COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Fifteen years ago, Cleveland.com took up the responsibility of conducting the Big Ten’s preseason football poll, and we feel it’s time to expand that poll’s reach past just before the ball is kicked off.

Starting this season, that poll will become a living organism to reflect the ebbs and flows through a conference featuring 18 games and college football’s last two national champions.

Preseason polls set expectations, but things can change over a 12-game regular season. No team was better proof of that than Indiana last season, when the Hoosiers were picked to finish 17th in the preseason only to lose just once to Ohio State . They’d join the Buckeyes, Oregon and Penn State as College Football Playoff teams in the first year of the 12-team field.

Where Ohio State sta

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