Big Ten football power rankings after spring portal closes: Did Badgers get better?
The spring transfer portal window is officially closed and no team, not even the National Champion Michigan Wolverines were immune to the effects of the portal. The Wisconsin Badgers felt the effects, but they have a lot to prove going into 2024.
With the addition of some of the better teams in the Pac-12 the Big Ten is only going to get more competitive. While in the past teams had to build their roster to beat Michigan and Ohio State, now there are more teams for each program to worry about.
However, with the portal now being closed, how does each team look? Which teams got better, and which teams got worse? Did some teams not help or hurt their case at all? Here are the power rankings of the Big Ten after the spring transfer portal closed.
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It doesn't look good that Indiana didn't bring anyone in during the spring window of the transfer portal, but it looks worse that they lost 15 guys in the month of April alone. however, they lost 39 guys in the portal altogether and only brought in 24.
Of those 24 players that they brought in only five of them came from power conferences and the rest from smaller programs. The Hoosiers brought in a lot of James Madison players who wanted to follow their former head coach Curt Cignetti after he made the move to Indiana.
The Hoosiers struggled in 2023, and it doesn't look like 2024 is going to be much better especially with a new head coach who has coached in the FBS for one season.