Week 7 in the Big Ten featured only one marquee match-up, but it lived up to the billing as one of the better games of the early college football season.
Urban Meyer and Ohio State were challenged before pulling out an overtime victory against Wisconsin to keep Meyer's perfect record in true road games intact. Iowa rolled through Purdue, which served as the last straw for the Boilermakers administration with coach Darrell Hazell. Nebraska held on to its unbeaten record with a close victory against Indiana, and Northwestern hung half a hundred on Michigan State, which is headed in the wrong direction.