The Big Ten could have a banner year

Hooray for number two. DailyTribune.com reporter Pat Caputo writes how despite talk of league expansion and super conferences, The Big Ten could have a banner year. There are signs Big Ten football is on the upswing, writes Caputo and that centers around Ohio State. As distressful as it may be to Michigan fans, who loathe the Buckeyes, Jim Tressel has...

Marvin Fong/The Plain DealerCoach Jim Tressel

Hooray for number two.

DailyTribune.com reporter Pat Caputo writes how despite talk of league expansion and super conferences, The Big Ten could have a banner year.

There are signs Big Ten football is on the upswing, writes Caputo and that centers around Ohio State.

As distressful as it may be to Michigan fans, who loathe the Buckeyes, Jim Tressel has build a program that is in position to win a national championship, perhaps as soon as this season.

Ohio State has won five straight Big Ten titles. They have been to the BCS title game three times, winning it once — although that victory over

With the exception of Michigan and Northwestern, The Big Ten could make plenty of noise in football this fall. They could make so much noise that Caputo writes:

Could the Big Ten be the second-best football conference in the nation behind only the Southeastern Conference?

It's looking more and more that way.