big Ten’s West Division. Time will tell if Wisconsin will be stuck in the middle class or if Luke Fickell can turn them into a winning machine akin to his former Cincinnati program albeit at a lower level.
Follow The I-80 Football Show on YouTube: @JordanW330.
Subscribe to the podcast: RSS | Apple | Spotify | iHeart Radio
Connect with me on Twitter: @JordanW330
Follow I-80 Football Show on Instagram: @I80FootballShow
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