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Rutgers Football Schedule Loaded With ESPN Ranked Opponents

The college football season begins in less than four months and ESPN released their Way-Too-Early Top 25 rankings. Spoiler alert, Alabama was named the preseason #1 team, the least shocking result of these rankings. Moving on, we know every season Rutgers will have a challenging schedule playing in arguably the toughest division in college football, the Big Ten East. Four months ago, we took our own way too early look at the Rutgers 2016 football schedule here. We know Rutgers faces nine teams that played in a bowl game last season. Now we know heading into the season we are likely to play a minimum of five ranked teams.