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Head to head?

Not if they played today.

(See how that works!  )

So who faffed their season up the most Minnestoa/Iowa or the Illini? It's like they all want to go home or are in the Holiday Spirit of Giving.Certainly makes for an intersting end

I know that 9-6 Illinois-Iowa game was the classic give-away game.  Illinois kept trying to give the game away and Iowa kept giving it right back.

1) Michigan - Clean win
2) Ohio State - More injuries in the running game, but an easy win
3) Penn State - Absolutely mowing down the teams they should beat

Big Drop

4) Iowa - Getting things done w/ defense and special teams.  Offense is at least not turning it over
5) Illinois - Back to back tough results.
6) Wisconsin - Disappointing result.
7) Purdue - Nice win on the road.  They have a path to the West title.
8) Minnesota - Beats up the bad teams, but no great wins yet.  
9) Maryland - No pulse against Penn State
10) Michigan State - On the way to a bowl
11) Rutgers - Hung around
12) Nebraska - Fairly lifeless with the Smothers in there at QB
13) Indiana - Couldn't stop anything and over half of their drives were 3 and outs.
14) Northwestern - Not as pretty when the weather is better

well, w/o Casey Thompson, Rutgers might be able to win vs the Huskers

Last week in parentheses, I have no clue at #4-#10

• MICHIGAN (1) - easy win
• OHIO STATE (2) - easy win
• PENN STATE (3) - easy win
• ILLINOIS (4) - really figured they'd be 9-1 going to Ann Arbor, not 7-3 without their best player
• IOWA (7) - assumed the CCG hopes had sailed, and then everything broke right
• MINNESOTA (8) - likely going to need SOME passing attack to beat Iowa and Wisconsin
• PURDUE (10) - looks like Aidan O'Connell read my post from last week
• MARYLAND (6) - so much for showing fight in a rivalry game
• MICHIGAN STATE (9) - defense showed they probably need to suspended/injured players back
• WISCONSIN (5) - maybe head coach doesn't really matter this year, it's just a mediocre roster
• NEBRASKA (11) - probably not worth bringing Casey Thompson back for that
• RUTGERS (12) - at least they got the back door cover, but 6 wins looks out now
• NORTHWESTERN (13) - using 4 quarterbacks in a loss is never a good sign
• INDIANA (14) - all that's left is to play spoiler in a couple trophy games

A thought occurred to me today.  What if ILL loses to Mich and Iowa wins out and wins the West division again?

Who is Big Ten Coach of the Year?  Bret Beliema seemed like a lock before they fell apart.  I guess you could give it to Harbaugh or Day,  but they were expected to win.  It would be hard to give it to Kirk Ferentz given the whole fiasco with his son coaching one of the worst offenses ever for a division winner.

But could they possibly give the award to Iowa defensive coordinater Phil Parker?  Is that even allowed?  Can you vote for an assistant coach for the COTY?

TCU should be in the top 4.  Tennessee should be no where, they're not even their SEC division champ.