Counting the College football playoff, there are 10 Big Ten bowl tie-ins for 14 teams. It is starting to look as if the Big Ten won’t have enough teams for all of them. Rutgers needs only one more loss to be eliminated. Illinois and Michigan State (of all teams!) need two. Purdue and Indiana would be next as each has four losses, and since they play each other still there is another loss to be added.
I say this because there is at least a small hope that Purdue can still reach a bowl game. It would take a home upset of Penn State, Northwestern, or Wisconsin plus road wins over Minnesota and Indiana, but after seeing Purdue at least play Nebraska tough on Saturday there is a small measure of hope, however unlikely that hope may be.