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Top 10 Big Ten passing leaders through Week 5

Top 10 Big Ten passing yardage leaders through Week 5

We could be on the cusp of seeing a new name emerge as the Big Ten’s passing yardage leader, but for now the one sitting on top of the conference remains Northwestern’s Ryan Hilisnki. Hilinski only managed to pass for 210 yards in a road loss at Penn State in Week 5, but it was just enough to stay on top of the conference’s passing yardage leaderboard after Week 5.

Maryland quarterback Taulia Tagovailoa is just 13 yards away from Hilinksi after his big day in a Week 5 win against Michigan State. Tagovailoa had his second 300-yard game of the season with 314 yards against the Spartans, and he completed 32 of 41 pass attempts in the big win for Maryland.

The Big Ten now has 10 quarterbacks who have passed for at least 1,000 yards with Penn State‘s [autotag]Sean Clifford[/autotag] rounding out the top 10 this week with 1,030 passing yards. Ohio State‘s C.J. Stroud is well out in front in the passing touchdown category with 18 touchdown passes. Tommy DeVito of Illinois and Clifford have the second-most passing touchdowns in the Big Ten this season with nine each.

Here is an updated look at the Big Ten’s passing yardage leaders through Week 5 of the college football season.

Every Big Ten team’s non-conference opponent in 2022

Here is every non-conference game being played by Big Ten teams this college football season.

The Big Ten has one of the toughest conference schedules in college football, and this year’s non-conference schedule looks to raise the difficulty for every Big Ten program. Most teams use their non-conference schedule as a warm-up of sorts, sometimes to help them become bowl eligible.

This year though, several Big Ten teams have tougher than usual non-conference schedules. Penn State makes a tough trip down south to face Auburn, Ohio State opens the season against Notre Dame, and Nebraska gets to welcome the Oklahoma Sooners to Lincoln.

While they can be tough games for teams early on in the season, they can also do two things for teams. One is that they give you an idea of where a team’s season could ride as the year rolls on. The second is you pad your record for the tough college football playoff committee.

With that, here are all the Big Ten teams’ out-of-conference schedules for the 2022 season. Some schedules are noticeably tougher than others.