The month of July is now here, which means we are finally entering the preseason for college football. While media days are still a couple of weeks away, players across the nation are flocking back to campus and starting to ramp things up, getting prepared for fall camp to begin.
It will be a historic season of college football across the nation, with conference realignment and an expanded College Football Playoff shaking up the landscape. It will also be a different season for the Oregon Ducks, who enter the Big Ten Conference for the first time starting on August 1. To help forecast what Dan Lanning and his team will see this year, and preview the opponents on Oregon’s schedule and beyond, we’re going to go through all of the major position groups and detail the players who Duck fans need to know about, and why.
Team Previews: Illinois Fighting Illini — Indiana Hoosiers — Iowa Hawkeyes — Maryland Terrapins — Michigan Wolverines — Michigan State Spartans — Minnesota Golden Gophers — Nebraska Cornhuskers — Northwestern Wildcats
Position Previews: Quarterbacks — Running Backs — Wide Receivers — Tight Ends
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There are many elite quarterbacks in the Big Ten Conference in 2024 and the defenders that will be tasked the most to hold those signal callers in check will be the linebackers. Fortunately for the defensive coordinators around the Big Ten, there are many great linebackers that can be called upon to stop those quarterbacks and make those receivers timid to go across the middle.
In the days of the transfer portal and the quick fix at certain positions, linebackers tend to be homegrown in the Big Ten, at least this season of the expanded league. Here are some of the best linebackers that you should know that will be roaming around the field going into the 2024 season.
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