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Predicting College Football's Breakout Players: Big Ten [1]

College Football [2]
Big Ten [3]
Illinois [4]
Indiana [5]
Iowa [6]
Michigan [7]
Michigan State [8]
Minnesota [9]
Nebraska [10]
Northwestern [11]
Ohio State [12]
Penn State [13]
Purdue [14]
Wisconsin [15]

Illinois' Nathan Scheelhaase should be a household name by the end of 2011.

by Steven Lassan (@AthlonSteven [16]on Twitter)

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The Big Ten's 2011 Top 10 Games to Watch [17]

College Football [2]
Big Ten [3]
Illinois [4]
Indiana [5]
Iowa [6]
Michigan [7]
Michigan State [8]
Minnesota [9]
Nebraska [10]
Northwestern [11]
Ohio State [12]
Penn State [13]
Purdue [14]
Wisconsin [15]

The start of the 2011 college football [18] season is two weeks away. With kickoff right around the corner, Athlon takes a look at the top 10 must-see games in the Big Ten for 2011.

1. Nebraska vs. Wisconsin (Week 5)
Oct. 1, All-Time Series: Nebraska leads 3-2

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Athlon Awards: Ranking the Big Ten's Best Units [19]

College Football [2]
Big Ten [3]
Illinois [4]
Indiana [5]
Iowa [6]
Michigan [7]
Michigan State [8]
Minnesota [9]
Nebraska [10]
Northwestern [11]
Ohio State [12]
Penn State [13]
Purdue [14]
Wisconsin [15]

Northwestern's Dan Persa is one of the top quarterbacks in the Big Ten.

Kickoff for the 2011 season is just a few weeks away. To help pass the time before the opening weekend, Athlon will be taking a look at the best units by conference.

A "1" signifies the best unit in conference, while a "12" indicates the worst.

Athlon's 2011 Big Ten Unit Rankings

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Ranking the Big Ten's Top 40 Players for 2011 [20]

College Football [2]
Big Ten [3]
Illinois [4]
Indiana [5]
Iowa [6]
Michigan [7]
Michigan State [8]
Minnesota [9]
Nebraska [10]
Northwestern [11]
Ohio State [12]
Penn State [13]
Purdue [14]
Wisconsin [15]

By Braden Gall (@AthlonBraden [21]), Scott Henry (@4QuartersRadio [22]) and Steven Lassan (@AthlonSteven [16])

Athlon Sports continues its countdown to the college football [18] season with a look at the top 40 players for 2011 in the Big Ten.

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Athlon Awards: Best Offensive Line Units [23]

College Football [2]
Big 12 [24]
Big Ten [3]
Mountain West [25]
Pac-12 [26]
SEC [27]
Barrett Jones [28]
Levy Adcock [29]
Mike Brewster [30]
Nate Potter [31]
William Vlachos [32]
Alabama [33]
Boise State [34]
BYU [35]
Iowa [6]
Missouri [36]
Ohio State [12]
Oklahoma State [37]
Stanford [38]
Texas A&M [39]
Wisconsin [15]
Athlon Awards [40]

Even with two starters gone from last year's line, Wisconsin is in great shape up front.

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.

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The Best Quarterback in the Big Ten? [41]

College Football [2]
Big Ten [3]
Illinois [4]
Indiana [5]
Iowa [6]
Michigan [7]
Michigan State [8]
Minnesota [9]
Nebraska [10]
Northwestern [11]
Ohio State [12]
Penn State [13]
Purdue [14]
Wisconsin [15]

Athlon's editors debate which quarterback is the best in the conference.

The Big 12, Pac-12 and Big Ten are three of the deepest quarterback conferences in the nation. Athlon's editors have debated which quarterback they would vote No. 1 in the Big 12 [42], and Andrew Luck is a pretty clear choice in the Pac-12.

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Ranking the College Football Coaching Jobs: Big Ten [43]

College Football [2]
Big Ten [3]
Illinois [4]
Indiana [5]
Iowa [6]
Michigan [7]
Michigan State [8]
Minnesota [9]
Nebraska [10]
Northwestern [11]
Ohio State [12]
Penn State [13]
Purdue [14]
Wisconsin [15]
Coaching jobs [44]

If you are a free agent coach, which programs are the most attractive jobs in the Big Ten?

We have ranked every college football [45] program in the country, based on the attractiveness of the position from a coaching perspective. We considered many factors — tradition, facilities, location, money — but in the end, we simply asked ourselves the following question: Where would we want to coach?

(Note: Current or impending NCAA sanctions were not a factor in these rankings.)

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Catching Up with Joe Dudek [46]

Monthly [47]
Bo Jackson [48]
Chuck Long [49]
Auburn [50]
Iowa [6]
Plymouth State [51]
Denver Broncos [52]

Plymouth’s Rock

Before the 2010 football season started, Joe Dudek decided to do something radical with the running backs he coaches at Pinkerton Academy in Derry, N.H. Well, it wasn’t exactly extreme in terms of a normal ball-carrier’s world, but for Dudek it was pretty far out there.

He wanted them to block. Imagine that.

“I taught them how to block and graded them on blocking,” he says. “The biggest joke is that I never threw a block in my life.”

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