Washington defeated Michigan State on Saturday. That game was a nonconference matchup. Next year, it will be a conference game in the Big Ten, which created a 2024 football schedule including USC and UCLA but then had to tear it up when Oregon and Washington joined the conference as a result of the Pac-12’s implosion.
We can’t resist the urge to rank the four incoming Pac-12 schools as part of a new and expanded Big Ten. They won’t join the conference until 2024, but we can engage in rankings in 2023, so that we all get a sense of how these new Big Ten schools might fit into the conference one year from now.
As always, our rankings are not based on the eye test or betting lines or season predictions. Our rankings are based on resumes — actual results against opponents with their own collections of results — through three weeks: