After a month of protesting parents, petitioning players and hot mic fiascos, Big Ten football is back. Following Saturday’s schedule rollout on Fox’s Big Noon Kickoff, coaches and players are gearing up for an eight-week, eight-game regular season followed by a new Championship Weekend. Each team plays its entire division as well as two scheduled interdivisional opponents before playing the corresponding seed in the opposite division (unless the two teams have already played).
While the majority of each team’s schedule was already decided by divisional alignment, the cross-division games create some contrast between the strength of some teams’ schedules and that of others.