Big Ten football Power Rankings after Week 5

The weekend’s slate of Big Ten football games are complete. Let’s take a look at our adjusted power rankings from what we saw in Week 5.

We are now halfway through the Big Ten season and there’s a definite pecking order to things. Ohio State and Northwestern appear to be on a collision course for the Big Ten Championship game, while teams like Penn State, Michigan State, and Nebraska continue to struggle.

The rest of the league is just beating up on each other with little rhyme or reason as to who will win. Come to think of it, that makes plenty of sense in the year of 2020 that has continued to show us not to take anything for granted.

Each week we take a look at those Big Ten standings and provide you with a power ranking after what we saw on the field. It’s not a chronological list of what the records say, but rather how each team is playing.

Here we go for post Week 5.