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?
If you’ll follow me…
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.
Let’s move on, shall we? And maybe save the Pub the silence of a NASCAR post. (Don’t worry boss, I was right there with you!) (more…)
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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