2023 Peach Bowl Preview | Ole Miss vs Penn State
The 2023 Peach Bowl is taking place at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. We have the matchup of the 10-2 Ole Miss Rebels going up against the 10-2 Penn State Nittany Lions. Ole Miss comes into this on...
2023 Cotton Bowl Preview | Ohio State vs Missouri
The 2023 Cotton Bowl is taking place at AT&T Stadium in Dallas, Texas. We have the matchup of the 10-2 Missouri Tigers and the 11-1 Ohio State Buckeyes. Missouri comes into this one winning their ...
2023 Pinstripe Bowl Preview | Rutgers vs Miami (FL)
The 2023 Pinstripe Bowl is taking place at Yankee Stadium in New York. We have a matchup of the 6-6 Rutgers Scarlet Knights and the 7-5 Miami Hurricanes. Rutgers comes into this one losing their last ...
2023 Quick Lane Bowl Preview | Bowling Green vs Minnesota
The 2023 Quick Lane Bowl matchup is taking place at Ford Field in Detroit, with the matchup of the 7-5 Bowling Green Falcons and the 5-7 Minnesota Golden Gophers. Bowling Green comes into this one win...
2023 Las Vegas Bowl Preview | Northwestern vs. Utah
The 2023 Las Vegas Bowl features a matchup between two Power Five schools, with the (8-4) Utah Utes set to face the (7-5) Northwestern Wildcats. Utah enters this game with four wins in their last seve...
5 Things We Learned From College Football Week One
With the first full week of college football in the books, we learned a ton about the direction of this college football season. We saw a couple of double-digit favorites lose outright and we saw the ...
2023 Michigan Wolverines Football Preview
The Michigan Wolverines have made it to back-to-back college football playoffs. They have won two straight Big Ten titles as well and they are going to try to three-peat in the Big Ten in 2023. Jim Ha...
2023 Ohio State Buckeyes Football Preview
The Ohio State Buckeyes are looking to get back to the College Football Playoff in 2023. Ohio State brings back a ton of talent on offense and the defense looks to take a step forward under second yea...
2023 Michigan State Spartans Football Preview
The Michigan State Spartans took a huge step back in 2022 as they went 5-7 last season. In the year prior, they won 11 games and were a top ten team in the country. Head coach Mel Tucker has a lot of ...
2023 Penn State Nittany Lions Football Preview
Penn State is looking to build off of last season’s success. They have 14 total returning starters and are poised to push Michigan and Ohio State for the Big Ten title in 2023. This Nittany Lions te...
2023 Minnesota Golden Gophers Football Preview
P.J. Fleck has helped Minnesota win nine games in back to back seasons. This team has the potential to be a sneaky team in the Big Ten West. Just when you think they are out, the Golden Gophers have f...
2023 Nebraska Cornhuskers Football Preview
The Matt Rhule era is officially underway in Lincoln. Nebraska had some tough years with Scott Frost as the head coach of the program. Frost failed to win more than five games in a season and the Corn...
2023 Northwestern Wildcats Football Preview
Everything is changing in Evanston, Illinois. Northwestern has their first season without Pat Fitzgerald since 2006. The Wildcats have won just four games in the last two seasons. A whole culture chan...
2023 Purdue Boilermakers Football Preview
The Purdue Boilermakers are in the middle of a shake-up heading into 2023. Purdue has a first year head coach in Ryan Walters, who last season was the Illinois defensive coordinator. Last year, this t...
2023 Rutgers Scarlet Knights Football Preview
Greg Schiano’s second stint has not been great so far. He is 12-22 in those three seasons, which is not like what he did in his first stint at Rutgers. However, this could be a season where Rutg...
2023 Maryland Terrapins Football Preview
Last year, Maryland won eight games, which was the most they have won in a single season since 2010. Head coach Mike Locksley has bounced back the last two seasons and they think they have a chance to...
2023 Iowa Hawkeyes Football Preview
The Iowa Hawkeyes have been a Big Ten West contender for awhile now. They haven’t won under seven games in a season since 2012. Kirk Ferentz has been a staple for this Iowa program since 1999. Last ...
2023 Indiana Hoosiers Football Preview
The Indiana Hoosiers are trying to improve from their 6-18 record over the last two seasons and have won only two Big Ten games since the 2021 season. Head coach Tom Allen wants to get this team on tr...
2023 Illinois Football Preview
The Fighting Illini had its first winning season since 2011 last year. They also won five games in the Big Ten which is something they haven’t done since 2007. Head coach Bret Bielema has his work c...
2023 Wisconsin Badgers Football Preview
The Luke Fickell era in Madison is officially underway. Wisconsin is looking to get back to the Big Ten title game for the first time since 2019. The Badgers are poised for a run at the Big Ten West t...
2023 Big Ten Tournament Predictions
This Big Ten conference is full of competitive teams that are consistently beating up on one another. There is a “favorite” in Purdue, but I am not sold on the Boilermakers. I have seen th...
Steven Crowl is Turning Into Frank Kaminsky and Nobody is Talking About It
Last Night, Steven Crowl added another impressive performance to his game log this season. Crowl, the junior forward, put up 21 points and 11 rebounds, his 2nd game with 20 and 10 on the season. While...
2022 Rose Bowl Betting Trends | Penn State vs. Utah – The Don’s Best Bet
The Rose Bowl is a very prestigious game that we all look forward to every single season. It goes national title game, Rose Bowl and then every other game. We get the Pac 12 champion going up against ...
2022 Citrus Bowl Betting Trends | LSU vs. Purdue -The Don’s Best Bet
The Citrus Bowl is a power-five matchup between the SEC and the Big Ten. LSU will be representing the SEC while the Big Ten is represented by Purdue. Both teams are looking to rebound from losses in t...
2022 Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl Betting Trends | Ohio State vs. Georgia – The Don’s Best Bet
When Ohio State lost to Michigan, it not only lost a shot at a Big Ten Championship, but seemingly lost all hope for the College Football Playoff. But a stunning USC loss to Utah gave the Buckeyes hop...
2022 TransPerfect Music City Bowl Betting Trends | Iowa vs. Kentucky – The Don’s Best Bet
The Iowa Hawkeyes and Kentucky Wildcats have played against each other one time in the history of college football. That matchup occurred in the Vrbo Citrus Bowl 364 days ago. After both schools regre...
2022 Duke’s Mayo Bowl Betting Trends | Maryland vs. North Carolina State – The Don’s Best Bet
It’s a rivalry reignited for the 2022 iteration of the Duke’s Mayo Bowl between two former conference foes. The Big Ten takes on the ACC with the Maryland Terrapins going up against the No...
2022 Pinstripe Bowl Betting Trends | Syracuse vs. Minnesota – The Don’s Best Bet
The Pinstripe Bowl has a power five conference showdown on its hands this year. We have the ACC going up against the Big Ten in this year’s game. The matchup is between the Syracuse Orange and t...
2022 Guaranteed Rate Bowl Betting Trends | Wisconsin vs. Oklahoma State – The Don’s Best Bet
If this Guaranteed Rate Bowl matchup was brought to me at the beginning of the season, I would have been beyond excited for this matchup. Now seeing where these teams are, it is just a disappointing b...
Pay-Off College Parlay: Dillon Hepp’s 2022 Week 7 College Picks
Some might use a ROTH IRA or 401K for their long-term investment strategy. I consider college football spreads my chosen path to early retirement. Student loans, engagement rings, sketchy characters i...
2021 Big Ten Tournament Preview
Bracket Favorite: Michigan (+150) The Juwan Howard-led Michigan Wolverines ended the season with a 19-3 record, placing them No. 2 in the Top 25. Freshman big man Hunter Dickinson posted a stat line o...
Ohio State QB Justin Fields Starts Petition Urging Big Ten to Reconsider Season
Ohio State quarterback Justin Fields has started a petition requesting the Big Ten immediately reinstate the 2020 football season. As of 4 p.m. ET Sunday, the petition had over 1240,000 signatures. In...
Rutgers, stay in your lane
2020 may not have a college football season. That is still up in the air and who knows what in the hell is going to happen. But, Big Ten presidents did meet this past weekend to discuss this decision....
What Happens to a Dream Deferred?
I love Langston Hughes. He’s one of the twentieth century’s most influential voices and he could flat-out make me feel things. My favorite poem of his is Harlem. It talks about a ‘dr...
I disagree With TIME Magazine
Greta Thunberg is TIME Magazine’s person of the year. It’s a trivial award. The magazine’s only purpose is to look cool. If you have one on the train or at the airport, you look smar...
For Whom Does the Rivalry Bell Toll?
One of the worst feelings in life is that of impending doom, the feeling that something bad is about to happen and you can do nothing to stop it. You’re at a crossroads, you still think that you...
I’m unhappy with the College Football Playoff
The table is officially set for two SEC teams in the CFP. We’ve all been bamboozled. The BCS is alive and well under new management. The Playoff is a scam. I’m fine with LSU in the top spo...
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
One of the most fascinating things about America is our extensive folklore. We have the benefit of being such a big, diverse nations. There are so many different subcultures in the United States. Each...
Week 11 AAR: Row That Boat
This is why we love college football. LSU Triumphs Joe Burrow has gone from backing up Dwayne Haskins to establishing himself as arguably the best quarterback in the nation. Has a grad-transfer quarte...
Week 7 AAR: Yikes, Georgia
The State of Georgia is in flames like it’s 1865 all over again. Much like Gone With the Wind, last week started with so much optimism in the State of Georgia. The Braves lost (twice, got elimin...
Week 5 AAR: Let the Coaching Carou$el Begin
Week five is over? Happy Trails, Chris Ash Rutgers fired Chris Ash today. Tough to blame them after he posted a 3-26 record in Big Ten play. The Scarlet Knights’ only win this season came in the...
Midweek Report: Nats Clinch, UCF-Boise, D’Eriq King
It’s Wednesday night. There’s no MACtion. There’s no football. But there’s still plenty to talk about between those blessed Saturdays. Without further adieu, the very first Mid...
Week Four After Action Report: When Dubya Was in Office
Michigan Ded Wisconsin absolutely dominated Michigan en route to a 35-14 win in Madison. Wisconsin RB Jonathan Taylor is the first player to ever rush for 200 yards against Michigan. A stadium full of...
Week Four Points of Interest
The points of interest is back. This is essentially just me rambling about the things I’m most interested this week. He’s got a great personality! Clay Helton could be the nicest guy in th...
Week Three After Action Report
This has turned into a weekly thing at this point. My favorite thing about college football is the variety that it offers. All sorts of cool stuff happens in this sport. Without further delay, here...
Week Three Points of Interest
I’m just gonna dive right into this thing. I don’t have anything interesting to open with this week. Actually, here’s a fun fact; if he had never scored a goal, Wayne Gretzky would s...
CFB Week Two After Action Report
There’s nothing better than the first big week of the season. Plenty of intriguing matchups on the board turned into a pretty fun Saturday. From start to finish, this was a great day of football...
NCAA Week 1 After Action Report
College football is officially back. In my preview, I declared this particular iteration of games lackluster. On paper, it was pretty accurate, we only had one top-25 matchup. But college football has...
2019 CFB Preview: Big Ten Power Rankings
Since scrapping the Leaders and Legends divisions six years ago, the East has dominated the West in the Big Ten. The gap might be shrinking a tiny bit, but for now the most pessimistic view for the Ea...
Ranking the Big Ten Starting Quarterbacks
Football in the Big Ten has always featured some of the greatest players and has had some of the best competition in college football since the conference’s inception in 1896. With the 2019 season a...
Big Ten Season Preview: Is the Big Ten In B1G Trouble?
Big 10 Season Preview: Let us all take a moment and rewind back to December of 2018, shall we? Ohio State just routed Northwestern 45-24 in the Big Ten Championship in Indy (you cannot blame that one ...
Shea Patterson is Good!
A year ago I was very critical of Shea Patterson. What I didn’t realize is that at Michigan, there were a number of factors beyond his control that would help him tremendously. Michigan had perh...
2019 CFB Preview: Iowa Hawkeyes
The Iowa Hawkeyes… One of the nations most consistent programs led by the longest tenured coach in college football. Iowa looks to break through in the Big Ten West led by third year starter and...
Is Michigan State Football Ready to Contend Again?
The Spartan faithful want to continue to believe in Mark Dantonio and his program’s resilience. They responded to a season that saw them win only three games by winning ten. Last year, they brou...
Minnesota’s Sweep of Michigan: By The Numbers
The Gophers banished Michigan to the shadow realm and earned themselves a day off on Sunday. Instead of playing in a win-or-go-home Game Three, they’ll get to drink a few beers, watch some golf ...
Big Ten Quarterfinal Preview: Wisconsin @ Penn State
Wisconsin could have finished last in the conference were it not for their monumental sweep of Michigan last weekend. Their reward is a trip to Hockey Valley to play against the Big Ten’s (and t...
Big Ten Quarterfinal Preview: Michigan @ Minnesota
Michigan absolutely bombed their regular season finale against Wisconsin. Two OT losses saw the Wolverines slip all the way to second-to-last place above only Michigan State. That’s a major red-...
Big Ten Quarterfinal Preview: Michigan State @ Notre Dame
Michigan State limped into a last-place finish in Big Ten play after splitting their last series with Ohio State. The Spartans needed to sweep the Big Ten champs to even hope to avoid a road trip to a...
Big Ten Season Grades
The regular season is over. Handing out grades for each team’s season before we dive into the conference tournament....
National Player of the Year: Gustafson by a Mile
Respect The Name I have seen plenty of articles about the National Player of the Year debate in Women’s Basketball. Many of these articles have slept on or totally missed Megan Gustafson. One of...
Big Ten Wrap-up: Wrapped up
Ohio State ran away with the Big Ten regular season crown. Are they a lock for the conference tournament?...
Illinois is (most likely) rejoining the NCAA Ranks
All indications point toward Illinois putting out a D1 hockey team for the first time in decades....
Justin Fields is Eligible Immediately
Ohio State was facing a dire situation at quarterback. Incumbent starter Dwayne Haskins declared for the NFL draft and Tathan Martell transferred to the University of Miami. While all this was going o...
Big Ten Recap, Preview
Big Ten Hockey Hockey season is winding down making every weekend absolutely crucial. The Big Ten is going to come right down to the wire and it’s gonna be a wild ride. Wisconsin @ Michigan Stat...
B1G Hockey Splits to Close January
I thought this weekend would separate the top of the B1G from the bottom of the conference. The only decisive series was Notre Dame’s sweep of their ol’ rival Michigan State. Michigan &...
Super Saturday at the Garden
The B1G will be taking over Madison Square Garden for a Super Saturday basketball-hockey doubleheader. At noon EST, Maryland and Illinois will tip off at center court to open the day. The primetime ev...
Big Ten Roundup
February is right around the corner and that means that conference tournaments are right around the corner. The Big Ten put three teams in the Frozen Four last season(Michigan, Ohio State, Notre Dame)...
Purdue Basketball Mid Season Review
College football is officially over and it’s time for everyone to turn their attention to the rest of the college basketball season. We’re officially at the halfway point and conference pl...
ACC-Big Ten Challenge Preview
Beginning on Monday, the 20th annual ACC-Big Ten Challenge will kick off, with fourteen matchups slated through Wednesday on ESPN. The ACC has won the past two challenges by a combined 20-8, but as us...
2018-19 CBB B1G Preview
Welcome back to the start of the College Basketball season. Such a glorious time for all basketball fans to come together and watch some great athletes compete every night. Unless, unfortunately, you ...
The Hangover, Week 7: Could It Really Be That Easy?
Welcome to the sixth edition of the sophomore season of The Hangover, where I recap the previous weekend in college football. This week, The Hangover comes from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where “Dixie...
The Hangover, Week 5: A Quick Word About Kentucky
Welcome to the fifth edition of the sophomore season of The Hangover, where I recap the previous weekend in college football. This week, The Hangover comes from Athens, Georgia, home to a fantastic ba...
The Hangover, Week 4: Getting a Sense of What We Know
Welcome to the fourth edition of the sophomore season of The Hangover, where I recap the previous weekend in college football. This week, The Hangover comes from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where I finally t...
Big Ten Football Should Scrap its Division System
Shortly after Maryland and Rutgers announced their intent to join the Big Ten in 2012, the conference implemented its geographical East-West division split. It has been a fine system and was a positiv...
Loser of the Week: Week 2
Week two featured some spectacular losers. Florida lost to Kentucky for the first time in 31 years, and the North Carolina Tar Heels got blown out by East Carolina. But this week’s loser of the ...
The Hangover, Week 2: Good Things are Ahead for Texas A&M
Welcome to the second edition of the sophomore season of The Hangover, where I recap the previous weekend in college football. This week, The Hangover comes from Columbia, South Carolina, where I wat...
The Best and Worst of CFB: Week One
Week one is in the books and it’s almost time for week two. But first, let’s go look at the best and worst from the first week of college football. Worst The Big Ten East What a tough week...
The Hangover, Preseason Edition: We Need Football More Than Ever
Welcome to the preseason edition for the sophomore season of The Hangover, where I recap the previous weekend in college football or, in this case, get you ready for the upcoming season. This week, Th...
Student Union CFB Preview: Minnesota
Football is a really simple game that requires a few things to be successful at the college level. I don’t just mean successful in regards to winning championships or eight or nine games, I mean...
Student Union CFB Preview: Rutgers
The Rutgers Scarlet Knights proved that they still have some growing pains to go through since joining the Big Ten. They had two nice wins at home against Maryland and Purdue in 2017 and also had a ...
College Gameday Weeks 5 and 6: Conference Title be Damned
Week five is a good point for telling whether or not you’re in the hunt. This is when the Big Ten will start to get into the hairy part of its schedule. Week six will either tell us if THA U is ...
Throwback: Were the 2013 Spartans the Best Team in Big Ten History?
‘You will be the ones’ Mark Dantonio famously declared about the 2013 edition of the Michigan State Spartans. Never before had a Big Ten team won all of their games by at least ten points ...
2018 NCAA Baseball Tournament Preview: Greenville Regional
Host: No. 12 East Carolina Match-ups: No. 1 East Carolina vs. No. 4 UNC Wilmington (Friday, 7 pm EST), No. 2 South Carolina vs. No. 3 Ohio State (Friday, 2 pm EST) East Carolina vs. UNC Wilmington Ea...
Weeks 3 & 4: Curb Your Optimism
These two weeks feature some make or break games for teams with zero margin for error in 2018. In parts of America, fall will start to creep into college football stadiums. In other parts, it’s ...
Shea Patterson: Bad?
Michigan got some real big news this past week when it was reported that Shea Patterson would be eligible for Michigan immediately. Good for them! Ever since Wilton Speight got hurt way back in 2016, ...
IU’s Juwan Morgan declares for draft…but what does that really mean?
This morning, Juwan Morgan officially declared for the 2018 NBA draft without hiring an agent. As an Indiana fan, my very first reaction to seeing this news frightened me, but it’s not as bad as it ...
My Argument against Xavier and Villanova
Listen, I like college basketball about the same as the next guy on this website. It’s exciting and March Madness is probably the most exciting time of all. However, when the brackets were relea...
The Buzzer-Beater, Fourth Edition: Oh, Hai Mark (Emmert)
Welcome to the fourth edition of The Buzzer-Beater, my weekly Monday column about college basketball and what’s going on around the country. This week’s column comes to you from Tuscaloosa, where...
Best Power Five Basketball Programs of All Time
The Kansas Jayhawks have just made history, by winning 14 straight Big 12 conference championships, overcoming UCLA’s 1967-1969 streak that made history and seemed unbeatable, until Saturday, Fe...
Early Prediction For QB Battles Going Into The 2018 CFB Season
The 2017 College Football Season has come and gone, and with it a number of big name play callers will be leaving. What it will leave behind is some of the best internal QB battles that we have witnes...
Making an All-Big Ten team from the NFL’s Final Four
With only three games left this football season and most people’s favorite team out of contention (including mine), #debateSZN is prime. That being said, it’s fair to ask which B1G Ten sch...
Why the SEC is the Most Overrated Conference in CFB
I get it. The SEC has two teams in the National Championship game. But, this still needs to be brought up because the issue is as prominent as it’s ever been. It’s also like beating a dead...
Pinstripe Bowl Preview
Iowa and Boston College will meet in the Pinstripe Bowl at Yankee stadium in a game that will look like some old school Big Ten football. With cold weather predicted and both teams heavy on the ground...
The Hangover, Week 14: Who’s In?
Welcome to the sixth edition of The Hangover where I recap the previous weekend in college football. This week, The Hangover comes Atlanta, Georgia, where I watched the Georgia Bulldogs avenge an earl...
The Hangover, Week 11
Welcome to the third edition of The Hangover, where I recap the previous weekend in college football. This week, The Hangover comes a day later than I originally intended. My laptop broke Sunday morn...
Hey, The CFP Committee Got It Right Again!
The CFP committee just released the second edition of the College Football Playoff Rankings on ESPN, so it’s time for my weekly reactions to the updated Top 25. Here we go: Head-to-Head...
Big Ten Hockey Rundown, Power Rankings
Week five is officially in the books. The Big Ten mostly stayed out of conference, save for Michigan and Penn State playing each other to a split in Hockey Valley. In non-conference play, the Big Ten ...
The Rise and (Epic) Fall of the Fighting Illini
For a Power Five school, Illinois, especially in football and basketball, has taken a huge step down in the past decade or so. Growing up an Illini fan, it’s been tough to watch. I have fuzzy me...
The Hangover, Week 9
Welcome to the first edition of The Hangover, where we recap the previous weekend in college football. College football is the best time of the year (and that’s not up for debate, so don’t...
Big Ten Hoops: PREVIEW SZN AND MEDIA DAY THOUGHTS PART 1
The time is here. The temperature is starting to get cold, cuffing season is upon us, and college basketball is oh so close. We still have about three weeks or so until preview season is wrapped up an...
Big Ten Hoops: PREVIEW SZN AND MEDIA DAY THOUGHTS PART 2
Welcome back to B1G Hoops PREVIEW SZN. If you missed Part 1 click here to get caught up. Can Purdue live without Swanigan? The Boilermakers lost Mr. Double-Double, Caleb “Biggie” Swaniga...
Gambling and Gifs
Michigan (+9.5) against Penn State There are way too many people doubting Jim Harbaugh this season, and that is exactly why he’s about to shove all of that criticism in our faces and take down t...
Big Ten West Preview
Lilly Donahue | Indiana University Ahh, the Big Ten West. As the SEC East of the Big Ten, the division is a crapshoot when compared to its Eastern rival. Outside of Wisconsin, none of its membe...
Teams Win Tournaments, Not Conferences
There is a lot of talk every year about what the best conference in the country is. Realistically, that concept doesn’t amount to shit. There is so much unnecessary pride that goes into what con...
Big Ten Weekly Pull Up – March 6th – March 12th
What’s up guys, how did everyone enjoy that awesome Championship Weekend that we were gifted with?!? I certainly had a ball, and so did the Big Ten! Let’s jump right into the facts and sta...
INSTANT REACTION: Northwestern’s Miraculous Buzzer Beater!
WOW! Northwestern just delivered a moment for the age’s. Their full court pass to the layup may go down in Northwestern history as the one that finally got them in the Big Dance. The dynamic duo...
The Case for Tom Crean
“Fire Tom Crean!” If you’ve been on the internet for longer than about five minutes, these words have probably come across your screen more than a few times. These calls for Crean...
Mid-Season Conference Report
Welcome. Now that football season is over, a lot of fans will be turning their full attention to the college basketball season. The problem is, they’ve already missed out on half the season or h...
Which college conference could create the best NBA team?
When the ten members of the NCAA Tournament selection committee get together every March to decide the fate of 351 college basketball teams, they consider a wide array of factors. One of the most diff...
