Imagine trying to sum up the past five months of Big Ten football in two pictures for a viral meme.
How it started was back on July 9 when the Big Ten was the first of the 10 FBS conferences to cancel nonconference games. Instead, its original plan was to play 10 intraconference games from Labor Day weekend through the weekend before Thanksgiving with the conference championship still slated for its normal spot on the first Saturday of December.
That schedule was released on the morning of Aug. 5, and factoring in Thanksgiving weekend as a "break in case of emergency" buffer before the B1G Championship, it would have given each team 13 weeks to play 10 games.