Rodger Sherman joins Alex and Richard for a checkup on all 18 teams in the beefy Big Ten, as our Offseason Vibe Check series rolls on:
Ohio State won the national championship. That’s pretty good! Both the team and coaching staff are about to look a lot different.
Penn State faces its "national championship or go away” season
Washington is very hard to figure out
Michigan might have had the best non-OSU run of any team in the country from Thanksgiving through Signing Day
Purdue welcomes Barry Odom to a difficult gig
Nebraska has a notably quiet offseason as Dana Holgorsen, a late-season hire from 2024, tries to fix the offense
UCLA starts more or less from scratch, again
Iowa makes a portal addition that has us verrrrrry curious
Wisconsin makes portal additions that do not
Indiana has a chance to avoid a major decline
Minnesota needs to replace wideout production but has an intriguing QB
Oregon just keeps on chugging on the trail
Maryland is lining up a major recruiting win but needs to keep it together, not just through Signing Day but well beyond
Michigan State’s talent acquisition is going in the wrong direction
Rutgers shows encouraging signs
USC faces a truly make-or-break year
Illinois and Bret Bielema are change agents for CFB’s rules
Northwestern gets the full Rodger explanation
Elsewhere in Offseason Vibe Checks
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Last week: “Stanford Is a Bad Job Now,” our reaction to the Cardinal firing Troy Taylor. They’ve since hired Frank Reich for 2025.
With host emeritus Steven Godfrey: Did Oregon Make Itself Poach-Proof?
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