To establish a solid coaching tree, you need to have incredible longevity in college football. While the Big Ten has certainly had their fair share of legendary coaches, the current landscape of coaches in the conference doesn’t have a ton of tenure. Coaches such as Dan Lanning, Lincoln Riley, Sherrone Moore and Ryan Day just haven’t been around long enough to establish deep coaching trees.

With that in mind, which active Big Ten football coaches do have the best coaching trees?

Honorable Mention: Luke Fickell (Wisconsin)

Fickell really only has one name in his coaching tree and it’s tangential at best: New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel. Fickell and Vrabel played with each other back in the day at Ohio State before entering coaching. They also coached on the same Buckeye s

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