Big Ten occupies three of top five spots in latest AP poll

Top-ranked Alabama overpowered Chattanooga, 31-13, while No. 2 MI was able to stretch things out long enough to beat IN, 20-10. The Buckeyes will welcome the Michigan Wolverines for the richest chapter of this rivalry since the Game of the Century in 2006. Both teams ran into roadblocks, however.

To help hype Saturday’s contest, ESPN will air a special five-hour College GameDay from Ohio State’s campus.

The Recaps to the important Big Ten football match-ups in week 12 are here. And now we can finally look ahead to a potentially epic confrontation.

Harbaugh at least caused doubts for Ohio State and its preparation.

Well, The Game of the Decade, perhaps. The Wolverines finished just one point behind OR, which won the national title with 125 points, and eight points ahead of third-place Colorado (134). They must win at Iowa on Friday and Wisconsin must lose to Minnesota for Nebraska to go to the conference championship game.

The Buckeyes have survived yet another week atop the Big Ten and maintained their No. 2 position behind Alabama in the AP Top 25. The Wolverines have beaten Ohio State just once since 2003 and not at all in Ohio Stadium since 2000.

The S&P+ is a college football ratings system that is derived from play-by-play data, adjusts for strength of schedule, and eliminates garbage-time possessions.

For a while this season, it looked as if Ohio State and MI might both be undefeated heading into the regular-season finale Saturday at Ohio Stadium.

This Saturday there were three Big Ten games of interest. If they repeatedly dare MI to beat them in short-field situations, they won’t like the outcome. Of course he’ll be on the road against a much stronger defense this time around. Since then, James Franklin’s squad has engineered one of the nation’s most impressive turnarounds and earned seven straight wins, including a 39-0 victory against Rutgers. In the waning moments against IN, the Big House crowd starting chanting, “Beat Ohio!”

“It was just missed tackles”, he said. (See, I got it right this time).

Covers Wisconsin and Big Ten. “It puts a little oomph in it”.

The Badgers football team moved up to No.5 in the AP Poll for college football rankings. In East Lansing, 30 miles per hour wind gusts made bubble-screen lobs float like bubbles. The Buckeyes are 10-1 overall and 7-1 in Big Ten play under Urban Meyer.

“I thought we were ready to play”, West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen said.

The stage is finally set for MI and Ohio State, and if their most recent work is any indication, points will be hard to come by next weekend at the Horseshoe. OSU redshirt freshman RB? Mike Weber was the real hero of the day. They Need to beat Michigan and then they have to have Michigan State beat Penn State and then it’s Ohio State playing for the big 10 championship.

It was as memorable for Bruce’s ride off the field on the shoulders of his players, all of whom were wearing headbands lettered “Earle”, as for the 23-20 victory in a rousing second-half rally.

I’m skipping the losses – the Desmond Howard Heisman pose in 1991; Stan Jackson’s pick-six thrown while the ground was rushing up at him, rather than take a sack in 1997; the “Shawn Springs Slipped” game in 1996. “But we could either both be in the top five or we could both be 0-11”. On Saturday afternoon, the Broncos defeated the Buffalo Bulls by the score of 38-0.