Big Ten Football Fun Facts

1. Indiana has a 9-game losing streak in Big Ten play. Minnesota has a 7-game losing streak in Big Ten play. They do not play each other this season.

2. Home teams have won 12 Big Ten games, road teams have won 12.

3. Iowa has played five teams that were ranked at the time they met. No other Big Ten team has played more than three. Ohio State has faced two, Northwestern one.

4. Michigan Coach Rich Rodriguez has a record of 4-16 in Big Ten games. You read that right, 4-16.

5. Northwestern's average attendance this season is 32,647. You could take crowds three times those size and still have empty seats at Michigan, Ohio State and Penn State.

6. Indiana's Bill Lynch and Iowa's Kirk Ferentz both have 99 career wins as head coaches. Penn State's Joe Paterno has 399. Every Big Ten coach has at least 20, even interim Minnesota coach Jeff Horton.

7. Indiana and Minnesota were co-Big Ten champions in 1967. Neither have won a league title since then.

8. Wisconsin and Michigan State haven't won a Big Ten title in this millennium.

910. If the season ended today, Iowa's Ricky Stanzi would own the Big Ten's all-time best mark for passing efficiency in a season with 180.3. Bob Chappuis of Michigan (1947) was at 175.3 in 1947, eons before passing efficiency was an NCAA statistic.

10. If Indiana's leading rusher, Trea Burgess, doubled his season yardage total from 264 to 528, he would squeak into 10th place on the conference rushing leaders.

11. Purdue, home of Drew Brees, Jim Everett, Bob Griese, Kyle Orton and Len Dawson, is averaging 87.5 yards passing in Big Ten games.

12. Northwestern, presumably home to one of the Big Ten's smarter teams, averages nine more penalty yards (68.5) er conference game than anyone else, and over twice as much as Indiana (26.0) and Penn State (30.2).

That's all.