The Big 10 felt alright with Michigan pounding a pitiful Notre Dame team this week to avoid 0-3 for the Wolverines, but the conference took a beating on other fronts. The bellcow for the league, Ohio State, easily dispatched Washington and most of the conference continues to feast on the cupcakes. There's nothing wrong with that, but still.....
Bad News....
Wisconsin beat The Citadel by 14, but was tied at the half at HOME. This comes just one week after the Badgers snuck out of Las Vegas with a narrower win. Pitt stretched Michigan State before the Sparties won by 4.
More disturbing was Duke's win at Northwestern---to end a 22 game losing streak for the Blue Devils against D-I competition.
But wait! There's more...Rebuilding Minnesota lost to Florida Atlantic--yes, the Owls who have been playing D-I football since 2004 in the Sun Belt with no conference titles and no bowl games--took down Minnesota's Golden Gophers, who have played football for almost 125 years and have claimed 6 national titles and 18 conference championships.
And even worse....
Iowa lost 13-15 to Iowa State. The Cyclones get the Cy-Hawk Trophy for the 7th time in the last 10 years, but how do the Hawkeyes drop this one? Iowa State had lost at home to Kent State and Northern Iowa under first year coach Gene Chizik. Surely Kirk Ferentz, at one time thought to be one of the greatest minds in college football this decade when he went 31-7 from 2002-2004, hasn't fallen this far.
Thankfully, Illinois defeated Big East cellar-dweller Syracuse in a matchup of coaches that have 6-20 (Ron Zook with the Illini) and 5-21 (Greg Robinson at Syracuse) since being hired in 2004.
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