Previous Weeks:
Week Zero.
Week One.
1 – Ohio State
Previous: Won 56-0 over Western Michigan
Movement:
Upcoming: Bye Week.
Momentary Musing: Snore and into a bye week. It must be nice to live such a boring life. When are they going to be tested? Iowa? Michigan State? Nebraska? It might not be until November when they play Penn State.
2 – Penn State
Previous: Won 34-27 over Bowling Green.
Movement:
Upcoming: Bye Week
Momentary Musing: I believe this was a let down game after a big win against West Virginia the week before. The matchup against Illinois will be a better game than we expect but the next game against Kent State should probably be easy for the Nittany Lions.
3 – USC
Previous: Won 48-0 over Utah State.
Movement: Up one.
Upcoming: Bye Week
Momentary Musing: Is this defense for real? Well for two weeks is sure seems like it. They get a week off until they go to Michigan. That might not be a great offensive test but probably better than Utah State.
4 – Oregon
Previous: Won 37-34 over Boise State.
Movement: Down one.
Upcoming: At Oregon State on Saturday.
Momentary Musing: An interesting stat that I did not expect was that going into this game Oregon was 0-3 against Boise State. That changed with a last second field goal but we really have to start wondering if Oregon is going to get this figured out.
5 – Michigan
Previous: Lost 31-12 to Texas.
Movement: Hold.
Upcoming: Arkansas State on Saturday
Momentary Musing: So is Texas that good or is Michigan just not as great as the preseason prognosticators thought? They lose 31-12 but it really was not that close. We will find out how good Michigan is or isn’t in two weeks when USC comes to town.
6 – Wisconsin
Previous: Won 27-13 over South Dakota.
Movement: Up 1.
Upcoming: Alabama on Saturday.
Momentary Musing: Normally I would probably knock Wisconsin for 27-13 win over South Dakota especially when it’s a week after a 28-14 win over Central Michigan. However, in this case they could be looking ahead because Alabama is coming to town next week.
7 – Iowa
Previous: Lost 20-19 over Iowa.
Movement: Down 1.
Upcoming: Troy on Saturday
Momentary Musing: I am always slow on knocking teams when they lose in a rivalry game and I’ll do the same here. Iowa State came in to Kinnick and won on a last second field goal. Iowa appears to plan on riding Kaleb Johnson as their quarterback, Cade McNamara, struggled as he went 13-29 for 99 yards and two interceptions.
8 – Nebraska
Previous: Won 28-10 over Colorado
Movement: Up 2.
Upcoming: Northern Iowa on Saturday.
Momentary Musing: I think even if Colorado goes on to have a bad season that the win for the Huskers was still a big one because the entire country was watching. In the past it was Nebraska who laid eggs on national television.
9 – Rutgers
Previous: Won 49-17 over Akron.
Movement: Down 1.
Upcoming: Bye Week.
Momentary Musing: Rutgers keeps on keeping on and dominating the competition. Now we can talk about the level of competition but they are doing their job and there are some other teams in the conference who are not. In two weeks they go to Virginia Tech. At this point I still think Rutgers is the biggest threat for Nebraska to not start 7-0.
10 – Washington
Previous: Won 30-9 over Eastern Michigan.
Movement: Down 1.
Upcoming: Washington State on Saturday.
Momentary Musing: Washington’s quarterback Will Rogers throws for four touchdowns after a slow start. Eastern Michigan was up 3-0 at the beginning of the second quarter but Washington went on to score 21 points in the second quarter.
11 – Indiana
Previous: Won 77-3 over Western Illinois
Movement: Up 1.
Upcoming: At UCLA on Saturday.
Momentary Musing: Indiana broke the school’s single game scoring record by scoring 77 points. They scored 76 points in 1901. So that’s something.
12 – Illinois
Previous: Won 23-17 over Kansas.
Movement: Up 1.
Upcoming: Central Michigan on Saturday.
Momentary Musing: It is between Nebraska and Illinois for the best win of the weekend and the nod probably goes to Illinois as Kansas is likely a much better team than Colorado when we look at these teams at the end of the season.
13 – Michigan State
Previous: Won 27-24 to Maryland.
Movement: Up 1.
Upcoming: Prairie View A&M on Saturday.
Momentary Musing: One of my most confident picks I had for this past week was Maryland over Michigan State. Well good job on Jonathan Smith in proving me wrong. MSU was also able to overcome three interceptions thrown by Aiden Chiles and a 7 point deficit halfway through the 4th quarter.
14 – Maryland
Previous: Lost 24-27 to Michigan State.
Movement: Down 3.
Upcoming: At Virginia on Saturday.
Momentary Musing: Kind of a surprising loss to MSU as Maryland played really well the week before and MSU struggled. You never know with conference play. Maryland even won the turnover battle by two.
15 – Minnesota
Previous: Won 48-0 over Rhode Island.
Movement: Hold.
Upcoming: Nevada on Saturday.
Momentary Musing: The Fighting PJ Flecks survives to fight another day. They matchup against Nevada next week who is currently 1-2 after losing to Georgia Southern and SMU.
16 – Purdue
Previous: Bye Week
Movement: Hold.
Upcoming: Notre Dame on Saturday.
Momentary Musing: That Notre Dame team went from looking like one of the best a week ago to beatable after losing to Northern Illinois on Saturday. What will Purdue do?
17 – Northwestern
Previous: Lost 20-26 to Duke in 2OT
Movement: Hold.
Upcoming: Eastern Illinois on Saturday.
Momentary Musing: It has to be weird playing in that high school stadium right? Like I wonder if some of the NW players are looking around and asking themselves if this is what they signed up for. Then they remembered that they’ll graduate with a degree from Northwestern and they were probably fine with it.
18 – UCLA
Previous: Bye Week.
Movement: Hold.
Upcoming: Indiana on Saturday.
Momentary Musing: Indiana put up 77 points on Saturday. What are they going to put up against the UCLA defense?
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