5 reasons Big Ten football will be better than the SEC in 2020

1. Ohio State

You all knew it was coming, so I figured I’d just get it out of the way early. Ohio State is the pride and joy of the Big Ten, and no other team in the conference has matched its success in recent memory. Michigan fans will argue that they’ve been a better team historically, but a good chunk of their championships come from before women could vote, before prohibition, and before the great depression. Yes, that was an unnecessary sentence. Sorry, Michigan fans.

In Ryan Day’s first year, he took his Buckeyes to the College Football Playoff. Granted, he was given arguably the most talented team in all of college football, but he still coached a squad that looked unbeatable for most of the season. This was all in his first season as head coach.

Ohio State is on the rise, and while I can’t say that their counterpart in Alabama is falling, they’re definitely extremely vulnerable right now.

Whether he ends up as successful as Urban Meyer, more successful, or less successful is unknown, but right now he’s done as much as anybody could have asked for in his first season and is the first building block in my case for the Big Ten being better than the SEC.