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This Week’s Question™: Which Current B1G Football Program is the Biggest Sleeping Giant?

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January 23, 2023 at 8:00am
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You may have heard it’s been Big Two and Little Eight going back to the standard definition 10-team Big Ten era. If you hadn’t heard, that’s fine too - we did the math:

B1G FOOTBALL TITLE HISTORY
PROGRAM OUTRIGHT TITLES
OHIO STATE 24
MICHIGAN 18
EVERYONE ELSE 38

These are the outright ones, but the shared ones tell the same story.

So, who’s Next™? Choices include well, everyone else. But you must pick only one:

  • Illinois (8) proximity to Chicago recruiting + #Bertmentum
  • Wisconsin (8) see Illinois, and now they have that Fickell guy as well as appetite to spend money (!)
  • Minnesota (7) ancient power that’s always just good enough to be great
  • Michigan State (5) multiple billionaire alumni, strong history/recruiting pitch
  • Iowa (4) 40 years of relative stability is the envy of Little Eighthood
  • Northwestern (2) massive infrastructure investment, new stadium coming, Chicago’s geographical hat
  • Penn State (2) has everything in place to be a national power
  • Purdue (1) cradle of quarterbacks, right between Chicago and Indy
  • Indiana (1) not a serious football program, futures will hinge on the next coach in 2024
  • Nebraska (0) it’s done it multiple times before, can it run it back again?
  • Maryland (0) the Under Armor yin to Oregon’s Nike yang, great recruiting footprint
  • Rutgers (0) the Birthplace of College Football

 

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