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So if the Big Ten East is the "Big Boy Division," does that make the West the "Andre 3000 Division?" The East-West split has pluses and minuses, Lee Barfknecht writes. The NFL draft was a slow one both for Ohio State and the Big Ten in general....

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...

Monday got you down? The Monday mailbag is here to lift you up. Andrew from Omaha, Neb., writes: After listening to all of the local media (and more than a few here on the blog) freak out about the new divisional alignments, it's made me do a litt...

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....

Monday mail musings: John from Chicago writes: Hi, Brian: Ohio State is receiving a lot of hype this year since they were undefeated last year and have recruited very well in the last several years, but am I crazy in thinking they might have just ...

Exercise? Yes, lovemaking and woodworking. Is there a history of mental illness in your family? I have an uncle who does yoga. Allergies? Cowardice and weak-willed men. And hazelnuts. What to expect from what should be a chilly Illinois spri...

New Wisconsin coach Gary Andersen is still learning about his team. So much so that when I caught up with him this week to preview the Badgers spring practice (which starts Saturday), he didn't want to talk about individual players yet. But he'll se...

We kicked off our 2013 postseason position rankings on Monday with a look at the quarterbacks. Let's keep it rolling by staying in the backfield and ranking the running back position for each Big Ten team. We're basing this solely on last year's p...

It's awards season in Hollywood, as the film industry lines up to congratulate itself again and again until we're all sick of it before the Oscars. But, hey, some performances do need recognition. With that in mind, we're listing the Top 10 indivi...

PASADENA, Calif. -- After he'd finished all his Rose Bowl postgame media obligations, Barry Alvarez took one last stroll through the Wisconsin locker room to talk to some players. He embraced redshirt freshman Derek Watt and told him, "You're going t...

Three keys for Wisconsin in today's Rose Bowl Game presented by Vizio: 1. Open it up: Wisconsin is Wisconsin, so of course the Badgers are going to do everything they can to run the ball. But even their offensive line is going to have trouble simp...

In the six years before Gary Andersen took over as head coach at Utah State, the Aggies went 15-54. Their last winning season was in 1996. Andersen went 4-8 each of his first two years in Logan, Utah, but then guided the team to a 7-6 mark that in...

With just one game during the weekend, we'll dispense with the usual categories and do things a little differently with the rewind. Here's the good, the bad and the ugly from Wisconsin's 70-31 win over Nebraska in the Big Ten championship game. Th...

Recognizing the best and brightest from the Big Ten championship game: Wisconsin's running backs: What a breathtaking performance the Badgers' trio of backs put on in Indianapolis. Montee Ball showed why he's still arguably the best back in the co...

The Wisconsin offensive film session on Sunday figured to be a treat. After all, the Badgers had just run for a school-record 564 yards during a 62-14 win at Indiana in one of the most dominant performances of the year. So the players could just g...

We take a look inside the Big Ten trends, with no insider trading needed. Stock up James White: While Montee Ball understandably is getting all the attention right now, don't forget the job Wisconsin's No. 2 back is doing. White rushed for 161 ...