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Your Big Ten spring meetings version ... Future football schedules likely will be a hot topic at Big Ten meetings. So will bowl games, Lee Barfknecht writes. Nebraska coach Bo Pelini has been tough on player conduct, so how will he handle Alex ...

Greg Colby and Mike Bellamy both have seen better days at Illinois. During Colby's first stint as an assistant at his alma mater (1988-95), Illinois shared a Big Ten championship in 1990 and reached six bowl games in seven seasons. Bellamy starred...

Bowl games are once again part of Bill O'Brien's recruiting pitch at Penn State, and not just bowls taking place after the NCAA sanctions end. O'Brien and others at Penn State are fully committed to scheduling a game in Ireland in the coming seaso...

The 2013 NFL draft is more than four months away, but all the Big Ten hopefuls have finished their college careers after the bowl games. While we wait on several underclassmen to finalize their draft decisions -- Michigan's Taylor Lewan, Michigan ...

The Big Ten bowl season kicks off Dec. 28 in Texas, continues the following day in Arizona and wraps up with five games on New Year's Day. Seven Big Ten teams appear in the postseason, and the number would have been larger had Ohio State and Penn Sta...

Your questions, my answers ... A.J. from Madison, Wis., writes: If everybody's eligible, how many bowl games does the B1G win? Adam Rittenberg: Good question, A.J., and a potential Take Two topic before the bowls kick off. Assuming Ohio State d...

CHICAGO -- Big Ten teams will be playing fewer bowl games in the future. And they'll likely be playing some of them in different locations. It's all part of a shifting bowl landscape that Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany discussed Tuesday at the le...

Illinois fans, let me tell you about your new offensive coordinator, Billy Gonzales. He has been on coaching staffs that have won two national championships and played for another, and won three BCS bowl games. He coached seven Florida wide receiv...

A year ago, the biggest blotches in the Big Ten's bloody bowl ledger came courtesy of Michigan and Michigan State. The Wolverines and Spartans lost their bowl games by a combined score of 101-21 on Jan. 1, 2011. They allowed 51 combined first down...

Five lessons from a historic 10-pack of Big Ten bowl games this year. 1. Michigan State has taken the next step: The Spartans had the exact same wins total (11) as they did in 2010 as well as one more loss, but this was undoubtedly a better team t...

While watching the five-pack of bowl games involving Big Ten teams Monday, I looked for the units that had the speed, athleticism, explosiveness and playmaking ability to be branded as nationally elite. Sorry, Big Ten fans, but this is a speed gam...

It's no secret that the Big Ten must start performing better in bowl games after posting a winning record in the postseason just once in the past eight years (2009 - 10 bowls). The good news: the league has ample opportunities to make a statement ...

The Big Ten chat returns Tuesday at noon ET. And we have plenty to discuss, from bowl matchups to coaching changes to recruiting developments. Please join me to talk all things Big Ten as we get ready for a league-record 10 bowl games beginning De...

"What's the term today, 'swag'? I don't even know what that means." -- Brady Hoke Well, Brady, sit tight and learn all about swag. Bowl swag, that is. It's time once again to look at what Big Ten players will be receiving at their bowl games la...

The Big Ten is sending a league-record 10 teams to bowl games this season. The conference is sending two teams to BCS bowls for the seventh consecutive season and for the 10th time in the 14-year history of the BCS. Here's the complete Big Ten bow...

A wild one is all over in Ames, and it didn't end well for the Iowa Hawkeyes. Iowa State 44, Iowa 41 (3OT): Kirk Ferentz has made Iowa an upper-tier Big Ten program. He has guided the Hawkeyes to two BCS bowl games and elevated the program's profi...