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With 114 rankings reporting, M is up to #34. That would mean going to VTU in the first round of a 36 team playoff.

The B10 is #6, but they are closer to #3 than they are to #7 (FBS Independents). B10 is much closer to #1 than to #8 Mountain West. The BCS conferences, at least in this system, are head and shoulders above the non-BCS conferences. I don't know if that is good or bad for college football.

Big Ten Tree

Using the tree method of evaluating the Big Ten, I come up with this currently (conference games only):

Iowa - Wis - OSU
PSU - MSU - MN
Ill - MI - NU
Ind - PU

A loss to IA really wouldn't change anything for M. MSU losing to IL would drop M, though.

If non-conference games are thrown in, then MI will move up with at least MSU. I'll try to do that later.