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Phil Harrison

Cleveland.com poll picks Big Ten division winners, conference champion. Where is Ohio State?

The annual Big Ten media days will be kicking off this week in Indianapolis, and that means it’s almost time to start gearing up for the start of the 2022 college football season.

That of course means that you can see your Ohio State Buckeyes performing athletic feats of endeavors on your television screen soon, but it also means that it’s time for the annual Cleveland.com poll that asks Big Ten writers to pick the winner of each division and conference champion.

As you would imagine, with so much coming back, the writers have a high opinion of the Buckeyes, but just how high?

It must be noted before we did into all of it, that this is the 12th year of the Cleveland.com poll. It fills a void left when the Big Ten stopped polling and publishing its own preseason efforts of the same. It hasn’t necessarily been the most accurate, picking the conference champion just three times during the twelve years.

Still, onward and upward we go with the results of this year’s 36-member panel.

First up … the West Division

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