Most Big Ten teams have just one game now under the belt, while a handful have two. With action resuming on Saturday, every team has resumed nonconference play, with many going out-of-conference for the first time this season.
While it’s too early to tell exactly how good (or bad) some teams might be, the Big Ten has made some big plays early in the season already, highlighted by Ohio State’s win over then-No. 5 Notre Dame. But Penn State played Purdue, while Michigan, Wisconsin, and Maryland impressed, and Rutgers went to Boston College to get an unexpected road win.
ESPN’s Bill Connelly, the resident advanced analytics statistician, creates a tempo and opponent-adjusted hierarchy of all the FBS-level teams in college football, called SP+. With that in mind, now that we’ve seen every team across the sport play, here is where every Big Ten team ranks, against each other, as well as as a whole across the sport.