... Saturday, the Hawkeyes find themselves in the driver's seat to win the Big Ten title as well as gaining a BCS bowl bid.

However, in order to get to Pasadena—or Miami, or New Orleans or Glendale—they have a number of obstacles on the road ahead of them.

The first thing to consider is that essentially, the Big Ten is currently made of up of two tiers. There are the teams that still have a realistic shot at a BCS bowl, and those that don't. The first group is made up of Iowa, Michigan State, Ohio State and Wisconsin. The second group is everybody else.

I do realize that mathematically, Northwestern and Purdue are still very much in the picture, but after all, NU lost to Purdue. Moreover, Purdue is...well, Purdue, and I ...

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