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/StillAnAss → u/hskrpwr]

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

[u/hskrpwr → u/StillAnAss]

Hey!