With Michigan's season opener against Utah taking place next Thursday night, we are nearly one week away from the start of Big Ten football. And with Wisconsin taking on Alabama and Ohio State facing Virginia Tech, the conference should dominate the headlines of college football's opening weekend.
That would be par for the course for the Big Ten in 2015, a year which has already seen the league capture the first-ever College Football Playoff championship and hire one of the sport's most high profile coaches. In fact, it's hard to remember a year where the conference has possessed this much hype heading into a season.