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Our look at the best moment and worst moment for each Big Ten team in 2012 continues now with the Penn State Nittany Lions. Best moment: A win for the seniors The 2012 Penn State senior class earned a honored place in team history by helping ke...

Your favorite teacher is back with more grades for each Big Ten team. We're judging each squad on its offense, defense, special teams and overall performance in the 2012 regular season. Up now: the Penn State Nittany Lions. Offense: A-minus ...

Christmas is behind us, and as we wait for the new year we're seeing a lot of year-end, best-of lists. So we thought we'd get in the spirit by trying to figure out the best conference game from the Big Ten's 2012 regular season. It wasn't a year f...

After the worst day of his life as a kicker, Sam Ficken found out how many people were in his corner. The Penn State sophomore suffered through a nightmarish performance in Week 2 at Virginia, missing four of his five field goal attempts and an ex...

Remember November (third). Team of the week: They drive their fans crazy, but no one can doubt the heart and the will of the Nebraska Cornhuskers. Again on the ropes in the fourth quarter this week, they rallied from a 10-point deficit at Michigan...

When I am king of college football, one of my first moves will be to ban the phrase, "He's a good football player" from every coach's vocabulary. I can't tell you how many times I've heard that answer this week alone when Big Ten coaches were asked a...

Four more Big Ten games are set to kick off at 3:30 p.m. ET. Here's a quick preview: Boston College (1-1) at Northwestern (2-0): The Wildcats seek a 3-0 start, all against BCS AQ opponents. Their defense took a step up last week against Vanderbilt...

Michael Mauti became one of the faces of Penn State football this summer with his outspoken defense of the program in the wake of heavy NCAA sanctions. The fifth-year-senior has also said a lot with his play so far this season for the 0-2 Nittany Lio...

Penn State players and coaches have said they're sticking with Sam Ficken as their kicker despite his brutal outing last week at Virginia. The Nittany Lions now don't have many other options. Ficken's backup, freshman Matt Marcincin, has left the ...

Penn State's offense took major hits when star running back Silas Redd and top receiver Justin Brown transferred. But the Nittany Lions are beginning to find some answers in training camp. Head coach Bill O'Brien said in a teleconference with repo...

Stock it to me. Stock up Purdue's Akeems: First-year Boilermaker running backs Akeem Shavers and Akeem Hunt each had productive days against an overmatched Southeast Missouri State defense on Saturday. Shavers, a junior-college transfer who got...

Our preseason position ranking series comes to an end today with everybody's favorite group: special teams. For this ranking, we're going to consider punters, kickers and returners only. No offense to the long-snappers or the punt-team gunners, bu...