Boy oh boy, what a week! Not only did we have a Big Ten game on a Thursday night — a deliberate act of counter-programming that will studied by media scholars for millennia — we also witnessed God himself deciding to postpone Nebraska and Iowa State football one more week.
In this case, the lord giveth, and only giveth.
So where does that leave us? With the dumbest friggin’ power rankings in awhile. One year, to be exact.
1. Northwestern Wildcats (1-0, 1-0)
Northwestern gets the top spot because it had the luxury of beating Purdue on the Thursday night of College football’s opening weekend, exposing dozens of people to the virus that is Clayton Thorson’s throwing motion.