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After a few wild weeks in terms of the top of the Big Ten power rankings the first three weeks, the uneven play continued in Week 4.
First, most teams at the top struggled to run the ball, from Penn State, to Iowa, to Michigan, to Michigan State. All four teams didn’t exactly put away perceived lesser opponents in dominant fashion, but all four remain undefeated and live to fight another week.
Ohio State returned to form, passing and rushing and playing defense (for the first time all season!) but it did so against lowly Akron — a MAC team that only has a win over mediocre FCS program Bryant — so that doesn’t really tell us much about the Buckeyes’ trajectory.
Meanwhile, though some teams lost — Rutgers (3-1), Nebraska (2-3), Illinois (1-4) — they showed fight and heart in ways we haven’t seen this season. Minnesota followed up a win at Colorado by losing to a bad Bowling Green team. Wisconsin let Notre Dame run wild (not literally) in the fourth quarter in a blowout win favoring the Irish.
It was a wild week in the Big Ten. Here is where each team ranks after four weeks of play.
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