Big Ten Restart

Since August, it looked as if the only Big Ten score that would’ve been reported this fall would be 11-3. 11 as in the number of schools who voted against starting the season and 3 as in the number of schools that voted to have a season. But after some help from Ohio State QB Justin Fields, Nebraska AD Bill Moos, Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh, and President Donald Trump, the Big Ten had a re-vote. That re-vote ended in a landslide towards having a season. On September 16th, the Big Ten announced that they would be having an 8 game regular season and a postseason. However, it will look a little different. Teams will only play other Big Ten teams, 6 games will be against teams in their division and 2 will be crossover games against teams in the opposite Big Ten division. The Big Ten also instituted a whole new “championship week”. While traditionally they would only have one game which would be the Big Ten championship game, this year the Big Ten made it to where every team would play. They will still have a Big Ten championship but to add more games for each team they have decided that they would play for 2nd place, 3rd place, 4th place, and so on. The season for the Big Ten will start the weekend of October 24th which will be a month apart from the rest of the country (besides the PAC-12). A big question everyone had is if the Big Ten would be able to compete in the playoffs and play for a national championship. The answer to that question is, yes. The Big Ten has scheduled their Big Ten championship game for the day right before the playoff committee selects who is in which is very important because usually to get in the playoffs you need to be a conference champion. All in all, I’m happy, the country’s happy, and we finally got college football back and I’m excited to watch the Buckeye’s be able to compete for their 9th national championship