[West] Standings- Thanks a lot, Brutus.
| Michigan | 2-0 | 58 | 0 | 6-0 | 228 | 75 | W6 |
| Michigan State | 1-0 | 10 | 7 | 4-1 | 140 | 51 | W2 |
| Nebraska | 1-1 | 17 | 48 | 5-1 | 222 | 163 | W1 |
| Iowa | 0-1 | 3 | 13 | 3-2 | 154 | 108 | L1 |
| Northwestern | 0-2 | 35 | 38 | 2-3 | 139 | 139 | L3 |
| Minnesota | 0-2 | 17 | 103 | 1-5 | 108 | 210 | L3 |
[West] Division Standings updated above. Anyone not understanding why you should have been rooting for the Buckeyes the last 2 weeks? They are the ONLY team to have supplied non-M victories to the ENTIRE [West] Division.
October 10th, 2011 at 11:12 AM ^
Take Ohio out of the equation and what do folks think? After M beats MSU, do you want MSU to beat Nebraska? At this point, MSU is probably more a rival than Nebraska. But, under that scenario, having MSU beat Nebraska is good for M. It opens up some breathing room and means that M could drop a conference game against anybody (including Nebraska) and still be assured of going to the championship game (based on the highly likely assumption that Iowa loses another game in conference).
I get the just take care of business and you don't have to "back-in" sentiment, but backing in would be better than being shut out.