The Big 10 is a joke. I don't know who comes up with the poles, but the Big 10 has no business having so many teams in the top 20. Wisconsin looked like crap today against a Mac school at HOME. MSU barely beat Boise St. at home. Iowa SURVIVED against a MAC school today. Northwestern came oh so close to CHOKING a HUGE lead against Syracuse who tried to give them the game in the 1st half.
Alabama could have scored over 60 points on Michigan easy. The game was over after the 1st quarter.
Nebraska was the most impressive team in the Big 10 today, but the injury bug hit them. We'll see how they do going forward.
Overall a bad weekend for the Big 10. I'm not surprised one bit. The most overrated conference in the country didn't disappoint.
I went with michigan state and here is my reasoning.
MSU played the better opponent than any of those other teams. And they looked dominant with their run game.
I did not choose Nebraska and here is why. Nebraska did look good, although struggles in the first half they were able to close it out in fashion in the second and football is a game of two halves so good for nebraska on finishing the game. I know Taylor Martinez looked good and statistically dominated the stat sheet. But I feel like we have seen this before. Martinez has a GREAT OOC performances and Nebraska goes into conference play with heisman hype around Martinez and possible BCS talks behind the Huskers. Then a decent defense shows up and Martinez/Nebraska fall apart and struggle the rest of the season.
So....I will hold my judgment on how Nebraska looks till mid October, after they have played some decent defenses.
Toss up between Nebraska and OSU. Slow starts for ~ 90% of the AQ teams, so it should surprise no one that a lot of the ranked teams got of to slow starts. Besides those two teams (right now), the B10 looks pretty pathetic.
I went with OSU even though they arent eligible. Pretty strong showing against a weaker opponent. We ll see how the 'skers look next weekend and I could easily change my mind.
Ohio State looked terrible for the first twenty minutes. Miami missed a chip shot field goal and dropped two easy touchdowns in the first half. It could have easily been 24-7 Miami early in the second if they could catch a pass. That isn't the hallmark of a great team, or even a good one. Their only saving grace might be that this is the worst B1G receiving group of at least the twenty years, so people might not be able to exploit their weak secondary.