The 2025 Big Ten football season is still more than six months from kicking off. While much is still to change before Week 1 arrives, that doesn’t mean it’s too early for season forecasts and projections.
Since the end of the 2024 season, we’ve already ranked the Big Ten head coaches, ranked each program and outlined early game-by-game record predictions.
The 2025 season will be a bit easier to predict than the 2024 campaign was. Former Pac-12 powers USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington each enter their second season as conference members. As a result, there isn’t much of an unknown about each program’s place within the conference pecking order. 2025 will now be about the underperforming teams (USC, UCLA and Washington) working to emerge.
Otherwise, the major questions entering the 2025 season include whether Wisconsin can reverse its current trajectory, whether Michigan can return to prominence, if Illinois’ recent form is sustainable and, just like entering every season for the last decade, if Nebraska can finally break through.
Before spring practice begins and the landscape gains further clarity, we have some bold predictions for the 2025 Big Ten football season.
1. Michigan and Washington return to prominence
Michigan head coach Sherrone Moore uses hand signal 4-0 to celebrates the Wolverines 4th straight win over Ohio State at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio on Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024.
Michigan and Washington met for the 2023 national title. Both experienced top-down turnover after that contest, with Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh leaving for the NFL and Washington coach Kalen DeBoer taking the Alabama vacancy. New coaches Sherrone Moore and Jedd Fisch led their teams to 8-5 and 6-7 records in 2024, respectively. Neither program collapsed, but both took major steps backward.
2025 could be a resurgent year for both programs….
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Author : Badgers Wire
Publish date : 2025-02-21 11:03:00
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