Jim Harbaugh Arrival Could Cement Revival Of The Big Ten

There was a time when the Big Ten conference was the best in college football, even more so than the mighty SEC.  Yet over the past decade it has fallen on hard times, going through a series of mediocre seasons from its best programs, leading some to believe if it would ever break out and return to its former status among the best.

The coming of Jim Harbaugh may be the final piece to the puzzle.

Truly the revival has already been underway with Urban Meyer gaining control of the reins at Ohio State along with the rise of Michigan State and Wisconsin and legitimate powers.  However, getting Harbaugh to awaken the sleeping giant that is the Michigan Wolverines would kick the engine into overdrive.

Few coaches in all of football are better at turning teams around than him.  He transformed San Diego State and Stanford into legitimate powers out west during his first college stint that included an Orange Bowl victory in 2010.  From there he went to San Francisco where he took a team that hadn’t made the playoffs in nine years to three-straight NFC championship games and a Super Bowl appearance.  There is no telling what he can accomplish once he gets a hold of the strong recruiting roots Ann Arbor has.

On top of that it almost certainly will make the fabled Michigan-Ohio State rivalry relevant again but more importantly put the Big Ten on the path to challenging the SEC, ACC and Pac-12 conferences for supremacy in college football.

It’s amazing how much impact one man could have.