For the past several years, conferences like the SEC, Big 12, and Pac-10 have been complaining that the Big Ten is overrated. I’m a Big Ten fan, but I can’t say that I disagree. After a 9 – 0 start, Iowa rose out of the ashes of the Big Ten this year, and we all held the hope that this would be the team to challenge Florida or Texas or another awesome team for the National Championship.
It doesn’t look like that will be the case. Today, Iowa fell, but not to Penn State (no, they beat them gloriously – sigh …read more

Ok, let’s get it out of the way right now and say that ranked teams need to step it up. I already talked about how the AP Top 25 changed drastically this week with a crazy 15 teams moving either up or down three places or more. Three places. Those are huge jumps and drops. It’s uncalled for, especially when you take into account that many teams had games that weren’t supposed to be that hard.
So, at least the top three teams stayed strong. Of course, the big news for #1 Florida, who beat Kentucky into the ground, was that …read more

Penn State’s Joe Paterno is never short on opinions, and recently there’s been a lot of buzz about his wants to have 12 teams in the Big Ten. Currently, the Big Ten is finished playing well before most other conferences, with a six-week hiatus between their season and the bowls. Paterno thinks that hurts the conference as a whole and keeps the Big Ten from being viable to produce a national champion.
Unfortunately, he also thinks that some people are laughing at him.
“You know, it’s a conference that’s dominated by a couple of people. If I start talking, they’re polite, but …read more

Florida State may have to retroactively forfeit up to 14 wins as the NCAA investigates an academic cheating scandal. While the school has admitted that some of their students cheated and are accepting some of the NCAA sanctions, head coach Bobby Bowden has said that the school will appeal any punishments that will strip victories.
This might not matter much to Joe Paterno of Penn State, but he and Bowden are in a dead heat for number of victories among major college coaches. Paterno currently has 383 wins, while Bowden has 382. He’d only have 368 is the wins are stripped, …read more

Joe Paterno might be in his 80s, but he’s not ready to let some young whipper snapper take over just yet.
For the past few years, Penn State friends and foes alike have been speculating about the end of the 2008 football season. Paterno’s contract ends, and with a number of not-so-hot years over the past decade, people have been questioning his reign in happy valley.
Many of the problems at Penn State over the past several years could be chalked up to a less-than-impressive quarterback, which many attributed to son quarterbacks coach Jay Paterno. Some called for Joe to …read more

I promised a friend of mine that I wouldn’t gloat too much about Penn State’s 49-18 win over Michigan State. So I’ll just leave things at that as far as the game is concerned.

But it has been an EXCELLENT weekend for Joe Paterno. This weekend’s win put him at 383 for his career, ahead of Bobby Bowden, making him the NCAA-F coach with the most wins.
That means that the Nittany Lions are heading to the Rose Bowl. Schweet. Even if they lose, they’ll be 2008 Big Ten champs.
He also had successful hit replacement surgery today. On August …read more

I can’t watch every game, and there are tons not on TV every week. So, instead of blogging about every game, I’ll link you to the people who are talking about it (by conference). If I missed your link, leave a comment!
#11 Ohio State 45, #24 Northwestern 10

Pryor at Ohio Soup
The 2008 Ohio State – Northwestern Report Card at Buckeye Legends
Pryor Steps Up Against Northwestern at The Buckeye Blog

#18 Michigan State 21, Purdue 7

Michigan State Refuses to Lose at A Beautiful Day for Football

Wisconsin 55, Indiana 20

Wisconsin Breaks Away to Defeat Indiana at Indiana Football News
Wisconsin runs over Indiana 55-20 at …read more

I can’t watch every game, and there are tons not on TV every week. So, instead of blogging about every game, I’ll link you to the people who are talking about it (by conference). If I missed your link, leave a comment!
Indiana 21, #22 Northwestern 19

Finally, a glimmer: Indiana 21, Northwestern 19. at The Hoosier Report
NU-Indiana Highlights at WNUR Sports

#24 Minnesota 17, Purdue 6

Boilermakers Fall To Minnesota 17-6 at Purdue Boilermakers News

Wisconsin 27, Illinois 17

Wisconsin Badgers football: Illinois keeps itself in check at Badger Beat
Badgers beat Illini to get back on track at Big Ten Network

Michigan State 35, Michigan 21

State …read more

I try to talk about all teams here at BCS Frenzy, but I don’t think that it is any secret that I’m a Penn State fan.
Tomorrow, we’ll see a match-up that is, at this point, the most significant game of the season for both teams. Penn State was never supposed to be this good. Ohio State was written off weeks ago after USC.
The fact of the matter is that this week, it is anybody’s game, and this could be a deciding factor in who plays in the BCS Championship game and will almost definitely determine who will play …read more

I can’t watch every game, and there are tons not on TV every week. So, instead of blogging about every game, I’ll link you to the people who are talking about it (by conference). If I missed your link, leave a comment!
Northwestern 48, Purdue 26

Northwestern-Purdue Highlights at WNUR Sports
No. 21 Purdue takes down Northwestern Big Ten Network

Iowa 38, Wisconsin 16

Series by series: UW offense against Iowa at Wisconsin Badgers Football

#12 Ohio State 45, #20 Michigan State 7

Ohio State Michigan State Recap at The Nut and the Feisty Weasel

#3 Penn State 46, Michigan 17

Review, Game 8: Penn State 46, Michigan 17 …read more