B1G Numbers: Hawkeyes get big polling bump

Rutgers Coach Kyle Flood is at the end of his three-game suspension. Maryland Coach Randy Edsall just got fired. Illinois canned coach Tim Beckman a few days before this season began.

What's next, Urban Meyer leaves Ohio State to become the Speaker of the House?

Here are some numbers for Week 6 in the league. At least one number for each team, in fact.

0 -

Purdue didn't commit a penalty against Minnesota. It didn't do much else in its 41-13 home loss to the Golden Gophers.

2 -

Illinois has just two of its last six games at home, and those are against Wisconsin and Ohio State. The Illini's season-finale against Northwestern was relocated to Chicago's Soldier Field.

3 -

Michigan beat Northwestern 38-0 for its third-straight shutout. The last time a Big Ten team posted three straight shutouts was Michigan, in 1980. The last FBS team to do it was Kansas State in 1995.

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Nebraska's 23-21 defeat to Wisconsin was its fourth loss, all of which were decided by plays on the opponents' final snaps.

6 -

Ohio State scored six touchdowns in as many trips to the red zone in its 49-28 win over Maryland. The Buckeyes had six TDs in their previous 16 red-zone appearances this season.

7.5 -

Iowa defensive end Drew Ott, who suffered an apparently serious knee injury in Iowa's 29-20 win over Illinois, leads the Hawkeyes in tackles for losses with 7.5. Five of those were quarterback sacks.

9 -

Stanford and Duke both lost to Northwestern. They are a combined 9-0 otherwise.

12 -

Northwestern and Michigan were tied for 12 seconds of their game Saturday. On the 13th second, Michigan's Jehu Chesson reached the end zone with a 96-yard kickoff return.

17 -

Iowa jumped six spots to 17th in the coaches' Top 25. Only Michigan (from 21st to 14th) got a bigger bump.

28 -

Minnesota was next-to-last in FBS scoring offense (15.4 points per game, ahead of just Hawaii) before playing Purdue. But it scored 28 points in the third quarter alone in posting 41 against the Boilermakers.

29 -

Penn State and Iowa both scored 29 points Saturday. Last year, two Big Ten teams scored exactly 29 points in a game the entire season. It was the first time the Hawkeyes closed a game with 29 points since they won at Minnesota, 29-27, in 2004.

34 -

Maryland's loss at Ohio State was Randy Edsall's 34th and last one with the Terrapins.

50 -

Wisconsin quarterback Joel Stave threw 50 passes at Nebraska. Fifty! A Wisconsin quarterback! Fifty passes! He completed 24, for 322 yards.

100 -

Rutgers quarterback Chris Laviano spiked the ball on 4th-and-21 at midfield with three seconds left in the game and the Scarlet Knights trailing Michigan State, 31-24. 'At the end of the game, the clock management is 100 percent on the guy in charge and I'm the guy in charge,'' said Rutgers interim head coach Norries Wilson. 'So I mismanaged the situation. Chris Laviano did what he was told to do and I told him the wrong thing. So don't think that he screwed it up.''

Newark Star-Ledger columnist Steve Politi lays the blame on someone else: The suspended Kyle Flood.

264 -

Indiana managed just 234 yards in its 29-7 loss at Penn State. That was 264 yards less than the average of 498 yards the Hoosiers brought to State College.

357 -

Michigan State's Connor Cook passed for 357 yards at Rutgers. But an even more-impressive Cook Saturday night was Florida State running back Dalvin Cook, who rushed 22 times for 222 yards and 2 touchdowns. Maybe both Cooks can be Heisman finalists. Too many Cooks don't spoil the Heisman broth.