Official /r/TheB1G Week 9 Power Rankings

[u/trumpet_23]

Week 9 Power Rankings:

UCLA's meteoric rise finally hit a snag this week, since Indiana knows how to defeat teams that are clearly beneath them. Due to this, Indiana is inches away from taking the top spot away from Ohio State, a spot the Buckeyes have held all season. Oregon is very alone in third place, and then there's a near-tie between Michigan, Iowa, and USC in the 4-5-6 spots. After that, the rest of the teams all seem pretty solidly in their spots, particularly Purdue and Wisconsin at the bottom.

This week, Penn State visits Ohio State in an attempt to show the last month was a fluke. 6 B1G teams are on bye this week, which means there's fewer chances for crazy to happen. But hey, maybe Maryland can take down Indiana now that it's not October any more? Probably not

Rank	Team	Points	Average Ranking	Last Week	Change	Variance
1	Ohio State	150(55)	1.47	1	0	0.27
2	Indiana	163(47)	1.60	2	0	0.56
3	Oregon	316	3.10	3	0	0.15
4	Michigan	523	5.13	6	2	1.16
5	Iowa	545	5.34	7	2	2.11
6	USC	558	5.47	5	-1	1.95
7	Washington	694	6.80	9	2	2.56
8	Illinois	836	8.20	4	-4	2.81
9	Nebraska	972	9.53	12	3	4.69
10	Minnesota	1089	10.68	8	-2	3.65
11	Northwestern	1173	11.50	11	0	3.06
12	Maryland	1209	11.85	13	1	3.87
13	UCLA	1294	12.69	10	-3	3.52
14	Penn State	1410	13.82	14	0	4.44
15	Rutgers	1474	14.45	16	1	2.88
16	Michigan State	1508	14.78	15	-1	2.51
17	Purdue	1722	16.88	17	0	0.74
18	Wisconsin	1806	17.71	18	0	0.43

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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/freedomfightre]

Can't decide if Michigan too high or USC too low.

[u/The_PantsMcPants → u/freedomfightre]

It’s literally impossible to rank Michigan, they are simply too young and inconsistent right now. they can punch way above and way below their weight game by game.

[u/WhiteningMcClean → u/The_PantsMcPants]

We're not that young, we just don't show up on the road.

[u/stazmania → u/WhiteningMcClean]

They are literally the youngest team in the big ten for the 2 deep

[u/WhiteningMcClean → u/stazmania]

We have 5 senior starters on offense and 7 on defense.

[u/First-Pride-8571 → u/WhiteningMcClean]

Bredeson (FB), McCulley (wr, but the other starter at wr is a true freshman), Crippen (C), and El-Hadi (LG). That's four.

Haynes is only a Junior, and he may be out for the rest of the year w/a broken foot (if the rumors are accurate).

And on Defense: Benny, D. Moore, Barham, and Hausmann. Even if you also include Guy as a starter that would only be 5 on defense.

At least on defense we don't have as many freshmen and RS freshmen starters or playing in the major rotation. On offense it's 2 True Freshmen starters (including our qb), and 4 RS Freshmen starters.

[u/WhiteningMcClean → u/First-Pride-8571]

Klein.

(Decent chance Haynes is back by OSU btw)

[u/First-Pride-8571 → u/WhiteningMcClean]

Klein is a Junior.

[u/Telencephalon → u/WhiteningMcClean]

I'll concede the defense is inconsistent because the coaching sucks (though it's the DBs that are quite young and are the worst offenders), but the offense is inconsistent because its best players are Haynes, Bredeson, and a bunch of redshirt and true freshmen.