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

4. Dominance of middle-tier teams

The Big Ten is unique to many other conferences in that almost any team in the league can topple any team in the country. When I say dominance of middle-tier teams, I don’t mean they dominate all season long, but they have the potential to dominate any team during any game. For the sake of my argument here, let’s just forget Rutgers and Maryland exist here.

A good example of this is Purdue dismantling undefeated Ohio State in 2018. They didn’t just win, they won by 29 points. Who could have seen that coming? Having not won more than seven games in a season in a decade, nobody could have predicted this.

We also saw a crumbling Michigan State team beat eighth-ranked Penn State in 2018 in Happy Valley. We saw those Spartans in their prime get beat by a terrible Nebraska team in 2015. Last year, we even watched 2-4 Illinois beat a Wisconsin team that had outscored their opponents 255-29 through that point in the year. You get my point.