If you could go to a Big Ten football game every day a game is played this season ...

Let's say you really loved Big Ten football. I know many of you do.

Let's say you had unlimited leisure time and money. I know many of you ... love Big Ten football.

Here are the games I would attend this season if I had the money, time and inclination.

Sept. 1:  UNLV at Wisconsin.  This Thursday night game gets the party started. It should be a Badger bash.

Sept. 2: Youngstown State at Michigan State. Horrible matchup, but it's on the schedule for a Friday night.

Sept. 3: Northwestern at Boston College. The pickings are slim on this day, as the Big Ten schedule tells us. But this is a real good road test for Northwestern.

Runner-up: Minnesota at USC.

Sept. 10: Alabama at Penn State. Can the Nittany Lions avenge their loss at Tuscaloosa last September?

Runner-up: Notre Dame at Michigan.

Sept. 17: Michigan State at Notre Dame. We'll see how ready the Spartans are to make another run at an 11-1 regular-season in a hurry.

Runners-up: Ohio State at Miami, Pittsburgh at Iowa, Washington at Nebraska, Arizona State at Illinois. It's a strong day for Big Ten games.

Sept. 24: Indiana at North Texas. This isn't a joke. I'd pick this to go to a different territory, see Dan McCarney's first North Texas team, and because there's nothing else out there. Louisiana-Monroe-Iowa? South Dakota-Wisconsin? Colorado-Ohio State has no appeal to me.

Runner-up: North Dakota State-Minnesota. NDSU beat the Gophers when last they met, 2007.

Oct. 1: Nebraska at Wisconsin. Prime-time. Madison. Nebraska's Big Ten debut. Yowsah. Reportedly, Wisconsin Athletic Director Barry Alvarez wants to put up a video screen inside ancient Wisconsin Field House, which is attached to Camp Randall Stadium, and sell tickets for Badgers fans to watch the football game there.

“People who can't get tickets could still get the experience,” Alvarez said in this Omaha World-Herald story. “They could tailgate and then enter the Field House. You would hear the crowd noise. You're right there.”

Runner-up: Michigan State at Ohio State.

Oct. 8: Ohio State at Nebraska. Need I explain?

Runner-up: Iowa-Penn State.

Oct. 15: Michigan at Michigan State.

Runner-up: Northwestern at Iowa, in prime-time.

Oct. 22: Wisconsin at Michigan State.

Runner-up: Penn State at Nebraska.

Oct. 29: Wisconsin at Ohio State.

Runner-up: Michigan State at Nebraska.

Nov. 5: Michigan at Iowa. These two usually combine to produce interesting games.

Runner-up: Nothing else appeals. Look at the schedule and see if you disagree.

Nov. 12: Nebraska at Penn State. These two great conference rivals that are a mere 1,076 miles apart.

Runner-up: Michigan State-Iowa.

Nov. 19: Penn State-Ohio State.

Runners-up: Nebraska-Michigan, Wisconsin-Illinois.

Nov. 25: Iowa-Nebraska. A Friday free-for-all.

Nov. 26: Ohio State-Michigan

Runner-up: Penn State-Wisconsin

Dec. 2: Big Ten title game

Dec. 27: Little Caesars Pizza Bowl. That's it, we're out of money. Luckily, the rest of the bowls are televised.