College Football Power Rankings: Big Ten

Wisconsin's Montee Ball is off to a good start this year.

By Steven Lassan (@AthlonSteven on Twitter)

Post-Week 2 Big Ten Power Rankings

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Notre Dame-Michigan: College Football's Craziest Finish?

The Wolverines and Irish played one for the ages Saturday night.

Much of the discussion on great finishes in college football history tends to focus on a single play.

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Athlon Archive: Nebraska's Eric Crouch is Running the Show

Nebraska's offense is built around Eric Crouch, the latest in a storied line of option quarterbacks

This article originally appeared in Athlon's 2001 Big 12 college football annual.

by Mike Babcock

Eric Crouch still gets the reaction on occasion when he meets a stranger. "You're not as big as I thought you were," the stranger will say. And Crouch will resist the urge to respond, "Well, how big did you think I was? If you read the program, it tells you."

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Boise State May Be Headed for Another Undefeated Season

Will the Broncos finally get to the BCS Championship Game?

Boise State won its third straight opener over a BCS team, and the Broncos did it in impressive fashion with their 35-21 dismantling of Georgia. Many college football fans and media have questioned Boise’s credentials over the last few seasons when it came to the BCS Championship Game. Could the Broncos handle the attrition of a big-time conference?

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Big Ten Notebook: Week 1

Silas Redd was one of the three players to rush for 100 yards in Week 1.

The first week of college football action is complete in the Big Ten. Here is our look at the week that was.

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Post-Week 1 Big Ten Power Rankings

So far, so good for Michigan's Denard Robinson.

By Steven Lassan

Post-Week 1 Big Ten Power Rankings

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Week 1 Big Ten Game Previews and Predictions

Kirk Cousins and Michigan State host Youngstown State on Friday night.

By Steven Lassan and Mitch Light

Big Ten Week 1 Game Previews and Predictions

It's the first week of college football. Athlon will be breaking down each conference game. Here's the Big Ten.

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Big Ten Coaches' Candid Quotes on Conference Rivals

What are the Big Ten coaches saying about the opposition?

Each year we ask college football coaches to tell us what they really think about the other teams in their conference. But we don't want the cliche'd press conference platitudes, so we ask them to give us their quotes off-the-record and anonymously. Here are this year's quotes in alphabetical order for each team in the Big Ten.

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Jim Delany Is The Most Powerful Man In College Football

The Big Ten commissioner is a leader and a legend in college football.

by Brett McMurphy (@McMurphyCBS on Twitter)

Legends. Leaders.

There might not have been two more polarizing words when the Big Ten announced it was naming its football divisions “Legends” and “Leaders” in December.

The new division names were welcomed as much as a plague.

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Athlon Awards: Defensive Back Units

Alabama's Mark Barron leads the nation's top secondary.

They're the teams within the team - those cohesive little units bound together by their shared responsibilities within the larger team context.

Whether it's the offensive linemen firing off time after time into those familiar blocking sleds, or the defensive linemen drilling repeatedly on how to shed blockers, or the defensive backs breaking on ball after ball - these teams in miniature hone their tasks on the practice field until those tasks become second nature.