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Leading the way: B1G has more bowl eligible teams than any other conference in country entering Week 11
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It is always difficult to judge how each conference stacks up against one another. All the conferences play different non-conference schedules, and you usually only get to see one big game in those non-conference games.
One of the other ways to measure success in a conference is if you get more than one team in the playoff, then your conference is loaded if you can get 2 in.
The best way in college football is to see how conferences stack up is bowl games, especially with all the tie-ins different conferences have.
This year with 3 weeks left to play before conference championship weekend; The B1G has already locked in 8 spots as 8 teams have qualified for bowl eligibility.
The 8 teams in the B1G that have qualified are:
- No. 3 Michigan State 8-1
- No. 5 Ohio State 8-1
- No. 7 Michigan 8-1
- No. 20 Minnesota 6-3
- No. 21 Wisconsin 6-3
- No. 22 Iowa 7-2
- Penn State 6-3
- Purdue 6-3
The next closest to the B1G is the SEC with 7 teams, ACC and Big 12 have 5 and the PAC-12 has 3.
Come December; it will be interesting to see if the B1G can get double-digit teams into bowl season and if the B1G can prove they were the premier conference by performing well during the holiday season.