Taking a look at the final year of the four-game non-conference slate in the Big Ten before the league expands its schedule to nine games in 2016, we break down which programs made the greatest effort to take on a challenge and which will try to slip through the early portion of the season without as much effort.
| 14. Rutgers |
| 9/5 Norfolk State* (4-8) | | 9/12 Washington State (3-9) | | 9/26 Kansas (3-9) | | 11/21 at Army (4-8) | Rutgers hasn’t figured out yet how to schedule like a Big Ten team with all its non-conference opponents at the start. |
