The 2018 Big Ten conference football season is the 123rd season of college football play for the Big Ten Conference and is part of the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season.
This will be the Big Ten's fifth season with 14 teams. The defending league champion is Ohio State. The 2018 season will consist of a nine-game conference schedule for the third year in a row.
The Big Ten will have one new coach for the 2018 season, with Nebraska hiring alumnus Scott Frost. Frost comes to Nebraska after having coached UCF to an undefeated 13-0 season in 2017.
Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer was suspended for the first three games of the 2018 season by Ohio State for the mishandling of a situation involving domestic abuse charges against former assistant coach Zach Smith. Ohio State offensive coordinator Ryan Day will serve as acting head coach for the first three games of the 2018 season.
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Previous season
Ohio State defeated Wisconsin, 27-21, in the Big Ten Football Championship Game.
Eight teams participated in bowl games in the 2017 season and the league went a very impressive 7-1 in those games, however the Big Ten failed to land a team in the 2017 College Football Playoff. Iowa defeated Boston College, 27-20, in the Pinstripe Bowl. Purdue won, 38-35, over Arizona in the Foster Farms Bowl. Michigan State defeated Washington State, 42-17, in the Holiday Bowl. Northwestern defeated Kentucky, 24-23, at the Music City Bowl. Ohio State defeated USC, 24-7, in the Cotton Bowl. Wisconsin defeated Miami (FL), 34-24, in the Orange Bowl. Penn State defeated Washington by a score of 35-28 in the Fiesta Bowl. Michigan lost to South Carolina, 26-19, in the Outback Bowl.
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Preseason
2018 Big Ten Spring Football and number of signees on signing day:
Recruiting classes
Big Ten Media Days
The Big Ten conducted its annual media days at the Chicago Marriott Downtown Chicago Magnificent Mile in Chicago, IL on July 23-24. The event commenced with a speech by Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany, and all 14 teams sent their head coaches and two selected players to speak with members of the media. The event along with all speakers and interviews were broadcast live on the Big Ten Network. The teams and representatives in respective order were as follows:
Preseason media polls
The Big Ten Media Days concluded with its annual preseason media polls in early August. Since 1992, the credentialed media has gotten the preseason champion correct just five times. Only eight times has the preseason pick even made it to the Big Ten title game. Below are the results of the media poll with total points received next to each school and first-place votes in parentheses.
Big Ten Champion Voting
Ohio State def. Wisconsin - 14
Wisconsin def. Ohio State - 9
Wisconsin def. Michigan - 2
Wisconsin def. Penn State - 1
Wisconsin def. Michigan State - 1
Michigan State def. Wisconsin - 1
Rankings
Schedule
All times Eastern time.
+ denotes Homecoming game
Regular season
Week one
Week two
Week three
Week four
Week five
Week six
Week seven
Week eight
Week nine
Nebraska adds Bethune-Cookman to 2018 schedule in place of previously scheduled bye week to make up for Akron game that was canceled in Week 1 due to weather.
Week ten
Week eleven
Week twelve
Week thirteen
Championship game
Week 14 (Big Ten Championship Game)
Big Ten records vs Other Conferences
2018-2019 records against non-conference foes:
(Through games of Sept. 29, 2018)
Awards and honors
Player of the week honors
Attendance
Bold - Exceed capacity
+Season High
2019 NFL Draft
Head coaches
Current through Week #6 (Oct. 6, 2018)
* Tom Allen was hired to replace Kevin Wilson in December 2016 at Indiana and coached the Hoosiers in their 2016 bowl game.
* Matt Canada was named interim coach at Maryland after D.J. Durkin was placed on administrative leave by the school.
* Urban Meyer was suspended by Ohio State University for the first three games of the 2018 season due to the mishandling of domestic abuse allegations against one of his former assistant coaches. Ryan Day was named interim head coach in Meyer's absence.
References
Source of article : Wikipedia
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