The Rutgers Scarlet Knights possible simply turned massive followers of Kirk Herbstreit.
Throughout a latest look on “The Pat McAfee Present,” Herbstreit was requested which potential dark-horse groups he might see sneaking into the Faculty Soccer Playoff, and the famend faculty soccer analyst had some attention-grabbing issues to say about Rutgers.
“It’s bizarre, you concentrate on the Massive Ten, clearly, what’s there now, 18 groups?” Herbstreit stated. “You go down your listing, loads of it comes all the way down to the schedule. Somebody goes to return out of that convention that you just actually didn’t anticipate, whether or not that’s an Iowa, whether or not that’s a — who is aware of with (five-star freshman quarterback Dylan Raiola) at Nebraska. Whoever has probably the most manageable schedule. Rutgers has a schedule that’s, by Massive Ten requirements and this Massive Ten world that we’re in, they’ll make somewhat little bit of a run.”
Rutgers is coming off a 7-6 season, capped off with a 31-24 win over the College of Miami within the Pinstripe Bowl. Nevertheless, the 2024 schedule seems to be way more favorable than final 12 months’s, through which the Scarlet Knights misplaced all 4 of their video games towards ranked groups.
Within the new expanded Massive Ten Convention, Rutgers lucked out by avoiding Ohio State, Michigan and Penn State this season, and its hardest exams come towards the likes of Nebraska, Wisconsin and USC.
