BIG Ten BIGGEST Questions | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

ESPN

Football, Sports

3.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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The BIG Ten is going for their 4th consecutive National Championship with a handleful of legit contenders. McElroy goes through the entire conference and gives you the ONE question about each team heading into the summer. Can Josh Hoover really just replace Fernando Mendoza? Can two new coordinators maintain Oregon's offense and defensive dominance? Is Ohio State playing with a chip on their shoulder? Will Byrce Underwood make a sophomore step under a new coaching staff? Can Gary Patterson turn USC into a program that can win big games? Did Pat Fitzgerald walk into the best situation at Michigan State and are there any effects from the Demond Williams/NIL drama at Washington? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0	This conference, they've won three straight national championships.
0:33.5	It has a bunch of national title contenders this year.
0:36.8	It has questions. I mean, realenders this year. It has questions.
0:37.7	I mean, real, honest, unresolved questions at virtually every single program in the top half of the league.
0:43.5	That's not weakness, by the way.
0:45.5	This is the best version of what the sport's supposed to be.
0:48.3	I'm all here for it.
1:13.7	Hello and welcome in. It's always college football. I'm your host, Greg McElroy. So happy to have you here with us today. We will dedicate today's show to the Big Ten. All the you guys think, for whatever reason, we have like some SEC agenda. No, we cover everybody here at Always College football, and the Big Ten's won three straight national champions.
1:20.4	You had Michigan in 23, Ohio State in 24, and then Indiana capping off the three-peat last year in 25.
1:24.3	And the spring games have been played. You've got some depth charts that have been shuffled a little bit.
1:29.8	We got 15 practices that have maybe separated some storylines from some real storylines versus maybe some artificial storylines, but we have some questions
1:37.0	about this conference, probably more so than we did coming out of January, and it's not a bad
1:42.3	thing at all. It's the exact thing you want.
1:45.0	Like you need to know what are we paying attention to this summer and throughout fall
1:50.2	that could keep these teams from potentially reaching their ceiling.
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