FOX Sports' Michael Cohen offers up his updated Big Ten Power Rankings, with Penn State jumping ahead of Ohio State ahead of a Week 10 matchup.
This past week quickly evolved into a showcase for backup quarterbacks as a number of Big Ten schools either entered or exited games without the top signal-caller on their respective depth charts, forced instead to scratch and claw with far less experienced players. Such was the case at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, Wisconsin, where No. 3 Penn State lost Drew Allar to an undisclosed knee injury late in the first half. At Memorial Stadium in Bloomington, Indiana, where No.
on Saturday before a difficult finish against USC , Wisconsin and Iowa . It's anyone's guess how this season finishes. 11. Michigan State Result: 24-17 road loss to Michigan The Spartans dropped a third consecutive game to in-state rival Michigan on Saturday night as a last-ditch effort from quarterback Aidan Chiles fell incomplete in the end zone on fourth-and-5 with two minutes remaining.
and 42 to USC — as defensive coordinator Joe Harasymiak's unit plummeted to 74th nationally in scoring defense and tied for 93rd nationally in total defense. The Trojans gouged Rutgers for 443 yards of total offense, including 308 through the air, and only faced third down six times throughout the game, converting three of them. The Scarlet Knights failed to generate a sack and only tallied one tackle for loss. 16.
Result: Idle The Bruins might have been hoping for another chance to play this week after finally snapping their five-game losing streak with a 35-32 win over Rutgers earlier this month. A brutal first half of the season included games against four teams now ranked in the top 15 nationally — Indiana, LSU, Oregon and Penn State — plus a lengthy road trip to Hawaii. All of that was enough to give
the most difficult schedule in the country through the first nine weeks of the season, according to Pro Football Focus. Now head coach DeShaun Foster and his staff can breathe easier knowing there aren't any ranked opponents left on the docket. 17.
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