Big Ten Power Rankings, Week 12: MSU, Ohio State battle for supremacy

This week in the Big Ten football power rankings, the Ohio State Buckeyes and Michigan State Spartans play in Columbus with huge Big Ten East ramifications. 

Look
If you had
One shot
Or one opportunity
To seize everything you ever wanted
In one moment
Would you capture it
Or just let it slip?

~Lose Yourself  by Eminem

This week in the Big Ten promises to be one of the best weeks of the season. The games on the field will solve everything on the field. There are no tiebreakers or strength of schedule needed here. This weekend, the No. 4 Buckeyes and No. 7 Spartans clash at the Horseshoe this weekend.

No. 18 Wisconsin hosts Nebraska this weekend. If the Badgers win out, they are in the Big Ten title game since they beat No. 20 Iowa earlier in the season. Wisconsin wins the Big Ten east if Illinois upsets Iowa this weekend.

However, the game in the Horseshoe sets up some interesting scenarios for the last week of the season. An Ohio State win means “The Game” is for the Big Ten East. Ohio State versus Michigan with a trip to Indianapolis on the line is just good for college football.

If Michigan State shocks the world in the ‘Shoe, then the Buckeyes would play spoiler to the Wolverines, and Michigan would be the biggest Penn State fans in the country. What more could you ask to end the regular season?

In honor of Floyd staying in Iowa City for a seventh consecutive year, here are your Big Ten football power rankings for Week 12.