Bold predictions for the 2016 Big Ten season

8:58 PM ET You would think that after a year of being wrong on just about every major Big Ten prediction, we’d realize the futility of such designs. But that’s what boring, rational people would do. We prefer to be bold, like Guy Fieri wrestling a shark on a runaway roller coaster. So let’s get crazy and take a stab at some bold predictions for the 2016 season. Yeah, the one that’s like eight months away. Hopefully you won’t remember these by Labor Day, anyway. The Wolverines could be poised to make the College Football Playoff in Jim Harbaugh’s second season. AP Photo/Rick Bowmer1. Michigan makes the College Football Playoff: Well, I voted the Wolverines No. 1 in our way-too-early power rankings and chose them as the early 2016 Big Ten favorite. Might as well double down on that. Michigan returns a boatload of starters, and Houston transfer John O’Korn got a year of Jim Harbaugh conditioning while sitting out this season and watching Jake Rudock. …

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