{"id":325,"date":"2017-06-28T12:06:52","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T16:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/?p=325"},"modified":"2017-06-29T10:08:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T14:08:45","slug":"2017-big-ten-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/2017-big-ten-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 Big Ten Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Big Ten had an outstanding 2016 campaign. Perhaps a bit overrated based on bowl performances, but considering where they have been the last decade it was a win for this historic conference. This year we think you will still have 4 very good teams that are there at the end of the year, but we think the middle and bottom of the conference will be worse. Big Ten has sent a team to the playoffs every year. We don’t think this year will be any different with much of the same cast as last year competing for that spot. Michigan loses a lot but has recruited very well under Harbaugh. Penn St, Wisconsin, and Ohio St return a LOT of players from last years successful teams.<\/p>\n
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For each Conference we will have the Simplified Football predictions (record) with the Projected Win-Shares and rating of each team next to it. We will also have Bowl Projections for each conference.<\/p>\n
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Big Ten\u00a0Predictions:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n East<\/em><\/p>\n Team \u2013 Record (Conf) \u00a0\/ \u00a0Win-Shares (Conf) \u00a0\/ \u00a0Rating<\/p>\n West<\/em><\/p>\n Team \u2013 Record (Conf) \u00a0\/ \u00a0Win-Shares (Conf) \u00a0\/ \u00a0Rating<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Wisconsin wins the West out-right and Ohio St gets revenge on Penn St winning the head to head and the tie-breaker.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Championship game \u2013\u00a0Ohio St beats Wisconsin in the Big Ten Championship game. It will beat Wisconsin’s 5th Championship game in 7 years. Ohio St’s 3rd.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n That makes 9 bowl teams for the\u00a0Big Ten<\/p>\n Rose\u00a0Bowl \u2013 Ohio St\u00a0(Playoff)<\/p>\n Fiesta Bowl – Penn St<\/p>\n Peach Bowl – Michigan<\/p>\n Citrus Bowl – Wisconsin<\/p>\n Outback Bowl – Northwestern<\/p>\n Holiday Bowl – Nebraska<\/p>\n Pinstripe Bowl – Minnesota<\/p>\n Armed Forces Bowl – Maryland<\/p>\n Foster Farms – Iowa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Big Ten had an outstanding 2016 campaign. Perhaps a bit overrated based on bowl performances, but considering where they have been the last decade it was a win for this historic conference. This year we think you will still have 4 very good teams that are there at the end of the year, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[100,90,75,72,63,74,91,66,70,102,103,67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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