Future Power Rankings - ESPN Insider

[iowajerms]

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Future Power Rankings: It's good to be Clemson, but who comes next?

June might be the quietest month on college football's calendar, but it's about to get a little louder.

The Future Power Rankings series reaches a crescendo with the full-team version. By now, you've dutifully studied three-year projections for quarterbacks, offenses and defenses. The team version accounts for the previous Top 25 lists and has many similarities, but also a few differences.

Projecting through the next three seasons, the full-team Future Power Rankings examine offense-defense balance, recruiting performance, and potential coaching changes, dismissals and exciting new hires. Overall program trend (past, present and especially future) is weighed, too.

Here is last year's list, which hit on some projections (Clemson, Texas) and missed on others (USC, Florida State). It's time to check out which 25 college football teams can feel best about what's coming -- through the 2021 season.

1. Clemson
2. Alabama
3. Georgia
4. Oklahoma
5. Ohio State
6. Notre Dame
7. Texas
8. Washington
9. Florida
10. LSU
11. Michigan
12. Texas A&M
13. Penn State
14. Oregon
15. Stanford
16. Auburn
17. Wisconsin
18. Miami (FL)
19. TCU
20. Washington State
21. UCF
22. Michigan State
23. Nebraska
24. Oklahoma State
25. Northwestern

 

[ThereIsNoPlace]

 

[Blackshirts BLVD]

7 B1G teams.... no Iowa?

 

[iowajerms]

7 B1G teams.... no Iowa?

Wasn't it like that last summer as well?

 

[Blackshirts BLVD]

Wasn't it like that last summer as well?

Sad that Nebraska can go 4-8 two years in a row and still be more respected than Iowa?

 

[iowajerms]

Sad that Nebraska can go 4-8 two years in a row and still be more respected than Iowa?

Sounds overrated to me.

 

[Blackshirts BLVD]

Sounds overrated to me.

overrated > not rated at all.

 

[Across The Field]

Notre Dame and Stanford too high, Miami laughably high

 

[MAIZEandBLUE09]

Notre Dame and Stanford too high, Miami laughably high

Texas seems a bit high to me. They're improving and have recruited well but it's a bit premature to put them in the top 7 in the next few years. I think Stanford is appropriately ranked.

 

[Across The Field]

Texas seems a bit high to me. They're improving and have recruited well but it's a bit premature to put them in the top 7 in the next few years. I think Stanford is appropriately ranked.

They did beat #3 and #4 on this list last season. I don't think they're elite yet, but I don't see anyone behind them that has a legit reason to be ahead of them either.

 

[iowajerms]

overrated > not rated at all.

Rated in Final AP Poll > Rated in Preseason AP Poll

 

[Blackshirts BLVD]

Rated in Final AP Poll > Rated in Preseason AP Poll

Tell me again about being ranked.

 

[AlaskaGuy]

8. Washington

 

[UGADawg1988]

Texas seems a bit high to me. They're improving and have recruited well but it's a bit premature to put them in the top 7 in the next few years. I think Stanford is appropriately ranked.

You could be right, but I think that this ranking is looking forward and guessing. The Longhorn's freshman and sophomore classes were both in the top 5 of the recruiting rankings, for whatever that's worth. Granted, with the transfer portal issue, this doesn't mean quite the same thing as it did earlier, but...

 

[trojanfight]

 

[AlaskaGuy]

 

[TheLonestarDUCK]

 

[iowajerms]

Tell me again about being ranked.View attachment 208451

And since 2000, who has been in the rankings more often? Since 2000, how many times has Nebraska finished in the Top 10?