Big Ten Tenacity: Week Five Power Poll

Big Ten Conference Play is underway! And what a great opening weekend it turned out to be:

• We all thought that Wisconsin was going to win in Ann Arbor for the first time since the early '90's, but the Wolverines had other plans. They came back from a 19-0 halftime deficit to beat the Badgers 27-25.
  
• Penn State, No. 2 in the Tenacity Poll last week, held off Illinois 38-24 and are starting their season 5-0 for the first time since 2005.
  
• The Buckeyes hosted Minnesota at Ohio Stadium and buried the Golden Gophers with 414 yards of total offense. Watch out Big Ten, the Wells/Pryor tandem is in full swing.
  
• To much surprise, Northwestern has started their season off with a 5-0 record for the first time in 46 years! The Wildcats went into Iowa City and scored four times on a much talked about Hawkeye defense. The final score: 22-17.
  
• Javon Ringer added to his season rushing yard total of 897 with 198 on Saturday against the Hoosiers. Michigan State beat Indiana 42-29.

In non-conference play, the Purdue Boilermakers fell to Notre Dame, as the Fighting Irish score 24 of their 38 total points in the second half.

And with that, here's how the Tenacity Power Poll finds them:

(Last week's rank in parenthesis) 

1. Penn State (2) -- @ Purdue 12:00 PM EDT
2. Ohio State (3) -- @ Wisconsin 8:00 PM EDT
3. Michigan State (6) -- vs Iowa 12:00 PM EDT
4. Northwestern (7) -- idle
5. Michigan (11) -- vs Illinois 3:30 PM EDT
6. Illinois (4) -- @ Michigan 3:30 PM EDT
7. Wisconsin (1) -- vs Ohio State 8:00 PM EDT
8. Minnesota (5) -- vs Indiana 12:00 PM EDT
   
9. Purdue (9) -- vs Penn State 12:00 PM EDT
10. Iowa (8) -- @ Michigan State 12:00 PM EDT
11. Indiana (10) -- @ Minnesota 12:00 PM EDT

Week Six's game of the week has The Ohio State Buckeyes traveling to Madison, Wisc. to take on the Badgers at 8 PM.