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If it's an all out fight between all of them, I think you have to worry about alliances. Based on nothing but what the announcers say and the school he went to, I'd go with Fitzgerald for being able to kiss a$$ and take advantage.

I had season tickets in 1999. I can remember 1995 versus KSU because of the block from Mike Rucker. I remember having the buzz of my life en route to the 2002 Colorado game we lost despite having scored on a deep TD pass (and I want to say we struck deep against Ole Miss in the bowl, too, but still lost). I remember 2006 versus Texas because of the Nunn fumble that gave the Whorns life. I remember 2008 Missouri for how bad the game was and that the Westboro folks were around with signs I didn't enjoy having to explain to my young child (going to his first Husker game that wasn't a Spring one, I think). I went to the final home games from 2014-2016 and mostly remember the hat, getting a picture with Goldie Gopher, and how cold it was (sequentially).

On the whole, Iowa still has appreciably better stats than we do but you don't need those to tell that Nebraska is a much different team now (than the one some thought could have lost to Akron). Add in the fact that our own mistakes were largely our undoing in recent years against the Hawkeyes and I'm optimistic.

Offensive rankings are below for all 124 FBS conference teams...

Defensive rankings are below for all FBS teams in a conference...

The overall rankings of all the FBS teams (that are in conferences) follows: All I did was average the average percentile figures for all nine categories I'm tracking to get these. I only take the average of the defensive and offensive category averages for the next two posts.

I'm doing a poor job of explaining what I'm sharing. I take all the stats from conference games for 124 conference teams in the highest division and then compare the individual stats from all these categories (listed above) to national averages to get z-scores, which I then convert to percentiles. See below for how the B1G teams stack up relative to all those... Pass D Pass O Rush D Rush O Scoring D Scoring O Total D Total O Turnover Margin For SOS, I am taking the average of the average category percentile ratings (for teams a team has played) to develop this ranking... This means that Wisconsin is the first team on the list to have played the "worse-than-average" B1G teams overall. Strength of (Conference) Schedule We can sort of check this by looking at MSU's opponents: Indiana, Northwestern, Penn State, Michigan, Purdue, Maryland, and Ohio State vs. OSU's opponents: Rutgers, Penn State, Indiana, Minnesota, Purdue, Nebraska, and Michigan State

I think I'll do a November-games-only version of this post once we're done but, for now, this is how we stack up with the next opponent in terms of all the B1G games we've played: Pass D completions per game: 23 (NU) to 10 (MSU) completion percentage: 67 to 50 yards per attempt: 48 to 82 touchdowns per game: 62 to 70 passer rating: 62 to 76 yards per game: 17 to 46 Pass O completions per game: 79 to 52 completion percentage: 87 to 4 yards per attempt: 68 to 8 touchdowns per game: 56 to 24 passer rating: 71 to 6 yards per game: 77 to 45 Rush D yards per game: 15 to 93 touchdowns per game: 3 to 91 yards per carry: 9 to 93 Rush O yards per game: 80 to 14 touchdowns per game: 85 to 17 yards per carry: 91 to 19 Scoring D touchdowns per game: 11 to 88 points per game: 10 to 87 Scoring O touchdowns per game: 76 to 12 points per game: 74 to 13 Total D yards per play: 18 to 88 yards per game: 8 to 87 plays per game: 15 to 55 Total O yards per play: 90 to 10 yards per game: 92 to 15 plays per game: 67 to 61 Turnover Margin fumbles gained per game: 70 to 70 interceptions gained per game: 69 to 69 turnovers gained per game: 76 to 76 fumbles lost per game: 32 to 32 interceptions lost per game: 59 to 32 turnovers lost per game: 45 to 24 turnover margin per game: 65 to 50

The subject line should have "hypothetical" in it (or something along those lines). With the United Way mentioned and all, it's pure clickbait.

I took a post I wrote from November 13th of 2017 and added the current percentiles to it in parentheses below: "Here are the percentile rankings for the Cornhuskers relative to stats from only the conference games played between FBS opponents to date this season: Pass D stats completions per game 78 (11) percentage 36 (56) yards per attempt 71 (42) touchdowns per game 83 (47) rating 66 (51) yards per game 88 (8) Pass O stats completions per game 75 (78) percentage 61 (84) yards per attempt 59 (64) touchdowns per game 66 (44) rating 59 (65) yards per game 78 (75) Rush D stats yards per carry 7 (17) touchdowns per game 10 (6) yards per game 11 (27) Rush O stats yards per carry 14 (80) touchdowns per game 9 (77) yards per game 12 (71) Scoring D stats touchdowns per game 17 (12) points per game 22 (9) Scoring O stats touchdowns per game 24 (61) points per game 24 (57) Total D stats yards per play 30 (19) yards per game 46 (8) plays per game 75 (15) Total O stats yards per play 48 (80) yards per game 40 (87) plays per game 34 (70) Turnover Margin stats fumbles gained per game 4 (30) interceptions gained per game 51 (50) turnovers gained per game 14 (37) fumbles lost per game 83 (34) interceptions lost per game 36 (65) turnovers lost per game 62 (51) turnover margin per game 30 (41) Average % for all these stats 43 (47)" p.s. - These were the final stats from last season: Pass D stats completions per game 32 percentage 12 yards per attempt 51 touchdowns per game 50 rating 35 yards per game 56 Pass O stats completions per game 77 percentage 48 yards per attempt 50 touchdowns per game 69 rating 45 yards per game 78 Rush D stats yards per carry 6 touchdowns per game 6 yards per game 16 Rush O stats yards per carry 16 touchdowns per game 20 yards per game 12 Scoring D stats touchdowns per game 10 points per game 12 Scoring O stats touchdowns per game 40 points per game 39 Total D stats yards per play 18 yards per game 27 plays per game 58 Total O stats yards per play 44 yards per game 42 plays per game 43 Turnover Margin stats fumbles gained per game 7 interceptions gained per game 37 turnovers gained per game 13 fumbles lost per game 96 interceptions lost per game 5 turnovers lost per game 42 turnover margin per game 19 Average % for all these stats 35

He shouldn't be calling the press the enemy of the people and defending it, after violence against journalists, by saying it's the only way he can fight back. I get that some want to use a very narrow definition of treason but it seems likely DJT, at the very least, abetted it by not reporting what he knew about his people cooperating with foreigners to meddle in American elections. I get that federal investigations take a long time and this is a very complicated one but it baffles me that we don't have certain laws. E.g., if there's suspicion you gained the presidency by criminal means, you shouldn't be able to wield the power of that office until it's clear you're not compromised (e.g., beholden to a foreign power hostile to our nation). As Dave Chappelle said, "The stakes are too high in the White House!" Getting away from Trump, I agree with those who are saying this isn't all about him. We need to focus on what we all need and that's a government that will work for its citizens. It's too corrupt now and has been for a long time. "Money is speech" would fit in just fine alongside Orwell's famous ironies. People who read 1984 surely remember how it had endless war without any clear reason. Growing up in the eighties, I remember adults assuring us kids there would never be a nuclear war. Our kids today are asking the same questions we did. Sorry for the rambling but I didn't want to make just one flip comment about one party and check out of this forum.

I figured we might get some action like that with the House changing hands but we all know the Dems are pussies.

Here's the offensive post. Screw you?

Ok, I'm failing at posting this stuff. I guess you just need to click on these images and you can zoom in... Here are the defensive ratings, based on four categories.

Here are the rankings of all FBS teams now... I'm averaging the average percentile rankings for all the nine categories to get the overall ones below.

Here are the B1G rankings by average percentile rating of stats within the categories listed: Pass Defense Pass Offense Rush Defense Rush Offense Scoring Defense Scoring Offense Total Defense Total Offense Turnover Margin Strength of Schedule (based on taking the averages of those averages listed above in this post for all the conference teams a team has faced this season) I keep trying to get rid of this extra table and it won't go away so please just disregard...

It's tough to pick on the Illini so I'll just get right to it. As a reminder, the stats I'm calculating z-scores (and then percentiles listed below) for were from games between conference teams only. Nebraska's games against Colorado, Troy, and Bethune-Cookman haven't been included. That goes for all the teams listed in this thread. passing defense completions per game: 11th percentile (NU) to 56th percentile (Illini) percentage: 56 to 31 yards per attempt: 42 to 8 touchdowns per game: 47 to 6 rating: 51 to 11 yards per game: 8 to 21 passing offense completions per game: 78 to 18 percentage: 84 to 19 yards per attempt: 64 to 24 touchdowns per game: 44 to 27 rating: 65 to 18 yards per game: 75 to 16 rushing defense yards per game: 27 to 2 touchdowns per game: 6 to 2 yards per carry: 17 to 3 rushing offense yards per game: 71 to 93 touchdowns per game: 77 to 77 yards per carry: 80 to 99 scoring defense touchdowns per game: 12 to 2 points per game: 9 to 3 scoring offense touchdowns per game: 61 to 49 points per game: 57 to 57 total defense yards per play: 19 to 3 yards per game: 8 to 2 plays per game: 15 to 28 total offense yards per play: 80 to 85 yards per game: 87 to 63 plays per game: 70 to 13 turnover margin fumbles gained per game: 30 to 30 interceptions gained per game: 50 to 78 turnovers gained per game: 37 to 61 fumbles lost per game: 34 to 51 interceptions lost per game: 65 to 13 turnovers lost per game: 51 to 17 turnover margin per game: 41 to 34 EDIT: I had my calculated spread here but I forgot we're going to their house (so things didn't change as much as I thought they had). Pssht, Google was just misleading me so I do want to report I calculated a -10.5 for NU. If you google Nebraska football, it'll bring up the schedule and show Illinois listed second. I don't know why. I think my spread calculation could be improved if I was to look at how teams' stats improved over more recent games instead of taking the whole season into account also. It's obvious we're playing better football now, for example.

Clearly, the answer is cloning. What has that biology department done for us lately? Get us another Spielman, FFS!

For what it's worth, I calculated -17.5 for a spread. I just take the highest rankings for all nine categories I track and have that serve as a theoretical team playing the worst theoretical team (with the worst rankings). I set a dummy spread at -59.5 for the home team that has the best stats of all teams combined. With all that expressed, I don't bet teams with the kind of turnover margin and defensive numbers our team has posted (and I still usually lose money over the course of a season). Based on the conference game stats I have now, and without any adjustment for SOS, the calculated spreads for the rest of our games are (for s/g only): -7 at Illinois; +5.5 at MSU; and +7 hosting Iowa.

I'm only using stats from games teams play against their conference mates (so we're talking about 5 games played by NU only). I try to divide figures by the number of games to keep as much relative meaning as I can. Only the passing defense category has even average numbers for the Blackshirts (aside from the yards allowed per game). I was surprised to see those Iowa figures, too, but still thought they were a safe bet (taking the points) against Penn State last weekend. The Wisconsin game was the real stunner, though. Even with Hornibrook (sp?) out, I thought the running game would wear the Cats down...

Below are the rankings of offensive performances against conference teams only (across the four categories listed above)... Rk TEAM Avg. of Avg. Percentile Ratings 1 Oklahoma 96.89 2 Alabama 92.70 3 Houston 92.00 4 Clemson 91.62 5 UCF 88.65 6 Troy 88.54 7 Ohio 86.58 8 Utah State 84.76 9 Purdue 78.91 10 Western Michigan 76.45 11 Louisiana-Lafayette 75.51 12 Georgia State 73.93 13 Miami (Ohio) 73.84 14 Ohio State 73.29 15 Cincinnati 72.74 16 Georgia 72.53 17 Pittsburgh 71.35 18 Nebraska 71.19 19 Memphis 71.16 20 Washington State 69.26 21 Michigan 69.14 22 Boise State 68.49 23 Texas Tech 68.40 24 West Virginia 67.77 25 Penn State 67.53 26 South Florida 67.09 27 Arkansas State 66.45 28 Buffalo 66.39 29 Utah 65.32 30 Boston College 65.06 31 Syracuse 64.48 32 Toledo 63.53 33 Fresno State 62.65 34 Wisconsin 61.97 35 Coastal Carolina 61.93 36 Oklahoma State 61.38 37 Colorado State 60.81 38 Florida International 60.76 39 North Texas 60.67 40 Georgia Tech 59.41 41 North Carolina State 58.38 42 Arizona State 58.07 43 Air Force 57.90 44 Iowa State 57.69 45 Maryland 56.84 46 Appalachian State 56.46 47 Bowling Green 55.44 48 Texas 55.43 49 Old Dominion 54.12 50 UAB 53.78 51 Marshall 53.73 52 Florida Atlantic 53.35 53 Hawai'i 52.55 54 Eastern Michigan 52.37 55 Southern Mississippi 52.35 56 Louisiana-Monroe 52.32 57 Georgia Southern 52.25 58 Colorado 52.17 59 San Jose State 51.59 60 Wake Forest 51.04 61 North Carolina 50.58 62 Temple 50.24 63 Arizona 50.17 64 Oregon 49.32 65 Navy 49.15 66 Middle Tennessee 48.47 67 Baylor 47.91 68 Stanford 47.65 69 LSU 46.24 70 Tulane 46.14 71 UNLV 46.09 72 Ball State 45.40 73 Iowa 45.34 74 Florida 45.12 75 Duke 44.63 76 Indiana 44.24 77 California 43.62 78 Oregon State 41.66 79 Nevada 41.46 80 Illinois 40.32 81 Virginia Tech 40.06 82 Minnesota 40.05 83 Northern Illinois 38.79 84 Kent State 38.11 85 Washington 37.97 86 USC 37.26 87 Arkansas 37.18 88 South Carolina 37.09 89 Virginia 36.16 90 Northwestern 36.14 91 Mississippi 34.82 92 UCLA 34.52 93 Connecticut 34.35 94 Louisville 34.30 95 Auburn 34.17 96 Kansas State 31.64 97 Texas A&M 31.16 98 Kentucky 30.59 99 SMU 30.31 100 New Mexico 29.66 101 Western Kentucky 29.23 102 Miami (Florida) 28.80 103 TCU 28.50 104 Charlotte 28.30 105 Tulsa 28.15 106 Texas State 28.06 107 Missouri 27.80 108 South Alabama 27.41 109 Louisiana Tech 27.22 110 Vanderbilt 26.52 111 Tennessee 24.35 112 Michigan State 23.58 113 East Carolina 23.48 114 Kansas 23.41 115 San Diego State 21.30 116 Florida State 20.03 117 Central Michigan 18.93 118 UTEP 17.16 119 Wyoming 15.98 120 Mississippi State 15.63 121 Akron 11.37 122 UTSA 7.16 123 Rice 6.72 124 Rutgers 6.69 p.s. - Getting back to the point of why I do this the way I do, I just think it's silly to pretend as if all these FBS teams are playing the same level of competition. How many years are we going to act surprised that Conference A seems much stronger than Conference B in the bowl season when there's so little meaningful inter-conference play during the regular season?

Below are the defensive performance rankings across the four defensive categories listed above... Rk TEAM Avg. of Avg. Percentile Ratings 1 Michigan 95.17 2 UAB 92.15 3 Clemson 92.13 4 Fresno State 90.46 5 Kentucky 86.83 6 San Diego State 86.22 7 Mississippi State 85.56 8 Cincinnati 85.35 9 Alabama 83.46 10 Miami (Florida) 82.14 11 Temple 81.73 12 Southern Mississippi 80.95 13 Northern Illinois 80.73 14 Washington 80.19 15 LSU 79.95 16 Appalachian State 78.74 17 Iowa 78.43 18 Virginia 78.10 19 Buffalo 77.95 20 Georgia Southern 77.49 21 Florida International 77.38 22 Maryland 76.28 23 Utah 74.81 24 Georgia 73.37 25 California 73.15 26 Auburn 73.00 27 Louisiana Tech 72.27 28 Charlotte 71.36 29 Florida 69.47 30 North Texas 69.43 31 UTSA 67.70 32 Utah State 67.57 33 Marshall 67.42 34 Ohio 67.13 35 Michigan State 66.54 36 Tulane 66.07 37 West Virginia 65.76 38 Texas A&M 64.64 39 Miami (Ohio) 62.93 40 Wyoming 62.65 41 UTEP 62.60 42 Colorado 62.11 43 Nevada 61.97 44 Northwestern 61.66 45 Ohio State 61.12 46 Central Michigan 60.70 47 Iowa State 59.16 48 Troy 58.98 49 Boston College 58.19 50 Akron 58.10 51 Middle Tennessee 57.80 52 Boise State 56.84 53 Texas 56.70 54 TCU 56.33 55 Texas Tech 55.81 56 UCF 55.75 57 Virginia Tech 55.23 58 Wisconsin 53.22 59 South Carolina 52.91 60 Penn State 52.50 61 Arizona 52.42 62 Texas State 52.18 63 Florida State 51.89 64 Purdue 50.78 65 Memphis 49.74 66 Eastern Michigan 49.58 67 Oklahoma 49.43 68 USC 47.24 69 Tulsa 46.28 70 Florida Atlantic 45.92 71 Stanford 45.85 72 Arizona State 45.63 73 Western Michigan 44.70 74 Syracuse 42.58 75 Washington State 41.73 76 Missouri 41.47 77 Georgia Tech 40.82 78 New Mexico 40.34 79 SMU 40.15 80 Houston 40.13 81 Louisiana-Monroe 39.72 82 San Jose State 38.44 83 Duke 38.35 84 North Carolina State 38.00 85 UCLA 37.41 86 South Florida 37.06 87 Western Kentucky 36.35 88 North Carolina 35.92 89 Colorado State 35.16 90 Oregon 35.08 91 Rutgers 34.58 92 Toledo 33.85 93 East Carolina 33.75 94 Navy 33.50 95 Air Force 33.14 96 Ball State 32.53 97 Indiana 31.50 98 Rice 31.48 99 Louisiana-Lafayette 31.45 100 South Alabama 30.15 101 Kansas State 29.84 102 Pittsburgh 27.35 103 Vanderbilt 27.03 104 Arkansas State 26.88 105 Hawai'i 26.53 106 Georgia State 25.01 107 Kent State 24.53 108 Tennessee 24.19 109 Oklahoma State 23.34 110 Coastal Carolina 22.44 111 Baylor 21.06 112 Kansas 19.66 113 Louisville 18.85 114 Nebraska 17.69 115 Arkansas 17.28 116 Bowling Green 15.86 117 Minnesota 15.48 118 Old Dominion 15.47 119 Mississippi 11.12 120 Oregon State 6.88 121 UNLV 6.34 122 Illinois 5.95 123 Wake Forest 4.76 124 Connecticut 0.95

Here are the rankings of performances against conference teams to date (per average z-scores across the nine categories listed above) Rk TEAM Avg of Avg Category %-iles 1 Alabama 87.99 2 Clemson 87.14 3 Michigan 79.77 4 Fresno State 77.48 5 UCF 74.77 6 Utah State 74.54 7 Troy 73.35 8 Ohio 72.95 9 Cincinnati 72.69 10 Buffalo 72.62 11 Georgia 72.02 12 UAB 71.77 13 Oklahoma 70.53 14 Miami (Ohio) 70.34 15 Florida International 69.77 16 Utah 69.74 17 Georgia Southern 68.49 18 Maryland 68.37 19 Ohio State 67.21 20 West Virginia 66.70 21 Houston 66.57 22 Temple 65.20 23 LSU 64.87 24 Appalachian State 63.41 25 North Texas 63.20 26 Boston College 63.04 27 Boise State 62.71 28 Marshall 61.69 29 Purdue 61.43 30 Southern Mississippi 61.28 31 Iowa 61.08 32 Northern Illinois 60.42 33 Western Michigan 59.99 34 Iowa State 59.85 35 Kentucky 59.78 36 Penn State 59.32 37 Texas 59.19 38 Memphis 59.14 39 Wisconsin 59.10 40 Colorado 58.76 41 Texas Tech 58.49 42 Miami (Florida) 57.77 43 Washington 57.68 44 Virginia 57.61 45 Florida 56.97 46 Middle Tennessee 55.69 47 Syracuse 55.59 48 Tulane 55.35 49 Washington State 53.72 50 Eastern Michigan 53.69 51 Arizona 53.27 52 California 53.25 53 Georgia Tech 52.42 54 Louisiana-Lafayette 52.31 55 San Diego State 52.22 56 Louisiana Tech 51.60 57 Charlotte 51.56 58 Virginia Tech 51.44 59 Pittsburgh 50.97 60 Auburn 50.75 61 Mississippi State 50.61 62 Arizona State 50.37 63 Nevada 50.30 64 Northwestern 50.14 65 Stanford 49.48 66 South Florida 49.44 67 Georgia State 49.31 68 Toledo 48.82 69 San Jose State 48.48 70 Michigan State 46.74 71 Arkansas State 46.32 72 Florida Atlantic 46.16 73 Air Force 45.90 74 Texas A&M 45.78 75 North Carolina State 45.48 76 Colorado State 45.35 77 Navy 44.54 78 UTSA 43.55 79 Louisiana-Monroe 43.51 80 Oregon 43.37 81 Nebraska 43.10 82 Texas State 42.96 83 South Carolina 42.18 84 Oklahoma State 41.98 85 Wyoming 41.69 86 North Carolina 41.42 87 SMU 40.91 88 Coastal Carolina 40.72 89 UCLA 40.43 90 USC 39.77 91 Indiana 39.74 92 Duke 39.59 93 Central Michigan 39.24 94 Hawai'i 38.85 95 UTEP 38.79 96 TCU 38.34 97 Ball State 38.24 98 Tulsa 36.91 99 Western Kentucky 34.75 100 Kansas State 34.54 101 Florida State 34.52 102 New Mexico 34.51 103 Kent State 34.27 104 Baylor 33.81 105 Bowling Green 33.64 106 Missouri 33.43 107 Old Dominion 32.48 108 Vanderbilt 32.31 109 Akron 32.00 110 Wake Forest 30.62 111 South Alabama 28.11 112 UNLV 27.53 113 Kansas 27.05 114 Arkansas 26.33 115 East Carolina 26.25 116 Mississippi 26.09 117 Oregon State 25.96 118 Minnesota 25.80 119 Tennessee 25.69 120 Illinois 25.41 121 Louisville 25.39 122 Rutgers 20.28 123 Rice 19.18 124 Connecticut 17.78

I probably should have chosen my words better. I'm talking about FBS versus FCS (what used to be Division I versus Division II?). The stats I'm playing with are those garnered from games played by teams in the same conferences. If we stripped away half the teams in FBS (such that we'd be left with just the P5 ones), I wouldn't feel the need.

Here are the B1G rankings for the same categories (just averaged all those figures above and then averaged the averages of the conference opponents faced by each team for the SOS ones)... Pass O average percentile rankings 1 Ohio State 97.71 2 Purdue 74.39 3 Nebraska 68.27 4 Indiana 68.17 5 Michigan 53.88 6 Iowa 51.04 7 Minnesota 49.06 8 Northwestern 48.95 9 Penn State 41.57 10 Wisconsin 35.13 11 Michigan State 34.98 12 Maryland 22.58 13 Illinois 14.43 14 Rutgers 4.13 Pass D average percentile rankings 1 Michigan 98.79 2 Maryland 90.73 3 Iowa 67.09 4 Wisconsin 66.27 5 Northwestern 64.33 6 Ohio State 59.81 7 Penn State 58.30 8 Rutgers 48.85 9 Michigan State 35.08 10 Nebraska 31.22 11 Purdue 31.06 12 Illinois 17.04 13 Indiana 13.70 14 Minnesota 12.42 Rush O average percentile rankings 1 Maryland 94.26 2 Wisconsin 91.22 3 Penn State 85.57 4 Nebraska 79.71 5 Michigan 78.33 6 Illinois 78.16 7 Purdue 76.48 8 Minnesota 31.23 9 Indiana 22.62 10 Iowa 22.02 11 Ohio State 20.08 12 Northwestern 17.21 13 Rutgers 16.58 14 Michigan State 9.31 Rush D average percentile rankings 1 Michigan 89.48 2 Michigan State 87.49 3 Iowa 82.27 4 Purdue 68.99 5 Maryland 67.01 6 Ohio State 64.43 7 Indiana 61.45 8 Penn State 60.03 9 Northwestern 44.19 10 Wisconsin 33.23 11 Rutgers 19.53 12 Minnesota 19.07 13 Nebraska 16.01 14 Illinois 1.05 Scoring O average percentile rankings 1 Ohio State 84.28 2 Purdue 81.65 3 Michigan 79.15 4 Penn State 76.03 5 Maryland 75.19 6 Wisconsin 63.42 7 Iowa 59.48 8 Nebraska 58.95 9 Northwestern 44.11 10 Minnesota 36.98 11 Indiana 29.77 12 Illinois 29.47 13 Michigan State 19.71 14 Rutgers 1.85 Scoring D average percentile rankings 1 Michigan 93.17 2 Michigan State 80.88 3 Northwestern 79.54 4 Iowa 77.30 5 Purdue 75.90 6 Maryland 75.14 7 Ohio State 67.07 8 Wisconsin 61.96 9 Penn State 61.57 10 Rutgers 28.04 11 Indiana 16.48 12 Nebraska 9.71 13 Minnesota 9.13 14 Illinois 0.93 Total O average percentile rankings 1 Ohio State 91.07 2 Purdue 83.12 3 Nebraska 77.83 4 Penn State 66.96 5 Michigan 65.20 6 Wisconsin 58.10 7 Indiana 56.39 8 Iowa 48.83 9 Minnesota 42.94 10 Illinois 39.22 11 Maryland 35.34 12 Northwestern 34.30 13 Michigan State 30.31 14 Rutgers 4.20 Total D average percentile rankings 1 Michigan 99.24 2 Iowa 87.06 3 Maryland 72.24 4 Michigan State 62.71 5 Northwestern 58.57 6 Ohio State 53.14 7 Wisconsin 51.42 8 Rutgers 41.90 9 Indiana 34.38 10 Penn State 30.09 11 Purdue 27.17 12 Minnesota 21.29 13 Nebraska 13.83 14 Illinois 4.78 Turnover Margin average percentile rankings 1 Maryland 82.83 2 Wisconsin 71.19 3 Ohio State 67.26 4 Michigan 60.74 5 Michigan State 60.15 6 Northwestern 60.03 7 Indiana 54.71 8 Iowa 54.65 9 Penn State 53.77 10 Illinois 43.65 11 Purdue 34.12 12 Nebraska 32.37 13 Rutgers 17.40 14 Minnesota 10.07 Strength of Schedule* 1 Michigan State 58.08 2 Minnesota 55.90 3 Nebraska 55.25 4 Illinois 53.70 5 Michigan 53.49 6 Wisconsin 51.90 7 Northwestern 51.74 8 Iowa 50.47 9 Rutgers 50.17 10 Penn State 48.04 11 Indiana 46.74 12 Purdue 46.52 13 Maryland 42.47 14 Ohio State 41.31 * - I've just taken the average of the average category percentile averages for all the opponents faced to come up with this. On one hand, it would seem that Ohio State is penalized by this simplistic method because dominating opponents tends to wreck their stats. On the other hand, though, their two toughest opponents so far were Penn State and Purdue.