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With spring in the books for more than a month, the long march through the offseason and back to football is only beginning. But BuckeyeNation is going to keep doing its part to speed up the journey -- or at least make it more interesting. This week,...

CBSSports.com's Bruce Feldman has come out with his popular annual "Freaks" list, which examines the top workout warriors in college football. Feldman lists 20 freakish athletes, and it includes three Big Ten players. Checking in at No. 2 in the r...

Is it really already time for preseason watch lists? I guess football must be getting near. The Lott IMPACT Trophy has released its 2013 watch list, and it includes seven Big Ten players on the initial group of 42 nominees. The award goes to the d...

1. Big Ten offenses will emphasize the pass more in 2013. Indiana was the only Big Ten team to finish in the top 30 nationally in pass offense last season, and seven league squads finished 94th or worse. Greater balance is the goal around much of the...

2012 record: 8-6 2012 conference record: 4-4 (third in Leaders Division, Big Ten champions) Returning starters Offense: 8; defense: 7; kicker/punter: 2 Top returners LB Chris Borland, S Dezmen Southward, LB Ethan Armstrong, RB James Wh...

The NFL draft starts tonight after endless months of hype. Here at the Big Ten blog, we thought, "Why should the NFL guys get to have all the fun of making mock drafts?" So we're going to out-mock the mockers by creating our own, totally fake Big ...

We're taking a page from our friends at the ACC blog and examining whether certain Big Ten teams will be contenders or pretenders in the 2013 season. The series does not include Ohio State, Michigan or Nebraska, three teams that, in our view, have ea...

We'll recap the Michigan State, Penn State and Wisconsin spring games on Monday. Wishing you a happy and safe weekend. After this week, we need it. To the emails ... Andrew from Fremont, Ind., writes: Adam you went to Purdue this spring and aft...

Want to see what Gary Andersen's first Wisconsin team will look like? You can get a sneak peek when the Badgers hold their annual spring game Saturday. Here's the latest in our series of previews of the Big Ten spring games: When: Saturday, 5 p.m....

If you haven't done so already, check out the Michigan State spring practice live blog as the spring bus tour rolls through East Lansing. To the links ... Penn State coach Bill O'Brien is always thinking about the program's future. The Lions' ...

Chris Borland's new title (inside linebacker) might not carry as much flair as his old one (middle linebacker), but his role remains just as important for Wisconsin's defense. Perhaps even more so. Wisconsin's transition from a base 4-3 defense...

MADISON, Wis. -- When Gary Andersen arrived at Utah State in December 2008, he didn't spend much time looking back. Some would say he didn't want to strain his eyes. At the time, Utah State barely seemed worthy of FBS citizenship. The Aggies had e...

We're nearing the halfway point of our journey through the Big Ten. In a perfect world, there would be no budgetary restrictions or editors (whoops, did we just type that?), and we could simply pick the games we'll attend each week during the season....

We're back with our picks on which Big Ten games we would attend in 2013 if we had an unlimited travel budget and total control over what we cover. A magical world, if you will. We're limiting ourselves to one game per week and trying to diversify...

Some day soon, we're sure we'll convince our bosses to give us an unlimited travel budget and our pick of games to attend each week. But in the meantime, we'll simply imagine how we would travel each week during the 2013 season if that were the case....

Let's get to it ... Radi from Bangkok writes: Hey Adam, If the B1G wants to to expand to 18 teams, create 3 divisions and play 5 divisional games, with 2 cross-over games with each of the other 2 divisions, then invite Virginia, North Carolina and...