The Rutgers football team will face the toughest schedule in the Big Ten this coming fall, according to Athlon Sports.
The popular sports magazine published its ranking of the toughest slates in the conference on Thursday, with the Scarlet Knights taking the top spot. Rutgers tops the list for the second consecutive year.
Minnesota, who faces CFP contender TCU in the non-conference, is ranked second and Michigan State, who also battles a CFP hopeful in Oregon, is third. Iowa's schedule was ranked the easiest. ttfp was slotted as the third-easiest, thanks in large part to its non-conference schedule (at Temple, vs.