Iowa Hawkeyes crack top 20 of ESPN’s college football future power rankings

Every year ESPN puts together its college football future power rankings.

ESPN’s college football future power rankings is not a one-year projection. Instead, it sets out to predict the best in college football during the next three seasons (2024, 2025, 2026).

To help put together the rankings, ESPN comprises three categories of college football future power rankings: quarterbacks, defenses and offenses. Each team’s personnel picture helps determine its FPR, but track records for coaches, units and overall teams factor in as well.

Like each of the past four offseasons, the Iowa Hawkeyes find themselves inside the top 25 of ESPN’s college football future power rankings. For three years in a row, Iowa is on an upward trajectory, too.

Iowa checks in at No. 18 nationally in ESPN’s latest college football future power rankings. Though the Hawkeyes’ quarterbacks and its offense weren’t ranked in ESPN’s FPR, Iowa’s defense came in at No. 2 nationally.

Here’s what ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg had to say about the Hawkeyes.

Make your jokes about Iowa, but most programs would love to swap records with the Hawkeyes, who are 81-34 since the start of the 2015 season, despite an offense that ranks 104th nationally in scoring during that span. The Hawkeyes’ formula likely isn’t sustainable in the new Big Ten, but consider what the program could become with a functional offense under coordinator Tim Lester. – Rittenberg, ESPN.

Rittenberg also said “Iowa must re-establish itself at the line of scrimmage.” He noted that Iowa returns offensive tackles Mason Richman and Gennings Dunker, center Logan Jones and guard Connor Colby as well as seniors Nick DeJong and Tyler Elsbury and junior Beau Stephens as players along its offensive line with starting experience.

Rittenberg wrote that four-star signees Cody Fox and…

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Author : Hawkeyes Wire

Publish date : 2024-06-20 13:55:25

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