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Two Big Ten teams are out and a new one is in the latest BCS standings. Nebraska, coming off its 23-9 win at home over Michigan, debuts in standings at No. 20. That's actually one spot higher than the Huskers are in the USA Today coaches and Harri...

The latest Associated Press and USA Today coaches' polls are out, and the story is much the same for the Big Ten. Ohio State is a top-10 team in the AP but is absent from the coaches' rankings because of its probation. Michigan is the only other leag...

The latest college football polls are out, and the news is as rough as expected for the Big Ten. The league does not have a team in the top 15 of either the Associated Press or USA Today coaches' poll. Ohio State is the top-ranked team in the AP p...

Michigan leads a group of four Big Ten teams in the first USA Today coaches' Top 25 of the 2012 season. The Wolverines, coming off their 11-2 season and Sugar Bowl win, are ranked No. 8 in the coaches' preseason rankings. They will have their hand...

Big East commissioner John Marinatto has come under fire for what has happened to this league in the past year. Understandably so. The league has been transformed into a collection of former Conference USA teams, with only one original member left...

Salaries for coaches and assistants continue to rise throughout college football. Big East teams have followed in that trend as well. USA Today once again did an incredible job compiling financial information on assistant coach pay, with a searcha...

The USA Today coaches' poll is shrouded in secrecy until the final ballots are out. Then it becomes very interesting to see how each coach -- especially those with some serious self-interest at stake -- ranked the teams. You can see how each coach vo...

The Big East remained behind Conference USA and the Mountain West in the latest ESPN Stats & Information power rankings, and it did not help the league to have zero teams ranked in the AP Top 25. Thanks to Cincinnati dropping out of the rankin...

Say hello to your new highest-ranked team in the Big Ten: Penn State. The 8-1 Nittany Lions didn't play Saturday but benefited as two other ranked teams in the league lost. Penn State is now ranked No. 12 in both the Associated Press and USA Today...

Michigan is moving on up. The 5-0 Wolverines are ranked No. 12 in the latest Associated Press poll and are 11th in the new USA Today coaches' poll. The team was never ranked that high under Rich Rodriguez and hasn't sniffed this kind of real estat...

Game on, Louisville. Tennessee's receivers will be a big test for Cincinnati's defensive backs. Receiver D.J. Woods says the game "isn't the Super Bowl." The same columnist who dismissed Cincinnati as a C-USA team writes Zach Collaros could be t...

West Virginia debuted at No. 24 in the Associated Press preseason rankings, giving the Big East one team in the Top 25. No Big East team is ranked in the USA Today coaches' poll. Excitement is high for the Mountaineers with new head coach Dana Hol...

Here's a sure sign that the season is just around the corner: We have our first major preseason poll. The USA Today coaches poll just came out, and remember this one counts as part of the formula for the BCS standings. Five Big Ten teams will star...

Louisville (6-6) returns to postseason play for the first time since the 2007 Orange Bowl on Tuesday night against former Conference USA rival Southern Miss (8-4). The teams nearly came to blows this week in what was supposed to be an innocuous dance...

Connecticut will represent the Big East in the BCS, but none of the league's head coaches who voted in the USA Today Top 25 think the Huskies are the best team in the conference. Rutgers' Greg Schiano, Cincinnati's Butch Jones, Louisville's Charli...

Well, at least the Big East has a presence in this year's polls. A year after being shut out in both major preseason rankings, the league now has two teams in the first USA Today Coaches' Top 25. Pittsburgh, the preseason conference favorite, chec...