The Big Ten enters the final month of the regular season with eight of the 14 teams still in realistic contention for a spot in the conference championship game Dec. 3. Heres a look at the road each team must face as it tries to make it to Indianapolis:No. 2 MICHIGAN (No. 2 CFP)Record: 8-0, 5-0, 1st place in East.Remaining schedule: Maryland, at Iowa, Indiana, at No. 6 Ohio State.Why the Wolverines make it to Indy: They have the best defense in the country, the games most dynamic player in Jabrill Peppers and a quarterback in Wilton Speight who keeps the offense on schedule and takes care of the ball. They end their four-game skid against Ohio State and win in Columbus for the first time since 2000.Why the Wolverines stay home: Ohio State beats them for a fifth year in a row or they slip up in a tricky game at Iowa.---No. 6 OHIO STATE (No. 6 CFP)Record: 7-1, 4-1, T-2nd place in East.Remaining schedule: Nebraska, at Maryland, at Michigan State, Michigan.Why the Buckeyes make it to Indy: Their top-10-in-the-nation defense recaptures the dominance it showed in September. J.T. Barrett keeps willing them to wins. They win their biggest home games of the year against Nebraska and Michigan.Why the Buckeyes stay home: Special teams foibles, such as the ones that cropped up late against Penn State, or defensive letdowns like the ones that happened against Northwestern. Offense continues to be inconsistent. They lose to Michigan for the first time in five years.---No. 20 PENN STATE (No. 12 CFP)Record: 6-2, 4-1, T-2nd place in East.Remaining schedule: Iowa, at Indiana, at Rutgers, Michigan State.Why the Nittany Lions make it to Indy: They have the easiest remaining schedule among the three East contenders. Big Ten rushing leader Saquon Barkley shreds defenses that all rank seventh and lower in the conference against the run. QB Trace McSorley continues his streak of four straight turnover-free games.Why the Nittany Lions stay home: The dam breaks on a defense that has gone from middling to above average in recent weeks. The injury bug that bit them hard early returns.---No. 9 NEBRASKA (No. 10 CFP)Record: 7-1, 4-1, 1st place in West.Remaining schedule: at Ohio State, Minnesota, Maryland, at Iowa.Why the Cornhuskers make it to Indy: They win at Ohio State to break a 19-year drought in road games against top-10 opponents. Tommy Armstrong Jr. makes plays with his legs and avoids bad decisions in the passing game. The defense continues to limit big plays and intercept passes.Why the Cornhuskers stay home: They lose to Ohio State, and Wisconsin, which owns the tiebreaker against them, wins out. Armstrong throws bad interceptions. The offensive line cant hold up because of injuries. Their dominance in fourth quarters wanes in close games.---No. 8 WISCONSIN (No. 8 CFP)Record: 6-2, 3-2, T-2nd in West.Remaining schedule: at Northwestern, Illinois, at Purdue, Minnesota.Why the Badgers make it to Indy: They end a five-game road losing streak against Northwestern and win out. They get sharper performances from QBs Alex Hornibrook and Bart Houston. RB Dare Ogunbowale complements Corey Clement the way he did against Nebraska. The defense keeps doing what its been doing.Why the Badgers stay home: The defense sustains another major injury to a starter. Hornibrook and Houston cant get out of their own way and continue a pattern thats seen them throw nine TD passes against 10 interceptions.---MINNESOTARecord: 6-2, 3-2, T-2nd in West.Remaining schedule: Purdue, at Nebraska, Northwestern, at Wisconsin.Why the Gophers make it to Indy: They successfully navigate an extremely difficult stretch of three games after hosting Purdue. Rodney Smith continues his streak of 100-yard games. The defense suddenly becomes better than average.Why the Gophers stay home: QB Mitch Leidner and his teammates dont play the best football of their careers. Theres slippage in their high red-zone efficiency and their league-best 1.25 turnover margin.---IOWARecord: 5-3, 3-2, T-2nd in West.Remaining schedule: at Penn State, Michigan, at Illinois, Nebraska.Why the Hawkeyes make it to Indy: They find a way to win at home, where theyre 2-3, and get through the second-toughest finishing schedule in the league besides Marylands. Their middle-of-the-pack offense suddenly gets a jolt and keeps taking care of the ball.Why the Hawkeyes stay home: The last four games are too taxing for a team thats underperformed all season. A bland offense stays that way against the tough defenses coming up. The defense drops off at all.---NORTHWESTERNRecord: 4-4, 3-2, T-2nd in West.Remaining schedule: Wisconsin, at Purdue, at Minnesota, Illinois.Why the Wildcats make it to Indy: They dont let a close loss at Ohio State trip them up during a mostly positive second half of the season. Clayton Thorson maintains the form thats seen him throw 10 TDs against two interceptions the past four games. Austin Carr remains the best receiver in the Big Ten.Why the Wildcats stay home: They cant find a way to move the ball on the ground beyond Justin Jackson. Opponents have a 64-percent completion rate and throw for 275 yards a game.---More AP college football: http://collegefootball.ap.org Frostee Rucker Jersey.ca. 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After Gasquet beat fifth-seeded Ivan Dodig of Croatia 7-5, 6-3, Tsonga followed up with a 6-7 (3), 6-2, 6-2 win against sixth-seeded Edouard Roger-Vasselin in an all-French match.F1 chiefs will move to change the qualifying format within days after the new elimination-style system endured a farcical debut at the Australian GP. The newly-devised system, which sees drivers knocked out at 90-second intervals from mid-way through each of the three sessions, was panned by drivers, team bosses and pundits after the new rules confused fans and meant cars were not on track at what were meant to be decisive moments of the session.Polesitter Lewis Hamilton was already in parc ferme three minutes before the chequered flag fell, while a host of drivers had earlier been knocked out when their cars were not even on track. Conclusions from qualifying for the Australian GPBut after an immediate backlash from fans on social media, and condemnation of the new system from a number of the sports leading figures, moves are already underway to make immediate changes for the second round of the season in Bahrain in two weeks time.There is a will [to change it], Mercedes boss Toto Wolff said on Saturday night in Melbourne. Head of Mercedes Motorsport Toto Wolff said the new qualifying format is rubbish, and thinks discussions will take place over reverting to last years form Nobody tried to damage the spectacle in qualifying on purpose. The basic idea of having a shootout and every 90 seconds somebody drops out could trigger results that give a certain variability and could mean that a favourite gets it wrong.So the basic concept was not completely stupid but, as with many things, the devil lies in the detail and weve seen today that we actually complicated things in a time that we should simplify them.There was periods when no car was running, you saw that at the end, and that wasnt exciting. Qualifying report Lewis Hamilton dominates in Australia to take pole That should be the target [to change by Bahrain].With the season already underway, a unanimous vote of the F1 Commission will be required to change the regulations again - with such a move possibly taking place as early as Monday.Technically you need a couple of days to change whatever you want, said McLaren racing director Eric Boullier.You just need an e-vote by fax or by email and the FIA Commission members can give their opinion. If everybody agrees, it should be unanimous and it could be done.Whens the Australian GP on Sky Sports F1?It appears likely that the three-part qualifying system will revert to the rules used over the last decade, with a group of cars exiting at the end of Q1 and Q2 respectively before the top 10 compete for pole in Q3. Sky Sports F1s Martin Brundle and David Croft give their damning verdict on the new F1 qualifying format which resulted in no action for the last four min It seems theres a unanimous desire amongst both the team bosses and the drivers themselves and other power brokers within the sport to get all this changed, probably back to the way it was last season in time for the Bahrain Grand Prix, reported Sky Sports News HQs Craig Slater.ddddddddddddThe shake-up of qualifying was only first agreed two weeks ago by the Strategy Group and F1 Commission and had already provoked controversy among drivers, who had argued that it would not work.Team managers also met with FIA race director Charlie Whiting to express reservations about the new-look Q3 during testing at Barcelona, but the elimination system was subsequently rubber-stamped in its original form by the World Motor Sport Council last week. Ted Kravitz brings you all the latest news from qualifying at the Australian GP Wolff believes F1 is right to be looking at ways to improve its spectacle, but suggests it needs to take longer working on any more radical solutions.There are two perspectives, he said. The first is we had a qualifying format that was pretty okay and in order to spice things up this is where we ended up. The obvious choice is to return to what we had before, its in the regulations. If we were to reinvent a different format I think we need to think carefully about what that would do.We shouldnt close our eyes to trying to make the spectacle better - that is important - but it should be a thought through process.Hamilton enjoys sexy laps for pole positionThe first race of the 2016 F1 season, the Australian GP, is exclusively live on Sky Sports F1. The race in Melbourne starts at 5am on Sunday morning. Every race live in 2016 Sky Sports F1 brings you every race live in 2016. 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