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Topic: B1G power rankings, week 11
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medinabuckeye1 · « **Reply #14 on:** November 14, 2018, 10:42:08 AM »

For some reason this year this seems to be getting harder rather than easier each week.

Michigan: This one is easy.
Ohio State: This one is too. There is an argument for Northwestern but only if you completely ignore their OOC and then treat the squeaker over RU as a fluke.
Northwestern: I wanted to rank them lower but I just can't justify it . . . yet.
Michigan State: My decision here was between MSU and PSU. MSU won the H2H and looked better against two of the three common opponents so I went with MSU.
Penn State: Those back-to-back home losses to the Buckeyes and Spartans really sting. Even winning just one of those the Nittany Lions would likely finish the year 10-2, easily in the top-10 and headed for a NY6 bowl.
Purdue: I am the highest vote for Purdue and it is not because they beat my team. I also realize that the Boilermakers just got blown out by Minnesota. There are a few reasons for this. First, I'm basically ignoring PU's big win over tOSU and PU's big loss to MN. I just don't know how else to handle that. Neither result makes much sense and they basically offset so I'm just ignoring them. Second, I have Iowa lower than most of you (see below). Third, I just don't think UW looks very good right now.
Wisconsin: What could have been . . .
Iowa: Most of you have Iowa higher. Only @FearlessF , @ELA , and I have them this low. By eye test they look better but the problem is that they have played four competent B1G teams (NU, PU, PSU, UW) and they went 0-4. I know that the losses were close but they went 0-4. I can't prop them up on eye-test.
Nebraska: There is a lot of recency bias in this ranking. Based on their whole season the Cornhuskers do not deserve to be ranked anywhere near this high. They started out looking terrible and 0-5. Since then then are 3-2 with close losses to the teams that I have ranked #2 and #3 along with blowout wins over #11 and #13.
Indiana: My theory here is that the Hoosiers looked better against the top of the league than the rest of the bottom teams.
Minnesota: Yes, I know they just blew out my #6, but they also recently got blown out by my #13.
Maryland: I put the Terps this low because this is a power ranking and they just lost their QB.
Illinois: Another weird one. In their last two games the Illini blew out Minnesota and got blown out by #9 Nebraska.
Rutgers: This one is easy.

medinabuckeye1 · « **Reply #15 on:** November 14, 2018, 12:42:28 PM »

Results posted, votes through me (10 voters).
Movement this week:

Northwestern was up one, passing MSU
Michigan State was down one, passed by NU
Penn State was up one, passing Purdue
Iowa was up two, passing UW and PU
UW was even but passed PU and got passed by Iowa
Purdue was down three, passed by PSU, IA and UW
Minnesota was up two, passing IU and IL
IU was even but passed IL and got passed by MN
Illinois was down two, passed by IU and MN

Non-contiguous votes:

Fearless, ELA, and I voted Iowa #8, everybody else had them #5 or #6
LittlePig, Anon, ELA, and I voted Maryland #12, everybody else had them #9 or #10
LittlePig voted Illinois #11, everybody else had them #13

Looking ahead to this weekend all 14 teams have B1G games this weekend but the matchups are not terribly intriguing at least by Power Ranking:

#12 Indiana at #1 Michigan
#2 Ohio State at #10 Maryland
#3 Northwestern at #11 Minnesota
#4 Michigan State at #9 Nebraska
#5 Penn State at #14 Rutgers
#6 Iowa at #13 Illinois
#7 Wisconsin at #8 Purdue

With the exception of UW/PU the teams playing are all at least five spots apart in the rankings. In addition to that one I also find MSU@UNL interesting to see if UNL's improvement is enough and NU@MN because NU has shown themselves capable of REALLY bad performances so you never know.

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