Only one player in college football has two kickoff-return touchdowns through the first two weeks of the season. Only one player in college football has two punt-return touchdowns through the first two weeks of the season.
Those two players both play in the Big Ten.
Yes, through the season's first two games, the conference boasts college football's best kick returner and college football's best punt returner.
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Maryland's Will Likely is no surprise, coming into the season expected to be one of the nation's finest return men. He's already racked up 315 punt-return yards and a punt-return touchdown in each of Maryland's first two games. That ridiculous punt-return yardage total is a full 166 more than the country's next-best guy. Likely broke a 70-something-year-old record with his 233 punt-return yards in Week 1.
Here's his return TD from Saturday's loss to Bowling Green.
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But the Big Ten is dominating the kickoff-return game right now, too. Rutgers' Janarion Grant is the only player in the country with a pair of kickoff-return touchdowns, both taken to the house during the fourth quarter of Saturday's loss to Washington State. Grant has a total of 312 kickoff-return yards on just nine attempts. His two touchdowns Saturday went for a combined 155 yards, the second giving Rutgers a four-point lead with a minute and a half remaining.
Grant had a mind-blowing 337 all-purpose yards in that game.
It's only been a couple weeks, but Likely and Grant could make this the year of the return man in the Big Ten.