The Big Ten does not do a preseason media poll for college football, so we did our own. Eight Detroit News staffers – reporters Angelique S. Chengelis, Connor Earegood and James Hawkins; columnists John Niyo and Bob Wojnowski;

The Big Ten is one of the few major college football conferences that does not have a formal preseason media poll. Seeing an opportunity, the staff at Cleveland.com released an unofficial media poll that ranks all of the Big Ten teams and predicts where they will finish in the conference standings.