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Popular podcast host puts MSU in upper half of updated Big Ten power rankings

Brandon Walker Big Ten Podcast Michigan State Spartans Rutgers

Michigan State was one of the few Big Ten teams to win and cover the spread this weekend so should they rank amongst their peers? Brandon Walker of Barstool Sports’ popular podcast Unnecessary Roughness thinks its in the upper half of the league.

Walker has released power rankings for numerous power conferences as the first full week of the 2023 college football season wrapped up on Monday. That includes the Big Ten where Walker has the Spartans at No. 7 in the league — one spot behind Ohio State and one spot ahead of Rutgers.

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For reference, I personally had Michigan State at No. 6 in our first edition of weekly power rankings which can be found by clicking here. So I’m not too off from Walker on where I see the Spartans fitting in with the rest of the league.

See his complete power rankings in the tweet below:

Big 10 power rankings

1 Penn State
2 Michigan
3 Maryland
4 Minnesota
5 Wisconsin
6 Ohio State
7 Michigan St
8 Rutgers
9 Illinois
10 Iowa
11 Purdue
12 Indiana
13 Northwestern
14 Nebraska

— Brandon Walker (@BFW) September 4, 2023

Contact/Follow us @The SpartansWire on Twitter, and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Michigan state news, notes, and opinion. You can also follow Robert Bondy on Twitter @RobertBondy5.

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