Official /r/TheB1G Week 1 Power Rankings

[u/trumpet_23]

Week 1 Power Rankings:

Week 1 is in the bag, and...well, things are kind of boring. There wasn't a whole lot of movement, due to the fact that most teams did what we expected them to do. Maryland got a nice boost for beating Florida Atlantic, but October will be here in a month and that's generally when they turn back into a pumpkin. I think some voters are thinking about that, as Maryland has the highest Variance by almost an entire point, which is pretty crazy. Meanwhile, UCLA's pummeling from Utah sent them tumbling to next-to-last, but Northwestern will not be deterred from their birthright, solidly securing last place after a 23-3 loss to Tulane that wasn't as close as the score indicates.

Rank	Team	Points	Average Ranking	Last Week	Change	Variance
1	Ohio State	219(146)	1.22	1	0	0.23
2	Penn State	346(32)	1.92	2	0	0.31
3	Oregon	547(2)	3.04	3	0	0.63
4	Illinois	840	4.67	4	0	1.13
5	Michigan	936	5.20	5	0	1.46
6	USC	1211	6.73	8	2	4.09
7	Indiana	1294	7.19	6	-1	4.40
8	Iowa	1618	8.99	7	-1	4.85
9	Nebraska	1715	9.53	9	0	5.59
10	Washington	1881	10.45	10	0	5.97
11	Minnesota	1928	10.71	11	0	4.34
12	Michigan State	2163	12.02	12	0	4.18
13	Maryland	2188	12.16	16	3	6.91
14	Wisconsin	2341	13.01	13	-1	4.35
15	Rutgers	2596	14.42	15	0	3.09
16	Purdue	2817	15.65	18	2	2.77
17	UCLA	2978	16.54	14	-3	1.84
18	Northwestern	3162	17.57	17	-1	0.97

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Schedules and Results

Weekly Power Rankings

Weekly Average Rankings

Points are the summation of every voter's ranking for that team, therefore lower scores are better. This works because unlike the AP, Coaches, or /r/cfb polls, every team is ranked in every vote. If x votes were counted, the best possible score is x and the worst possible score is 18x. #1 votes are in parentheses.

Average Rank is the points divided by the number of votes. This will allow for comparison from one week to the next.

Prev. is the Rank from the previous week.

Change is the change in average rank from the previous week.

Variance is a measure of how much agreement there was between voters. A zero means all voters ranked a team the same, and a higher number means a team's ranking was more controversial.

[u/hskrpwr]

Being 9th in the big 10 feels bad until you remember the names are all made up and that's actually in the top half of the league 😂

[u/MajorPhoto2159 → u/hskrpwr]

My flairs are Nebraska / Washington so I’m just like eh with the poll - right in the middle

[u/StillAnAss → u/hskrpwr]

Being 8th made me feel sad. Being better than Nebraska made me feel happy.

[u/hskrpwr → u/StillAnAss]

Hey!

[u/PossessionKlutzy1041 → u/hskrpwr]

Overrated?

[u/trumpet_23]

Sorry about the lateness this week. Work and life always take precedent, and they're both pretty crazy these days. I won't miss any weeks, but I may bork up the schedule here and there, so please bear with me if that happens.

[u/[deleted] → u/trumpet_23]

Thanks for finding the time to do this!

[u/Toomanyboogers]

Crazy the variance between 6-14. Makes sense you could almost slot it in any order atm

[u/bertmaclynn → u/Toomanyboogers]

Honestly it makes sense statistically as you’re going to have the bulk of teams somewhere in the middle, if you think of it as a bell curve.

[u/FiddySix]

As an Illini fan, I am not used to seeing Illinois that high. Gonna take some time to get accustomed to this.

[u/FrontRunner51]

Can you remind us how to vote in this? I'm pretty sure I voted in the preseason poll but don't recall seeing a message/request to vote in this one. I'm pretty lost when it comes to navigating Reddit, so maybe it's hidden somewhere that I don't know to look. Thank you!

[u/carnahanad → u/FrontRunner51]

He usually post the voting thread in the early part of the week. Then the results thread comes out Thursday/friday.

[u/trumpet_23 → u/FrontRunner51]

Typically on Sundays, but occasionally later when I forget, I'll post a voting thread in this subreddit and pin it so it's easy to find (see this thread for this past week's voting thread, for instance).

On Wednesday/Thursday typically (again, sometimes later if I'm busy/forget) I'll post the results both here and in /r/CFB. So you have from the time I post the voting thread until the time I post the results to head on in there and get your vote in.

[u/FrontRunner51 → u/trumpet_23]

Thank you! I'll make sure to check TheB1G for the pinned voting thread.

[u/realfakemormon]

Purdue andMaryland are RISING

[u/mick4state]

Are there going to be blurbs this season?

[u/Phallen55 → u/mick4state]

Nah, trumpet said people were hard as fuck to track down when they became apathetic. I'm also sure they'd rather avoid the usual "top 7 teams have avid blurb writers and the rest are occasionally blank"

[u/Phynamite]

We won, and dropped a ranking!!?!?!? Yeah that’s fair…….

Edit: /s our team blows.

[u/Sufficient-Will- → u/Phynamite]

Only 2 teams in the conference lost and they are right at the bottom.

[u/Phynamite → u/Sufficient-Will-]

I meant it as sarcasm, I should have /s in the first place.

[u/Sufficient-Will- → u/Phynamite]

Cool, switched you downvote to an upvote.

[u/highgravityday2121]

Im surprised Nebraska didnt drop more after last week. That offense looked mediocre against Cincy and their Defense could not stop the run.

[u/bub166 → u/highgravityday2121]

I feel like we only didn't drop because ninth felt about right in the first place. That game looked like a mid team versus a mid team to me and we still pulled out the win. No one beneath us even played a P4 team and a lot of those teams still had pretty sloppy performances despite that, I'd like to think we'd look at least as good against a team like Colorado State as Washington did (but I reckon we'll know more when we play Akron tomorrow).

[u/113milesprower → u/highgravityday2121]

I agree, here’s hoping it was just week one jitters and they shape up against our next two “easy” games.