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What does everybody think?

Seein' is believen'  and I believe its time to throw out pre-season expectations and let the results from this year's conference games speak for themselves.   Time to admit maybe some teams are actually pretty good and some are not good at all.  My rankings are in a post below.

The elite teams
1.  Ohio St -  has dominated every game. 
2.  Indiana -  has 2 impressive road wins at Iowa and Oregon and total crushing of ILL at home.

Still in contention
3.  USC - looks unbeatable at home. 
4.  Oregon -  loss at home to Ind but has 2 road wins at PSU and NW
5.  Iowa - 2 road wins at Rutgers and Wisc and close loss at home to Ind
6.  Illinois - lost to Ind and Ohio St and beat USC
7. Michigan -  dominated by USC on the road
8.  Washington -  beat MD and Rut
9.  Nebraska -  beat MD and MSU

Playing for a good bowl game
10.  Maryland - lost 2 very winnable games at home to Wash and Neb
11.  Northwestern -  beat PSU and UCLA
12.  UCLA - beat PSU and MSU
13.  Penn St - lost to UCLA and NW and lost their QB for the year.  The wheels have fallen off.
14.  Minnesota -  Has close wins over Purdue and Rutgers at home

Time to think about next year
15.  Rutgers - lost 3 close games, once at home and twice on road
16.  Purdue -  almost pulled out a win at Minn but has 2 losses at home by 16 points each. 
17.  Mich St -  lost at home to UCLA by 25 points!
18.  Wisconsin -  Let's admit it.  Wisc has bottomed out.  2 big losses at home to MD and Iowa. 

I think uke ickell has more gas cans to throw on the fire.

Your rankings match mine, except I'm putting UNL at 6 and Michigan at 9.

6. UNL
7. IL
8. Wash
9. UM

Hmmm...

Didn't Michigan win @Nebraska?

I'm going on what I see recently. Michigan actually looked like garbage yesterday, and before that they looked mortal at home against the worst team in the league.

Biff Pudgy > Sharon Moore

1)Hoosiers - I've Had the Ducks here and IU just changed all of that. Beating Ore with both offense & defense delivering in the effort
2)tOSU - playing well not GREAT has beat a Texas team that seems to be on the mend.Defense played well vs the Illini recovering 2 fumbles and and Int.
3)Ducks - tough loss at home vs a solid Hoosier team
4)USC - clawing back into the picture,both the O & D very good games. And 2 starting O-lineman out in a 31-13 victory over No. 15 Michigan
5)Huskies -  Huskies QB Demond Williams Jr. threw for 402 yards and two touchdowns & ran for 136 yards to lead the Huskies to a 38-19 over Rutgers
6)Mishygan - presently the best of the rest after USC ran for 224 yards and passed for 265 more.
7)'Skers - beat a pesky Terps team and is 5-1 with the Goophs on deck
8)illini - tough loss at home to a solid Buckeye team
9)Iowa - went into Camp Randall and clobbered the spiraling job Luke Fickell is doing
10)Gophs - 4-2 record same as the terps
11)Terps - have lost 2 in a row
12) UCLA 38-13 win at Michigan State and 2nd straight win
13)Northwestern 22-21 win at Penn State
14)Nittany Lions - PSU has of $$$ locked up on coaches that just aren't getting it done
15)Purdue 27-20 loss at Minnesota
16)Rutgers 38-19 loss at Washington
17)Michigan St - spiraling,38-13 loss vs. UCLA
18)Wisconsin - Fickell beyond dismal fans deserve much better,he should hand some $$$ back out of common courtesy

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This crossed my mind as well. The key comparison is both Ohio St and Indiana have played Illinois.  But I give credit to Ohio St for beating Illinois on the road while Indy's big win against ILL was at home.  In the end both teams had dominant wins over Illinois.  Something USC can't say.  So I think we need to dig deeper.

Indiana winning at Oregon is big, I agree.  Throw in  Indiana's win at pesky Iowa,  it is a strong argument for Indiana to be #1.  I need to give this some more thought.