The Big Ten finally got a heaping helping of national respect last season, when three of the conference’s teams finished in the top six of the final College Football Playoff rankings. It had been a bit of a challenge in previous seasons — and not always without merit — for the league to get talked about in the same way the national media loves talking about the SEC. But now the conference boasts some of the healthiest programs in college football and some of the most attention-grabbing head coaches in the sport. Certainly Urban Meyer and his Ohio State Buckeyes fall into those categories. But Ohio State is joined in the highest levels of national conversation by Jim Harbaugh’s Michigan program and Paul Chryst’s stellar work at Wisconsin. That’s without mentioning the reigning conference champion Penn State Nittany Lions and Mark Dantonio’s oft-contending Michigan State program. With the Big Ten now annually having several national championship-caliber teams, Meyer…
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