Tracking Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh at 2015 Big Ten Media Days

It makes sense for Delany and Big Ten to make this move as it will certainly bolster their schedule across the board.

Urban Meyer carried the Ohio State-Michigan rivalry everywhere he went as a coach. Nice knowing you Florida global, Indiana State and Western Illinois. Not many people will question that.

Delany even unveiled a name for it Friday at the Big Ten Media Days: Strength of Schedule 1910, referring to one non-conference game against a program from a Power Five league each year, nine conference games, one conference championship and zero games against programs from the Football Championship Subdivision.

Jones recorded 29 tackles and one forced fumble in 13 games last year for the Tigers after missing the majority of the 2013 season with a torn ACL. He was 44-19-1 in four years with the San Francisco 49ers, including a trip to the Super Bowl and two losses in NFC championship games.

On our Big Ten panel we we are joined by Ken Kohl of The Buckeye Battle Cry and Kevin McGuire of Nittany Lions Den. “And that continued into youth hockey, when Wilkinson Luggage – or the Sheriff’s All-Stars played Baskin-Robbins (in baseball), that was, you gotta win this one, this is really important”.

“I think the better competition draws the fans more”.

Upcoming ESPN negotiations are even more fundamental to the conference’s success than what the College Football Playoff committee thinks.

Ohio State is on its own platform entering the 2015 season.

Today at the Big Ten Media Days, conference commissioner Jim Delany announced a “strength of schedule commitment” for its member teams beginning in 2016. “To see a guy sweating alongside with us, you have a lot of respect for a person like that”.

“Not a day goes by, actually, the place I don’t take into consideration Coach Schembechler – from the time I depart my home to go to the workplace”, Harbaugh stated. Perhaps the leading returnee is wide receiver Leonte Carroo, who opted out of 2015 NFL Draft contention for another college season. They’ll instead be talking about some of these things this week.

Carroo said he had no regrets.

“Just Ohio State …Great to see everybody this morning”, he said flippantly. You need to be a complete man. In my persepctive, how I was raised, you have a certain accountability to yourself and to your community to be a positive role model. “That was a big factor”.

Like a politician fielding questions at congressional hearing, Beckman gave the politically correct answers about getting his team ready for their September 4 season-opener at Kent State.

Scholarships were restored and a bowl game ban was lifted last year while a lawsuit growing out of the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal at the school was settled in January.

In between, on his way to the Ann Arbor airport one March afternoon, Harbaugh and Michigan football operations director Jim Minick stopped at the scene of an accident and provided first aid to the two women involved as they waited for law enforcement to arrive. When Harbaugh was asked Friday what he will call the Buckeyes, he said, “Just Ohio State”.

Still, the new coach’s influence can’t be overstated. What they were able to do in their last three games was impressive.

Penn State returns 40 letter-winners, including 15 starters – eight on offense and seven on defense.

The Columbus Dispatch first reported the suspensions.

“At this time, I can only confirm that we are recruiting him”, Riley said.

“I was a Frenchman; I adapted pretty quick”, he said. “He probably wore that”, Harbaugh said. Big Ten West Champion Wisconsin defeated Auburn, out of the supposedly invincible SEC West.

“We’ll be good up front and that’s where it all starts”, he said.