... over the past few years, few have ever questioned the conference's linebacker strength, as its top teams, Ohio State, Penn State, Iowa, and Wisconsin, routinely develop the best linebackers in the country.

But this year, the Big Ten is looking at a very different scenario. While most of the conference should be strong, the linebackers will be relatively unproven after the graduations of 2009's top linebackers, Iowa's Pat Angerer and AJ Edds and Penn State's Navorro Bowman and Sean Lee.

This year's group will be full of relative newcomers, as loads of talent have left and traditional power "Linebacker U" doesn't even have single player ranked in the top 10 (granted, Penn State linebacker Bani Gbanyu would have been ranked No. 11).<...

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