1955 Big Ten Conference football season
Results and team statistics
Key AP final = Team's rank in the final AP Poll of the 1955 season AP high = Team's highest rank in the AP Poll throughout the 1955 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

1955 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 1955 season AP high = Team's highest rank in the AP Poll throughout the 1955 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	#4	7–2	6–0	22.3	10.8	Howard Cassady

2	Michigan State	Duffy Daugherty	#2	#2	9–1	5–1	25.3	8.3	Carl Nystrom

3	Michigan	Bennie Oosterbaan	#12	#1	7–2	5–2	19.9	10.4	Terry Barr

4	Purdue	Stu Holcomb	NR	#17	5–3–1	4–2–1	12.6	11.4	Joe Krupa

5	Illinois	Ray Eliot	NR	#16	5–3–1	3–3–1	16.6	12.7	Em Lindbeck

6	Wisconsin	Ivy Williamson	NR	#6	4–5	3–4	19.1	18.4	Wells Gray

7	Iowa	Forest Evashevski	NR	#12	3–5–1	2–3–1	18.4	19.2	Jerry Reichow

8	Minnesota	Murray Warmath	NR	NR	3–6	2–5	12.2	19.1	Don Swanson

9	Indiana	Bernie Crimmins	NR	NR	3–6	1–5	10.1	16.7	Bob Skoronski

10	Northwestern	Lou Saban	NR	NR	0-8-1	0-6-1	7.3	26.8	Kurt Krueger

Sentence(s)

The 1955 Ohio State football team, under head coach Woody Hayes, won the Big Ten football championship with a record of 7–2 and was ranked No. 5 in the final AP Poll.

final_sentence: The 1955 Ohio State football team, under head coach Woody Hayes, won the Big Ten football championship with a record of 7–2 and was ranked No. 5 in the final AP Poll.