In a continuing series, Until Saturday, The Athletic's CFB podcast and weekly newsletter, has been asking its listeners and readers to choose their darkhorse favorites for each conference. This week was the B1G's turn. The poll excluded Ohio State, Oregon, Penn State and Michigan as the preseason favorites, which means the task was to predict the B1G's best team among the remaining 14. The people have voted and here are the results:
Obviously, this is a fan poll so take it for the grain of salt that it's worth, i.e., the respondents could have been overweighted by overzealous Cornhusker and Iowa fans, which would skew the results.
Who do you think will surprise this season, not just the team(s) that overachieve but also those that you think will underachieve by failing to live up to expectations?