It was a down week for Big Ten football, causing a major shift in our power rankings. See which teams fell and which ones moved up.
It was a wild Saturday for the Big Ten football conference. With Michigan State on bye, the rest of the 13 Big Ten teams went a combined 6-7 in their Week 3 games. In games against Power Five opponents, Ohio State was the lone winner, while Rutgers and Purdue both went home as losers. And while Iowa rolled over Northern Iowa in the only Big Ten/FCS matchup, it was the games against the Group of Five that caused some issues for the Big Ten.
Going 4-5 against the Group of Five does not look good for the conference at all. specially when teams such as Northwestern and Nebraska lose games to Akron and Troy. But of those Group of Five losses, the most notable was Big Ten West favorite, Wisconsin, losing to BYU 24-21. Now, BYU is no chump but Wisconsin was viewed as a team that should roll through their non-conference schedule.
But college football wouldn’t be the way it was without upsets and disappointment. Mix in all that, with poor play and you have our updated power rankings, that went through some drastic changes following the conference’s performance on Saturday.
Check out where everyone landed in the newest edition of our power rankings.