Pre-Season (the BIG 10 - - actually 18 schools/universities -- mostly PUBLIC State schools but not all)

 last year the 18 included colleges/universities included the

nation's #1 

FB Team

Indiana (Bloomington, IN)

the OHIO STATE Univ. (record was 12 - 2)

Oregon

USC (California)

Michigan (Ann Arbor)

Iowa

Washington (Seattle)

Illinois (Champaign-Urbana)

Minnesota

Nebraska (Lincoln, NE)

Northwestern (Evanston, IL)

UCLA (California)

Penn State (College Station)

Rutgers (New Brunswick, NJ)

Wisconsin

Maryland (College Park)

Michigan State (E. Lansing)

Purdue (W. Lafayette, IN)

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Bill Connelly of ESPN expects these

of the 18 universities to rank something

like this in the TOP Row to the worst-

performing Football programs:

Ohio State

Oregon

Indiana

USC

Michigan

Penn State

Washington

Iowa

Illinois

Nebraska

Minnesota

UCLA

Northwestern

also in less expectations are:

Maryland, Rutgers, 

Wisconsin, Michigan State, Purdue