The Big Ten announced earlier this week the conference is bringing back a fall football schedule in an eight game, conference only format beginning the week of October 23-24. In addition to the eight scheduled games, each team will play a ninth game during “Championship Weekend” as a sort of consolation bracket alongside the Big Ten Championship Game OM December 19th. For Iowa and Big Ten football fans, it’s an exciting time.
But with the return comes some major questions both for the conference and for the Iowa football program. Here are five questions on the return of Big Ten and Iowa Football.