Well, the scheduling committee for the Big Ten has done quite a job in starting off the 2021 football season with a bang. It’s one thing (and quite an interesting thing) to start off the season with five conference games; it’s another, however, to include some marquee, inter-divisional matchups among the five.
There are also some non-conference games during the first week — Temple at Rutgers (9/2), W. Michigan at Michigan (9/4), West Virginia at Maryland (9/4), and Oregon State at Purdue (9/4). I’m not going to preview those games, nor am I going to comment here on the game that we all care about: Ohio State at Minnesota on 9/2.