Once B1G conference play starts they will beat up on each other, so that means that teams in the top 16 of the PWR are going to loose to teams outside the top 16.
Wisconsin has 3 bad splits (if you want to call them that) against Northern Michigan (x2) and Merrimack. Both teams are sitting second to last in their conferences. Wisconsin is better then they were the last two years.
Ohio State has played one ranked team all year and got lucky they beat Denver.
Michigan and Minnesota, who should be running away with the B1G every year, are not that good this year.
Michigan State is god awful, they really need to fire Anastos. The Michigan State AD obviously doesn't care about hockey by giving Anastos an extension. Michigan State is a PWR killer for anyone that looses to them.