The college football season starts with two teams alone at the top of the Big Ten power rankings and a host of teams chasing the leaders.

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The Big Ten stopped publishing a preseason media poll more than a decade ago following a vote of the head coaches. The intervening years have offered no incentive to restart the process. In fact, preseason polls appear to be headed the way of the dodo,

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The Big Ten is one of the few major college football conferences that does not have a formal preseason media poll. Seeing an opportunity, the staff at Cleveland.com released an unofficial media poll that ranks all of the Big Ten teams and predicts where they will finish in the conference standings.