The 2023 football season concluded this month and with it, so did the conference structure we’ve known for the last decade. Gone are the East and West divisions, and in come UCLA, USC, Washington and Oregon.
The structure of the conference is advancing like the landscape of college football — into an environment nobody can accurately predict.
What we do know is the Big Ten is now an 18-school conference with several football powerhouses on the way in. If it was already tough for Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska and Maryland to win conference titles, it just got nearly impossible.
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So as we look forward to 2024 and the next 10 years of Big Ten football, it’s time to properly rank every program: