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Big Ten Football Statistics: Week 2 S&P+ Vectors

Nobody’s perfect; this mess is a place.

As you read this, I encourage you to look back at the previous charts, the movement has been interesting. I’m not going to embed the charts in this article for the sake of our mobile readers, but they’re very interesting.

Prior to the season, the teams of the Big Ten were in a semi-uniform grouping, with the average team slightly above average in both defensive and offensive potency, which is basically what you would expect for a Power 5 conference.

After one week, the conference really spread out on the chart because of some variance in the performances.