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At some point before Aug. 31, Ohio State safety Christian Bryant will compile a goals sheet for his senior season and hang it in his locker. Bryant is still formulating the specifics, but he'll undoubtedly list items about interceptions, leadershi...

Election Day edition. Peter from State College, Pa., writes: I was wondering if you could explain why Manti Te'o gets so much love from the media while Michael Mauti is left out to dry. Mauti is better in most statistical categories (except INT's)...

Ryan McCrystal presents this week's Heisman Predictor rankings and evaluates the chances of Notre Dame LB Manti Te'o to win the award.

Story | Conversation | October 29, 2012

Tyrann Mathieu could be the first defensive Heisman winner since Charles Woodson in 1997. LSU is trying to keep him off-limits to the media, but Kevin Van Valkenburg hunted down the true story of the Honey Badger in ESPN The Magazine's College Footba...

Tyrann Mathieu could be the first defensive Heisman winner since Charles Woodson in 1997. But LSU is keeping him off-limits to the media. Yet Kevin Van Valkenburg in ESPN The Magazine hunted down the true story of the Honey Badger.

Our daunting assignment for Monday was to identify the top five individual seasons by a Big Ten player in the past 50 years. It was not in any way easy. There have been so many great players and great performances in this league that it seemed alm...

It's Friday. Cool, cool, cool. Ohio State has reported many secondary violations in the past year, including Urban Meyer telling Noah Spence "good luck" before a game. None of them are a big deal on their own, but all eyes are on the Buckeyes r...

It's time. If the Big Ten Champions Tournament accomplishes nothing else, at least it will let us try to settle a debate that has raged for 15 years. Bring on this long-overdue matchup of: No. 2 seed Nebraska 1997 vs. No. 3 seed Michigan 1997 ...

We've reached the third game of the first round in our Big Ten Champions Tournament, a fun little way to bring March Madness to the blog by pitting eight of the best Big Ten teams from the last 15 years. The 1997 co-national champion Nebraska Corn...

Heisman Trophy hopeful Tyrann Mathieu explains why he should be the first defensive player to win the Heisman since Charles Woodson....

Wearing jersey No. 55 is a very big deal for USC linebackers.

Ryan McGee evaluates the Heisman candidacy of LSU's Tyrann Mathieu, a player whose chances of winning might be better than you'd think for a defensive player. The numbers show that he compares favorably to 1997 winner Charles Woodson.

Blog | Conversation | October 11, 2011

The preseason award watch lists wrap up today with the Walter Camp Award, given annually to the nation's top football player. Past Big Ten winners include Ohio State QB Troy Smith (2006), Penn State RB Larry Johnson (2002), Wisconsin RB Ron Dayne (19...

NFL.com recently finished a countdown of the Top 100 players in the NFL, as voted on by the current players in the league. Brady It's a fascinating list that's sure to stir a lot of debate. But since this is a Big Ten blog, we're going ...

It's draft night! Should be a big one for the Big Ten. Urban Meyer says the Big Ten and SEC aren't too far part, Sam McKewon writes in the Omaha World-Herald. The Big Ten might be lacking in top 10 draft picks, but NFL teams still look to the lea...

LSU's Patrick Peterson received his Jim Thorpe Award, given to the best defensive back in college football, at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum on Monday night.