Column: Maybe the Big Ten isn’t the model of stability we thought

Welp, I was apparently very wrong about the Big Ten’s relative stability heading into the 2022 football season. I maintain that some powerful factors remain in place, including:

The addition of USC and UCLA

New media rights deal

Strength at the top of the conference

However, given that the crux of my argument was centered on the fact that the Big Ten was the only Power Five conference without a head coaching change in the offseason, I feel I must revise my account of the situation,

That’s because two Big Ten programs, just five weeks into the season, have given pink slips to their head coaches. It’s an upsetting circumstance as there are five Power Five coaching vacancies currently. Outside the…