The best news for the conference is that the losers of both games didn’t fall considerably. While Ohio State is still the favorite to win the Big Ten, the AP voters took notice of the Spartans and catapulted them past OSU to a top 5 ranking. It was a great showing for a conference that needed to confirm to the country that it has more than just one horse this season. The Battle for Paul Bunyan was a riveting emotional roller coaster, and Penn State looked more like the team that beat Auburn than the team that wilted against Illinois. It was the Big Ten’s biggest weekend of games, and the top 2 conference matchups did not disappoint.
