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ESPN releases updated FPI rankings following B1G Week 1 action
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The Big Ten jumped into the hot tub yesterday along with everyone else—save the Pac-12—and joined the college football party for real, and the party quickly got wild.
The favored Iowa Hawkeyes lost at Purdue, dropping Kirk Ferentz’s opening game record to 18-4. Indiana, thanks to a brutally avoidable clock blunder by Penn State head coach James Franklin, took that next step everyone’s been wondering over and beat the Nittany Lions. It was the Hoosiers first win over a top ten team in nearly forever.
In Columbus the Buckeyes clobbered Nebraska and even apologized for scoring too many times. Across the Great Lakes, in Minneapolis, the Michigan Wolverines put a beat down on the defensively beleaguered Minnesota Golden Gophers. While in Wisconsin on Friday night, the Badgers obliterated the Illinois Fighting Illini to get the campaign rolling.
ESPN’s latest FPI poll includes two B1G teams in the top five, including Ohio State at number one. Wisconsin sits at number four, and the rest of the league falls in somewhere below that.
- Ohio State
- Alabama
- Clemson
- Wisconsin
- Georgia
- Penn State
- Notre Dame
- Oregon
- Florida
- USC
- Michigan
- Texas
- Oklahoma
- LSU
- Oklahoma State
- UCF
- Auburn
- BYU
- Virginia Tech
- Texas A&M
- Indiana
- Northwestern
- Utah
- North Carolina
- Miami
The rest of the league finds itself outside of the Top 25 heading into its second week, while the remainder of the country is entering the season’s ninth week. You can view a compete list of rankings here.
Mark Schipper is a reporter, sportswriter, and aspiring novelist living in Chicago, Illinois.