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Another great week of games to over - react to.

1.  Ohio State - OC Chip Kelly was smart to get out of UCLA when he did

2.  USC -  victory over LSU looks less impressive now but it's still good enough to put USC #2

3.  Oregon - finally puts together an impressive win against Ore St after struggling in early games

4.  Nebraska - Defense is looking good

5.  Penn St - dominated WV but struggled against a MAC team.

6.  Indiana -  both offense and defense looking great under brand new coach

7.  Michigan -  this is not last year's Miichigan team

8.  Illinois - win over Kansas does not look as impressive now that Kansas lost to UNLV

9.  Rutgers - kind of a sleeper team.  the team I can never seem to remember when I do my power rankings.

10.  Iowa - gots some issues on offense, and surprisingly issues on defense and special teams to work out.

11. Mich St - I keeping moving MSU up after ranking them last in pre-season

12.  MD - bounces back with win against VA.

13.  Minnesota -  I keep saying I am ranking Minny too low yet I keep ranking them low

14. NW - not looking very good

15.  Wisconsin -  loss to Bama proves Wisc not ready to be one of the Big Boys

16.  Washington -  Wash St gets its revenge on big brother

17. UCLA - last week I had UCLA in last place but I am bumping them up only because I really like their cheerleaders

18.  Purdue - totally destroyed by Notre Dame

I like the huskers getting some top 6 respect

if they beat Illinois, I'll agree

a chance to announce they don't suck

not sure about being back
but a great step in the right direction

it's tough when you don't know the other team's play call

Glad to see that by this point preseason rankings aren’t giving teams like Wisconsin and Michigan much benefit-of-the-doubt.

Michigan and Wisconsin look like they’re headed for 6-6 seasons. And both face USC by the end of this month.

I think we'll learn a LOT about our league by watching USC the next four weeks.  They have what could be a brutal stretch coming up of:

• at #18 Michigan on Saturday
• vs Wisconsin on 9/28
• at Minnesota on 10/5
• vs #10 Penn State on 10/12

Preseason that was @#9, vsORV, @n/a, vs#8.  It looks a little more manageable now but still that is a rough group especially when factoring in all of the travel. 

Within this thread USC is ranked #2 by everyone except the one Buckeye-hating M fan who stuck them ahead of the Buckeyes probably out of spite.  Otherwise they are right behind the Buckeyes and not far ahead of the Ducks.  The interesting thing is that the Trojans play neither Ohio State nor Oregon in the regular season this year. 

If the Trojans beat Michigan they have a pretty clear path to the B1GCG most likely against the tOSU/Ore winner.  Even if they lose in Ann Arbor, they could still get there it just depends on winning out and how the tiebreakers work out for them.