A week from today the Ohio State Buckeyes will play the Miami Hurricanes at Ohio Stadium. The game has a 3:30 kickoff, and I am sure that diehard fans of both the Buckeyes and the Hurricanes will be tailgating and getting ready starting early in the morning. I’ll have more thoughts on the game itself, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘college football’
The Hurricanes Blow Into Town
Posted in sports, tagged Big Ten, Buckeye football, college football, Miami Hurricanes, Miami vs. Ohio State, Miami-Oho State, Ohio State, Ohio State vs. Miami, Ohio State-Miami, sports on September 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A Good Start
Posted in sports, tagged Big Ten football, Brandon Saine, Brian Rolle, Buckeye football, college football, Dane Sanzenbacher, Marshall, Marshall-Ohio State, Ohio State, Ohio State Marching Band, Ohio State-Marshall, sports, TBDBITL, Terrelle Pryor, The Ohio State University, Tyler Moeller on September 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Richard, Cath, Brittany and I went to the Ohio State-Marshall game tonight. We sat in Section 28A, Row 32 of a packed Horseshoe on a hot and muggy evening and watched as the Buckeyes rolled, 45-7. It was a convincing win, and it was one of those games where there were many more positives than [...]
The Post-Big Ten Expansion, Impending Divisional, Corporate Naming Rights Championship Game Blues
Posted in sports, tagged Big Ten Championship Game, Big Ten expansion, Big Ten football, college football, Michigan vs. Ohio State, Michigan-Ohio State, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Ohio State vs. Michigan, Ohio State-Michigan, sports on August 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Big Ten football meetings occurred yesterday and produced good news and bad news for football traditionalists. The good news is that the Big Ten is going to move from an eight-game in-conference schedule to a nine-game in-conference schedule to try to preserve rivalries. If that means that Big Ten teams will play a conference [...]
Cornhusker Rustlings And Expansion Rumblings
Posted in sports, tagged Big 12, Big Ten, Big Ten expansion, college football, Nebraska, sports, University of Nebraska on June 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The pace of speculation about Big Ten expansion has accelerated, and actual news stories with quoted sources are starting to appear in newspapers of record. The most recent stories are reporting that we may learn as early as Friday that (wait for it, now) Nebraska may leave the Big 12 and be the first addition [...]
Spare The Rod, Spoil The Program
Posted in sports, tagged Big Ten, Big Ten football, college football, Michigan, Michigan football, NCAA, Rich Rodriguez, sports, University of Michigan on May 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve posted before on the potential NCAA violations committed by the Michigan football program, which initially were reported by the Detroit Free Press. Some nine months later, Michigan has now completed its “internal investigation” and admitted to certain violations. It concluded that there was a breakdown in communications and it fired one staffer and reprimanded [...]
Keep The Big Ten As It Is (Cont.)
Posted in sports, tagged Big Ten, Big Ten expansion, Big Ten Network, college football, sports on May 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
There’s still lots of speculation about Big Ten expansion on the internet, but that is all that it is — speculation. Most recently, I posted a link to a Chicago Tribune article citing an unnamed ( and somewhat dubiously described) source who supposedly indicated that the timetable for deciding on expansion was being accelerated. That [...]
Keep The Big Ten As It Is (Cont.)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Ten, Big Ten expansion, college basketball, college football, sports on April 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I haven’t posted lately on the topic of possible Big Ten expansion because there hasn’t been much news on that front. Bloggers are speculating and new articles include stray comments from time to time, but hard information about what has been happening has been tough to come by. It looks like that new shortage is [...]
Keep The Big Ten As It Is (Cont.)
Posted in sports, tagged 2010 NCAA Tournament, Big Ten, Big Ten expansion, college football, sports on March 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s another reason why the Big Ten is a very attractive option for schools in other conferences — it takes its monetary proceeds from events like the NCAA Tournament, pools them, and then splits them equally among all 11 teams in the conference. This article from the Columbus Dispatch explains that, for every team to [...]
Keep The Big Ten As It Is (Cont.)
Posted in Humor, sports, tagged Big Ten, Big Ten expansion, college football, Humor, Notre Dame, sports on March 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Internet denizens who are rabidly interested in the issue of possible Big Ten expansion are abuzz about the recent comments of Notre Dame Athletic Director Jack Swarbrick. Swarbrick made some curious and evocative comments about conference expansion, suggesting that it could effect a “seismic” change that could “force” Notre Dame into a conference even though [...]
Keep The Big Ten As It Is (Cont.)
Posted in sports, tagged Big Ten, Big Ten expansion, college football, sports on February 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This article quotes Barry Alvarez, Wisconsin’s athletic director, as saying that the Big Ten has hired a firm to evaluate potential expansion candidates and that 15 schools are on the list to be evaluated. Interestingly, Notre Dame and Texas apparently aren’t on that list. Fifteen schools seems like a lot; presumably the list includes a [...]
Priorities, Priorities
Posted in America, Politics, sports, tagged America, BCS, Bowl Championship Series, college football, Obama Administration, Politics, sports, Unemployment on January 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Sports Illustrated is reporting that the Justice Department is considering whether to take some kind of action to determine if the Bowl Championship Series violates federal antitrust laws. I don’t know whether the BCS violates antitrust laws, and frankly I don’t care. Whether the college football national champion should be determined by a playoff as [...]
Keep The Big Ten As It Is (Cont.)
Posted in sports, tagged Big Ten, Big Ten expansion, Buckeye football, college football, michi, Michigan vs. Ohio State, Michigan-Ohio State, Ohio State vs. Michigan, sports on January 11, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Here’s an interesting interview with Illinois’ Athletic Director about the possibility of Big Ten expansion. I’m not sure exactly what it means, but I think it means, at minimum, that the conference will be selective in considering expansion options — and, from all appearances, it can afford to be choosy in that regard. The single [...]
Season’s End, And Off-Season’s Beginning
Posted in sports, tagged Big Ten football, Buckeye football, college football, Ohio State, sports, The Ohio State University on January 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
With the playing of the BCS National Championship game last night — and congratulations to the Alabama Crimson Tide on their win, by the way — the college football season has come to an end, four-and-a-half months after it began. If you are a college football fan, it is a wistful time. This past season [...]
Big Ten, Big Wins
Posted in sports, tagged BCS, Big Ten, Big Ten football, Buckeye football, college football, Iowa, Orange Bowl, Rose Bowl, sports, The Ohio State University on January 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
With Iowa’s win over Georgia Tech in the Orange Bowl, the Big Ten ended its bowl season — and a pleasantly successful bowl season it was, for a change. The wins by the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Hawkeyes meant that the Big Ten was undefeated in BCS bowls, and Penn State and Wisconsin also [...]
Keep The Big Ten As It Is (Cont.)
Posted in sports, tagged Big Ten, Big Ten expansion, Buckeye football, college football, Michigan vs. Ohio State, Michigan-Ohio State, Ohio State vs. Michigan, Ohio State-Michigan, sports, The Ohio State University on January 5, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The proposed expansion of the Big Ten, which I addressed in this post, continues to be the subject of intense discussion in the blogosphere. This piece, which argues that Texas would happily leap to the Big Ten, is a good example of what you can find out on the internet if you do a bit [...]
