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Big Ten: Teams unable to defend home field

In Big Ten basketball, holding the home court means everything. It used to mean a great deal in the fall, too, but as this weekend showed, playing on one’s home turf isn’t as much of an advantage as it probably should be.
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Under The Radar: Week 6

Oct 3rd, 2008

The upsets continue as Pitt took down South Florida Thursday night. Are there any other teams that need to be on upset alert? Penn State travels to Purdue, Texas heads to Boulder and the 5-0 UConn Huskies are on Tobacco Road this weekend.
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Week 6: Illinois at Michigan

Oct 2nd, 2008

After last week’s exciting win over Wisconsin, what more can be expected of this young Wolverine squad? Not much this week against an Illinois squad that is probably more balanced than the Badgers, and one that won’t make the same mistakes.
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2008 College Football Weekend Preview: Week 6

Oct 1st, 2008

Host Braden Gall and Senior Managing Editor Mitch Light preview the top games for Week 5 of the college football season and offer insights and predictions for Ohio State / Wisconsin, Auburn / Vanderbilt, Oregon / USC - and more.
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Big Ten: Twenty ugly minutes doom Badgers

Sep 29th, 2008

It was perhaps the ugliest 20-minute stretch in the history of Badger football. Up 19-0, Wisconsin had dominated Michigan in front of its home crowd until the end of the third quarter when the wheels fell off.
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Under The Radar: Week 5

Sep 26th, 2008

Oregon State has thrown the first wrench into the BCS landscape with their 27-21 victory over USC last night. The Horned Frogs of TCU will try their best to do the same Saturday against the Sooners.
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Week 5: Illinois at Penn State

Sep 25th, 2008

The conference’s marquee game of the week features two clubs who still expect to compete with Ohio State for the Big Ten title.
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Big Ten: Disappointing Purdue exposed in win

Sep 22nd, 2008

Purdue has hidden from its critics for too long this season. Thanks to the struggles of conference powerhouse schools, Ohio State and Michigan, the Boilermakers have hidden from the storm. But on Saturday, the Boilermakers were finally exposed.
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Week 4 Waiver Wire Report

Sep 21st, 2008

Need some help for your team going into Week 5? Our waiver wire report has some pickups and players to watch that will help get your team on the right track.
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Under The Radar: Week 4

Sep 19th, 2008

This is easily the biggest slate of games thus far in 2008. SEC powers will be on display all over the schedule but it doesn't mean that there aren't solid match-ups elsewhere this weekend.
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DateOpponentResult
08/30 @ MISSOURI L, 42-52
09/06 EASTERN ILLINOIS W, 47-21
09/13 UL LAFAYETTE W, 20-17
09/27 @ PENN ST L, 24-38
10/04 @ MICHIGAN W, 45-20
10/11 MINNESOTA 12:00 pm
10/18 INDIANA 8:00 pm
10/25 @ WISCONSIN 12:00 pm
11/01 IOWA 11:00 am
11/08 @ WESTRN MICHIGAN 12:00 pm
11/15 OHIO ST 11:00 am
11/22 @ NORTHWESTERN 11:00 am

BIGTEN CONFOVR
PENN ST 2 - 06 - 0
MICHIGAN ST 2 - 05 - 1
OHIO ST 2 - 05 - 1
NORTHWESTERN 1 - 05 - 0
MINNESOTA 1 - 15 - 1
ILLINOIS 1 - 13 - 2
MICHIGAN 1 - 12 - 3
PURDUE 0 - 12 - 3
WISCONSIN 0 - 23 - 2
IOWA 0 - 23 - 3
INDIANA 0 - 22 - 3

Below are Athlon Consensus 100 commitments
CLASS NAME
2009Branden Smith *
2009Craig Drummond *
2009David Oku *
2009Kevin Newsome *
2009Kraig Appleton *
2009Lendell Buckner *
2009Marcus Hall *
2009Morgan Newton *
2009Orson Charles *
2009Ronnie Wingo *
* Interested Prospect


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