For our mentals, let’s go ahead and round down: the Iowa Hawkeyes‘ 2023 college football season is basically 50 days away. Bring on Utah State and an 11 a.m. kickoff on FS1 on Sept. 2 from inside Kinnick Stadium.
While Iowa has been red-hot on the recruiting trail and that’s certainly exciting to see, Hawkeye fans are ready to turn 2023 into a black and gold coronation in Indianapolis.
It’s an exciting year in the Big Ten West from this standpoint: It’s the final year of the Big Ten West. In 2024, welcome aboard UCLA and USC and welcome to a brand new world of Big Ten football.
That means one final joyride around the Big Ten West. What are the expectations heading into 2023? What are the biggest questions?
ESPN’s Bill Connelly is the architect of the network’s SP+ projections, which are tempo- and opponent-adjusted measures of college football efficiency. The SP+ Power Rankings are created using returning production, recent recruiting and recent history.
As Connelly breaks down the Big Ten West, he shares a look at the latest SP+ projections for the division and asks some of the big questions for the division heading into 2023.
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