Big Ten football is back, and we’ve seen two weeks of action already (okay, scratch the term already). What we thought we knew going into the very delayed season thanks to the coronavirus pandemic has changed substantially from to start off the season.
Then, it changed again when week two rolled around and some of what we thought we knew from where we originally ranked teams after week one came crashing down in Ann Arbor (sorry, I had to).
It makes you wonder what next week will hold.
Regardless, we are soldiering on here at Buckeyes Wire and continuing to do our best to make sense of it all with our weekly power rankings of how the Big Ten conference looks.
Here we go after week two …
14. Illinois (0-2) – last week (13)
We sure thought the Fighting Illini were on an upward trajectory coming into 2020, but two-losses to start the season and we are reminded that you cannot let those in Champaign keep an eye on nice things. They will break them.
13. Minnesota (0-2) – last week (9)
It felt like P.J. Fleck had a culture and program changing season last year, but so far this year, the wholesale changes on defense have been hard to replace.
12. Nebraska (0-1) – last week (10)
Nebraska put up a fight against Ohio State in the first half of week one, but had no fight to bring because of the canceled game against Wisconsin. We’ll reserve judgment for now.
11. Iowa (0-2) – last week (8)
This Iowa program is about as inconsistent as the weather in the Midwest this time of year. It’s looking like one of those unexpected years in Iowa City, and not in a pleasant-surprise-Kirk-Ferentz-contract-extension kind of way.
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