The 2017 Rutgers' schedule looks just a little less daunting today than it did when the regular season ended and NJ Advance Media's Keith Sargeant analyzed it.
Why? Well, thanks to a miserable bowl season for the Big Ten -- especially the Big Ten East Division -- the 12 opponents on Rutgers' slate went winless in bowl games.
Here's how those teams head into the offseason, which began in Piscataway more than month ago.
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Rutgers opens the 2017 season the same way it opened the 2016 season: Against Washington.