Bye Week Tradition: 2027 Depth Chart

I've done this each of the last 17 years. Well, maybe not during the Covid season but now that I'm typing THOSE words, maybe I did take the canceled Ohio State game that year (Ohio State had too many positive Covid tests and they needed the whole team to go into isolation because the Big Ten was going to change the rules and allow a team with fewer games to reach the Big Ten title game – which totally screwed Indiana – so Ohio State forfeited the game against us and against Michigan so they could quarantine the entire team and then get healthy enough to play in the Big Ten Championship Game even though Indiana had a better Big Ten East record) and treat it like a bye week. Let me go look it up.

Well would you look at that. I did. Let me start again. With confidence.

I've done this each of the last 17 years. During the bye week, I look at the depth chart for the next season. And that exercise has changed a ton over the last 17 years. Let's go back to the first look-ahead depth chart I ever published on the old blog (summer of 2010):