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The Power Five => Big Ten => Topic started by: medinabuckeye1 on September 06, 2023, 10:57:01 AM
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1. Penn State
2. Michigan State
3. Ohio State
4. Wisconsin
5. Iowa
6. Minnesota
7. Illinois
8. Nebraska
9. Maryland
10. Michigan State
11. Purdue
12. Rutgers
13. Indiana
14. Northwestern
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1. Michigan - see no reason to move them off #1. yet.
2. Penn State - made a climb to #2 with the impressive debut of Allar at QB.
3. Ohio State - for the first time in a long time, they do not have the best QB in the B1G.
4. Wisconsin - still working out passing new QB kinks, run game is impressive.
5. Iowa - still need a lot more from the offense, defense is legit.
6. Maryland - here by default.
7. Minnesota - here by default.
8. Michigan State - first half was bad. second half much better.
9. Illinois - could make a case for being lower after that display vs Toledo.
10. Nebraska - offense is pretty bad. defense looks improved though.
11. Rutgers - at least they aren't the worst team in the league this year!
12. Purdue - Card looks good, defense looks bad.
13. Indiana - they stink.
14. Northwestern - stick a fork in them.
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1. Michigan
2. Penn State
3. Ohio State
4. Illinois
5. Iowa
6. Wisconsin
7. Purdue
8. Minnesota
9. Nebraska
10. Maryland
11. Michigan State
12. Rutgers
13. Indiana
14. Northwestern
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- Penn State - Looked very good on both sides of the ball. Let's see if this continues.
- Michigan - Hard to glean much from a game against ECU, but the defense looked good and the offense looked competent.
- Ohio State - The defense looks like they are not missing assignments like they did last year. The offense had problems running the ball. I suspect that the O-Line will be an area of focus in practice this week.
- Wisconsin - The Fighting Fickells looked good in his debut.
- Iowa - Same as usual, great defense and questionable offense. A play in the first half stands out to me. Iowa ran a screen to the left. Two O lineman ran right by the safety that ended up making the tackle. That epitomizes the Iowa offense.
- Michigan State - They did what they had to do with a directional Michigan school. Didn't watch, so this is simply a guess.
- Maryland - Ditto
- Minnesota - Hard to rank them much higher than Nebraska, but they did win.
- Nebraska - Played a hard fought conference game. They showed some promise.
- Rutgers - Looked good against a conference opponent.
- Indiana - Either their defense played well, or the tOSU offense is just not were it needs to be. The offense couldn't get out of its own way.
- Illinois - Played a good MAC team and almost lost. Hard to rank them any higher right now.
- Purdue - Pulled defeat from the jaws of victory.
- Northwestern - Rock meet bottom.
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1. Michigan
2. Penn State
3. Ohio State
4. Wisconsin
5. Maryland
6. Iowa
7. Illinois
8. Minnesota
9. Nebraska
10. Michigan State
11. Purdue
12. Rutgers
13. Indiana
14. Northwestern
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2. Penn State
3. Ohio State
4. Wisconsin
5. Maryland
6. Iowa
7. Illinois
8. Minnesota
9. Nebraska
10. Michigan State
11. Purdue
12. Rutgers
13. Indiana
14. Northwestern
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1. Penn State
2. Michigan
3. Ohio State
4. Wisconsin
5. Iowa
6. Michigan St
7. Illinois
8. Minnesota
9. Maryland
10. Nebraska
11. Purdue
12. Rutgers
13. Indiana
14. Northwestern
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Last week in parenthesis
- MICHIGAN (1) - not overly impressive, but no reason to change
- OHIO STATE (2) - not overly impressive, but no reason to change
- PENN STATE (3) - if Michigan and Ohio State look the same, I'll probably move them up to #1
- WISCONSIN (4) - not overly impressive, but no reason to change
- IOWA (5) - not overly impressive, but no reason to change
- MARYLAND (7) - just jumped Minnesota by default
- MINNESOTA (6) - their bad quarterback was slightly better than Nebraska's bad quarterback
- MICHIGAN STATE (9) - much more convincing MAC win than Illinois'
- ILLINOIS (8) - much less convincing MAC win than Michigan State's
- PURDUE (9) - thought I'd drop them for a Group of 5 loss, but what did anyone behind them do?
- RUTGERS (13) - although a lot of teams might look like that against Northwestern
- INDIANA (12) - no offense, but looked competent on defense against what tends to be the conference's best offense
- NEBRASKA (11) - couple of minutes away from looking to be 4-0 going into the UM game. Choked again, and Colorado looks solid
- NORTHWESTERN (14) - even worse than I expected, and now a home underdog to UTEP
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what'd this list look like if we added USC, UCLA, Oregon, and Washington. Anyone wanna give it a shot?
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what'd this list look like if we added USC, UCLA, Oregon, and Washington. Anyone wanna give it a shot?
Dood... It's hard enough to do 14. 18 makes my head hurt.
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what'd this list look like if we added USC, UCLA, Oregon, and Washington. Anyone wanna give it a shot?
I'd put Washington probably in that top group. USC and Oregon would be 5 and 6. UCLA would probably be right behind Wisconsin
I don't think anyone has a tougher hardest 4 games than MSU with Michigan, OSU, PSU and Washington this year. Indiana probably should have just made DeBoer the HC back in 2019
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Massey composite rankings - 41 rankings (last week in parenthesis)
- Georgia (1)
- Alabama (4)
- MICHIGAN (3)
- OHIO STATE (2)
- PENN STATE (5)
- Tennessee (6)
- Florida State (13)
- Utah (10)
- USC (11)
- Washington (17)
- Notre Dame (14)
- Oregon (12)
- Texas (9)
- Kansas State (15)
- Oregon State (18)
- LSU (7)
- Ole Miss (19)
- Oklahoma (20)
- Mississippi State (21)
- Clemson (8)
- WISCONSIN (23)
- Tulane (-)
- North Carolina (-)
- Duke (-)
- UCLA (-)
- 26. Minnesota (25)
- 27. Iowa (22)
- 36. Illinois (37)
- 38. Maryland (41)
- 46. Michigan State (55)
- 64. Purdue (52)
- 68. Nebraska (68)
- 82. Rutgers (98)
- 83. Indiana (82)
- 114. Northwestern (102)
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1) Michigan: until someone says otherwise.
2) Ohio State: because.
3) Penn State: anyone else stepping up? No. Ok then.
4) Iowa: but only because I don't like people calling me a homer. And Iowa is going to Iowa.
5) Wisconsin: work to do if the Badgers are going to live up to expectations surrounding the new coach.
6) Michigan State: did what is expected for this kind of game.
7) Maryland: see MSU, above.
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Um...
8) Minnesota: a win's a win? And I don't believe in Rutgers.
9) Illinios: I mean, I guess a win's a win? And I don't believe in Rutgers.
10) Indiana: because they scored three against Ohio State?
11) Nebraska: maybe a little better than expected. And I don't believe in Rutgers.
12) Rutgers: I mean, I really don't believe in Rutgers, but I can't really put them any lower.
13) Purdue: really sucks to pay a team over a million dollars to come to your house and beat you. Fresno State has had some moments, to be sure...and this is one of them.
14) Northwestern: ouch.
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1. Michigan (Defending champs)
2. Penn State (Played very well, and moved up two spots)
3. Wisconsin (Best rushing raid attack in college football)
4. Ohio State (Mysteriously struggled on offense; defense is their game)
5. Iowa (Excellent on defense, Excellent on special teams, Modest improvement on offense, QB injury situation-tenuous)
6. Maryland (Looked good)
7. Minnesota (A win is a win over a fellow Big Ten team)
8. Michigan State
9. Illinois (Lucky as a lark)
10. Nebraska (Looked good defensively - if the defense holds up this week, watch out - it won't)
11. Purdue (11 and 12 are just about interchangeable)
12. Rutgers
13. Indiana
14. Northwestern
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Just for the fun of it, I am going to way over-react to week 1 results
1. Penn St
2. Ohio St
3. Mich
3.1 USC
3.2.Wash
3.3. Ore
3.4 UCLA
4. Rut
5. Minn
6. Neb
7. Mich St
8. Wisc
9. MD
10. Iowa
11. Ind
12. ILL
13. NW
14. Pur
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1 Michigan
2 PSU
3 Iowa
4 OSU
5 Wisconsin
6 Minnesota
7 MSU
8 Indiana
9 Nebraska
10 Maryland
11 Illinois
12 Rutgers
13 Purdue
14NWestern
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1 Michigan
2 Penn State
3 Ohio State
4 Minnesota
5 Wisconsin
6 Illinois
7 Nebraska
8 Iowa
9 Maryland
10 Michigan State
11 Purdue
12 Rutgers
13 Indiana
14 Northwestern
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- Penn State
- Ohio State
- Michigan
- Wisconsin
- Iowa
- Minnesota
- Maryland
- Michigan State
- Illinois
- Nebraska
- Indiana
- Purdue
- Rutgers
- Northwestern
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add TX and OU to the SEC this year. add the 4 PAC teams to the B1G this year.
which conference would be the best? I think it'd be the B1G. obviously this is a stupid hypothetical and this isn't going to happen til next year and that's gonna change cause lots of these starting QBs on these B1G/PAC teams will be gone next year- but if these moves had been pulled off just a year earlier- B1G woulda be insane this year.
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TEX, OK, USC, Wash, Ore all ranked in top 25. UCLA just on the outside at #27
Big Ten would have 7 teams in top 25, plus 2 more at #26 and #27
SEC would have 8 team in top 25.
,But Big Ten VS. SEC has the same perception problem Big Ten West VS. Big Ten East does. They never win the championship game.
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- Michigan: Running game not looking as ferocious as last year, but still very solid, and McCarthy is an ace. Defense still quite good.
- Penn State: Allar looked really strong, which was their biggest question mark.
- Ohio State: Running game and oline was in fits and starts. QB looked good, defense looked good. 2021 but with a defense?
- Wisconsin: Kind of by default, but running game is still on point.
- Iowa: They play defense, which is more than you can say about some teams.
- Maryland: Hard to trust this team, but they have some guys.
- Illinois: I guess? Toledo isn't garbage.
- Michigan State: Honestly, a pretty good win considering what everyone else did.
- Minnesota: Lowkey team chaos, hard to say what you are getting week in and week out.
- Nebraska: Playing some sound defense at least.
- Indiana: Think their offense is DOA, but they looked spry defensively.
- Rutgers: Hey, tied for first place.
- Purdue: No idea what they are right now. Glad to see them competitive with so much turnover.
- Northwestern: Crashing through the bottom at light speed.