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Badgers in the top-6 for four-star 2022 safety

Class of 2022 four-star safety Braelon Allen released his top-6 schools yesterday and the Badgers were on the list…

Class of 2022 four-star safety Braelon Allen released his top-6 schools yesterday and the Badgers were on the list.

The Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin native is ranked by 247Sports as the No. 116 player in his class, the No. 6 safety and the No. 4 prospect from the state of Wisconsin.

As seen above, the other schools on Allen’s list include Ohio State, Notre Dame, Michigan, Michigan State and Florida State.

Several 247Sports recruiting analysts submitted crystal ball predictions earlier this year on where Allen will land and the current consensus says he has a 50 percent chance of signing with the Badgers, 25 percent chance with Notre Dame and 25 percent that he is undecided.

 

For everything Wisconsin recruiting check out the 2021 commitment tracker and follow @thebadgerswire on Twitter.

Badgers offer three-star 2021 power forward

Greg Gard and the Wisconsin Badgers extended an offer last night to three-star 2021 power forward Markus Ilver, per his Twitter page…

Greg Gard and the Wisconsin Badgers extended an offer last night to three-star 2021 power forward Markus Ilver, per his Twitter page.

The Virginia native is ranked by 247Sports as the No. 213 prospect in the class of 2021, the No. 40 player at his position and the No. 6 player from the state of Virginia.

Ilver also has offers from Nebraska and Xavier in addition to several mid-major programs.

Gard’s 2021 class currently stands at No. 6 in the country and No. 3 in the Big Ten with a lot of time left on the recruiting calendar.

2021 Gators Football Recruiting Profile: Jordan Young

This is a prospect player profile for cornerback Jordan Young of the Florida Gators football recruiting class of 2021.

Name: Jordan Young

Position: Cornerback

Height: 6’1″

Weight: 185 lbs

Hometown: Tampa, Fla.

High School: Gaither High School

Twitter: @jordan_young2

247Sports Composite: ⭐⭐⭐

Rivals.com: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Overview:

Joining Winter Park three-star safety Dakota Mitchell and IMG Academy four-star Kamar Wilcoxson, Young became the third defensive back to commit to the Florida Gators in a four-day span when he pledged on June 21.

Spending his first three years at Jesuit High School in Tampa, where he was teammates with 2020 Florida tight end enrollee Jonathan Odom, Young will make the roughly nine-mile north move to Gaither High School for his senior season this fall.

Standing 6-foot-1 and weighing 185 pounds, he has the ideal frame cornerbacks coach Torrian Gray and linebackers coach Christian Robinson look for on the recruiting trail. Initially receiving his offer from the Gators’ staff on June 7, 2019, the same day he attended a camp in Gainesville, Young returned to campus on February 1 for the program’s Junior Day.

While his three-star rating does not necessarily jump off the page, Young’s reported offer list is 26 schools deep and features the Alabama Crimson Tide, Arkansas Razorbacks, Florida State Seminoles, and Georgia Bulldogs.

The No. 29 cornerback in the cycle and sixty-third best player in the state, per the 247Sports Composite, he is Florida’s third commit at the position in the class, accompanying Baltimore, Maryland four-star Clinton Burton, Jr., and Wilcoxson.

Overall, Young is the thirteenth-highest rated of the program’s 20 commits in the upcoming group, slotting in behind Jacksonville tight end Nick Elksnis and ahead of Orlando offensive tackle Javonte Gardner.

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Power 5 administrator on college football starting on time: ‘Everyone is pessimistic’

One Power 5 administrator says everyone is not exactly sure that college football will happen on time this fall.

On Wednesday, the Ivy League announced that it will not be holding any fall events. It seems that might be the case for more conferences to come, per 247Sports’ Brandon Marcello.

“Everyone is pessimistic,” in regards to an on-time start to the season, one Power 5 administrator told 247Sports this week.

With the COVID-19 pandemic still hitting parts of the nation, including the Southeast, hard, the idea that playing college football this fall is becoming one less that seems reasonable.

“We said from the onset of this pandemic that circumstances around the virus would guide our decision-making, and it is clear recent developments related to COVID-19 have not been trending in the right direction,” SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said. “There are important decisions to be made in the coming weeks and by late July there should be more clarity about the fall season. In the meantime, our athletics programs will continue to effectively manage the health and safety of our student-athletes as they continue voluntary activities on their respective campuses.”

From Marcello:

“Several conferences will utilize as much time as possible before making decisions throughout the fall. The SEC is expected to make a decision on whether to continue the season as planned in late July or early August, but they are not expected to entertain a full cancellation of fall sports as early as August, a source said. Most Power 5 conferences are willing to wait until the 11th hour and re-evaluate circumstances on a week-to-week basis through the fall, though many within the conference offices, particularly in the ACC, Pac-12 and SEC, have questioned the logistics of keeping players on campus if the season is delayed more than once.

“As it relates to thresholds of numbers of teams to conduct a season, we have modeled out many different scenarios for conducting a season but have not set thresholds in this regard,” Larry Scott said of the Pac-12

Meanwhile, on the ground, FBS schools continue to fight the virus on campuses that resemble ghost towns without student populations. Some athletic programs have been successful maintaining a bubble (Notre Dame has one positive test among 252 COVID-19 tests conducted within its athletics department since mid-June) while others shut down team activities (Kansas, Kansas State, Houston and Boise State) amid small outbreaks.

Optimism ebbs and flows.

“It depends on the week,” said a Power 5 head coach requesting anonymity. “I’m trying to stay positive and keep our guys safe and healthy right now.””

The upcoming weeks are going to be extremely important for whether we see our favorite teams take the field on time in September.

247Sports preseason poll projects Texas to finish fourth in the Big 12

247Sports polled several experts around its network regarding the projected order of finish in the Big 12 this season.

The expectations surrounding the Texas football program are sky high. Continue reading “247Sports preseason poll projects Texas to finish fourth in the Big 12”

Wisconsin in the nation’s top-25 jobs according to a recent ranking

247Sports ranked the top-25 jobs in college football yesterday and had the Wisconsin job–obviously currently held by Paul Chryst–at…

247Sports ranked the top-25 jobs in college football yesterday and had the Wisconsin job–obviously currently held by Paul Chryst–at No. 19.

Big Ten jobs ranked ahead of Wisconsin include Michigan at No. 16, Penn State at No. 12 and Ohio State at No. 3.

Chryst’s current home was also, somehow, ranked behind schools including Miami at No. 14 and Florida State at No. 11–both schools that haven’t been nationally relevant in years and don’t appear to have anything close to a shot at beating Clemson and winning the ACC.

Maybe the narrative around Wisconsin will soon change with the school set to bring in the current No. 14-ranked 2021 recruiting class and add the group to an already-impressive roster.

But if Chryst has done anything in his time at Wisconsin it’s win (a lot) without getting enough national praise. Has a conference championship eluded the program since 2011? Yes.

But looking into the future I don’t think I could find 15 jobs across the college football landscape better than Wisconsin.

The Badgers win the West Division in 247Sports’ Big Ten preseason poll

The writers at 247Sports predicted the entire Big Ten football season yesterday including standings, champion, coach of the year, game of…

The writers at 247Sports predicted the entire Big Ten football season yesterday including standings, champion, coach of the year, game of the year and storylines to watch and had the Badgers winning the West Division and playing Ohio State in the conference championship for the third time in the last four years.

The writers had Paul Chryst’s team winning the division over Minnesota in second place, Iowa in third and then a big gap before Nebraska, Purdue, Northwestern and Illinois.

Their championship prediction? A unanimous selection of Ohio State over Wisconsin yet again.

And if the Ohio State love wasn’t apparent already, they had Badger coach Paul Chryst at No. 2 in the end-of-season Coach of the Year rankings behind Ryan Day of Ohio State.

The Badgers also appeared in some of their big storylines to watch this season–those being the parity in the West Division (or lack thereof) and whether the Badgers will finally release their grasp of the division to Minnesota after the two teams battled for the division crown late last season.

Despite the (understandable) Buckeye love, 247Sports’ preseason poll sees the Badgers favorably even with many of their key contributors from 2019 gone to the NFL or graduation. If you ask me, given the turnover at key positions and the Buckeyes’ annual spot in the nation’s top-5 teams, this outcome would be a successful one for the Badgers.

A Big Ten Championship is obviously the goal, but winning the West Division and beating Notre Dame and Minnesota would be a favorable outcome even if Justin Fields and the Buckeyes win the conference for the fourth year in a row.

247Sports simulates the Badgers’ October 10 matchup against Minnesota

247Sports recently simulated the “20 best games of the 2020 season” and No. 11 was October 10’s rivalry matchup between Minnesota and…

247Sports recently simulated the “20 best games of the 2020 season” and No. 11 was October 10’s rivalry matchup between Minnesota and Wisconsin.

To ease the pain of the result, the Golden Gophers came out on top 28-21 thanks to a last minute touchdown pass from Tanner Morgan to Rashod Bateman.

The fact that this is an NCAA 14 simulation aside, the matchup between these two teams will go a long way in dictating the narrative around each team’s season. The winner? Most likely on the way to winning the Big Ten West and playing in the Big Ten Championship game.

Oh, and the axe is on the line.

The Badgers’ victory in last season’s meeting between these two teams pushed the all-time series to 61-60-8 in favor of Wisconsin. Winners of 15 of the last 16 contests, Paul Chryst’s team will need to fight the demons of this simulated loss and come out on top on the real gridiron against the Golden Gophers if they want any shot at avenging last season’s loss in the conference championship game.

Badgers in the top-10 for four-star 2022 running back

2022 four-star running back Gi’Bran Payne released his early top-10 today and the Badgers were included in his list…

2022 four-star running back Gi’Bran Payne released his early top-10 today and the Badgers were included in his list.

As seen above, his top-10 includes other Big Ten teams including Northwestern, Michigan and Penn State.

The Cincinnati, Ohio native is ranked by 247Sports as the No. 24 running back in the 2022 class, the No. 8 player from the state of Ohio and the No. 206 overall prospect.

Here are highlights from the 5’11,” 190-pound LaSalle High School back.

One Longhorn who needs to step up in 2020 according to 247Sports

247Sports named their one player who needs to step up in 2020. For the Longhorns it comes from the wide receivers group.

The Texas Longhorns return one of the most productive teams in the Big 12 in 2020. However, they do have plenty of questions especially on the offensive side of the ball. While they do have talent available, it remains unclear who will step up in 2020 for this football team. If the Longhorns do indeed make a run at the Big 12 title they will need a few players to step up on both sides of the ball. According to 247Sports, there is one player on offense who needs to step up the most.

247Sports writer Dean Straka states:

Texas fans saw what Eagles was capable of accomplishing during his sophomore year on the Forty Acres after only registering one catch as freshman in 2018, but 2020 will bring an entirely new set of expectations for the former four-star prospect. With Devin Duvernay and Collin Johnson — the Longhorns’ leading two receivers from 2019 — both now graduated, Eagles finds himself standing as arguably the top target for Sam Ehlinger to work with in 2020 as the Longhorns look to rebound from an 8-5 finish that was far short of meeting expectations a year ago. Eagles’ most productive game of 2019 his best game of the season in Week 2 in a 45-38 loss to eventual national champion LSU (five catches for 116 yards, including a 55-yard touchdown strike). With new Texas offensive coordinator Mike Yurcich setting the expectation of around 45 points per game in order for the Longhorns to compete, prepare to see plenty of passes from Ehlinger headed in Eagles’ direction this fall.

Ehlinger has a tall task ahead of him this upcoming season, steer the Longhorns towards the top of the conference without his top two receiver of the past few season. Along with Eagles, Jordan Whittington, Jake Smith and newcomer Tarik Black are all expected to be in the mix. For the team to hit the level of expectation that Yurcich has laid out, they will all need to do their part.

Behind Ehlinger in the backfield Keaontay Ingram, Roschon Johnson and newcomer Bijan Robinson should help lighten the load. Ingram and Johnson are the known commodity, while Robinson is the wildcard. The best running back in Arizona high school history should be a mainstay on the offense for the next three seasons. If he is able to deliver what many think he can, the offense should be a lethal one.