Big Ten Respectability

A big issue nationally is the lack of respect that the Big Ten has been getting. Michigan has lost it's opener two straight years to non-BCS teams, Ohio State has gotten "housed" in the last two National Championship games, Illinois has lost two straight games to USC and Missouri and neither one of them were close, PSU has been a mid tier Big Ten team for the last 5+ years and Wisconsin plays power non-interesting football.

A regular weekly feature 0n this blog will be to look back at the past weekend Big Ten games to see if they did anything to gain back respect nationally. Let's take a look back at this weekend's scores:

Scores and National Respect
Northwestern 30 Syracuse - 10 Push
OSU 43 YSU 0 Push
Wisc 38 Akron 17 Push
Iowa 46 Maine 3 Push
PSU 66 CC 10 Push
Utah 25 Mich 23 Lost Respect
Minn 31 N. Ill 27 Lost Respect
Cal 38 MSU 31 Lost Respect
Mizzu 52 Ill 42 Lost Respect

Michigan lost another opener, MSU was all talk and very little action against Cal, Minnesota struggles against a MAC team, and Illinois loses big to another top 10 team (the score wasn't really that close). With the Youngstown State's, Coastal Carolina's, Maine's, this week the Big Ten continued to lose respect nationally as they lost most of thier Network National Televised games. (NW was on ESPN)

How can The Big Ten earn back some respect? Wisconsin needs to win at Fresno State, Ohio State needs to win at USC, Michigan needs to beat ND, all 3 games are in two weeks.

Can the Big Ten lose anymore respect next week? Bowling Green plays Minnesota. Sounds like trouble to me.

Big Ten National Respect Level Status: RED

Respect Level Meter:
High is Green (example SEC)
Medium is Yellow (example PAC 10 or Big 12)
Low is Red (example MAC or as of last weekend the ACC)