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Prepare to say goodbye to the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl as a Big Ten bowl, though the league could still send a team to Detroit for the postseason. Colleague Brett McMurphy reports that the NFL's Detroit Lions are planning to create and operate th...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana found itself in strange and unfamiliar territory last November. Because of the oddities in the Leaders Division in 2012, the Hoosiers went into their Nov. 10 game against Wisconsin with a chance to seize control of the...

Philip Nelson started the final seven games at quarterback for Minnesota last season as a true freshman, including a solid performance in the Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas. But Gophers head coach Jerry Kill didn't declare Nelson the 2013 starter, in...

Minnesota coach Jerry Kill guided the team to a bowl game during his second season in Minneapolis despite some depth and injury problems in 2012. What's in store for Year 3 of the Kill era? I recently caught up with him to get his outlook for the Gop...

Jerry Kill got Minnesota back to a bowl game in his second season but needs to continue to add talent for the Gophers to become a Big Ten contender. Kill received a nice signing-day surprise when junior college linebacker De'Vondre Campbell, who h...

It's Monday, and that means it's Big Ten chat day. If you were too, um, over-enthused by last night's Super Bowl to make it to today's chat, never fear. Here's the complete transcript, and some super highlights: Max (New York): Is Derrick Green Mich...

The Super Bowl might be over, but the Super Bowl of recruiting is Wednesday. We're also getting closer and closer to the start of spring practice. So there's plenty to talk about in the Big Ten. Come on by my usual Monday Big Ten chat and we'll di...

As we've written for the past several days, Big Ten athletic directors have a whole host of decisions to make over the next few months, including how many league games they should play, how to align the divisions, the next bowl lineup and even what t...

Despite getting pulled in the final minutes of the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl, Andrew Maxwell remains Michigan State's No. 1 quarterback going into spring, head coach Mark Dantonio said at the Michigan High School Football Coaches Association on Friday....

My favorite weekend of the NFL season is upon us. I love the conference championship games, as we get two thrilling contests with none of the silliness that Super Bowl weekend brings. (And as a side note, I think the upcoming college football semifin...

As we continue to put a bow on the Big Ten's bowl season, here are some superlatives from the league's seven postseason contests: Best game: I picked the Outback Bowl as my favorite matchup before the postseason began, and Michigan and South Carol...

What we learned from the seven Big Ten bowl games: 1. Need for speed (and skill): The narrative about the Big Ten being slow is tiresome and oversimplified. But the bowls showed it's not entirely inaccurate. Whether it was Michigan struggling to c...

Ohio State didn't move up in the final Associated Press poll of the season despite Notre Dame's blowout loss in the BCS title game. Instead, Oregon -- which beat Kansas State in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl -- leapfrogged the Buckeyes, moving from No....

The Big Ten will have to place a team in the four-team playoff in Year 1 if it wants to participate in the Rose Bowl in the 2014 season. Colleague Brett McMurphy reports that the Rose and Sugar bowls will serve as semifinal sites in the first year...

Now that bowls are over, the next big date on the college football calendar is signing day. With that in mind, it's time to take a look at where each Big Ten team stands in its recruiting efforts with less than five weeks to go before high school ...

Another fantastic trip to the Rose Bowl is in the books. If you've never been, you owe it to yourself to go. Put that on your bucket list, along with getting an email answered by me in the Thursday mailbag. These lucky souls can now die happy: Dav...