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Raymar Morgan scored a career-high 31 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to lift No. 6 Michigan State over Minnesota 65-59 in the Big Ten opener for both teams Saturday night. Complete Story...
Brian Butch scored 22 points on 7-of-12 shooting and No. 25 Wisconsin continued its home dominance in the Big Ten with a 64-51 victory over Iowa on Saturday.
Freshman Eric Gordon scored 25 points, D.J. White had 16 points and 15 rebounds and No. 11 Indiana held off a furious late rally by Iowa for a 79-76 victory Wednesday night in the Big Ten opener for both teams.
Reserve freshman Jon Leuer scored a career-high 25 points and Marcus Landry added 15 to lift No. 25 Wisconsin to a 70-54 victory over Michigan on Wednesday night in the Big Ten opener for both.
Erik Ainge ensured No. 16 Tennessee wouldn't leave the Outback Bowl with another disappointing loss. Capping a roller coaster career, the Volunteers star threw for 365 yards and two touchdowns Tuesday to pace a 21-17 victory that stopped No. 18 Wisconsin from joining Michigan as the only Big Ten teams to beat Southeastern Conference opponents in bowl games three consecutive seasons.
Chris Summers kicked a 40-yard field goal as time expired in the Motor City Bowl, lifting Purdue to a 51-48 win over Central Michigan on Wednesday night.
It's like being the best player on a bad team. Game after game, you do your job but the rest of the team just doesn't contribute enough to get a win.
Michigan coach Lloyd Carr will retire Monday after 13 seasons, ending an era marked by highs of winning a national championship and five Big Ten titles and lows of losing to Ohio State and Appalachian State.
Jim Tressel got the best of Lloyd Carr again, maybe for the last time. Tressel became the first Ohio State coach to beat Michigan six times in seven years, and the seventh-ranked Buckeyes' 14-3 victory Saturday over their archrival gave them consecutive outright Big Ten titles for the first time in a half-century.
Marcus Parker scored 18 points to lead Findlay to a 70-68 victory over Ohio State on Tuesday night, the second time in a week a Division II school beat a Big Ten team in an exhibition game.
Division II Grand Valley State stunned No. 8 Michigan State, the Big Ten favorite, 85-82 in two overtimes Friday night in an exhibition game.
Just like the last time they met, Ohio State hopes Kent State is a steppingstone to a national championship.
This should be a banner year for the Big Ten. The problem is, few may get a chance to see it. The Big Ten's new television network is struggling to reach agreements with the biggest cable providers in the Midwest, and the clock is ticking on the Sept. 1 openers.
Purdue was tired of hearing about Ohio State's invincibility. So the Boilermakers put that notion to rest with one resounding flurry.
The Bowl Championship Series broke in favor of Florida, sending Urban Meyer's Gators to the national championship game to play Ohio State.
Wisconsin snapped out of what looked like a senior slump on Senior Day, scoring two touchdowns just before halftime to pull away from a surprisingly pesky Buffalo team.
No longer do the players have to watch what they say. There are no other teams left on the schedule. No. 2 Michigan, meet No. 1 Ohio State. A spot in the national championship game, an outright Big Ten title, a perfect season — and certainly not least of all, a year of bragging rights for rabid fans — await the winner of the annual grudge match Saturday in packed Ohio Stadium.
The up-and-down tenure of John L. Smith at Michigan State is coming to an end. Smith will finish the season as the struggling Spartans' head coach, but he won't be back in 2007.
"Snakes on a Plane" didn't even get this much advance publicity. No. 1 Ohio State and No. 2 Michigan are a little less than a month away from their annual Big Ten grudge match, and it's all football fans in Ann Arbor and Columbus, Ohio, talk about. The players and coaches are another matter.
Let the countdown begin to what could be the biggest Ohio State-Michigan game ever. The Buckeyes and Wolverines, along with Southern California, topped the first Bowl Championship Series standings released Sunday, putting the Big Ten powers and the Trojans in control of the national title race.
The top two teams in the Big Ten are now the top two teams in the country.
The Big Ten Conference created its own cable channel to showcase its athletic teams and reached a new 10-year deal with ABC Sports and ESPN.
Maurice Hargrow scored 15 points and Zach Puchtel added a career-high 15 rebounds as Minnesota defeated Michigan 59-55 on Thursday afternoon in the first round of the Big Ten tournament.
Aya Traore scored 11 points and Katie Gearlds added 10 to lead No. 14 Purdue past Indiana 67-41 Sunday in the Big Ten tournament semifinals.
Dee Brown opened and closed the Big Ten regular season with sensational performances against Michigan State. Brown scored 16 of his 20 points after halftime and made two 3-pointers during a 12-0 run midway through the second half to lift No. 10 Illinois to a 75-68 victory over the 25th-ranked Spartans on Saturday.
A playoff is coming to college football, not eventually but probably sooner than the moneyed-establishment wants to admit. Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany, the Vladimir Putin of college sports and the key figure preventing a playoff, can stem the tide for only so long.
A playoff is used to determine the football champion in Division I-AA, Division II and Division III, and also every other sport sanctioned by the NCAA. But not in NCAA Division I-A football.
I know. It has not happened yet. Perhaps it is the grit of the guy. Perhaps it is the respect he gets as a man, such as from the Big Ten's commissioner who is quoted only saying that he is a good man, not a great coach.
Ouch, I went 2-4 last week after a day of upsets. I sincerely hope no one is making any bets off of my picks. But then again, who would have called that the two "strongest" teams in the Big Ten would lose.
...The basketball legend and his 18-year-old son, Jeffrey, appeared on the "Today" show Friday. Jordan said his son decided he wanted the challenge of proving himself at the Big Ten school. "I'm thinking that's what I would have done,"....
Well, another 5-1 week, I guess it's a better record to keep having than 4-2. Michigan barely squeaked by in East Lansing against the "We can't finish a game" Spartans of Michigan State.
Well, I went 5-1 last week, with my only loss coming from my under performing Spartans in a loss to the lowly Hawkeyes. Now I'll see if I can for once pick a perfect week in Big Ten play.
Michigan's winning streak is not enough to salvage this season...not yet.
Practice sessions likely will be more challenging than some games when Michigan State's season starts in a few weeks. The Spartans are so talented and deep that the starters can expect all they can handle from the second-stringers.
Well, we're sitting here at week 9 with the usual suspects sitting atop the conference standings. Now we just have to see if the Buckeyes and Wolverines can remain unbeaten in Big Ten play until the final game of the regular season when they meet at the Big House in Ann Arbor.
Well, I finally broke my 4-2 streak with my predictions, going 6-1 this week. I would have been perfect this week had Minnesota not sunk to a brand new low against a team from a conference that I'd never heard of until this week.
Michigan State at Ohio State. Here's the week I try to break my 4-2 streak. Michigan State is coming off a big win against Indiana last week with RB Javon Ringer racking up 203 rushing yards. Michigan State has not beat Ohio State since 1999.
Indiana announced Sampson broke his one-year penalty from May 24, 2006, to May 25, 2007, which was imposed for recruiting violations, by participating in a three-way recruiting call on 10 occasions. As a result:
Once again my picks went 4-2 this week. Michigan State decided to finally come to play on defense against the Hoosiers this weekend. The Fighting Illini decided to pack it in against the Hawkeyes.
I can't seem to do better than 4-2 this year in my Big Ten picks. That may be due to the sheer awfulness of the Big Ten as a whole, or maybe the fact that my skills in prognostication are lacking.
Another 4-2 weekend on my Big Ten picks. First off, Michigan State, where did your defense go, and do they plan on coming back any time this season? Dantonio's squad will need to figure out these defensive liabilities if they want to win enough games to become bowl eligible.
An in depth look at the favorite in the Big Ten.
Ohio State(4) at Purdue(23). Ohio State looks like the real deal in the Big Ten. Trouble is, they haven't really had a real test yet this season. This matchup against Purdue will be their first.
Went 4-2 this week, mostly due to poor play from Penn State for a second week in a row, proving that the Big Ten is in fact the weakest of the BCS conferences this year.
Michigan State at Wisconsin(9). One thing's for sure, after the match-up between these two unbeaten teams, one will no longer be unbeaten (homage to John Madden). The Spartans have to drop a couple eventually this season, and I think this will be the first.
Went 4-2 this week. The Spartans handed Notre Dame a loss that landed the Irish in the record books. This is the first time in school history that the team had started 0-4 on a season as well as the first time that a team has beat them 6 straight times at home.
Well, my Spartans keep on winning, although the manner in which they are winning is a little disconcerting. The win last week over Pitt was a little too close, and a lot too ugly.
This is not your mom and dad's Big Ten.
Well I did significantly worse than last week in my predictions, going 7-4 on my picks. Ohio State did not get upset by a seemingly hot Washington Huskies team. Minnesota showed just how much they may suck in a loss to Florida Atlantic.
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