big-ten-conference Stories - The Smoking Musket
BRACKET BLOG: South Region
The slight name change for this feature is a result of my realizing that I unintentionally "borrowed" the name of a fellow SBNation blog. Sorry, Chris. Now on to important business. Click here to ente...
BRACKET BLOG: Midwest Region
As you might have noticed, I went back and added predictions for all games in the East Region, courtesy of RealTimeRPI, Ken Pomeroy and Jeff Sagarin. I'll continue doing that for each region, of ...
RPI WATCH: 2/25/2010
The Good In the A-10: Xavier became the first NCAA-bound A-10 team to win at Saint Louis, which pretty much makes the Musketeers the front-runner, doesn't it? Especially if Temple loses there... In th...
Big Ten's Best Quarterbacks of the Last 20 Years
This popped up in a discussion thread and let me stress, this is like a discussion at the Unitarian Church, there are no wrong answers to the question. I just thought it would be fun to bring up the h...
RPI WATCH: 2/11/2010
There were some good wins Tuesday night by our fallen foes. Dayton absolutely crushed league-leading Charlotte 75-47, which throws the Atlantic 10 wide open and into complete chaos. It might be even m...
Rumor: Pittsburgh to Join Big Ten
Just two days after The New York Times published a report on the ripple effects of Big Ten expansion on the college football landscape, cannon-ball sized speculation is abounding all over the interne...
RPI WATCH: 1/28/2010
I won't say too much about the Big 12 games until tomorrow's BIG 12 OUTLOOK. That leaves only three non-conference opponents to discuss: Alabama, Boston U. and Fort Hays State. The Crimson Tide won, b...
RPI WATCH: 12/03/2009
The majority of our opponents, both past and future, were in action last night — including our three opponents from Puerto Rico, three of our four immediately upcoming opponents and seven of the...
Bowl Positions (Sit Back and Watch Them Go-oo-oh)
John Swofford has apparently spent the past few weeks really selling the drawing power of the ACC, because over the last few days the league has greatly improved its bowl tie-ins, first by pairing wit...
The Big East: 25 Years Too Late
Back in the early 80's Joe Paterno had the vision to see that Penn State needed to team up with a conference in order for the athletic department to survive. It's widely known that Paterno t...
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