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ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The summer is about to kick off everywhere across the United States -- Memorial Day is this weekend -- which means one thing, of course. One season until football begins. As you itch to get on your boats this weekend and out...

It's Rankings Week at NittanyNation. Through Thursday, we'll rank some aspect touching on PSU heading into the 2013 season. Today we're ranking the top offensive players Penn State will face this season. Ranking the opposing offensive players 1...

Now that spring practice is over, we're examining the most indispensable players on each Big Ten team for the 2013 season. By indispensable, we don't necessarily mean best. We mean the players who would be hardest to replace between now and the st...

Editor's note: TideNation will use this week to look at the four major positions on the football field and how their outlook has changed post-spring practice. Today we examine the threats in the passing game: Who's leading? AJ McCarron is a hap...

2012 record: 10-4 2012 conference record: 7-1 (first in Legends Division, lost in Big Ten championship game) Returning starters: Offense: 7; defense: 5; kicker/punter: 0 Top returners QB Taylor Martinez, RB Ameer Abdullah, WR Kenny Bell, OG S...

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 ...

With spring practice complete and fall camp right around the corner, TideNation's power rankings return with a look at the top 10 Alabama players heading into the offseason. 1. QB AJ McCarron (Last ranking: 2): After three trips to the White House...

Spring practice is over for Alabama, and coach Nick Saban is less than satisfied with his team, as usual.

Every Legends Division head coach, along with a player from each of the six teams, participated in a Big Ten spring teleconference with the media on Wednesday. Here are some notes and updates from those teams: IOWA After six practices, the ...

DawgNation From David Ching : Among the observations from Georgia's G-Day was an offense that didn't quite click and a defense that has found some young and ready contributors. From Radi Nabulsi : G-Day brought some big-name recruits to Athens an...

Alabama has been successful under Nick Saban without big-play receivers. Now that they have a host of them, the sky's the limit for the Crimson Tide offense.

By this point in our ultimate Big Ten road trip, we're probably looking a little haggard. Too many fast-food binges, too little exercise and too much time in airports and hotels likely has made us delirious. Good thing it's just imaginary, then. W...

You're never off the court! Iowa features new faces, position changes and a new position (Y-back) as spring ball begins. Iowa's challenge on offense is simple: make more plays. The good still outweighs the bad with Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz, Pat ...

We're winding our way through the 2013 Big Ten season, armed with an unlimited travel budget, no nagging editors (or wives) and the freedom to choose where we go to watch football each weekend. It barely resembles how things actually play out in our ...

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....

Alabama has won three of the last four national titles, and might add another this season. But some major work needs to be done filling holes on the offensive line first.