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Pickin' on the Big Ten, Week 12

I had a great introduction, but apparently it's unsportsmanlike to keep trying hard this late in the season, so let's skip it and get right to the games. Penn State vs. Indiana (FedEx Field, Landover, Md.) There are flashier games in the Big Ten this weekend, but I doubt you can find one that means more to the teams...

Pickin' on the Big Ten, Week 11

As the Cam Newton fiasco continues to trap more and more entities in its gravitational pull, I'm starting to wonder if I should care that the Big Ten doesn't win national titles. Nothing's been proven in this latest case, but the SEC remains the only league where a fanbase used the Freedom of Information Act to try to...

Pickin' on the Big Ten, Week 10

Usually by the first week of November, we have a clear look at which team will be headed to the Rose Bowl, which will be headed to any sort of bowl, and which is headed nowhere. Iowa's takedown of Michigan State last Saturday created a four-way tie for first place among teams that have traded losses with each other. Even...

Pickin' on the Big Ten, Week 8

After last weekend's dizzying Big Ten games, capped by the astonishing swat Wisconsin laid on Ohio State, it's little surprise that other conferences take the national forefront this week. There's still one matchup between ranked teams, a couple dangerous games for high-flying squads and a great rivalry game between two...

Pickin' on the Big Ten: Week 6

The introduction to this feature this season so far has defended Tim Brewster, questioned whether Rich Rodriguez could save his job, called out Northwestern for soft non-conference scheduling the week before it barely beat Central Michigan and praised the league's quarterbacks right before a serious regression to the mean...