All hail the Big Ten’s new champ, Illinois!
OK, we done here? <checks schedule> Wait, we have 13 more weeks to go?
Sorry, we’re just used to seeing one Big Ten game on the schedule and thinking that’s the end of the season. (Especially when Jim Harbaugh's not in Indianapolis...)
But no, Illinois’ 30-22 Big Ten-opening win at home over Nebraska was merely the start of something … well, big. (Yes, even bigger than Bret Bielema’s first Big Ten game since his Wisconsin squad's 2012 stomping of Nebraska in the conference title game.