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Which Big Ten teams can win it all in the next five years? Here's what fans think

The Athletic

Big Ten fans may talk a big game about their teams in public or on social media. But when pressed to quantify their teams’ chances of winning the College Football Playoff, self-awareness takes over. In a reader survey conducted by The Athletic, we asked Big Ten followers to answer this question about every league member: On a scale of 1-5 (1 being impossible, 5 being very likely), how likely is it that the following team will win the College Football Playoff in the next five years?

Only four programs had “5 (very likely)” receive more than 20 percent of the vote. To no one’s surprise,...