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Gopher Football: NCAA Football Preseason S&P+ Projections Are Out

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Cause why not start talking about the 2016 NCAA Football season. One that promises to be

SBN's Bill Connelly has published his S&P+ projections. You can find the full list here, but all we really care about is where to the Gopher's stack up in the Big Ten West and based on these rankings what kind of results should we expect?

You can see below that based on the three factors of returning production, recent success and recruiting impact; Nebraska is projected to finish atop the Big Ten West this year. Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota and Northwestern are grouped in the middle with Purdue and Illinois unsurprisingly toiling at the bottom.