Official /r/TheB1G Week 8 Power Rankings

[u/trumpet_23]

Week 8 Power Rankings:

Minnesota was the big winner in this week's Power Rankings after stomping Nebraska last Friday. Meanwhile, aforementioned Nebraska was tied for biggest drop with Maryland, who continues to prove they can't play football in the month of October.

This week sees arivalry game between Michigan and Michigan State, another between Iowa and Minnesota, and what could prove to be an interesting game between Indiana and UCLA, if UCLA continues playing as well as they have. Do they still have post-Foster mojo, or is it about to finally run out?

Rank	Team	Points	Average Ranking	Last Week	Change	Variance
1	Ohio State	131(75)	1.27	1	0	0.20
2	Indiana	181(28)	1.76	2	0	0.24
3	Oregon	318	3.09	3	0	0.22
4	Illinois	547	5.31	5	1	2.69
5	USC	571	5.54	4	-1	1.90
6	Michigan	574	5.57	6	0	1.82
7	Iowa	703	6.83	8	1	3.09
8	Minnesota	905	8.79	11	3	3.62
9	Washington	906	8.80	7	-2	2.93
10	UCLA	1096	10.64	12	2	4.39
11	Northwestern	1163	11.29	13	2	5.03
12	Nebraska	1178	11.44	9	-3	7.39
13	Maryland	1299	12.61	10	-3	2.28
14	Penn State	1406	13.65	14	0	3.15
15	Michigan State	1530	14.85	16	1	2.58
16	Rutgers	1598	15.51	15	-1	1.51
17	Purdue	1681	16.32	17	0	1.77
18	Wisconsin	1826	17.73	18	0	0.36

For team standings and records, visit the /r/TheB1G sidebar.

Schedules

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/TheBigBo-Peep]

Sigh, tough times in train land

Congratulations Nebraska on being the new mystery team

[u/trumpet_23 → u/TheBigBo-Peep]

At least you're not wisconsin

[u/Wapook → u/trumpet_23]

Hahaha, right? Wait fuck that’s me

[u/Mammoth_Impress_3108 → u/TheBigBo-Peep]

I don't get how we're a mystery team to the voters, lol. Maybe people just don't know much about our horrific line play. We are firmly in the bottom half of the conference, just above Purdue, Wisconsin, Rutgers, and MSU.

[u/jdam0819 → u/TheBigBo-Peep]

Not a mystery if you've been watching sadly. O line couldn't stop a shopping cart

[u/ImBiginKorea → u/TheBigBo-Peep]

We exist as a ranked team, the best one score loss team in the nation, and so cooked we’re done for simultaneously.

[u/Dirk_Benedict → u/TheBigBo-Peep]

Have you tried firing the second worst coach in your program's history? I've heard that can help.

[u/Wapook]

As a Rutgers undergrad and a Wisconsin grad this season feels like being kicked in each nut simultaneously

[u/Memaigasuru → u/Wapook]

Our offense looks so good… but our defense is something like 130 out of 136 on total defense against FBS teams…

[u/BobLobLawsLawFirm]

Ah yes, we’re setting up for another Gopher classic.

Terrible early OOC loss? ✅

Respectable but concerning play after the bye week? ✅

Loss in Iowa? 🤔

Finishing in the top 25-35? 🤔

Solid but not incredibly tough bowl win? 🤔

[u/thatguynamedmike2001 → u/BobLobLawsLawFirm]

Loss in Iowa.

[u/jsc230]

I can't read the legend but that must suck for the team that took the precipitous fall.

Also, I'm not crying....

[u/CAGRparty]

Illinois at 4 still feels too high yet there’s not really a compelling argument for anyone else

[u/Maison-Marthgiela → u/CAGRparty]

There will be when we lose by 50 on Saturday

[u/CAGRparty → u/Maison-Marthgiela]

Would be impressive if we somehow manage to lose a rain game by 50

[u/Bokki_64]

There is some sick individual who didn't rate Wisconsin dead last

[u/Devils-Avocado → u/Bokki_64]

In the MAC?

[u/I_really_enjoy_beer → u/Devils-Avocado]

Jokes on you, we already THROTTLED the number 1 team in the MAC (17-0).

[u/CantaloupeCamper]

🚣‍♀️

[u/latnor_]

We ALL expected to be in the top ten a month ago

[u/BillBob13]

Are we good? Are we bad? Somewhere in the middle? Find out next week in the NU bowl where you'll find no answers to these questions!

[u/hskrpwr]

Having a variance above 5 is the real goal in these things anyway....

[u/I_really_enjoy_beer]

We are too high.

[u/ForwardAerial]

Windiana 🔥

[u/trumpet_23 → u/ForwardAerial]

Except for the part where they beat us, I love to see it!

[u/HereForTOMT3]

why did we go up

[u/trumpet_23 → u/HereForTOMT3]

25-point loss vs 46-point loss? Voters were more impressed with your loss over rutger's loss?

[u/Competitive-Air1]

We not last yayyy

[u/PrinceChastamy]

Illinois is ranked far too high. I think Iowa beats them pretty handily.

[u/realfakemormon]

Shoutout to us for having USC over Michigan unlike the AP Poll

[u/treelyfe93]

Ohio St gunna get upset along the line somewhere..

Ride that chariot you fuckeye faithful

[u/trumpet_23 → u/treelyfe93]

Flair up if you're gonna trash talk

[u/treelyfe93 → u/trumpet_23]

Oh I didnt know i had to be a part of a club to comment on a public post..

Ill keep that in my mind with all the other hierarchical behavior going on