1978 Big Ten Conference football season
Results and team statistics
Key AP final = Team's rank in the final AP Poll of the 1978 season AP high = Team's highest rank in the AP Poll throughout the 1978 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

1978 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 1978 season AP high = Team's highest rank in the AP Poll throughout the 1978 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 (tie)	Michigan	Bo Schembechler	#5	#3	10–2	7–1	31.0	8.8	Rick Leach

1 (tie)	Michigan State	Darryl Rogers	#12	#12	8–3	7–1	37.4	15.5	Ed Smith

3	Purdue	Jim Young	#13	#12	9–2–1	6–1–1	21.8	10.8	Keena Turner

4	Ohio State	Woody Hayes	NR	#6	7–4–1	6–2	28.3	18.0	Tom Cousineau

5	Minnesota	Cal Stoll	NR	NR	5–6	4–4	19.1	24.3	Marion Barber, Jr.

6	Wisconsin	Dave McClain	NR	NR	5–4–2	3–4–2	20.3	25.2	Mike Kalasmiki

7	Indiana	Lee Corso	NR	NR	4–7	3–5	20.7	26.4	Joe Norman

8	Iowa	Bob Commings	NR	NR	2–9	2–6	11.4	26.5	Brad Reid

9	Illinois	Gary Moeller	NR	NR	1–8–2	0–6–2	9.4	28.8	John Sullivan

10	Northwestern	Rick Venturi	NR	NR	0–10–1	0–8–1	8.4	40.0	Pat Geegan

Sentence(s)

The 1978 Michigan State football team, under head coach Darryl Rogers compiled an 8–3, tied with Michigan for the conference and scored 37.4 points per game and ranked No. 12 in the final AP Poll.

final_sentence: The 1978 Michigan State football team, under head coach Darryl Rogers compiled an 8–3, tied with Michigan for the conference and scored 37.4 points per game and ranked No. 12 in the final AP Poll.