The Big 10 is the toughest conference in the nation for football. Year after year.
btw... my Iowa Hawkeyes beat Missouri this past week. 
Yes, the conference went 4-3 in bowls last season, the league's first winning postseason since 2002. But the six postseasons before that were disappointments: 3-5 in 2003, 3-3 in 2004, 3-4 in 2005, 2-5 in 2006, 3-5 in 2007 and 1-6 in 2008. And the Big Ten still is stained by Ohio State's losses in the BCS title games after the 2006 and '07 seasons. they are 2-5 this year? how you figure?