How many times have you cycled through your favorite Big Ten team's schedule this offseason and circled the potential wins and losses?

By now, you've had the 12-game slate memorized for months in anticipation of the new season, where optimism springs eternal and everyone believes they'll be better than the experts think.

Not to be the bearer of bad news, but there's a chance the Big Ten will miss out on the Playoff for the third consecutive season thanks to the league's cannabilistic potential in the upper-tier, which speaks to the sheer quality of teams near the top.

Combing through every Big Ten team's 2019 schedule, here are our projected selections for the first loss of the season and when it'll happen: