Leading the way: B1G has more bowl eligible teams than any other conference in country entering Week 11
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.