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A Big Ten team hoisted the College Football Playoff national championship trophy for the second consecutive season in 2024.
That program wasn’t the Big Ten champion and consensus No. 2 team in the AP Poll in Oregon, nor a Penn State team that made a run to the College Football Playoff semifinal. It was Ohio State. Despite two regular-season losses, including one to then-6-5 Michigan, the Buckeyes found their form when it mattered most and went on a dominant run to the title.
The end of another college football season brings a necessary review of the Big Ten Conference landscape. We have already done so with final end-of-season power rankings as well as with forward-looking program power rankings.
Up next are the coaches.
As of Jan. 26, the Big Ten is set to enter 2025 with only one new head coach in place, Purdue’s Barry Odom. That is a significant departure from last offseason when Indiana, Michigan, Washington, Michigan State and UCLA all made coaching changes — Michigan, Washington UCLA needing to do so after the traditional coaching carousel had concluded. Jim Harbaugh going to the NFL, Kalen DeBoer leaving for Alabama and Chip Kelly taking the OC job at Ohio State created those respective unique situations.
This offseason, meanwhile, has been mostly headline-free to date.
The lack of significant movement adds clarity to the conference landscape. Several notable head coaches are on the rise after breakthrough seasons. One in Ryan Day just cemented his legacy at Ohio State. Others, meanwhile, may enter 2025 on the hot seat.
For more, here are our full Big Ten head football coach rankings after the 2024 season. The rankings are compared to where each coach stood after the 2023 campaign:
18. David Braun (Northwestern Wildcats)
Sep 21, 2024; Seattle, Washington, USA; Northwestern Wildcats head coach David Braun watches pregame…
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Author : Badgers Wire
Publish date : 2025-02-09 11:08:00
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