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Big Ten Media Days: Who made the Big Ten’s preseason honors for football?

The Big Ten rolled out its preseason honorees this week ahead of Big Ten Media Days.

Big Ten football is back.

Ahead of Wednesday’s Big Ten Media Days, the conference announced the 10 players who comprise the football preseason honorees. Experience certainly seems to matter as nine of the players selected made an All-Big Ten team a season ago.

Eight different Big Ten teams were represented among the 10 players selected. Michigan and Minnesota each placed multiple places among the honorees.

Here are the 10 players selected by a media panel to be the Big Ten’s football preseason honorees:

EAST

  • Taulia Tagovailoa, QB, Maryland
  • Blake Corum, RB, Michigan
  • J.J. McCarthy, QB, Michigan
  • Marvin Harrison Jr., WR, Ohio State
  • Olumuyiwa Fashanu, OL, Penn State

 

WEST

  • Jer’Zhan Newton, DL, Illinois
  • Cooper DeJean, DB, Iowa
  • Brevyn Spann-Ford, TE, Minnesota
  • Tyler Nubin, DB, Minnesota
  • Braelon Allen, RB, Wisconsin

The Big Ten schedule opens up on Thursday, Aug. 31 with a game between Nebraska at Minnesota.

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2023 Big Ten media days: How the media ranked the Big Ten West Division

In the last year of divisional play in the #B1G, @TheBadgersWire is expected to win the West. See how this division stacks up.

The arrival of Big Ten media days in Indianapolis gives USC fans a chance to see what’s going on in their future home. Last summer, USC and UCLA made their “B1G” move on June 30. When Big Ten media days were held just weeks later, no one knew if Oregon and Washington would also join the Big Ten. Realignment dominated the conversation, to the extent that USC’s Big Ten identity was harder to pin down.

Now we have 2024 and 2025 Big Ten schedules which include USC. The Big Ten does not seem likely to continue to expand in the near future. USC in the Big Ten is beginning to feel more like home, but the Trojans do have to wait one more year.

At any rate, Big Ten media days certainly feel different for USC fans this year. Let’s look at the preseason Big Ten media poll for the Big Ten West Division, keeping in mind that divisions will not exist in 2024 when USC joins:

2023 Big Ten media days: How the media ranked the Big Ten East Division

Since #USC is moving to the #B1G-time next year, we’re following Big Ten media days in Indianapolis. There are polls to review.

USC fans have never been more interested in Big Ten media days than they are this year. Yes, they will be far more interested in Big Ten media days next year, when the Trojans officially join the conference and play a league schedule in the Midwestern United States, but this year is the lead-in to 2024.

Trojans Wire begins its coverage of Big Ten media days by looking at the preseason media poll for the conference.

Our friends at Wolverines Wire collected the information. Editor Isaiah Hole offered this note:

“The last time Michigan football was picked to win the Big Ten, it was 2019. However, it did not go so well for the Wolverines, who were trotting out an injured Shea Patterson at quarterback after he suffered a torn oblique on his first snap, and with a defense that was starting to lose its luster. The maize and blue are hoping not to repeat history.

“The history that the Wolverines are hoping to repeat is to win a third-straight Big Ten championship, which is what the media is predicting via the annual Cleveland.com poll.”

Here is the Big Ten East Division preseason media poll order of finish. It’s the last year in which the Big Ten will use divisions. None will exist when USC joins next year:

Five things we’d like to hear Greg Schiano talk about at Big Ten Media Days

Previewing Greg Schiano’s time at the podium during Big Ten Media Days.

It is Big Ten Media Days, which can mean only one thing: Big Ten head coaches are going to get peppered by some pretty asinine questions. So our solution for head coach Greg Schiano? Just try answering these questions from us.

Schiano is entering the fourth season of his rebuild at Rutgers, and he has been consistent in saying that he is now seeing talent coming through the pipeline. Rutgers hasn’t had a winning season since 2014 – its first in the Big Ten – and the program has arguably its deepest roster since that season.

So, instead of the usual, boring and uninspired questions…here are ours. Scroll down and check out what we’d like to see Schiano asked during Big Ten Media Days.

What we want to find out from Ohio State at Big Ten media days

What do you want to find out during Big Ten media days? #GoBucks

When the contingent of [autotag]Ohio State[/autotag] coaches and players embark on their annual trip to Big Ten media days, you know football is right around the corner.

With the Buckeyes scheduled to speak during Wednesday’s events in Indianapolis, we should be able to find out a lot about the 2023 version of Ohio State football.

There are plenty of questions surrounding the program and the hope is there we get some answers from head coach [autotag]Ryan Day[/autotag] and the players. Here are some topics that I would love the find out answers on as the media begins to grill Ohio State and other Big Ten teams in the annual spectacle that can be Big Ten media days.

Media member picks Wisconsin to finish sixth in the Big Ten West

This would be the disaster scenario

The 2023 college football season is here! Well, kind of. Big Ten media days begin tomorrow and the media’s preseason predictions are flowing in.

In unsurprising news, Wisconsin was selected as the Big Ten West favorite for the fourth consecutive year despite the program not winning the division in any of the previous three seasons.

What is surprising: One writer picked the Badgers to finish sixth in the division. Yes, one spot ahead of Northwestern (the likely worst team in the group) and behind everybody else.

It wouldn’t come as a big surprise if last year’s fifth-place finish was met with stagnation and a lack of improvement. That obviously was not the case. Luke Fickell seemingly has this program headed in the right direction.

I will do all the digging I can as Big Ten media days commence to find out which writer is picking a Nebraska-like collapse from the Badgers.

Big Ten football media days complete schedule for this week

See when MSU head coach Mel Tucker will take the main stage at Big Ten Football Media Days this week

Big Ten football media days is upon us.

The unofficial kickoff of the college football season is here with conference media days taking place across the country the past few weeks. It’s the Big Ten’s turn to be in the spotlight: Every head coach takes the stage this week in Indianapolis.

Big Ten media days take place on Wednesday and Thursday and will be televised on the Big Ten Network. So here’s a complete breakdown of when each coach and new Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petittiwill take the stage:

MSU picked to finish in bottom half of Big Ten East Division in media preseason poll

The Big Ten media is not particularly high on the Spartans entering the 2023 season

The Big Ten media is not particularly high on the Spartans entering the 2023 season.

The annual Big Ten football preseason media poll has been released, and Michigan State is listed to finish in the bottom half of the Big Ten East Division. The poll has Michigan State at No. 5 in the division, behind Maryland and only ahead of Rutgers and Indiana.

Michigan was the top pick to win the Big Ten East Division with 27 first-place votes and Wisconsin was the pick for the West Division with 20 first-place votes.

Check out the complete poll below:

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MSU football announces their representatives for Big Ten Media Days

See who will be representing the Spartans in Indy for this year’s Big Ten Media Days event

Believe it or not, Big Ten Football Media Days are only a few weeks away.

The Big Ten Media Days will officially take place on July 26 and 27 in Indianapolis. The Spartans announced on Wednesday who they’ll be bringing to this year’s event in Indianapolis.

See below who will be representing the Spartans in Indy for this annual season kickoff event:

Wisconsin announces player representatives for Big Ten Media Days

Wisconsin announces the three players it’ll take to Big Ten Media Days

College football is creeping up on the sporting world. Only 51 days, or seven Saturdays, separate us from Wisconsin’s September 2 opener against Buffalo.

One of the first milestones towards that schedule beginning is Big Ten Media Days. Well, that event will take place two weeks from now on July 26-27.

At Media Days last year, a big deal was made of the conference returning all 14 coaches from the previous year. This year could not be a bigger contrast, with Wisconsin, Nebraska, Purdue and now Northwestern set to enter the event with a new face leading the program.

Each school always brings several player representatives with them to Indianapolis. Wisconsin’s last year were Graham Mertz, Nick Herbig and Keeanu Benton.

Wisconsin football announced this year’s representatives on Twitter yesterday. They will be RB Braelon Allen, QB Tanner Mordecai and LB Maema Njongmeta.

Having a transfer entering his first year with the program in that situation is an interesting dynamic. Maybe my thoughts go to the pre-portal era, but it always felt like four-year vets at the school were the ones to attend.

I guess none of that really matters since Rutgers brought its punter Adam Korsak last year. And nobody is better prepared to answer the onslaught of questions about Wisconsin’s new offense than its signal-caller Mordecai.