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spot on take of Nebraska

I'm worried

agree.  I am not a fan of how UNL deploys their 3-4.   I admit I'm more of a 40 front fan, but if you do the 3-4 I prefer the Aggies style they had when the big12 was 12.  Aggressive/risk taking... You give up some big plays, but you make a bunch as well.   Two-gaping with undersized DL is not a recipe for success.  

To do a 3-4 effectively, at least from what I've gleaned, you need those front 3 to be big and powerful kids.

Well you'll have to wait until tomorrow for the full writeup, but to put things in perspective, Michigan is counting on a big season from Chris Hinton as a sophomore based on 129 snaps last year and his 5 star status. Conversely, OSU returns 3 guys at tackle who played 200 snaps last year, and that doesn't include Taron Vincent, the top rated tackle of 2018.

Michigan didn’t really lose anyone, they return everyone up front and they were very young. Paye and Hutchinson were both first time starters as sophomores, and both showed big potential in their first season starting. Both those guys will only get better. They are both NFL frat picks for sure. Hinton started only 2 games, but they were at the end of the season. As far as players leaving, you can point to Uche, but he’s not really DL, he’s a LB like Malik Harrison. 

Ohio State on the other hand lost like 90% of its DL production if we’re going to include Harrison like you included Uche.


I just don’t see it. Think you’re ranking them too much off potential here vs retuning production and what any of these guys have actually done.  

agree.  I am not a fan of how UNL deploys their 3-4.  I admit I'm more of a 40 front fan, but if you do the 3-4 I prefer the Aggies style they had when the big12 was 12.  Aggressive/risk taking... You give up some big plays, but you make a bunch as well.  Two-gaping with undersized DL is not a recipe for success.

That was Mike Stoops' recipe for failure at the end of his time at OU.

Bryson Williams will probably be mentioned here soon. 

Bryson Williams will probably be mentioned here soon.

only by some smartass

2. Wisconsin: Bryson Williams, Keeanu Benton, Garrett Rand, Isaiahh Loudermilk

If we are going by returning players, Wisconsin is #1 with a bullet.  They return nearly everyone who looked at the field last year.  There overall defense was strong (14th in SP+) and they were number one short yardage on third and fourth downs.  That was with NT Bryson Williams missing a lot of time due to injury and Benton being thrust into action as a true freshman.  Both ends were strong, and they return Matt Henningsen, who led the line in sacks.  The knocks here?  There aren't many.  Injuries have been an issue for these guys, though they have a lot of depth.  Star power is another one - in Wiscy's scheme these guys are real big and free up the linebackers to make plays.  They did suffer some attrition to the linebacker unit, so they might want some more plays from these guys to make up for it.  We'll see if anyone can make that next step.

Williams will back up Benton at NT this season. Rand and Louds will start at the end positions, I'm 99.9% sure on these things.