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1. OSU
2. Minnesota
3. Penn St
4. Skunks
5. Michigan
6. Iowa
 
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Maybe, just maybe, college football should have a set procedure for determining things like this rather than a room full of biased individuals making decisions:

Procedure:
1. Conference Record
2. Head-to-head results

Rankings:
1. OSU (10-0)
2. Minnesota (7-2, H2H over Penn State)
3. Penn State (7-2)
4. Wisconsin (7-3)
5. Michigan (6-3, H2H over Iowa)
6. Iowa (6-3)

But what about strength of schedule?
Sorry, very few sports have truly balanced schedules. You play the games on your schedule.

But aren't you punishing Wisconsin for playing in the Big Ten Championship game?
You play the games on your schedule. If you want some wiggle room, don't lose to Illinois and you would be 8-2 in second place.
 

Sorry, we do not get to be rated over Iowa. They beat us and played better vs. tougher team than we did.
 



Played better against a tougher team? Who cares. Wins and losses should be the most important.
 


That's like saying the Gophers should have gone to the Rose Bowl in 1977 because they beat Michigan despite a 4-4 league record.
 

metrolax said:
That's like saying the Gophers should have gone to the Rose Bowl in 1977 because they beat Michigan despite a 4-4 league record.
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They also had two bad losses, lost to an unranked MSU team and got romped by OSU that year.
 




This is such a funny board.
Many posters could not accept the we ARE co-divisional champs with wisconsin even though we lost the head-to-head. And many posters here are arguing that the head-to-head results with Iowa don't matter. The Gophers had a really poor game on the road vs Iowa and got outcoached in the first half. But saying they're better this year simply because the head-to-head is like saying Illinois is better than wisconsin.

Here's my ranking:

1.OSU
2. wisc
3 (tie). Gophers
3 (tie). PSU
5. Michigan
6. Iowa
 

1. OSU


2. Wis.
3. Minn
4. Penn St.
5. Mich.
6. Iowa
 

OSU - 96 rating
PSU - 89 rating
WI - 87 rating
Minn - 86 rating
Mich - 85 rating
Iowa - 83 rating
Indiana - 77 rating
Illinois - 74 rating
Michigan State - 73 rating
Purdue - 71 rating
Nebraska - 70 rating
Maryland - 69 rating
Northwestern - 66 rating
Rutgers - 62 rating
 




OSU
Wisconsin
MN
PSU
Iowa
Michigan
Indiana
Illinois

The rest
 

Im pretty sure the bottom eight teams in the conference only had one win against the top six (Illinois over wisconsin).
 

My honest ranking based on who I think would beat who in head-to-head matchups in 2019 more often than not, and assuming full health of all starting players.

1. OSU
2. Penn State
3. Wisconsin
4. Michigan
5. Minnesota
6. Iowa
7. Indiana
8. The rest
 

Ohio State
Penn state
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Michigan
Indiana
Illinois
Michigan State
Nebraska
Purdue
northwestern
Maryland
Rutgers
 



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