With the 2025 season just around the corner, it’s time for the annual Big Ten preseason polls.
Earlier this week, cleveland.com did its 15th annual Big Ten preseason poll, with a total of 24 voters, including at least one beat writer from each Big Ten team, participating. Here’s how the polls ended up, with first-place votes in parentheses, the total number of votes after that, and the team’s average rank on polls as the final number:
No. 1 Penn State (11) 435 1.60
No. 2 Ohio State (10) 431 1.76
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