Wait so CBS Sports is out here picking five Big Ten games that will shape the playoff race and not a single mention of us going into South Bend on a Thursday night. Back in the 90s when we were slugging it out with Barry Alvarez teams that actually knew what a running game was, you would have had to be crazy to leave a game like that off any list. But now we live in a world where NIL packages decide who plays where and half the roster is different every spring. Hard to build a program when kids are shopping their services like free agents every December. The portal turned college football into a year-round transaction. No loyalty, no building, just see who offers the biggest bag.