I'll be in Indianapolis by this afternoon. USC doesn't take the stage until tomorrow, but Big Ten Media Days starts this morning with Illinois, Rutgers, Wisconsin, Northwestern, Purdue and Ohio State.
The Big Ten does not do an official preseason poll, but as it does every year Cleveland.com (the newspaper there) conducted its own Big Ten preseason poll with 27 media members. Here's how that turned out:
The Big Ten does not do an official preseason poll, but as it does every year Cleveland.com (the newspaper there) conducted its own Big Ten preseason poll with 27 media members. Here's how that turned out:
Rank | Team (1st place) | Points | Average Rank |
---|---|---|---|
No. 1 | Ohio State (21) | 480 | 1.22 |
No. 2 | Oregon (6) | 448 | 1.81 |
No. 3 | Penn State | 418 | 3.52 |
No. 4 | Michigan | 411 | 3.78 |
No. 5 | Iowa | 363 | 5.56 |
No. 6 | USC | 346 | 6.19 |
No. 7 | Wisconsin | 313 | 7.41 |
No. 8 | Nebraska | 293 | 8.15 |
No. 9 | Rutgers | 249 | 9.56 |
No. 10 | Washington | 236 | 10.26 |
No. 11 | Maryland | 185 | 12.07 |
No. 12 | Minnesota | 183 | 12.22 |
No. 13 | Illinois | 145 | 13.63 |
No. 14 | Northwestern | 138 | 13.89 |
No. 15 | UCLA | 124 | 14.41 |
No. 16 | Michigan State | 119 | 14.59 |
No. 17 | Indiana | 76 | 16.15 |
No. 18 | Purdue | 65 | 16.59 |