Ranking the best defenses in the Big Ten for 2023

Ranking the top defenses in the Big Ten ahead of the 2023 season:

The 2023 football season is now upon us and fans are chomping at the bit for football to start and to see their favorite team’s take the field. It is also the last year fans will see the Big Ten as we now know it, with 14 teams, before the incoming additions of USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington.

Taking a look at this upcoming season, the conference may be the most competitive it has been in a long time from top to bottom.

In this series, we have ranked the top offenses in the Big Ten, HERE, now we will rank the defenses of the conference: