Week 3 of the College Football season was far more exciting, as everywhere you looked, there was a great game. This weekend had a ton of massive clashes, yet the Big Ten wasn’t involved in any of them as it was a weaker schedule for the reigning back-to-back champions. Conference play kicked off this weekend and it wasn’t a great weekend of games but, they great matchups are right around the corner as some of the Nation’s best teams will no longer face cupcakes.
The best way to describe this week in the Big Ten was a weekend of jockeying as each team moved a bit in the rankings but, no one made a massive leap.
Power Ranking the Big Ten after the first three games of the season
The Northwestern Wildcats actually kept this game much closer than many expected while scoring 14 points on their final two drives to make it look respectable, but the Wildcats were clearly outmanned in this game. Preston Stone continues to struggle with taking care of the football and it hurt the Wildcats again in this game as he threw a pair of interceptions. The good news for Northwestern is that the next two games will give them a great chance to get back to .500 but, there aren’t many winnable games on the schedule.
The UCLA Bruins are an absolute disaster, and their loss on Friday Night feels like rock bottom for the program. The New Mexico Lobos dominated every aspect of the game running the ball at will for 6.5 yards per carry and UCLA had no answers. Adding Nico Iamaleava has been an absolute dud for the Bruins as he has turned into a checkdown quarterback which makes it so much tougher on the offense to score. After losses to UNLV and New Mexico, it’s truly hard to find any game on the schedule that the Bruins can win this season…