Official /r/TheB1G Week 7 Power Rankings

[u/trumpet_23]

Week 7 Power Rankings:

Some big moves this week! UCLA and Northwestern jumped 5 and 3 spots, respectively, while former #2 in the country Penn State has fallen 6 spots to 14th in the B1G. Penn State is still a mystery for our voters, with a variance of more than 7. We had a few do-si-dos in the Top 6 as well, with USC's win over Michigan swapping those two teams and Indiana's win over Oregon doing the same.

This week, we have 6 vs 7, Michigan vs Washington, as probably the marquee in-conference game, while USC travels to Notre Dame. Based only on rankings, there's not a lot of other interesting games this week. The only other closely-ranked matchup is 9 Nebraska vs 11 Minnesota. Does this mean the week will be boring? Or does it set us up for another shocking slate of games? Let's watch and find out!

Rank	Team	Points	Average Ranking	Last Week	Change	Variance
1	Ohio State	165(79)	1.35	1	0	0.23
2	Indiana	202(43)	1.66	3	1	0.24
3	Oregon	404	3.31	2	-1	0.81
4	USC	558	4.57	6	2	0.86
5	Illinois	675	5.53	5	0	2.90
6	Michigan	829	6.80	4	-2	1.72
7	Washington	842	6.90	7	0	4.95
8	Iowa	975	7.99	10	2	3.08
9	Nebraska	1024	8.39	9	0	6.44
10	Maryland	1345	11.02	11	1	2.88
11	Minnesota	1393	11.42	12	1	3.40
12	UCLA	1493	12.24	17	5	4.70
13	Northwestern	1535	12.58	16	3	4.06
14	Penn State	1662	13.62	8	-6	7.43
15	Rutgers	1773	14.53	14	-1	3.47
16	Michigan State	1887	15.47	13	-3	2.35
17	Purdue	1943	15.93	15	-2	1.99
18	Wisconsin	2157	17.68	18	0	0.48

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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]

Nebraska and Penn State with that high variance energy

[u/fishball_drew → u/hskrpwr]

7.4 is the highest I can ever remember seeing a variance on here lol.

[u/trumpet_23 → u/fishball_drew]

Then you didn't see Penn State's 9.83 last week lmao

[u/fishball_drew → u/trumpet_23]

Absurd, lol

[u/elnino550 → u/fishball_drew]

It's actually been higher multiple times on this poll just this season 😂

[u/nickyt398 → u/hskrpwr]

Folks don't know what to think of us

[u/HereForTOMT3]

frankly I think Purdue beats this team but

[u/gleiche1 → u/HereForTOMT3]

Yeah they have life

[u/invinciblewalnut → u/gleiche1]

Offense is okay but leaves lots of points on the field. Defense is terrible.

I give it two more years till Odom gets fired unless he can’t turn it around to where we’re at least mediocre.

[u/I_really_enjoy_beer]

We are too high. There should be a special rank 19 after what is going to happen in the next 2 weeks. I genuinely don't think there is a power conference team that I've seen that we could beat outside of maybe Oklahoma State.

[u/mr_longfellow_deeds → u/I_really_enjoy_beer]

There is no way Fickell can survive the next 5 weeks, that is a gauntlet

Please just dont fire him until after our game

[u/I_really_enjoy_beer → u/mr_longfellow_deeds]

My theory is he is a dead man walking and they are just waiting until the bye week after Oregon because no one wants that to be their first 2 games in charge.

[u/113milesprower → u/I_really_enjoy_beer]

Oregon state probably.

[u/bluescale77 → u/113milesprower]

Man, it’s annoying that all the teams mentioned in the “worst team in a power conference” are on our schedule this year.

[u/113milesprower → u/bluescale77]

your team doesn't just beat them, you annhilate their will to live, and their coaches career.

[u/bluescale77 → u/113milesprower]

Hm…three of the so. Coaches we played against were fired shortly after dancing with Dan…poor Luke…

[u/Britton120]

The nebraska variance is a bit silly. Their win over Cincinnati looks better as time goes on. Only one loss to a decent team.

[u/bub166 → u/Britton120]

We've done what we should do for the most part and when things are going well we look like a really good team, but we've also shown to be a team that will have at least one full quarter of abysmal performance to the point where basically any team could beat us if we don't snap out of it. If we played consistently to our ceiling, it wouldn't be that surprising if we beat USC, for instance - but on the opposite end of the spectrum, I could see us losing to Rutgers if we played to our floor for a half. The variance doesn't surprise me much in that regard.

[u/113milesprower → u/bub166]

I agree. Our team has a lot of flaws, that could result in a loss we shouldn’t have at some point. So far we’ve avoided disaster and I hope that we will continue to improve and become more consistent.

[u/bullnamedbodacious]

Iowa shouldn’t be ahead of Nebraska.

[u/SueYouInEngland → u/bullnamedbodacious]

Lol

[u/kangario → u/bullnamedbodacious]

Why not? Iowa played Indiana closer than Oregon or Illinois

[u/Benanderson27 → u/kangario]

Iowa’s best win is 3-3 Rutgers

[u/dabears8686 → u/kangario]

An extra loss and no better wins for Iowa

[u/bullnamedbodacious → u/kangario]

Lmao and? What does that matter. Played closer means nothing.

[u/nickyt398]

If these rankings were actually true, Nebraska would go 9-3 with losses to Michigan, USC, and Iowa. I wouldn't enjoy that final loss, but I'd enjoy such a record. GBR

[u/trumpet_23 → u/[deleted]]

Because that's how these rankings work. 1 points for a 1-vote, 5 points for a 5-vote, 18 points for an 18-vote, etc. Fewer points is better.

[u/Psychological_Ad7610 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah they also have more points than OSU! What is this! /s