With graduation, transfers, academic issues, etc., an awful lot can change in a Power 5 college football conference from one year to the next. For example, the Big Ten was clearly the nation’s best conference in 2016. It nearly became the first to have two schools in the College Football Playoff but landed four teams in major bowls: Michigan in the Orange, Penn State in the Rose, Wisconsin in the Cotton, and Ohio State in the Fiesta, which was a playoff semifinal game. Alas, perhaps those bowls foreshadowed a bit of a down year coming for the Big Ten in 2017 because the Wolverines, Nittany Lions and Buckeyes all lost those bowl games. Last year for the first time the Big Ten didn’t get a team in the College Football Playoff – although it did land three more in major bowls (Ohio State in the Cotton, Wisconsin in…
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