Okay. Well, that was an interesting week. That is, if you like chaos. Northwestern threw a huge wrench into the Big Ten cog, and might have the BCS muckity-mucks sidling up to the Boise State faithful to see how they’ll like Tempe.

We’ll review a couple of the games from this past weekend, look ahead to the huge events coming up this weekend, and reexamine the Big Ten Bowl picture.

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It was a wild, if not entirely competitive week last week for the Big Ten. Ohio State and Wisconsin won blowouts, and Illinois beat up Michigan in a games that wasn’t nearly as close as the 25 point spread suggested. Wild second halves made Iowa and Penn State winners in games that were close at halftime. And Minnesota had a big win against Michigan State, despite the loss of Eric Decker.

I know you’re thinking, what are you going to discuss? Well, let’s just see what a bit of stream of consciousness gets us, shall we?

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The football this past weekend was, mostly, uneventful (Iowa-Michigan State notwithstanding). However, around the league, many more interesting things were going on that, for once, made me thankful that the schedule(s) that I keep have pushed this back towards a later in the week process.

So, let’s discuss the Iowa Hawkeyes, Eric Decker, and the rest of the Big Ten in the week 8 recap.

It’s ok to be afraid… it’s only Halloween!

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We’re midway through the college football season for the Big Ten, and not all the schools have decided to focus solely on basketball just yet. Purdue, Iowa and Penn State put up huge victories this past weekend, while Michigan State, Michigan and Indiana put up moderately important wins as well. We’ll discuss the three big games, talk a little about the outlook for the rest of the year, and have some fun.

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So, week 6 was a… less than interesting week in the Big Ten. Three of the schools had non-conference games, and only Ohio State, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa had real tests, since they played each other. The round robin of “good” teams will continue this coming week. But why not see what we learned after this latest slate of games.

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Welcome to another edition of the Big Ten Recap. Despite some lackluster games, and an unfortunate computer crash, we were able to get through the games and answer some questions this week. But much like Lost, the more questions that were answered, the more other questions came up.

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Week 3 of the Big Ten season was… underwhelming. Conference play begins for real next weekend, and teams went light on the scheduling in anticipation of a rough eight games from here to the end of the year. That doesn’t mean there wasn’t some good stuff out there.

Be forewarned, it was a busy weekend, so I was only able to burn through a handful of games (not that I missed much), so we might run a bit shorter this week… though I do have a nice little soapbox moment ahead.

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Week two in the Big Ten saw the league take on some bigger fish and tighter games. Seven of the eleven games were decided by one touchdown or less, including one upset, one shocker and a number of games that we’ll remember at the end of the season. Let’s see what we REALLY learned this past week though.

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