1) Ohio State: until someone knocks them off or something really crazy happens.
2) Wisconsin: honestly, they sleep-walked through that game. Sure they won, but shouldn't they? And sure it wasn't ever in doubt, but would any other result be acceptable? If this is really a top-5 team, they need to look better next week. Looked like a glorified scrimmage to me.
3) Michigan State? Maybe? Yes, Utah State is probably better than we thing, but still...
4) Penn State: credit for eeking out the win and scoring in a hurry when they needed to. Lost a lot of credit for needing overtime.
5) Michigan: they lost on the road to the best team anyone in the conference played. They clawed back from a disastrous first half in which the perennially overrated Notre Dame offense carved up their "all-world" defense. (Did you spot the sarcasm in there?) They scored one offensive touchdown. Not impressive, but played a rivalry game on the road against a team with more than just a pulse. Color me unimpressed, but their defense is still good enough to make them better than teams that beat up on (or survived) powder puffs, Texas, and Purdue.
6) Iowa: because the only teams arguably with better results are Maryland and Northwestern, and one week isn't enough to move them up.
7) Northwestern: because Texas probably isn't that good.
8) Maryland: because Texas probably isn't that good.
9) Nebraska: new coach, new system, weather delay. Could really surprise us. Probably just mediocre, and still probably deserve to be (and will be) higher than this.
10) Minnesota: because a close loss hasn't convinced me that Purdue is that much better.
11) Purdue: because they performed better than I expected based on the last few years.
12-14) Illinois, Rutgers, Indiana (in no particular order): winning is better than losing.
