Jul. 25—Media members who cover Big Ten football picked Ohio State to finish second in the East ivision in 2023. Two-time defending champion Michigan is a heavy favorite in voting by a panel assembled by cleveland.com. Jim Harbaugh’s Wolverines received 27 of 37 first-place votes while the Buckeyes got eight and two went to Penn State. Those teams are the consensus top three in preseason polls from a variety of sources. Wisconsin is generally considered the fourth-best team in the league entering the preseason, and new coach Luke Fickell’s squad tops the preseason poll by a narrow margin. Wisconsin got 20 first-place votes while Iowa got 16 and Minnesota received the other. The Badgers ended up with one more point than the Hawkeyes in the overall tally while the Golden Gophers came in a distant third followed by Illinois, Nebraska, Purdue and Northwestern. In the first nine years of the…
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