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In what was an epic weekend of college football across the country, the Big Ten certainly did its part in contributing to the drama. 

Five of the conference's six games were decided by six points or fewer on Saturday. The two matchups between ranked opponents — No. 6 Oregon vs. No. 3 Penn State; No. 21 USC vs. No. 23 Illinois — both came down to the final play, with the former needing double overtime to separate the two teams. Even Iowa, which lost starting quarterback Mark Gronowski to injury, pushed then-No. 11 Indiana to the absolute brink. 

When the smoke finally cleared, Ohio State and Oregon emerged from the weekend having done enough to cement themselves as the two best teams in the league — and, as of Sunday afternoon, the top two teams in the AP Poll. Indiana and Penn State joined them to give the Big Ten four teams in the top 10. 

For a team-by-team look at the league, here's our newest set of Big Ten Power Rankings following Week 5:

Big Ten Power Rankings: Oregon Overtakes Ohio State at No. 1; Indiana Enters Top 3

OBD now has the most consecutive home wins at 18 games, and counting.😎

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Dan Lanning's Ducks' beat his former colleague and mentor Kirby Smart on Saturday, topping the charts in yet another category.

Hats off to Danny and the Ducks, but I believe it was Alabama that defeated UGA on Saturday and Ohio State that defeated UW.

The next home game is a B1Ggie!

2 hours ago, Jon Joseph said:

OBD now has the most consecutive home wins at 18 games, and counting.😎

Plus, longest regular season games at 23 and regular season league games at 17.

Big Ten PowBier Rankiings - here's how the Top Ten of the conference performed.

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The Oregon Ducks went on the road and pulled off the slight upset against the Penn State Nittany Lions. This was a huge win for Dan Lanning and company as they

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Reminder: NIL deals with public companies not found to be 'boosters' are all good.

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How Dan Lanning's Transformed Several Transfer Quarterbacks' NFL Trajectory

Dan Lanning has seen his starting quarterbacks achieve success since he took over as the coach of the Oregon Ducks. What did Dante Moore and former Oregon quarterbacks Bo Nix and Dillon Gabriel's NFL projections look like before and after transferring to Oregon?

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Wouldn't It Be Nice - 😍

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Oregon QB Dante Moore shined in a double-OT win at Penn State. Could he follow Marcus Mariota’s path and become the Ducks’ next Heisman winner?

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There's no game this weekend, a bye week before an Autzen Stadium showdown with No. 8 Indiana on October 11, but the Oregon coaches stayed busy.

We aren't quite at the midway point of the Oregon Ducks' 2025 college football season, but with a bye week taking place just one game before they reach the technical halfway point, we figured it would be a good time to take stock of things and assess what we have seen so far throughout the first five weeks of the year.

By just about every metric, the Ducks have been great thus far, storming out to a 5-0 record and picking up arguably the most impressive win in all of college football so far, taking down the Penn State Nittany Lions on the road in double overtime a week ago.

The Ducks have climbed up to the No. 2 spot in the US LBM Coaches Poll, and they will have another test on their hands next week, with the No. 9 Indiana Hoosiers coming to town.

Before we get into our deep preview of that game, though, let's take a chance to look back on the first five weeks of the year and hand out some awards, recognizing the players and positions who helped Oregon get to this point. Here are our midseason awards for the 2025 season:

Handing out midseason awards for the Oregon Ducks after a 5-0 start

Venting here. I have a B1G Beef with the B1G media deal.

West to East travel - there should be no kickoffs before 3:30 Eastern. East to West travel - no kickoffs later than 3:30 Eastern. No Pacific time zone NFL teams play games in the East that kick off at 9 AM body clock time, Noon Eastern.

Folks in the Central and Eastern time zones should be able to watch their teams play before 10:30 PM Eastern. Players should depart the West Coast before 3:00 to 4:00 AM Eastern Time.

The biggest draws in the B1G, Ohio State and Michigan, should not be saddled with a host of Noon kickoffs. The most-watched game to date in 2025 saw Texas at Ohio State. This with a Noon kickoff. How many more folks would have watched in prime time? Millions.

ESPN times the presentation of SEC games far better than the Fox broadcast group. Of course, it's easier for ESPN to deal with only two SEC time zones and reserve the late starts for the B12.

One easy fix: the West Coast teams should be permanent opponents of one another. If it takes a season longer to cycle through the conference, so be it.

This weekend's B1G, B1G Beef. Two of the hottest teams in CFB for different reasons are Indiana (sigh) and Penn State. These teams are riding waves of publicity, and folks want to watch both play ball.

Penn State at Iowa, and Michigan State at Indiana, both on Peacock.🤬

Having both games streamed on Saturday is bad business. Millions more fans could and would be watching these games on linear TV.

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