I'd agree there, but some of the teams in the Minnesota/MSU/OSU/Illinois tier have much easier schedules than IU & Michigan do. So it could be close even if one team is clearly the best of the bunch due to the unbalanced schedules.
Michigan's schedule is frontloaded with tough road games & Indiana's is backloaded with tough road games, so it'll be interesting to watch it play out.
Michigan is lucky they only get to lose to Minnesota once. It works both ways.
Each team only plays once
Minnesota
Michigan, @Ohio State, Penn State, @Purdue
Michigan State
Illinois, @Iowa, NW, @Penn State
Ohio State
Minnesota, @Purdue, Iowa, @Penn State
Illinois
Indiana, @Michigan State, Penn State, @Iowa
Michigan
Iowa, @Minnesota, NW, @Wisconsin
Indiana
Nebraska, @Illinois, Wisconsin, @NW
Dunno about the rest but Indiana is the toughest overall schedule(easiest of the one-gamers).
Let's use a formula I guess. Let's give Michigan and Indiana a 4 ranking. Minnesota, State, State and Ill 3. Iowa, Wisc, Purdue, 2 and the cellar dwellers 1. The people with the lowest total have the harder schedule.
IND 7
MSU 7
OSU 8
MICH 8
MINN 10
ILL 10
So yeah. I think Minnesota is as good as Michigan or Indiana so Michigan and Ohio State would get knocked up a point for only playing them once if you were to put Minnesota in the 4 category. Indiana and MSU have the toughest Big Ten schedules. You could also make the case one of the 2 point teams isn't where they should be and actually in the 3 point category(Iowa is who I'm picking for that group). Michigan, MSU and OSU would all get bumped up another point...so putting both those factors in.
IND 7
MSU 8
Everyone else 10
