1957 Big Ten Conference football season
Results and team statistics
Key AP final = Team's rank in the final AP Poll of the 1957 season AP high = Team's highest rank in the AP Poll throughout the 1957 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

1957 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 1957 season AP high = Team's highest rank in the AP Poll throughout the 1957 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	9–1	7–0	26.7	9.2	Bill Jobko

2	Michigan State	Duffy Daugherty	#3	#1	8–1	5–1	29.3	8.3	Dan Currie

3	Iowa	Forest Evashevski	#6	#3	7–1–1	4–1–1	29.2	12.4	Bob Commings

4 (tie)	Wisconsin	Milt Bruhn	#19	#13	6–3	4–3	26.0	13.6	Dan Lewis

4 (tie)	Purdue	Jack Mollenkopf	NR	NR	5–4	4–3	19.8	12.7	Neil Habig

6	Michigan	Bennie Oosterbaan	NR	#6	5–3–1	3–3–1	20.8	16.3	Jim Pace

7	Illinois	Ray Eliot	NR	#15	4–5	3–4	18.6	14.8	Ron Hansen

8	Minnesota	Murray Warmath	NR	#3	4–5	3–5	22.3	20.9	Dick Larson

9	Indiana	Bob Hicks	NR	NR	1–8	0–6	5.2	34.1	Tony Aloisio

10	Northwestern	Ara Parseghian	NR	NR	0–9	0–7	6.3	30.1	Willmer Fowler

Sentence(s)

In 1957 Ohio State head coach Woody Hayes, won the conference championship with a 7-0 conference record (9–1 record overall), was ranked No. 1 in the final.

final_sentence: In 1957 Ohio State head coach Woody Hayes, won the conference championship with a 7-0 conference record (9–1 record overall), was ranked No. 1 in the final.