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08-27-2008, 06:27 AM
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ESPN - Lewis to start Indiana's season opener - College Football
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Lewis to start Indiana's season opener
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Kellen Lewis is Indiana's starting quarterback again, winning a chance to lead the Hoosiers to a second straight bowl game despite being suspended for spring practice.
Hoosiers coach Bill Lynch said Tuesday that Lewis will start Saturday's opener against Western Kentucky. Lewis won back the starting job after a monthlong battle with sophomore Ben Chappell.
Chappell has thrown only two college passes but inherited the nominal starter's role in March when Lewis was suspended for breaking team rules. Lewis was reinstated last month but returned to a new no-huddle offense.
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08-27-2008, 08:21 AM
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Like a deer in the headlights... then and now.
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The perceived health of the Big 10 will be estalished in the first three weeks:
on week 1, Illinois - Mizzou, Michigan State - Cal and Michigan - Utah.
On week 2 Penn State - Oregon State.
Then the real test on week three headed by OSU - USC, Iowa - Iowa State, Michigan - Notre Dame, Purdue - Oregon.
Big 10 teams should go into MOST of these games as favorites and the rest of the schedule for the first three weeks looks like the kind of thing we at BP bitch about the SEC and Notre Dame, i.e. the conference should be prohibitive favorites against the likes of Eastern Illinois, Duke, YSU, Northern Colorado, Murray State.
If the collective Big 10 record for the first three weeks isn't around .800 I'd say the Buckeyes, even if undefeated, will have a hard time convincing the NC folks to pick them over a one loss SEC team or any other undefeated team.
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 "When our Big Ten brothers are playing Notre Dame, we're always rooting for them," Tressel said. "I'm rooting for our Big Ten partners. I want our strength of conference to be as good as it can be." Jim Tressel
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08-27-2008, 04:01 PM
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ESPN - Indiana suspends DE Middleton, three others for opener - College Football
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana defensive end Greg Middleton, who led the nation with 16 sacks last season, and three other players have been suspended for one game for undisclosed disciplinary reasons.
Middleton was first-team All-Big Ten and a third-team All-America selection.
The suspensions, announced Tuesday by coach Bill Lynch, will be for the Hoosiers' season-opening game Saturday against Western Kentucky. Ryan Marando, who had six sacks last season, will replace Middleton in the starting lineup.
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08-27-2008, 04:03 PM
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ESPN - Penn State's Clark excited, nervous about starting - College Football
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Penn State's Clark excited, nervous about starting
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Daryll Clark called his father after getting the word. Then some text messages started coming in. The next day, he saw the news posted on the Internet.
After two years as a backup, Clark is finally the starting quarterback at Penn State.
"This is what I've been waiting on. ... It's been a long time coming. I've been very patient, very quiet about everything," Clark said Wednesday. He will start Saturday's season opener when the No. 22 Nittany Lions play Coastal Carolina.
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08-28-2008, 06:00 AM
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Perception of weakness
League suffers from recent lack of success against elite conferences
Thursday, August 28, 2008 3:33 AM
By Bill Rabinowitz
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
 Renee Sauer | Dispatch
Ohio State's national title game losses and Michigan's stunning loss to Appalachian State have helped sully the Big Ten's reputation nationwide.
 Mandi Wright Detroit Free Press
One by one, they came to the lectern and praised the quality of their beleaguered league. "I really believe the Big Ten Conference is strong as ever," Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema said at the preseason football media days in Chicago.
"The Big Ten Conference is very healthy," Purdue's Joe Tiller said.
Other coaches said much the same thing to the rows of media members inside the banquet room. But outside the doors, Kirk Herbstreit used quite different words to describe the national perception of the Big Ten.
"The Big Ten has always been hated by the SEC and the Pac-10, but it's never been a punch line," said Herbstreit, a former Ohio State quarterback who is now an analyst for ESPN's College GameDay. "And right now -- not by me, but from what I hear from other regions -- they mock the Big Ten. They laugh at the Big Ten. They think the Big Ten is the most overrated, overhyped conference in the country every year."
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08-31-2008, 11:25 AM
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kicked off the boat at the last minute
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Week 1 has come to a close. The Big Ten is 7-3 in OOC play so far.
- 4 of those wins against I-AA teams (YSU, Coastal Carolina, Maine and Western Kentucky - though I think they're a transitional I-A team)
- 3 wins against I-A teams (Akron, Syracuse, NIU), one from a major conference (Syracuse)
- The three losses were to Utah, Cal, and Missouri (with Mizzou ranked #6).
So, the Big-10's quality OOC win for the year so far... Syracuse!!
Give it up for the Wildcats, everybody!
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08-31-2008, 11:35 AM
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Just beat scUM
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