1970 Big Ten Conference football season
Results and team statistics
Key AP final = Team's rank in the final AP Poll of the 1970 season AP high = Team's highest rank in the AP Poll throughout the 1970 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

1970 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 1970 season AP high = Team's highest rank in the AP Poll throughout the 1970 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	#5	#1	9–1	7–0	29.0	12.0	Jim Stillwagon

2 (tie)	Michigan	Bo Schembechler	#9	#4	9–1	6–1	28.8	9.0	Don Moorhead Henry Hill

2 (tie)	Northwestern	Alex Agase	NR	#18	6-4	6-1	23.3	16.1	Mike Adamle

4	Iowa	Ray Nagel	NR	NR	3–6–1	3–3–1	12.9	25.9	Dave Clement

5 (tie)	Wisconsin	John Jardine	NR	NR	4–5–1	3–4	19.8	19.5	Chuck Winfrey

5 (tie)	Michigan State	Duffy Daugherty	NR	NR	4–6	3–4	19.0	21.5	Eric Allen

7	Minnesota	Murray Warmath	NR	NR	3–6–1	2–4–1	18.0	23.7	Jeff Wright

8	Purdue	Bob DeMoss	NR	NR	4–6	2–5	16.1	18.9	Stan Brown

9 (tie)	Illinois	Jim Valek	NR	NR	3–7	1–6	16.5	27.9	Doug Dieken

9 (tie)	Indiana	John Pont	NR	NR	1–9	1–6	10.2	30.0	Chris Morris

Sentence(s)

The 1970 Ohio State football team, under head coach Woody Hayes, won the Big Ten football championship, was ranked No. 5 in the final AP Poll, and led the conference in scoring (29.0 points per game).

final_sentence: The 1970 Ohio State football team, under head coach Woody Hayes, won the Big Ten football championship, was ranked No. 5 in the final AP Poll, and led the conference in scoring (29.0 points per game).