Not a great week for the Big Ten but it was not all bad. At least there was plenty of good games to over-react to this week.
Let's get to it.
1. Ohio St - OSU has shown it can totally dominate weak competion
2. USC - So far the most surprising team. Seems to have improved a lot from last season
3. Nebraska - Strong win against Colorado
4. Penn St - some weeks you dominate and some weeks you just survive. PSU survived.
5. Illinois - Big win over a ranked Kansas team
6. Oregon - struggling early but still winning
7. Michigan - laid an egg against Texas. Mich is clearly a work in progress but should get better
8. Rutgers - they just keep winning
9. Iowa - blows game in last minute to Iowa St. Iowa's attempts to fix its offense seems to be messing with it's ability to win close games.
10. Indiana - 2 big blowout wins against weak completion, but Wow! 77 points in its last game!
11. Purdue - took week 2 off but they got good test coming up against Notre Dame.
12. Washington - just not looking that great so far, but they are winning.
13. Wisconsin - just not looking very good in it's first 2 games, but winning.
14. NW - lost to Duke in OT.
15. Minnesota - this is probably unfairly low after almost beating UNC in week 1
16. Mich St - My prediction that MSU would get better later in the season actually came true in week 2.
17. MD - Last week I had MSU last and MD lost to MSU, so big drop for MD.
18. UCLA - did not play in week 2. Weak win over Hawaii in week 1. Somebody's got to be last