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2020 Big Ten football media poll: Where Michigan, MSU will finish

The USA Today Network's preseason Big Ten football poll. Twelve writers from the Network predicted the order of finish in the East and West divisions and prediction a conference champion. Seven points were awarded for a first-place vote, six points for second, five for third, etc. First-place votes in parentheses.

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East

x-Ohio State 84 (12)

Penn State 71

Michigan 58

Indiana 51

Michigan State 32

Maryland 25

Rutgers 15

West

Wisconsin 74 (5)

Minnesota 73 (6)

Iowa 61 (1)

Nebraska 38

Northwestern 36

Purdue 32

Illinois 22

x-conference champion

The 12 writers who participated in the poll: Frank Bodani, York Daily Record; Mike Carmin, Lafayette Journal & Courier; Graham Couch, The Lansing State Journal; Mark Emmert, The Des Moines Register; Christopher Iseman, Asbury Park Press; Chad Leistikow, The Des Moines Register; Zach Osterman, Indianapolis Star; Jeff Potrykus, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; Bill Rabinowitz, The Columbus Dispatch; Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press; Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press; Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press.