The month of May is a quiet time on the college football calendar. Spring practices and the spring transfer window have recently concluded. The sport now sits still as programs prepare for the upcoming summer recruiting blitz.
May brings little when it comes to news, other than final transfer decisions from the uncommitted players. The month is mostly utilized as a reflection on the spring session. We take notable player movement, such as UCLA landing Tennessee quarterback Nico Iamaleava, and practice headlines, like Wisconsin losing starting left tackle Kevin Heywood to a season-ending injury, and use them as information points to recraft projections for the upcoming season.
Several familiar teams lead that projection for the Big Ten Conference in 2025. Ohio State, Oregon and Penn State again profile as the conference’s ‘Big 3,’ while Michigan and Illinois shouldn’t be too far behind. For our exact outlook on those conference powers, plus how every team slots after the top tier, here are our updated post-spring 2025 Big Ten football power rankings:
Note: Each team is listed with its 2024 record, as well as its schedule difficulty ranking. Those schedule rankings, released in February, factor in both a team’s conference and non-conference slate. When searching for breakthrough teams in 2025, find the highly ranked groups that also face a bottom-ranked schedule. Illinois perfectly represents that dynamic
18. Purdue Boilermakers
2024 Record: 1-11 (0-9 Big Ten)
Schedule Difficulty Ranking: No. 2
Analysis: Purdue’s combination of coming off a one-win season, with a new head coach, after undergoing a complete roster overhaul, facing one of the toughest schedules in the conference usually does not lead to positive results. New coach Barry Odom should at least lead the team to an improvement on that 1-11 2024 campaign. But it…
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Publish date : 2025-05-09 10:02:00
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