Howe: Big Ten Football Power Rankings After Week 6
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hawkdrummer1
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I chuckle every week at the Rutgers entry.
RobHowe
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Thank you for acknowledging my silliness.
RobHowe
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how much would you care to wager that Michigan makes a bowl game?
(prepares for backpedaling and double talk)
InGoodCo
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and you're #10 is fine by me in my book. Iowa looked pretty horrible. They need knocked back until proven otherwise. But, come on man, Michigan is gonna make a bowl game...
Fryowa
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Don't let our attitudes rub off on you, Rob. Save yourself.
Stanzi
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They will beat Illinois. They might beat Maryland on the road. PSU, MSU, tOSU and ND will truck them. It will likely come down to whether or not they can beat Indiana on the road.
InGoodCo
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yeah, they are 4-1 right now with games against MD, IL and Indiana still in the wings. I'm not saying this is a great team. I think they are borderline top 25, likely to end up 20-25 area when said and done.. I also don't think they will go 0-4 against those teams but it's entirely possible.
I'd probably move MSU to 4. Michigan to 5. Iowa to 6 and Minnesota to 7. Just because I'd give the edge to Sparty of all 3 of those teams head to head.
IMO there seems to be a hierarchy forming:
Tier 1 (in a league of their own)
Ohio State
Tier 2 (very good but can't see them beating OSU in Columbus)
Penn St
Wisconsin
Tier 3 (these teams can all beat up on each other depending on the venue, some could even scare Tier 2)
Michigan
Michigan St
Iowa
Minnesota
Indiana
Nebraska
Northwestern
Maryland
Tier 4 (bottom feeders)
Purdue (without Moore & their QB, get them back and healthy, bump them up)
Illinois
Rutgers
IMO there seems to be a hierarchy forming:
Tier 1 (in a league of their own)
Ohio State
Tier 2 (very good but can't see them beating OSU in Columbus)
Penn St
Wisconsin
Tier 3 (these teams can all beat up on each other depending on the venue, some could even scare Tier 2)
Michigan
Michigan St
Iowa
Minnesota
Indiana
Nebraska
Northwestern
Maryland
Tier 4 (bottom feeders)
Purdue (without Moore & their QB, get them back and healthy, bump them up)
Illinois
Rutgers
NikeHawk21
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Having a tough schedule means Michigan sucks and also therefore means Iowa sucks?
ChosenChildren
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wrong wrong wrong. PSU and MSU will not truck them. I'm not sure about ND either.
RobHowe
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I become more numb to the alarmists on the daily.
Stanzi
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PSU and ND will each beat them by at least 20.
NikeHawk21
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You read some of these posts and you realize it’s super easy to discredit someone if you really try. I literally just discredited Wisconsin in another thread for the purposes of argument and they’ve had a wonderful season thus far. It’s just kind funny that these so called Iowa fans are looking for every opportunity to discredit Iowa.
Nobody was happy with the performance on Saturday, but there is still a lot to play for. Iowa still ranks as a top 20 team nationally I don’t understand why people are acting like it’s a dumpster fire.... I shouldn’t say I don’t understand, I figured this would happen if we lost Saturday but it’s just funny to watch these people take over every thread.
Fryowa
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With Jonathon Taylor, the WI/OSU contest coming up will be one for the ages. They have Ron Dayne 2.0 on their hands and I think that's one game I would probably watch over a Hawks game if they were both at the same time. What's really cool is this will be a precursor to Indy 2019 and the story lines could take so many different fun directions.
Either team gets it's first loss??? Get ready for the B1G game of the century to see who might go to the CFP.
This might piss some people off, but knowing the Hawks don't have the stones to get it done this year in the West, I'm really interested in Wisconsin and OSU winning their divisions. Would I like the Hawks to git 'r done? Sure. But it ain't gonna happen.
This could seriously bring some legitimacy, national attention, and respect back to the Big Ten. The OSU juggernaut vs a Heisman running back who's likely going to leave Ron Dayne's best three seasons in the dust (no way with rookie contracts that Taylor stays for year 4) and arguably the best OL in the country? Fuckin A, man, what channel is that on?
AND, no matter who loses there's a 99.9% chance they get to do it again in a dog fight for all the marbles. I love the Hawks and I wish we'd win every Natty for the rest of my life. But I'm a realist, and I know that as it stands the Big Ten has the best football story line in the country brewing right now and I love it.
If one of those two teams starts mowing everyone and finally brings a trophy home instead of a team named Alabama or Clemson, it's only gonna do good things for the Big Ten and I'm all for it.
