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We have a chance going into next week to have teams Ranked 1 - 4, and at worst 4 of the top 6. I can't remember ever seeing a conference so top heavy.

No other teams are ranked. Iowa and Minnesota were receiving votes just outside the top 25 and then both of them lost. Illinois had a couple of votes and didn't lose during their bye week.

I have a tough time calling Illinois our 5th best team, but also can't really make an argument against it. The only team that definitely isn't number 5 is Purdue.

I just bought a subscription to watch basketball tonight, and it keeps telling me that I need to subscribe.

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Week 10 Power Rankings:

Boy oh boy, what a week of football. Only three teams stayed in the same spots as last week, and two of those teams are #1 and #18. Indiana only stayed at 3 due to Ohio State's big win propelling them just ahead of Indiana in the eyes of the voters.

As for the rest of the conference, my goodness. Everyone is jumping around everyone, nobody knows where anyone should be ranked, and also Purdue is here.

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HUGE Day: The first CFP rankings drop tonight, MACtion returns, and of course my weekly B1G10 Game predictions

Iowa 30 UCLA 20

Minnesota 17 Rutgers 13

Indiana 37 Michigan 20

Ohio State 40 Purdue 6

Penn State 23 Washington 13

Oregon 44 Maryland 20

Purdue is the only Big Ten team that has been eliminated from bowl contention

No other B1G team has more than 5 losses. Here are their remaining games:

• Washington (5-4): @PSU, UCLA, BYE, @Oregon

• Wisconsin (5-4): BYE, Oregon, @Nebraska, Minnesota

• Michigan (5-4): @Indiana, BYE, Northwestern, @OSU

• Nebraska (5-4): BYE, @USC, Wisconsin, @Iowa

• Maryland (4-4): @Oregon, Rutgers, Iowa, @PSU

• Rutgers (4-4): Minnesota, @Maryland, Illinois, @MSU

• Michigan State (4-5): BYE, @Illinois, Purdue, Rutgers

• Northwestern (4-5): BYE, OSU, @Michigan, Illinois

• USC (4-5): BYE, Nebraska, @UCLA, Notre Dame

• UCLA (3-5): Iowa, @Washington, USC, Fresno State

Any teams you feel pretty sure will or won't make it to a bowl?

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I’m suspicious, maybe it’s time to check the refs bank account?

IMO the best way the schedule BIG 10 games would use a 4 quadrant divisions system, each with 4 teams. Rutgers and Maryland will have a different scheduling system

Each team would have games scheduled against the other teams within their quadrant every season. Each quadrant would rotate which quadrant they play every year on a 4 year cycle.

Rutgers and Maryland would alternate back and forth between scheduling against Quadrants 1 and 3 one year, and quadrants 2 and 4 the next.

Quadrant 1: Ohio State, Penn State, Michigan, Michigan State

Quadrant 2: Indiana, Purdue, Illinois, Northwestern

Quadrant 3: UCLA, USC, Washington,

Oregon Quadrant 4: Minnesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin, lowa

No Quadrant: Rutgers and Maryland

For example, Oregon would play 3 games within their quadrant and would play against another quadrant based on the annual rotation (let's say quadrant 1) and would play 1 non quadrant team (let's say Maryland). They would also play a game against one randomized conference opponer they aren't scheduled against.