The college football season will begin this month and CBS Sports ranked all 131 FBS programs, which included all B1G programs.

While conferences like the SEC and ACC were expected to have schools at the top of the list, the B1G had several representatives from the conference inside the top 25. Alabama and Georgia were ranked No. 1 and No. 3, respectively, but Ohio State was placed in the middle as the No. 2 ranked team heading into the regular season.

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Ohio State missed out on the College Football Playoff last season and settled for a win over Utah in the Rose Bowl. The team that caused Ohio State to miss out on last season’s College Football Playoff, Michigan, cracked the top 10 as the No. 8 rated team in college football. Michigan lost to Georgia in the College Football Playoff.

Here is the full list where every team in the B1G was ranked (Via CBS Sports):

No. 2 – Ohio State
No. 8 – Michigan
No. 15 – Wisconsin
No. 18 – Penn State
No. 20 – Michigan State
No. 28 – Iowa
No. 32 – Minnesota
No. 34 – Purdue
No. 49 – Nebraska
No. 56 – Maryland
No. 78 – Rutgers
No. 81 – Northwestern
No. 82 – Illinois
No. 88 – Indiana

Wisconsin took the last spot in the top 15. Penn State and Michigan State rounded out the remaining B1G teams in the top 25. Every team in the conference was placed inside the top 100. Indiana had the lowest ranking as the No. 88 ranked team.