2. And The Big Loser In The Big Ten Schedule Is …
Start with this – who gets Ohio State when it wasn’t originally supposed to?
Purdue, COME ON DOWN.
The Boilermakers were also supposed to miss Penn State and Michigan State, but it would’ve been nice to have been able to play Maryland out of the four teams not on the original slate. At least they get the game in West Lafayette.
Illinois was going to catch the monster break by missing Michigan, Michigan State and Penn State, but it gets the Nittany Lions at home on November 21st. The Illini have a run of three road games in four weeks, but one of them is against Northwestern.
Northwestern dodged Ohio State, but instead of Indiana or Rutgers, it gets Michigan at home.
As if Rutgers didn’t have a rough enough go, it gets Wisconsin from the West, and instead of Illinois, Nebraska or Purdue, Maryland gets Iowa, and it later has a run of three games in four weeks. Two of those road dates are against Penn State and Michigan, with home games against Wisconsin and Ohio State right around them.
Wisconsin has three road games in four early on, but …