With roughly a month to go in the regular season, the prognosticating for the College Football Playoff will be hitting a fever pitch over the next several weeks.
But before anyone in the Big Ten can start making travel plans, the matter of deciding the division champions to see who plays for the conference title in Indianapolis will need to be settled. And after Saturday’s game, almost nothing is certain.
Big games still await the leaders in the East while over in the West, Northwestern has the leg up but has hardly clinched anything other than crippling Wisconsin’s chances with a two-touchdown win over the Badgers on Saturday.