1) Ohio State: because Ohio State.
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Who the heck knows!?!
Feel like I have to work from the bottom on this:
14) Minnesota: lost to Maryland, and it turns out getting smoked by Michigan may have been worse than we thought.
13) Illinois: two games, two losses, and Purdue pretty well kicked it around, as did Wisconsin.
12) Rutgers: I know, it beat MSU, and Indiana is ranked and all, but one shouldn't get throttled by the Hooisers. It just isn't done.
11) Maryland: because if Minnesota is actually the worst team in the league, taking it to OT for the win doesn't move you up that far.
10) Nebraska: bye
9) Wisconsin: DQ'd, and with more than a quarter of the scholarship athletes (including all(?) of the quarterbacks) and half of the coaches quarantined, how can this team be ranked higher?
8) Iowa: I'm still not convinced Purdue is that good.
7) Michigan? This feels really, really off. But it doesn't look like Minnesota is any good, and last week MSU lost to Rutgers. Rutgers!! Rivalry, blah, blah, blah--this doesn't look good...or right.
6) Michigan State: beating Michigan can't erase losing to Rutgers.
5) Purdue: 2-0 is 2-0.
4) Northwestern: ditto, but is Iowa any good (pretty sure Maryland isn't)?
3) Indiana: 2-0 with one win that looks pretty good.
2) Penn State: at 0-2!?! That's insane. Yeah, but I though PSU was better than Indiana last week (in the sense of if they play each other ten times, I think PSU does better than breaking even), and losing to Ohio State in a somewhat competitive manner doesn't mean PSU sucks, it means OSU is better than everyone else, and not by just a little.
I feel like this is the 2020 of power rankings.