Big Ten Power Poll - Post Week 1

by Bama Hawkeye on Sep 10, 2009 8:47 AM CDT in Big Ten Power Polls Comment 2 comments

1	119 (10)	We all assume that Penn State wins the Greg Paulus challenge, right?
2	108 (1)	If Tressel kicks the chip shot field goal to go up 18 with 5 minutes to play, is OSU still Number 1?
3	98	That's how you handle a 1-AA team.
4	85	All those people who predicted a 5 or 6 win Michigan team got very quiet very quickly.
5	75	That's how you handle a 1-AA team, Part II.
6	59	That's NOT how you handle a 1-AA team. Play like that again, and they'll lose by 20.
7	55	They hung on, but there are concerns...
8	42	Could this be the surprise team of the season? We'll know more by the wee small hours of Sunday morning.
9	41	Syracuse is better than it ever was under Greg Robinson. That road win was a good one for Minnesota.
10	30	It's not just that they lost to Mizzou again. It's that it looked like the team never got off the bus.
11	14	That's NOT how you handle a 1-AA team. Play like that again, and they'll lose by 20, Part II. We, obviously, expect that to happen often.

Voters:

Maize and Brew Dave, Adam Hoge, Hawkeye State, Pete Rossman, BoilerTMill, Joe Kutsunis, Sam @ WWAHT, DailyGopher, Graham Filler, Law Buckeye, Bama Hawkeye, HMLee

The Rivalry, Esq has reached out to the SBNation Big Ten bloggers to create this poll. Its purpose: find a consensus as to the power of the Big Ten teams. We invited each Big Ten blog to participate. We will vote each week. Invitations remain extended to the writers of Black Shoe Diaries and the Crimson Quarry to participate.

Make sure to go back and submit your picks for Week 2 of the Obligatory Predictions Contest. NEW this year is our season long competition - win the whole damn thing and we send you something amazing.

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Mea Culpa on Michigan

nice to see my tradition of predicting the worst Big Ten team in the league is blowing up in my face. In 2007 it was Michigan State, last year it was Iowa.

Thanks for the Purdue respct, BTW, it is nice to see separation from Indiana in the basement.

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by BoilerTMill on Sep 10, 2009 9:47 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Good to see ...

…Illinois get dinged for that ~~awful~~ ~~miserable~~ pathetic performance against Mizzou. I wasn’t quite sure why everyone was so high on the Illini coming into the season. While they came back more expereienced, that experience was a ~~discombobulated~~ unmitigated mess of confusion last year. They have the offensive talent to compete, but lack of team chemistry and coaching ability is keeping them from developing.

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss. -- Lou Mannheim, Wall Street

by ChiSpartan on Sep 11, 2009 10:54 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs