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The beauty of the offseason in college football is that we in the media will assert so-called facts on why we feel each team is going to be great or terrible — and unanimously, we’ll always have something pretty major wrong. Teams always come from out of seemingly nowhere to become contenders while others that should be world-beaters find themselves sitting at home in December and January.
There’s a reason why games are played instead of just decided by simulation and it’s because a lot goes into winning any given Saturday.
In particular, the complexion of the Big Ten Conference is a little different after a tumultuous, shortened 2020 campaign. Yes, Ohio State still reigned supreme, but Michigan, Penn State and Wisconsin faltered while Indiana and Iowa emerged. Will that sustain? There are reasons to suspect they might while there are others to think that the natural order will resume.
With that in mind, as if we were buying stock in each team, I’m taking a look at each of the 14 programs in the conference and declaring why I would buy, sell or hold off on doing either, while sharing my reasoning in the process.
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