Really big Big Ten football arriving soon

It’s really starting to sink in that the Big Ten is anything but the Big Ten.

Beginning this fall 18 teams will compete in Big Ten football and we are just over a month away from college football talk really heating up as the annual Big Ten Football Media Days take place in Indianapolis Lucas Oil Stadium, which right now has swimming pools on its surface as it preps for the U.S. Olympic Swimming Championships, which start this weekend.

The Big Ten Media Days will be July 23-25.

Oregon, UCLA, USC and Washington join the conference this season, marking the first season with 18 teams and no divisional format (East & West).

The Big Ten schedule model – called the Flex Protect XVIII model – features a combination of protected opponents and rotating opponents for universities. Each member institution will continue to play nine intraconference games per season, and teams will play every other conference opponent at least twice – one home and once away – and will play rotating opponents no more than three times in a five-year period.

The 2024 season will conclude with the annual Big Ten Football Championship Game Dec. 7 in Indianapolis’ Lucas Oil Stadium, which will feature the top two teams in the overall conference standings at the end of the regular season, with the winner earning the Big Ten Championship.

For a complete listing of the 2024 college football schedule with dates, times and TV go to – http://www.espn.com/college-football/schedule

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