Five-Step Drop: Black Saturday for Big Ten

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1. The Big Ten had the worst Saturday since Oct. 27, 1962, the tensest day of the Cuban Missile Crisis. In the parlance of our time, it was an epic fail. I use the term even though "epic" and "fail" both appeared on Lake Superior State University's 2011 Banished Words List because frankly I don't think any universities in Michigan should be making lofty public pronouncements right now. How bad was the Big Ten's weekend? So bad that this story about Terrelle Pryor's ever-changing motor pool actually qualifies as good news for the conference. They say there was no violation involved, but I swear, this is going to end with Pryor being caught at the controls of Air Force One, claiming he didn't know you needed a license to fly a plane.

2. Elsewhere in the conference, Penn State quarterback Rob Bolden will transfer, according to his father, Robert. The elder Bolden told the Harrisburg Patriot-News his son's departure is "100 percent sure as far as I'm concerned and Rob feels the same way." Bolden began the year as the starter but lost the job to Matt McGloin. Bolden is not the only quarterback to leave Happy Valley unhappy in the past few years. Former Lions quarterback Pat Devlin will lead Delaware against Eastern Washington in the FCS championship game Friday night.

3. Andy Dalton had a tremendous career at TCU, capped off by the Rose Bowl victory over Wisconsin. MySanAntonio.com takes a look at Dalton's career and notes how Dalton redeemed himself after playing poorly against Boise State in last year's Fiesta Bowl.

4. It was a disappointing season that moved in fits and starts, never quite got on track and ended with an embarrassing bowl loss to a team not taken seriously outside its own conference and not always taken seriously within it. After too many years of the same old story, it's time for this coach to go before he does any more damage to this storied program, because his coaching performance in that bowl game shows that he and his staff are not close to putting all the pieces together. You are quite certain you know which coach I'm talking about. I'm quite certain you don't, and so is Bill Shanks of Macon.com, who is saying all this stuff about Mark Richt.

5. Randy Edsall's departure from Connecticut to Maryland caught many people by surprise, given that it came the day after the Fiesta Bowl (what, did he stay up until 4 a.m. to interview?) and the job was widely assumed to be Mike Leach's if he wanted it, which he did. Now the question of who takes over for Edsall has people talking. One top candidate is Iowa offensive coordinator Ken O'Keefe. He may not run a sophisticated offense but O'Keefe has deep roots in the Nutmeg State, has recruited the state for the Hawkeyes, and won a Division III national title as the head coach at Pennsylvania's Allegheny College in 1990. Penn State defensive coordinator Tom Bradley may also be in the mix, though Joe Paterno seems to think Bradley should get the Pitt job.