The start of the college football season is officially fewer than two months away and anticipation for the coming year is already beginning to reach a fever pitch.
That rings especially true in the Big Ten, which possesses no shortage of teams with high expectations for the 2016 campaign.
But whether you're a team with championship aspirations or one just looking to improving on a losing season, every team in the conference has a best- and worst-case scenario that could potentially play out in the coming year. Most programs will likely find themselves in the middle of those two extremes—but that doesn't stop them from existing in the first place.
And with so much still unknown about the upcoming season as a whole, what better time to project the potential highs and lows it could possess? With that in mind, let's take a look at what would be the best and worst scenario for each Big Ten team in 2016.