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

2. Greg Schiano

This might be one of my more extreme takes. In fact, Rutgers might just continue to be terrible for years to come. I don’t even expect them to be good within the next five years. The idea behind Greg Schiano improving the Big Ten comes down to the fact that the league is giving an effort to create less of a disparity between the top teams and the bottom teams.

For a long time, a rip on the Big Ten has revolved around the fact that the bottom-tier teams in the conference are comically bad and the top-tier teams are unbelivably good.

I don’t know about you, but I don’t see Rutgers continuing their terrible-ness under Schiano. He was the one that basically brought Rutgers into this conference, taking them from a 1-11 team and turning them into a perennial nine-win team. He went 5-1 in bowl games and had an 11-2 season. Most importantly, he gave Rutgers a consistency that they hadn’t seen before.

Rutgers may never be a Big Ten contender, but Schiano is another building block for the Big Ten to become the best conference in college football.