Before the 2016 season, there was talk that the Big Ten East division was the best in college football. Urban Meyer was one-year removed from the playoff championship, Jim Harbaugh won 10 games in his first season and Mark Dantonio’s Spartans won the Big Ten title again. Penn State was finally turning the page from the Sandusky mess and Indiana made a bowl game for just the second time in 20 years.
Everything looked perfect heading into December and then another poor bowl season exposed the flaws that were always there. Many just chose to ignore them.
Was last season a minor setback in the division’s resurgence or is there a lot more work to do before it reigns supreme?