BIG 10 football records and more for the 2022 college football season
Jake Wimberly
Spring practice is wrapping up around the country and it’s time to move onto summer workouts and the transfer portal door is shut “for now”.
We have looked at the overall landscape of college football with our intro piece into 2022, which can be found here.
We also predicted our New Year’s Six bowl games, a Final Four and National Champion and you can read that here.
Today we look at the BIG 10 as a whole; team previews to come, but below are my final regular season records and conference finish around the SEC this fall.
Michigan got it done last year, but this year - the league again runs back through Columbus, Ohio and Ohio State. Great storylines as always within this conference and a ton of talent on hand. The league will have two if not three teams vying for a College Football Playoff spot in 2022.
Below are my coaches and quarterback rankings for the 2022 cycle, as well as three year recruiting and impact ball catcher metric rankings.
2022 BIG 10 coaching rankings:
# Team Coach Metric
1 Ohio State Ryan Day 32
2 Michigan Jim Harbaugh 18
3 Penn State James Franklin 16
4 Wisconsin Paul Chryst 14
5 Iowa Kirk Ferentz 10
6 Michigan State Mel Tucker 9
7 Minnesota P.J. Fleck 7
8 Purdue Jeff Brohm 6
9 Maryland Mike Locksley 4
10 Illinois Brett Bielema 3
11 Indiana Tom Allen 3
12 Northwestern Pat Fitzgerald 2
13 Rutgers Greg Schiano 2
14 Nebraska Scott Frost -4
2022 BIG 10 Quarterback Rankings
1 Ohio State CJ Stroud 42.4
2 Nebraska Casey Thompson 22.1
3 Michigan State Payton Thome 21.3
4 Purdue Aidan O'Connell 20.7
5 Maryland Taulia Tagovailoa 18.9
6 Penn State Sean Clifford 16.1
7 Minnesota Tanner Morgan 11.7
8 Michigan Cade McNamara 11.5
9 Indiana Connor Bazelak 9.8
10 Wisconsin Graham Mertz 8.5
11 Northwestern Ryan Hilinski 6.2
12 Iowa Spencer Petras 5.5
13 Illinois Tommy Devito 4.5
14 Rutgers Gavin Wimsatt 3.1
3 Year moving talent ratio:
1 Ohio State 97.18
2 Michigan 91.54
3 Penn State 88.97
4 Wisconsin 81.03
5 Nebraska 78.72
6 Iowa 77.95
7 Maryland 77.95
8 Michigan State 74.87
9 Minnesota 67.95
10 Indiana 64.36
11 Northwestern 63.08
12 Rutgers 63.08
13 Purdue 61.28
14 Illinois 43.85
Impact Ball Catcher Metric (receiving units):
Purdue 4.55
Ohio State 4.1
Penn State 3.75
Maryland 3.2
Michigan State 3.1
Nebraska 3.1
Minnesota 2.85
Wisconsin 2.45
Michigan 2.25
Iowa 2.11
Illinois 1.98
Indiana 1.85
Northwestern 1.78
Rutgers 1.25
Final Standings and records of each team:
Big 10 East
1 Ohio State 13-0 8-0
2 Michigan 11-1 7-1
3 Penn State 10-2 6-2
4 MSU 8-4 5-3
5 Maryland 6-6 3-5
6 Indiana 4-8 1-7
7 Rutgers 3-9 0-8
Big 10 West
1 Wisconsin 10-2 6-2
2 Purdue 8-4 5-3
3 Minnesota 8-4 4-4
4 Iowa 7-5 3-5
5 Nebraska 6-6 3-5
6 NWU 4-8 2-6
7 Illinois 3-9 1-7
