The Most Important Games for the conference are those conference games in the upcoming week whose outcome most changes the final playoff picture. The Importance Factor provides a relative importance between games. Use this table to identify the most interesting Big 10 Football games in the upcoming week of play. Click a team name to proceed to the team standings page.
| Game | Importance Factor (0‑∼100) |
|
|---|---|---|
| Home | Visitor | |
| Ohio St. (10‑0) |
Rutgers (5‑5) |
38 |
| Oregon (9‑1) |
USC (8‑2) |
26 |
| Maryland (4‑6) |
Michigan (8‑2) |
22 |
| UCLA (3‑7) |
Washington (7‑3) |
1 |
| Northwestern (5‑5) |
Minnesota (6‑4) |
0 |
| Wisconsin (3‑7) |
Illinois (7‑3) |
0 |
| Iowa (6‑4) |
Michigan St. (3‑7) |
0 |
| Penn St. (4‑6) |
Nebraska (7‑3) |
0 |