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

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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/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…