Around the Big Ten

[WM Wolverine]

MSU B10 schedule is:

*#8, #10, #12, #9, #6, #3, #4, #11...

Probably only 2 losses in there.

[whodean]

Big Ten - 1 ranked team.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Northwestern could never hope to compete with an SEC team. Game wouldn't even be close

[iam416]

Wisconsin will be ranked for sure, as will UNL (already ranked by Coaches). Sparty might inch in, too.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Sparty will be ranked by the time Michigan plays them

[whodean]

Cute how the Schmucks pretend the Big Ten isn't god awful.

[Dr. Strangelove]

It isn't a top conference but the SEC is nearly as far ahead as you make it out to be. You take shots at the conf endlessly and ignore all the times the SEC has looked like shit. Mississippi State nearly lost to Bowling Green tonight. Kentucky is total dogshit and is prob as bad as Purdue. Arkansas lost to Rutgers two years in a row. Vanderbilt isn't very good and ran like bitches from Northwestern and OSU. Florida has no offense. A&M and Ole Miss don't play defense.

If Missouri can knock off Georgia, so could a number of Big10 teams. Don't tell me that Missouri now has a huge talent edge over everyone in the B1G or that Pinkel is some kind of magnificent coach.

[whodean]

I haven't mentioned the SEC in this context, you aren't trying to deflect are you? Big 10 is terrible.

SEC is down this year.

ps, I'm no Dawg fan but Georgia was playing without about 3/4 of it's skill position players...but you probably knew that, right?

[Dr. Strangelove]

You are a shill for the SEC and hype the conf up endlessly. You've made no secret of it in the past. Why deny it now? Yeah, it's the best conference, but also not way ahead of everybody. This year I think the Pac12 is pretty close. I'd rank the B1G 4th best this year, behind the SEC, Pac12, and ACC. The Big12 has looked just as bad if not worse and only Baylor (who has played absolutely no one - way worse than OSU's schedule) still has any hope of a national title bid.

And yeah, I'm aware Georgia was without a lot of skill guys, but so what? Missouri beat them by 2 TD's. If Georgia is as far ahead of OSU and Michigan as you make them out to be, then they should be able to handle the loss of a couple guys. And if you want to argue that Missouri has more talent than OSU or Michigan I will just laugh.

[whodean]

poodle biting ankles again. Big10 is awful, OSU won't be in the championship game

[Dr. Strangelove]

Alabama
Oregon
Florida State
Clemson
Ohio State
Baylor
Louisville

OSU will be in the title game if they go undefeated and 3 or the 4 teams above them all lose. FSU/Clemson play next week. I suppose Baylor could surpass them if they continue to put up freakish offensive numbers. But given how they looked today, I don't think they will survive their last 5 games of the year. Louisville will not pass us now, not after looking mediocre against Rutgers, and having no one worthwhile to play except Central Florida the rest of the year.

[Dr. Strangelove]

There's also UCLA and Miami quietly hanging around but I don't think either finishes unbeaten. UCLA plays Stanford and Oregon the next two weeks. Miami has FSU and VT back-to-back in November

[iam416]

Cute how the Schmucks pretend the Big Ten isn't god awful.

If correcting your inaccurate statement is pretending the B10 isn't god awful, so be it.

I think the B10 stinks. I think OSU will and should be behind any undefeated team from the SEC, P10 and ACC. They need Stanford to beat Oregon and an SEC team to beat the FSU/Clemson winner or for Bama to lose to LSU or in SECCG.

However, the B10 plainly does not have only 1 team ranked. Though, your need to deflect from your inaccurate statement is entirely predictable.

[hack]

ps, I'm no Dawg fan but Georgia was playing without about 3/4 of it's skill position players...but you probably knew that, right?

Injuries are a part of the game. Is that not true in the SEC?

[whodean]

Well the oLIEo guys were right, Wisconsin slipped in to the AP poll at #25 to give the Big10 two ranked teams, very impressive showing for the conference

http://sports-ak.espn.go.com/college-football/rankings

Part of the reason OSU won't make it to the National Championship Game over a 1 loss Alabama or Oregon (should either lose)