1. Michigan - rounding into form on both sides of the ball. they may just have the best front 7 in CFB right now with the depth they have at DT, EDGE, and ILB + they also have the best CB in the entire sport in Will Johnson and a ridiculous safety room with the emergence of RS Frosh Keon Sabb + SS Makari Paige and the return of FS Rod Moore to health. They have 3 really good future NFL draft picks at safety right now, most college football teams don't even have 1.
2. Ohio State - McCord is growing up, OL needs to get better. D is salty.
3. Penn State - still not sure they are ready to usurp the Big 2. OL play meh and they lack ability to create explosive plays on offense and WR looks to be a concern. D is excellent.
these are the cream of the crop in the B1G, one for sure will win this conference and be a playoff team
BIG GAP between these 3 and rest of the league
4. Iowa
will be the sacrificial lamb from the West for slaughter in the B1G CCG. Little Gap between Iowa and the next tier
5. Wisconsin
6. Maryland
7. Rutgers
3 solid not great teams, will all go bowling
GAP
8. Purdue
9. Minnesota
10. Nebraska
11. Michigan State
12. Illinois
13. Indiana
14. Northwestern
these teams all go from kinda sucks to really really suck