Well, after another bad week for the conference, there is no point calling them Power Rankings anymore. Anyway, these rankings wont get sorted out until the conference games start. It would be easy to say everyone sucks, but lets give this a try anyway.

1. MSU
2. OSU
3. NEB
4. Wisc
5. PSU
6. MD
7. RUT
8. IOWA
9. MINN
10. MICH
11. ILL
12. PUR
13. INDY
14. NW

If Maryland is #6 and Rutgers #7, then the Big is somewhere between the Sun Belt and The Mountain West in conference rankings. No way this crappy conference deserves 8-9 bowl games. Rutgers was a bottom feeder in the Big East and the American for as long as they played there. Maryland an afterthought in its ACC days.

This is a closed board, no trolling or attacking Big Ten here, keep that to the C&R board.

As dissapointing as NU has played I can't put them at 14. They lost by a TD to a CAL team that has obviously improved quite a bit from last year which I believe the results for this year will bear out.

NIU is one of the best teams not in a P5 conference, NU lost to the HUskies by 8 (1 TD and 1 2pt conversion)
Cats have not been blown out as some other conference members have

(09-14-2014 07:56 PM)vabearcat Wrote:  If Maryland is #6 and Rutgers #7, then the Big is somewhere between the Sun Belt and The Mountain West in conference rankings. No way this crappy conference deserves 8-9 bowl games. Rutgers was a bottom feeder in the Big East and the American for as long as they played there. Maryland an afterthought in its ACC days.

Since you're making a sweeping generalization, You might want to check your math on Rutgers. And Maryland also had a moment or two.

(09-14-2014 07:56 PM)vabearcat Wrote:  If Maryland is #6 and Rutgers #7, then the Big is somewhere between the Sun Belt and The Mountain West in conference rankings. No way this crappy conference deserves 8-9 bowl games. Rutgers was a bottom feeder in the Big East and the American for as long as they played there. Maryland an afterthought in its ACC days.

Certainly, assuming that every school will in every season perform according to some random fan's stereotype of that school.

Now, that would be an absurd assumption to adopt, but if it is adopted, the conclusion certainly follows.

OSU
MSU
Nebraska
Wisconsin
PSU
Michigan
Iowa
Maryland
Indiana
Northwestern
Minnesota
Illinois
Rutgers
Purdue

(09-14-2014 07:56 PM)vabearcat Wrote:  If Maryland is #6 and Rutgers #7, then the Big is somewhere between the Sun Belt and The Mountain West in conference rankings. No way this crappy conference deserves 8-9 bowl games. Rutgers was a bottom feeder in the Big East and the American for as long as they played there. Maryland an afterthought in its ACC days.

Since you went out of your way to pure flame here we've got a problem.