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The Power Five => Big Ten => Topic started by: LittlePig on September 24, 2023, 08:54:28 AM
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Well, this was the week for any potential contenders that were going to challange the pre-season favorites to step up and prove they are for real and they mostly failed. Pre-season favorites PSU, Mich, OSU, Wisc are for real. Rutgers, Iowa, Purdue, Minn, Neb, ILL, MSU are not. Jury is still out on MD.
1. Penn St - dominated Iowa completely.
2. Ohio St - Maybe not their best effort against ND but got to give them credit for going on the road and grinding out a tough win against a top 10 team.
3. Mich - solid win against a decent Rutgers team
4. Wisc - Impressive dominating win against Purdue, and Wisc's early loss out west does not look as bad now.
5. MD - solid win against a MSU team in free fall right now.
Here is where it gets harder. Nobody except NW looked good in week 4.
6. Rutgers
7. Iowa
8. Purdue
9. NW. - still trying to process what to do with NW and Minn after NW''s 21-point comeback win against Minn. Do you write it off as a fluke? Time will tell I guess.
10. Minn
11. Neb
12. Ind
13. MSU
14. ILL
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NW looked good???
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NW looked good???
Well, by NW's standards anyway.
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1. Penn State
2. Ohio State
3. Michigan
4. Maryland
5. Wisconsin
6. Rutgers
7. Iowa
8. Minnesota
9. Purdue
10. Indiana
11. Nebraska
12. Illinois
13. Northwestern
14 Michigan State
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The Gophers better be dead last in all of your rankings.
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plenty of competition at the bottom
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The Gophers better be dead last in all of your rankings.
Hmm...
Then what do we do with Neb, which lost to Minn?
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Rutgers
Iowa
Minnesota
Purdue
Indiana
Nebraska
Illinois
Northwestern
Michigan State
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all bad teams that can be cornsidered for the bottom
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Hmm...
Then what do we do with Neb, which lost to Minn?
Next to last
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The Gophers better be dead last in all of your rankings.
could not agree more
you and I are closer than most so emotions come into it but Athan K is not the guy i hoped for before the year and it could be the new OC but he is not close to what he was last year. and the Tressel Ball just is not cutting it and you can only pound a RB into the ground so many times before you learn. they did it with Mo and now Taylor
so until proven otherwise
the gophers should take that bottom spot
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1. Michigan
2. Penn State
3. Ohio State
4. Wisconsin
5. Maryland
6. Iowa
7. Rutgers
8. Minnesota
9. Purdue
10. Indiana
11. Nebraska
12. Illinois
13. Northwestern
14 Michigan State
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1)UM solid enough
2)PSU good but vs Brian at Home
3)tOSU scrappy effort vs Top10 team plenty of weeks to move them up
4)UW
5)Terps
6)Rutgers
7)Minnesota
8)Iowa
9)Purdue
10)Hoosiers
11)'Skers
12)Illini
13)NU
14)MSU
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(https://i.imgur.com/IrUKQDi.png)
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MSU and Minnesota are both very bad, but putting them last, or second to last doesn't make any sense, and the computer rankings agree
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(https://i.imgur.com/10KKUz0.png)
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- Michigan: Pretty complete team, if untested.
- Penn State: Thoroughly whooped Iowa
- Ohio State: Hell of war with Notre Dame, need to sort out that short yardage game
- Wisconsin: Sort of rounding into form? They were dominant until they weren't, but still a good win
- Maryland: Wake me up when September Ends
- Illinois: I guess? I mean no shame in their losses
- Rutgers: No shame in losing at Michigan
- Michigan State: I'm stretching here, but they did outgain Maryland
- Northwestern: I guess I have to put them somewhere
- Minnesota: What a terrible loss
- Nebraska: No quarterback at all
- Purdue: Kind of a mess
- Indiana: Akron has one close win over Morgan State
- Iowa: The Turd of the Week. This is simply embarrassing. 78 yards and four first downs, and it isn't even an outlier.
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Northwestern: I guess I have to put them somewhere
Minnesota: What a terrible loss
Nebraska: No quarterback at all
Purdue: Kind of a mess
Indiana: Akron has one close win over Morgan State
Iowa: The Turd of the Week. This is simply embarrassing. 78 yards and four first downs, and it isn't even an outlier.
Turrible
all of them
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The Gophers better be dead last in all of your rankings.
Agreed it's greasy,strong and stringy but the Cook Book thread is pinned at the top of the page
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latest SP+ Week 4 rankings...
https://twitter.com/CFBRep/status/1706091902590697637?s=20
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not much after the big 3
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not much after the big 3
I'm counting Washington, Oregon, USC, and UCLA....damn we got a nasty big 6. Eat your heart out SEC! SEC! SEC!
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MSU and Minnesota are both very bad, but putting them last, or second to last doesn't make any sense, and the computer rankings agree
So of the 40 rankings so far entered into the Massey composite, the lowest MSU is, is #85 in Billingsley, above 3 Big Ten teams
Minnesota's worst is #77 in CQI, also ahead of three Big Ten team
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ahead of 3 big ten teams is nothing to be proud of, Rusty
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ahead of 3 big ten teams is nothing to be proud of, Rusty
No, all I've said is any ranking that puts them #13 or #14 is very reactionary compared to expectations. By the least favorable metrics, #11 is the floor
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1. Ohio State, most impressive win
2. Penn State, ditto, close second
3. Michigan, still dicking around with the OL
4. Wisconsin
5. Maryland
6. Illinois
7. Iowa
8. Rutgers
8. Purdue
10. Minnesota
11. Nebraska
12. Michigan State
13. Northwestern
14. Indiana
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- Penn State - At this moment, they are playing as well as anyone in the country. Shutting out Iowa is not all that impressive, but hanging 31 on them is a testament to how well their offense is running. Scary good team.
- Michigan - Took a quarter to wake up and remind Rutgers of their place.
- Ohio State - Defense is looking better every week. Offense did just enough to pull out the win. Need more consistency from the QB and O Line.
- Wisconsin - Looked good against Purdue as they should. Here because I don't see anyone else to put in front of them except for maybe . .
- Maryland - Could argue that they should be ranked ahead of Wis. Their offense is looking the part.
- Iowa - That was a beat down Sat.
- Rutgers - No shame is loosing to TTUN. After spending the past few years in or near the cellar, they have improved.
- Purdue - From here on down, it is simply a guess.
- Minnesota - I'm not going to react to one bad game. Let's see how the season plays out.
- Nebraska - Beat a team they should have.
- Illinois - Didn't watch, but at least they won.
- Indiana - 5 OT's to beat Akron does not look good.
- Michigan St. - Dropping like a rock.
- Northwestern - Big win for these kids. Hopefully they don't quit on the season.
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1. Ohio State (First time I'm ranking them as #1, based on resume alone)
2. Michigan (Harbaugh doing the same thing he did last season. He's playing super conservative and not showing his hand. He did this last year until the Penn State game and then unveiled basically an entire new playbook -- catching PSU by surprise. I still think this team is the best in the B1G)
3. Penn State - Still struggling to get big plays in the running game
4. Maryland - 4 B1G-E teams in the top 4?
5. Iowa - Man, If Penn State had their punter...
6. Wisconsin - Maybe this team isn't as bad as I thought they were.
7. Rutgers - Not sure if any team below them could have hung with Michigan as long as they did.
8. Illinois
Hell if I know where to go from here...
9. Indiana
10. Purdue
11. Nebraska
12. Michigan State
13. Northwestern
14. Minnesota
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There are a couple games coming up this week that will help sort out the bottom rankings
Illinois-Purdue
MSU-Iowa
If anybody can dominate in their victory, it will help separate them from the pack. On the other hand, whoever gets dominated could sink all the way to the bottom.
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Last week in parenthesis
- PENN STATE (1) - continues to impress
- OHIO STATE (3) - best win any team has had this season
- MICHIGAN (2) - only because they haven't had an opportunity impress, and won't for some time
- MARYLAND (5) - with one September game left
- WISCONSIN (6) - WSU loss looking more and more acceptable
- IOWA (4) - that was the most unserious offensive showing I have perhaps ever seen
- RUTGERS (7) - always seem to find a way to hang with Michigan for 30 minutes
- ILLINOIS (9) - I mean, I guess
- MINNESOTA (8) - yes, it was a bad loss, but seeing a lot of overreactions on here
- NEBRASKA (12) - although that Colorado loss is back to looking as bad as we would have assumed in the preseason
- MICHIGAN STATE (10) - defense started to play well after the first quarter...and then the offense collapsed
- PURDUE (11) - tough to see a path to 6 wins
- NORTHWESTERN (14) - good for those kids, I didn't think this team would sniff a Big Ten victory
- INDIANA (13) - so much for my Tayven Jackson love