1961 Big Ten Conference football season
Results and team statistics
Key AP final = Team's rank in the final AP Poll of the 1961 season AP high = Team's highest rank in the AP Poll throughout the 1961 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

1961 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 1961 season AP high = Team's highest rank in the AP Poll throughout the 1961 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	Ohio State	Woody Hayes	#2	#2	8–0–1	4–2	24.6	9.2	Bob Ferguson

2	Minnesota	Murray Warmath	#6	#3	8–2	6–1	16.8	7.8	Sandy Stephens

3	Michigan State	Duffy Daugherty	#8	#1	7–2	5–2	21.3	5.6	George Saimes

4	Purdue	Jack Mollenkopf	#12	#7	6–3	4–2	16.2	9.7	Jack Elwell

5	Wisconsin	Milt Bruhn	NR	NR	6–4	4–3	19.9	17.6	Ron Miller

6	Michigan	Bump Elliott	NR	#6	6–3	3–3	23.6	18.1	John Walker

7 (tie)	Iowa	Jerry Burns	NR	#1	5–4	2–4	23.9	18.0	Al Hinton

7 (tie)	Northwestern	Ara Parseghian	NR	NR	4–5	2–4	14.6	11.7	Boyd Melvin

9	Indiana	Phil Dickens	NR	NR	2–7	0–6	10.7	18.0	Byron Broome

10	Illinois	Pete Elliott	NR	NR	0–9	0–7	5.9	32.1	Tony Parrilli

Sentence(s)

The 1961 Ohio State football team under head coach Woody Hayes, compiled an 8–0–1 in the Big Ten championship.

final_sentence: The 1961 Ohio State football team under head coach Woody Hayes, compiled an 8–0–1 in the Big Ten championship.