1954 Big Ten Conference football season
Results and team statistics
Key AP final = Team's rank in the final AP Poll of the 1954 season AP high = Team's highest rank in the AP Poll throughout the 1954 season PPG = Average of points scored per game; conference leader's average displayed in bold PAG = Average of points allowed per game; conference leader's average displayed in bold 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

1954 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 1954 season AP high = Team's highest rank in the AP Poll throughout the 1954 season PPG = Average of points scored per game; conference leader's average displayed in bold PAG = Average of points allowed per game; conference leader's average displayed in bold 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	Ohio State	Woody Hayes	#1	#1	10–0	7–0	24.9	7.5	Howard Cassady

2 (tie)	Wisconsin	Ivy Williamson	#9	#2	7–2	5–2	22.2	10.9	Alan Ameche

2 (tie)	Michigan	Bennie Oosterbaan	#15	#11	6–3	5–2	15.4	9.7	Fred Baer

4	Minnesota	Murray Warmath	NR	#8	7–2	4–2	21.7	14.1	Bob McNamara

5	Iowa	Forest Evashevski	NR	#3	5–4	4–3	21.3	15.7	Warren Lawson

6	Purdue	Stu Holcomb	NR	#5	5–3–1	3–3	18.3	14.9	Tom Bettis

7	Indiana	Bernie Crimmins	NR	NR	3–6	2–4	12.2	15.9	Florian Helinski

8 (tie)	Michigan State	Duffy Daugherty	NR	#6	3–6	1–5	19.7	16.6	John Matsock

8 (tie)	Northwestern	Bob Voigts	NR	NR	2-7	1-5	11.2	15.8	Ziggie Niepokoj

10	Illinois	Ray Eliot	NR	#5	1–8	0–6	11.4	20.0	Jack Chamblin

Sentence(s)

The 1954 Wisconsin football team, under head coach Ivy Williamson, compiled a 7–2 record and was ranked No. 9 in the final AP Poll.

final_sentence: The 1954 Wisconsin football team, under head coach Ivy Williamson, compiled a 7–2 record and was ranked No. 9 in the final AP Poll.