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The Big Ten made news a little more than a week ago by announcing its new division alignment for the 2014 season, as well as a move to nine conference games beginning in 2016. We covered all the news here and here and here, but several components of ...

The Big Ten made big news Sunday by announcing its new division alignment for the 2014 season, as well as a move to nine conference games beginning in 2016. We covered all the news here and here and here, but several components of the moves merit fur...

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 ...

Unless you've been living in a world without ESPN, the Internet or sports talk radio, you're well aware that the NFL draft begins Thursday night. What will the weekend hold for Big Ten products? Who will be the top pick from the league? Which play...

On Wednesday, the head coach and one player from each Big Ten Legends Division team participated in a spring football teleconference with the media. On Thursday, it was the Leaders Division's turn. Here are some notes and updates from the call: Il...

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...

We'd love to have an unlimited travel budget, free reign on our choice of assignments and the ability to go to the best Big Ten game on the schedule every week. But like MGMT once sang, we're fated to pretend. And pretending we are with this ultim...

We're back with our picks on which Big Ten games we would attend in 2013 if we had an unlimited travel budget and total control over what we cover. A magical world, if you will. We're limiting ourselves to one game per week and trying to diversify...

Adventure? Excitement? A Big Ten blogger craves not these things. Unless we're talking our gameday trips, and then we want to be at the best venues for the best possible matchups. Alas, we don't have an unlimited travel budget or complete freedom ...

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....

The Big Ten won only two bowl games this season, but several players stood out around the league. Let's take a look at ESPN.com's Big Ten All-Bowl squad ... OFFENSE QB: Devin Gardner, Michigan -- There weren't many good choices around the le...

By now you should be quite familiar with the Big Ten's bowl lineup and have an understanding of just how challenging some of the games appear. The question we're tackling today is, what if? What if 12-0 Ohio State and 8-4 Penn State weren't on pro...

Ohio State junior defensive tackle Johnathan Hankins announced on Monday that he would skip his senior season and enter the NFL draft, where he is expected to be a first-round pick. Several other draft-eligible underclassmen from the Big Ten will ...

The Big Ten doesn't name an official all-freshman team, but that won't stop us from coming up with our own. There were many impressive debuts this year in the league, and several players showed off promising potential. Here is our 2012 all-freshma...

As you may have noticed, we weren't exactly big fans of the official All-Big Ten teams that were announced last month. We don't claim to know more about football than the league's coaches, not for a second. But after watching every Big Ten game al...

For the first time this fall, we can say that bowl projections are actually pretty easy this week. All the Big Ten regular-season games are done, so we know exactly which teams are going bowling and which teams are not. And unless Wisconsin pulls ...