The 2020 Big Ten football season was an absolute roller coaster. First, the league announced it would postpone your season until spring. When he saw that several other leagues were still planning to play, opted for an eight-game conference-only schedule.
The Big Ten experienced COVID issues all over the place, as well as other conferences. The end result left the league to decide to change your minimum of six games rule to compete in the conference title game to allow the state of Ohio to compete in it, a game in which the Buckeyes won to improve to 6-1, which gave them a spot in college football playoff.
In the seven-year history of the playoff, Ohio State is the only team in the conference that has represented the Big Ten more than once (four times) and only one of the two teams that made it (Michigan State, 2015). It is no surprise that the Buckeyes are once again considered the team to be beaten in the Big Ten towards 2021.
There are many other plots around the conference, such as battle coaches entering critical seasons. Michigan Jim Harbaugh was able to sign an extension after months of speculation about his work, while pressure to succeed is increasing in Nebraska Scott Frost and Purdue Jeff Brohm.
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With the NFL Draft deadline for seniors to pass, how are the Big Ten heading for 2021? Athlon Sports ranked each team, from 1 to 7 in each division. Here are the classifications below, with the East division followed by the West: