This is pretty much how I would rank them. I still think MSU is capable of more.
I'd about rank them the same as well. I think you can legitimately put any of the B1G East's Big 3 at #1. None have separated themselves as a cut above the others imo. Michigan lost any sole claim they had on that top spot with that
shitshow of a performance JJ just put on. I'd have kept them as a clear #1 if he had played like he did first two games- efficient and within himself- not forcing throws or hero ball bullshit. But he obviously didn't do that.
I do think they are
finally getting the starting 5 OL right with the benching of RT Myles Hinton and kicking LT Karsen Barnhart back out to RT where he started last year and putting transfer portaler LaDarius Henderson at LT. It just looked better. Like OH ok that makes sense. Barnhart is a more natural RT, Henderson is more fluid, athletic, bendy- better equipped to deal with speed at the edge better imo. Hinton looks like a greek god but plays like a woman. He was a 5* 'croot out of HS just because of his body and frame and athleticism....looking like more proof to what I already thought- that OL HS recruit rankings are probably useless. Just hard to predict how an OL will develop- the rankings are just based on them being bigger and better than everyone in HS- and that just ain't gonna be the case at the next level.
I do really like what I've been seeing from the defense. I think they have a chance to be the best Jeem has had yet. Their DT, EDGE, ILB rooms look
gnarly. Mikey Sainistril might just be the best nickel in the country, and we haven't even really seen Will Johnson, Rod Moore, and Makari Page yet in the secondary. I think Will has played like 6 snaps thus far and Page played a little bit yesterday night and Moore has yet to play.
Iowa has to be 4th just because of their defense and who the hell else can you put there right now with a straight face, and then after that it's a complete crapshoot.
