As shocking as it may seem, we’re just past the midway point in the college football season. As we enter week eight, there are six weeks left in the regular season before we jump to championship week and ultimately bowl season and the College Football Playoff.
In this the last year of the Big Ten’s East and West divisions, there has perhaps never been a more stark contrast in the two divisions. That’s been obvious at the top, but the middle and bottom of the West this year seem to have fallen further behind the East in a way that makes winning the West no a death march toward a sacrificial public decimation on December 2nd.