Weakest? We just watched Michigan barely survive against Alabama and Washington last year. The SEC West alone would run through that whole conference. Put Ohio State in our division and see how that goes.

Oh, here we go, a USC fan trying to talk about confernce strength while their own program is the poster. The Big Ten just added the four best programs from the Pac-12, including us, and suddenly the league is weak? That's rich coming from a fanbase whose team got physically manhandled by us in back-to-back seasons on their way out the door. The Big Ten has Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State, and now Oregon, all teams with legitimate playoff aspirations. y'all couldn't even win the weak Pac-12 in its final years with the so-called generational talent at quarterback. Maybe focus on fixing your own house before you critique the neighborhood. The Big Ten's depth from top to middle is brutal, and USC is fixin' to find out what real. We're going to thrive in it. You're just scared because you know the free ride is over.

That is the most ridiculous take I've seen all week, and I've seen Michigan fans try to explain their sign-stealing scandal. The weakest conference? We just won a national championship in 2020 and have been in the playoff mix every single year. The SEC has one great team and a bunch of overrated programs living off reputatiion. The Big 12 is a complete mess without Oklahoma and Texas, and the ACC is Clemson and a prayer. Look at the depth in the Big Ten. You have us, Oregon, Penn State, and Michigan all as legitimate top-ten caliber teams this year. Who does the SEC have after Georgia and maybe Alabama? A bunch of 8-4 teams that get hyped up in the preseason. Our conference schedule is a brutal gauntlet every single week, and now we're adding more elite programs. The idea that we're the weakest is pure fantasy from someone who is scared of what's coming. The Big Ten is the deepest, toughest conference from top to bottom, and we're gonna prove it on the field this fall. The rest of the country isn't ready for the new era of Big Ten football.

The Big Ten has the best defenses in the country and we just saw them dominate the playoff. You're just mad your team can't handle the physicality week in and week out.

Florida's schedule is tougher than any Big Ten slate, and the SEC has won 4 of the last 5 national titles

What are you talking about? We just saw Michigan win the whole thing and the conference is loaded top to bottom. Your team wouldn't last a week in our schedule.

we just won the rose bowl and our conference has more national titles than any of them

weakest conference? we just sent two teams to the cfp and our champ beat the sec's best.

We'd dominate that laegue

The Big Ten has more national titles than your conference has bowl wins since the 90s

The Big Ten? Weak? Son, I watched them dominate the Rose Bowl for decades. That conference built legnds, something your school wouldn't understand.

USC is the weakest part of it

You guys are still in the Big Ten, right? Doesn't feel like it lately.

Our blue turf would run circles around any Big Ten team, come prove us wrong lmao

The Big Ten just put two teams in the playoff last year and we had to play Ohio State in a bowl, they're loaded. Our new conference is tough but acting like the Big Ten is weak is pure cope from someone scared of the competition.

The Big Ten had 4 teams finish in the top 12 of SP+ last year, more than any other conference

Weakest? We just saw them dominate the playoff last year, and our schedule is brutal. They've got more depth than any conferenec besides the SEC.

Big Ten disrespect is insane

We just won the Big Ten East last year and you're calling us weak?

What a joke, we just saw the Big Ten dominate bowl season and send two teams to the plyoff. Your conference can't even win a national title.

Northwestern's 7-2 conference record last year proves the Big Ten's depth, and the league had four teams in the final AP top 15 fr fr

USC couldn't win the old Pac-10

The Big Ten had 4 teams in the top 12 of the final SP+ ratings, more than any other conference

That's a wild take after they just put two teams in the playoff. Their top end is elite and the middle is deeper than people think, just look at the composite recruiting rankings.

USC's defense allowed 34.4 points per game last year, so maybe focus on your own house.

Weakest? We just sent a team to the national championship game. Our conference top to bottom is a weekly grind that nobody else deals with.

Our conference just put two teams in the playoff, that doesn't happen in a weak league

They have 3 top-10 SP+ teams

That take is straight up delusional and reeks of someone who hasn't looked at a 247 composite ranking in years. The Big Ten just added Oregon and Washington, two perennial playoff contenders with elite recruiting classes, and still has Ohio State and Michigan battling for national titles every single year. Look at the recruiting trail right now, the Big Ten is cleaning up in the midwest and going national, pulling five-stars away from the SEC. Our league's depth is insane now, from Penn State's defensive croots to USC's offensive firepower. The idea that it's the weakest conference is a joke, especially when you see the coaching hires and the NIL collectives being built. The future is completely in the Big Ten's favor, and any recruit with a crystal ball prediction knows it.

We beat Michigan in the Gator Bowl

We just won the Rose Bowl and our conference is stacked top to bottom

We own the Big Ten

The Big Ten just put two teams in the playoff and has the best coach in the sport, that's a wild take

We just won the ACC and the Big Ten hasn't had a real champion in years

We’d run the table in that conference with our offense

We won the national championship against a Big Ten team, son

We'd run THAT league

the big ten just put two teams in the playoff and has the best collection of defensive lines in the country, that's not weak. your conference is still trying to figure out how to play defense.

That is the most ridiculoous take I've ever seen, and it's clearly coming from someone who hasn't watched a down of football this season. The Big Ten is a gauntlet from top to bottom, and we just proved it by running through our conference schedule. You want to talk about weak? Look at some of the other leagues where one or two teams dominate every single year. The Big Ten has parity and brutal physicality every single Saturday. We have multiple natty contenders, and our middle-of-the-pack teams could win other conferences. The depth is unmatched. Just because we play real, hard-nosed football instead of a bunch of shootouts doesn't make us weak, it makes us tough. Our non-conference record speaks for itself. This conference sent multiple teams to the New Year's Six last year and will again. Calling the Big Ten the weakest is pure ignorance. The proof is on the field every week.

We'd dominate that league

we just won the conference and sent two teams to the playoff, what are you even talking about

They're just mad because they haven't won a real conference title in forever. Our Mountain West is tougher top to bottom than people think.

Big Ten still runs through Columbus

You're talking about the conference that gave us Woody Hayes and Bo Schembechler, the Ten Year War that defined real football. The Big Ten built this sport while your conference was still figuring out how to schedule more than eight games a season. We play a brand of football that wins in January, not just puts up flashy numbers in September. Every time I hear this take, it reminds me of the '97 Michigan team that would have physically dominated any squad from these other leagues. You don't win Rose Bowls for a century by being weak.

This reminds me of the 80s when the Big Ten's physical brand would have run your conference right off the filed

We just won the ACC and you're talking about the Big Ten being weak? Focus on your own conference ngl.

Our schedule would run through that conference too, just ask any team we've played

We just won the ACC and our schedule would run through the Big Ten too

That's the kind of nonsense I'd expect from a Sooner or a Longhorn who's forgotten what real football looks like. The Big Ten has always been a meat-grinder, built on the kind of physical play we used to see in the old Big 8. You think it's weak? Go tell that to Barry Alvarez's Wisconsin teams that would've run right over this modern spread nonsense. The league has multiple national champions in the last twenty years, something the Big 12 can't claim since Vince Young was in Austin. I wattched Ohio State under Jim Tressel win titles with defense and a power run game, fundamentals that seem lost on today's scoreboard operators. This league produces NFL linemen and linebackers like no other, the kind of players who decide games in November, not in a 7-on-7 passing league. The depth is there, too. You used to fear going to play at Iowa or Michigan State, places where the weather and the hitting made it a four-quarter fight for survival. Just because they don't run up the score on directional schools every week doesn't mean they're weak. It means they play a brand of football that wins in the cold, and that's the brand that wins championships. The Big Ten's toughness is a constant, something we understood perfectly back when we had to line up against Nebraska every year.

Michigan just won the natty imo