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4 B1G programs rank in 247Sports’ Top 25 for best facilities in college football
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College football has become an arms race. Over the past two decades, there’s been a growing emphasis of improving facilities on campuses across the country in an effort to help attract some of the top players in every recruiting class.
Some schools have it better than others, though.
This week, 247Sports writer Brad Crawford evaluated the facilities across college football, creating a Top 25 list. A total of 4 B1G teams were included in his rankings: Illinois, Michigan, Northwestern and Ohio State.
Ohio State had the highest-ranked facility in the B1G, coming in at No. 6 nationally. Northwestern was slated in the No. 9 spot. Michigan was No. 14 and Illinois was in at No. 20.
Here is a look at just some of the images of those four facilities:
https://twitter.com/Matt_Fortuna/status/1166033784199962624?s=20&t=AB7Ez0lbQlSrv7Sg0dAY_w
Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI)
Schembechler Hall is home to Michigan football. They just recently completed a renovation of the facility in 2014. The renovation cost $9 million and it added about 7,000 square feet to the facility. pic.twitter.com/jFLcitUmWU
— Brendan Moore (@bmoorecfb) April 2, 2021
Pictures of Northwestern’s new athletic facility and football practice field on the Lake Michigan shore. pic.twitter.com/ctnzzXVLkG
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) April 6, 2018
New digs at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center are 🔥 pic.twitter.com/18Scr2lLXf
— Ohio State Football (@OhioStateFB) April 19, 2019
With programs continually competing with each other, the facilities races will never truly end. That means this type of Top 25 list will continually change as teams refurbish, reconstruct and renew facilities in the years to come.
You can view the complete Top 25 list from 247Sports here.
Dustin grew up in the heart of Big Ten country and has been in sports media since 2010. He has been covering Big Ten football since 2014. You can follow him on Twitter: @SchutteCFB