Big Ten Conference officials announced on Monday the names it will use for its football divisions. What do you think of Legends and Leaders? poll by twiigs.com
The Big Ten announced Sunday it would seek no further expansion. “Although the conference will continue to monitor the intercollegiate landscape, it will not be actively engaged in conference expansion for the foreseeable future and does not expect to be proactively seeking new members,” the conference said in a statement. ...
Shuffling across the college sports landscape has started again. In recent days, Texas Christian fled the Mountain West for the Big East, geography overcome by the lure of an automatic-qualifying bid to a BCS bowl. UMass, meanwhile, is pondering a football-only move to the Mid-American Conference. Could the Big Ten ...
There's been plenty of talk, as the Big Ten prepares for divisional alignment, about maintaining the annual Michigan-Ohio State rivalry. While everybody involved seems confident that 'The Game' will continue each year, the Columbus Dispatch writes today that it being the last game of the regular season -- as it ...
The first Big Ten football championship game will be in a dome. The conference announced Thursday it awarded the game to Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, the home of the NFL's Indianapolis Colts. The game will be played in December 2011. "We felt at this time it was important to ...
A little bit of the mundane. A little bit of the unusual. The annual Big Ten media days kicked off with a jumble of activity Monday in Chicago. Conference commissioner Jim Delany and football coaches discussed expansion, a conference championship game and other league matters.Then there was this line of questioning ...
GROSSE POINTE WOODS - Big Ten athletic directors will meet Monday and Tuesday in Chicago to discuss conference realignment and get an update on expansion, but that doesn’t mean firm plans will be adopted during the league’s football media days next week. Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez said Thursday at ...
Call me a cynic, but I’m skeptical of the recent New York Post article suggesting the Big Ten’s next move in expansion is to the Big Apple. Remember how fast the rumor mill churned last month? The Big Ten was growing to 16 teams. Texas was bolting for the Pac-10. ...
The upcoming college football season has plenty of great, heart-warming storylines. Here's one thing it's lacking. A good villain. The University of Nebraska could earn the title, writes Dave Curtis at SportingNews.com.
No doubt, the focus of Jim Delany's press conference next week will likely revolve around the addition of Nebraska to the Big Ten Conference. Perhaps the focus should be somewhere else, writes Lenny Robbins of the New York Post.
DALLAS (AP) — Nebraska has been picked to leave the Big 12 in style. The Cornhuskers, who are bolting for the Big Ten in 2011, are the unanimous choice to repeat as Big 12 North champions in the league's preseason media poll.
Ndamukong Suh, the Detroit Lions' first-round draft pick and a former Nebraska star, says seeing the Cornhuskers enter the Big Ten is "a bittersweet feeling because I played in the Big 12. And I always loved saying, 'I'm from the Big 12." Suh spoke to ESPN blogger David Ubben, and ...
Four schools have changed conferences so far in NCAA realignment. Which conference do you think has made out best so far? poll by twiigs.com
DETROIT - A month ago, Rich Rodriguez expected the Big Ten to go big in expansion. Not any more. A week after Nebraska joined the conference, Rodriguez said Thursday he expects the Big Ten to settle in at 12 teams. “I did think (the league would grow to 14 or ...
When Nebraska joined the Big Ten last week, NFL Network host Rich Eisen, an unabashed Michigan alum, tweeted, “Can Nebraska's price of admission in Big 10 please include giving Michigan back half of its national championship from 1997?” An odd fit in some ways, the Cornhuskers enter their new league ...
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