1958 Big Ten Conference football season
Results and team statistics
Key AP final = Team's rank in the final AP Poll of the 1958 season AP high = Team's highest rank in the AP Poll throughout the 1958 season PPG = Average of points scored per game PAG = Average of points allowed per game MVP = Most valuable player as voted by players on each team as part of the voting process to determine the winner of the Chicago Tribune Silver Football trophy; trophy winner in bold

1958 Big Ten Conference football season

Section Title: Results and team statistics
Table Section Text: Key AP final = Team's rank in the final AP Poll of the 1958 season AP high = Team's highest rank in the AP Poll throughout the 1958 season PPG = Average of points scored per game PAG = Average of points allowed per game MVP = Most valuable player as voted by players on each team as part of the voting process to determine the winner of the Chicago Tribune Silver Football trophy; trophy winner in bold

Conf. Rank	Team	Head coach	AP final	AP high	Overall record	Conf. record	PPG	PAG	MVP

1	Iowa	Forest Evashevski	#2	#2	8–1–1	5–1	27.2	14.6	Randy Duncan

2	Wisconsin	Milt Bruhn	#7	#4	7–1–1	5–1–1	22.3	8.6	Jon Hobbs Dick Teteak

3	Ohio State	Woody Hayes	#8	#1	6–1–2	4–1–2	20.2	14.7	Jim Houston

4	Purdue	Jack Mollenkopf	#13	#8	6–1–2	3–1–2	20.4	11.3	Tom Franckhauser

5	Indiana	Phil Dickens	NR	NR	5–3–1	3–2–1	9.0	15.7	Mike Rabold

6	Illinois	Ray Eliot	NR	NR	4–5	4–3	16.0	16.7	Gene Cherney

7	Northwestern	Ara Parseghian	NR	#4	5–4	3–4	22.1	16.4	Ron Burton

8	Michigan	Bennie Oosterbaan	NR	#14	2–6–1	1–5–1	14.7	23.4	Bob Ptacek

9	Minnesota	Murray Warmath	NR	NR	1–8	1–6	12.8	17.4	Everett Gerths

10	Michigan State	Duffy Daugherty	NR	NR	3–5–1	0–5–1	13.0	13.7	Sam Williams

Sentence(s)

The 1958 Ohio State football team, under head coach Woody Hayes, compiled a 6–1–2 record and was ranked No. 8 in the final AP Poll.

final_sentence: The 1958 Ohio State football team, under head coach Woody Hayes, compiled a 6–1–2 record and was ranked No. 8 in the final AP Poll.