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Nebraska stands out glaringly here as the team doing the least with the most.

Wisconsin has 2 5* players buried on the bench. Both are OL.

Comparing #1 vs #1, #2 vs #2 etc (regular season only, does not include CG's) 2014-2022 so far:

• tOSU is 4.5 games ahead of Iowa: 18-2 vs 14-7
• M is 3 games ahead of UW: 16-5 vs 13-8
• PSU is 5.5 games ahead of UNL: 15-8 vs 10-12
• MSU and NU are tied: 10-11
• IU and MN are tied: 9-12
• IL is 0.5 games ahead of UMD: 8-14 vs 7-14
• PU is 2.5 games ahead of RU: 6-15 vs 4-18

Records in cross-divisonal games, 2014-2021:

• .920, Ohio State, 23-2, 5-0 in CG's
• .773, Michigan, 17-5, 1-0 in CG
• .652, Penn State, 15-8, 1-0 in CG
• .609, Iowa, 14-9, 0-2 in CG's
• .520, Wisconsin, 13-12, 0-4 in CG's
• .500, Michigan State, 11-11, 1-0 in CG
• .455, Nebraska, 10-12
• .435, Northwestern, 10-13, 0-2 in CG's
• .429, Minnesota, 9-12
• .400, Indiana, 8-12
• .381, Illinois, 8-13
• .333, Maryland, 7-14
• .300, Purdue, 6-14
• .182, Rutgers, 4-18

At first I was like, hey how come some teams have 25 games and some only have 21 games.  Then I was like, oh yeah the pandemic.

Its amazing Nebraska's record is halfway decent when you consider they had to play OSU every year.

On the flip side, it helps that Iowa has only  played OSU twice since 2014 and actually won once.

Edit: actually Iowa has only played OSU once since 2014 and actually won the last time they played in 2017.  The last time Iowa lost to OSU was 2013.

And CCG's.

Oh, if it includes CCG that explains why Wiscy's record is so much worse than you expect.  At least since 2014 anyway.

bummer, Dude

sounds like the Huskers since 1999

Oh, if it includes CCG that explains why Wiscy's record is so much worse than you expect.  At least since 2014 anyway.

The above is for the E-W era only so 2014-2021 and does include CG's. Here it is with CG's excluded and this year's games so far included:

• .900 tOSU, 18-2
• .762 M, 16-5
• .667 Iowa, 14-7
• .652 PSU, 15-8
• .619 UW, 13-8
• .476 MSU, 10-11
• .476 NU 10-11
• .455 UNL 10-12
• .429 IU, 9-12
• .429 MN, 9-12
• .364 IL, 8-14
• .333 UMD, 7-14
• .286 PU, 6-15
• .182 RU, 4-18

Iowa is surprisingly good but part of that is generally avoiding tOSU as compared to UW and then of course beating the Buckeyes once.

Purdue and Indiana are somewhat artificially inflated by playing each other every year and thus avoiding better teams from the other division.

We've had two (PSU>PU and IU>IL). Here are all the inter-divisonal games this year:

• PSU 35, PU 31 at PU
• IU 23, IL 20 at IU
• E leads 2-0
• UW at tOSU, 9/24
• MN at MSU, 9/24
• IA at RU, 9/24
• M at IA, 10/1
• IU at UNL, 10/1
• NU at PSU, 10/1
• UNL at RU, 10/7
• PU at UMD, 10/8
• UW at MSU, 10/15
• IA at tOSU, 10/22
• NU at UMD, 10/22
• MN at PSU, 10/22
• RU at MN, 10/29
• tOSU at NU, 11/5
• MSU at IL, 11/5
• UMD at UW, 11/5
• UNL at M, 11/12
• IL at M, 11/19
• PU at IU, 11/26
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