I feel like the conference's overall non conference schedule may come back to bit OSU.
-ND beat 2 of 3 B1G opponents and had a close loss to Northwestern (FSU beat ND)
-TCU beat MN pretty good (OSU wins by 7 against MN)
-MSU lost to Oregon
-Illinois loss to Washington
I purposely will leave out their VTech loss because of the first start for JT.
A lot of people criticized Urban Meyer when he first got hired for saying it, but the rest of the conference needs to perform well in big non conference games for the national respect to be increased.