While the season is just a few weeks young, there’s already a major trend appearing in the conference: a clear gulf in quality between the East and West once again. Allow me to display a few figures which support that notion:
- The Big Ten has six teams who are still undefeated. Five are from the East.
- Four of the top five, and five of the top seven teams in these rankings are from the East, while the bottom three are all from the West.
- Teams from the East have played teams from the West five times, the East has won four of those games.