College Football Spotlight: Battered Big Ten Is Beleaguered, But Not Beaten Just Yet
Unfortunately for the Big Ten, the chance to prove itself on the national stage in 2014 has officially been missed.
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Unfortunately for the Big Ten, the chance to prove itself on the national stage in 2014 has officially been missed.
The Big Ten has been fighting a perception for the last few years that it has fallen a step behind the rest of the major college football world, and Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio was armed with a quick rebuttal when the question came up again Tuesday.
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With just over two weeks remaining before its season opener, it appears No. 5 Ohio State has already sustained a devastating loss.
Going into the season, this might not be where you would think the Wolverines and Spartans should be ranked.
Fresh off a Rose Bowl win and a Big Ten Championship, Michigan State isn't the favorite to win the Big Ten (Ohio State is). Sports Illustrated has ranked the Spartans 6 in the preseason rankings.
The Maryland Terrapins feel the timing couldn't be better for them to enter the Big Ten.
It wasn't until November last year — after Michigan State pounded rival Michigan — that the idea of the Spartans playing in the Rose Bowl started to feel like a serious possibility.
In conjunction with ESPN, the Big Ten and Atlantic Coast Conferences, the University of Michigan men's basketball team announced today a 7:30 p.m. tipoff time for the Wolverines' game against Syracuse in the 2014 ACC/Big Ten Challenge. The Tuesday, Dec. 2, game at Crisler Center will be televised on ESPN.
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The rankings might surprise you, especially if you thought that the defending conference champion and Rose Bowl-winning Spartans were the best team in the Big Ten.
Another day, another mistake -- This time by Ohio State.
Hoke and the Wolverines finished outside the AP Top 25 last season after a bowl loss to Kansas State, while rival Michigan State won the Big Ten title and the Rose Bowl.
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With the Spartans so clearly on the rise, Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio said handling success will be the team's next hurdle.
"It's as competitive a team as I've been around," Hoke said. "That is exactly what, as Michigan, the leaders and the best, we should have,"
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The Big Ten welcomes Maryland and Rutgers into the fold for 2014 and realigned their divisions into a much more logical East and West format.
As Maryland weighed the possibility of shifting from the Atlantic Coast Conference to the Big Ten, athletic director Kevin Anderson asked Terrapins football coach Randy Edsall his opinion of the bold, ambitious move.
The Big Ten and Big East will hold a press conference in New York on Monday, and a source told CBSSports.com the two leagues will formally announce an agreement to open each men's basketball season with what amounts to a Big Ten/Big East Challenge.
While it hasn't had the most success on the field in recent years as its conference counterparts, there's one area the Big Ten has been able to maintain its dominance: revenue.
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