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The 2025 Big Ten football season continues to draw closer. As of June 7, only 82 days remain until Rutgers, Minnesota and Wisconsin kick off their Week 1 games on Thursday, August 28.
We continue to pass important offseason milestones as we count down the days until the season begins. The latest milestone is the release of season power rating metrics, specifically ESPN’s SP+ and Football Power Index. Once those numbers are released and updated through the spring, the countdown to the upcoming season can truly begin.
This topic is timely because ESPN released its FPI for the 2025 season earlier this week. With SP+ already out, we now have a full picture of what to expect when the games kick off.
As a reminder, here is how ESPN describes the methodology behind its Football Power Index.
The Football Power Index (FPI) is a measure of team strength that is meant to be the best predictor of a team’s performance going forward for the rest of the season. FPI represents how many points above or below average a team is. Projected results are based on 20,000 simulations of the rest of the season using FPI, results to date, and the remaining schedule. Ratings and projections update daily. FPI data from seasons prior to 2019 may not be complete.
That picture is both sport-wide and conference-specific. While it’s valuable to compare the Big Ten’s best to the top teams in the SEC, Big 12 and ACC, it’s also important to focus on how the 18 Big Ten members line up.
For that specific lineup, here are ESPN’s FPI’s record predictions for every Big Ten football team in 2025, ordered from lowest to highest. They’re also compared with our recent win-loss projections for each team after spring practice.
Purdue Boilermakers
FPI Projected Win-Loss Record: 3.2 – 8.8
FPI Rating: -6.9 (No. 92 overall)
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Publish date : 2025-06-07 10:02:00
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