This should be a banner year for the Big Ten.
After being the butt of everyone’s jokes for at least half a decade, the league now has two teams in the College Football Playoff rankings, with just two regular season weeks to go. The conference has four teams in the top ten, one of the strongest paths to being the first conference to get two teams in the playoff, and a legitimate, credible argument for being the best conference in America this season. In football. It’s true!
And yet, once again, the league might accidentally screw up a good thing.