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Minnesota Football: Big Ten Football Power Rankings—Week 5

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Its starting to break into tiers pretty strongly. Penn State, Ohio State, Michigan and Wisconsin are on the very top. The from 5-12 is a very mushy middle. Then there is Illinois and Rutgers. Wee!

As a reminder I rank the teams both 1-7 in their respective divisions, and then 1-14 overall in the Big Ten.

Here are my Week 5 Big Ten Football Power Rankings;

Penn State didn’t even give Indiana a chance to get into the game. The Nittany Lions were up 21-0 less than 9 minutes into the game. Indiana...is not good. 45-14 was the final but it could have been much much worse.