Washington and Minnesota are the only two teams in the conference to have played 7 games already and both take a much needed bye week this Saturday. For everyone else in the Big Ten though, this represents the midway point of the college football regular season which makes it a great time to put forth midseason all-conference teams.
It’s harder than ever to try to put together all-conference squads. As recently as last year, just watching Washington games would mean you’d eventually get to watch 80%+ of the conference. Watch a few games here and there in addition to that and you’d be able to get a pretty good feel for the conference as a whole.