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Indiana's quest to get bowl eligible could hinge on its Big Ten opener Oct. 5 against Penn State, a team the Hoosiers never have beaten....

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Penn State's 2013 recruiting class will report to campus in less than a month, and several players could play a huge role on the team this season. This is Bill O'Brien's first real class, and fans should catch an early glimps...

We're less than 100 days away from the kickoff of the 2013 season. Hooray. Want another reason to celebrate? There's just one more season to go before the BCS officially dies and we get a new, four-team college football playoff. As the BCS era -- ...

NORCROSS, Ga. -- ESPN 150 defensive end Lorenzo Carter seems to never stop grinning, even on the football field. His 100-megawatt smile calls to mind another affable defensive end, Michael Strahan, complete with the trademark gap. Even a shoving matc...

It was the first practice of the season, and Nicholas Abramson's youth football coach went up and down the line asking his players who their favorite athletes were. Tom Brady, Peyton Manning and all the usual suspects were rattled off. Then his co...

Blog | May 22, 2013

Follow us on Twitter. Let's get to those emails ... Jeremy from Columbus writes: With regards to the future Big Ten schedules (2016 and beyond), will we go to a system of staggered crossover games? Since we went to divisions, we've played two non-...

100 days away ... Illinois is very much in the mix for Oklahoma State QB transfer Wes Lunt. Illini coach Tim Beckman and his assistants are social-media machines. A great look inside a week with Michigan offensive coordinator Al Borges. Michiga...

Welcome to Twitter, Teddy. Colleague Ted Miller says that college football spring prognosticators turn into fun fodder. Former Oklahoma State quarterback Wes Lunt has not visited Louisville yet, but is sincerely considering Illinois, colleague ...

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 each opponent on Penn State's schedule, from the most difficult test to the easiest. Ranking the schedu...

Good news: We are just 100 days away from the start of college football. To mark the occasion, we're pulling out a checklist today of things that Big Ten teams need to accomplish between now and the start of the season. It's not quite "The Final C...

BuckeyeNation Brad Bournival writes : WR commit Lonnie Johnson has the size (6-foot-2, 180 pounds) and speed (sub 4.5-second 40-yard dash) to become a major deep threat for the Buckeyes. Austin Ward writes: Here's a ranking of OSU's opponents f...

Pitt isn't the only team in need of an ACC rival. The good news in the ACC is that six teams -- Florida State, Clemson, Georgia Tech, Wake Forest, Virginia and Virginia Tech already have rivalries in place should the ACC decide to reserve the fina...

I missed our correspondence during my vacation. Let's let the letters commence: Alex from New York writes: As a Michigan fan, the release of the new schedules starting in 2014 is pretty infuriating. Both MSU and OSU on the road in a given year? Ar...

It was a Thursday night in late April and Alex Bookser (Pittsburgh/Mount Lebanon) was watching the NFL draft. A 6-foot-6, 295-pound prospect, Bookser is being recruited as a lineman on both sides of the ball. Bookser was an offensive lineman by th...

Blog | May 20, 2013

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...

Gov. Tom Corbett will learn within the next few weeks whether his federal lawsuit against the NCAA over the penalties handed down against Penn State will be allowed to continue, following a nearly two-hour hearing Monday in Harrisburg.