Believe it or not, the college football season is creeping ever so closer, and there’s no better indication of that than the fact the major conferences are holding their annual media days.
The Big Ten gets rolling Monday in Chicago a year after getting shut out from the College Football playoffs for the first time.
The event will be sure to include plenty of optimism, a standard dose of clichés and a splash of cynicism from the media assembled. But it still means football is near as most teams will begin preseason camp a week later.
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Like most major conferences, the Big Ten enters 2018 with plenty of intriguing questions.