Purdue, I think we'll have to see. They have a few ok wins, and a lot of losses. I wonder if the monster win over Virginia can completely hide all of their warts...I think not right now. For now, I have them as a team full of potential that could rise to Tier 1 at some point, but because the middle part of the conference is so strong, they better get it together soon.
Their next few conference games:
MN
@ILL
@Mich
MSU
ILL
WIS
@Rutgers
I think a tier 2 team will just win the home and lose the road games, maybe drop the MSU game. Tier 1 probably only loses to Michigan and maybe one of the other two road games. Worse than 3-4 against that, we'll have to think about Tier 3.
They do get a slight breather against Northwestern after that, but then it's another full slate of live bodies to close out the Big Ten season. There are definitely no easy games this year, so it's gonna be a lot of fun.