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I'd say SEC, then Big 12, Pac12, then B1G.
B1G looks abysmal after last year's showing.

I still think the B1G has potential to end up as the second-best conference, but it will need to have another strong postseason showing.
If the B1G is going to have anyone in the playoffs, barring some chaos, they'll probably need an undefeated champ, preferably Ohio State or Penn State.  The SEC looks to be in position to put in 2 again, unless they eat each other up, but Bama and UGA are so far ahead of the rest of their respective divisions it's tough to see either one losing prior to the SECCG, and even the loser has a realistic chance of making the playoffs because a 13-1 SEC runner-up would probably get in over a 13-1 PAC champ, for example.

I still think the B1G has potential to end up as the second-best conference, but it will need to have another strong postseason showing.
If the B1G is going to have anyone in the playoffs, barring some chaos, they'll probably need an undefeated champ, preferably Ohio State or Penn State.  The SEC looks to be in position to put in 2 again, unless they eat each other up, but Bama and UGA are so far ahead of the rest of their respective divisions it's tough to see either one losing prior to the SECCG, and even the loser has a realistic chance of making the playoffs because a 13-1 SEC runner-up would probably get in over a 13-1 PAC champ, for example.

maybe, but i doubt it.
but i do think sec is looking decent for 2 in, because it's looking to me like at least 2 p5 conf will have multi-loss conf champs. won't be surprised to see a 2 loss pac12/b1g/acc champ.

Maybe.

Possibly.

I thought Purdue might be decent, and perhaps they are?

Early in the year, but many OOC games are done.

BIG has a lot of young QB's... and it's showing

Maybe on the bottom end, but we spent the whole offseason discussing how the state of QBs in the conference had maybe never been stronger.
McSorley, Lewerke, Patterson, Stanley, Hornibrook, Thorson, Blough.  Plus the general optimism surrounding a couple of the new guys in Haskins and Hill.
Yeah the bottom was young at QB, but I think that's true across the board.  But on the whole, I think the conference had to feel better about QB talent/experience than in a long time.  Maybe go back to the early 2000s when you had Brees, Brady/Henson, Smoker, Bollinger, Kittner, Randle-El, Kustok.  That's probably the last group on paper I'd put above these guys.
I think the issue is that the Big Ten was riding high off of last bowl season.  Bowl season you are just judged on the top half of your conference.  Last year there was a clear upper and lower Big Ten.  Purdue was the only middling team last year.  Then the bottom half, which was awful, all stayed home.  Then a few things necessary towards a good bowl season broke the Big Ten's way.  They didn't get a CFP team, meaning everyone sort of "moved up a slot" from the previous few years.  Then you had a couple borderline teams in Indiana and Minnesota not pick up that 6th win, and there were enough bowl eligible teams that they weren't selected at 5-7.  I think one year we had two 5-7 teams selected.  So you slide everyone down a slot, leave Indiana/Minnesota home, and forget the bottom half of the conference exists.  Poof!  Good bowl season.
As bad as Saturday was, eh, Wisconsin was upset.  Aside from that, we just had a bunch of teams from the bottom half of the conference picking up REALLY bad losses.  Conferences aren't judged on how bad your bad teams are when they look at bowl performance.

That is a tough way to be 0-3.  I wouldn’t throw Purdue’s season out the window yet.

Window is really narrow now.  Boston College looks really good.  Probably a must win for them.  I think they could wind up being the best 4-8 or 5-7 team in the country, simply because of who they still have left.

The shine has definitely worn off on Wisconsin, M*ch, and MSU. 3 of our preseason top 5 have a loss already.