COLUMBUS, Ohio — Big Ten football programs view the world in different ways — some from the top, some from the bottom, most from the middle. Your point of view has an effect on your version of reality. So … tiers. While the Big Ten continues to slow-play its next step on when the league might play football, we created tiers that helped reinforce how the 14 teams in this league view football, based on their standing in the national landscape. Our big Wednesday Buckeye Talk Podcast is a discussion of these seven tiers and where Nathan Baird, Stephen Means and I think the Big Ten teams land. Here’s my full list of all 65 power conference teams, and the tiers to which I assigned them. What are my rankings based on? It’s partly recent success — I examined the winning percentage over the last decade for every team and…
Continue Reading: Putting Ohio State football, and the rest of the Big Ten, into our seven college football tiers
