Big Ten Football Starts Saturday
Thursday, September 19th, 2013 -- 1:16 PM
The race for the Big Ten Championship begins this weekend with the debut of conference play on Saturday.Purdue travels to Wisconsin for a 2:30 p.m. kickoff on ABC, opening the 118th season of Big Ten football.
The Sept. 21 debut of conference play is the earliest start to the Big Ten season since the 1996 campaign, when the new year opened with conference matchups. The Big Ten schedule opens in the fourth week of the college football season for the second time in five years, last opening in Week 4 in 2009.
Wisconsin enters conference play seeking its fourth consecutive Big Ten Championship. The Badgers shared the title in 2010 before winning
the first two Big Ten Football Championship Games in 2011 and 2012 to give them three straight titles for the first time in school history.
Wisconsin has won 14 Big Ten Championships and is looking to join Michigan and Ohio State as the third Big Ten program to win four straight conference titles.
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