Big Ten touts plan for tougher schedule as playoff push

On thinking about his mentor, former Michigan coach Bo Schembechler: “Not a day goes by really where I don’t think about Coach Schembechler from the time I leave my house to go to the office”.

“No, he didn’t autograph it, but I’ll be proud to wear that”, Harbaugh said. He wasn’t sure and began checking it to see. Hanging out with one of his biggest mentors was. “Since 1977”, May said.

“The Big Ten East is the most competitive division in college football,” Flood said. Harbaugh was supposed to be the star of this event, and he was. I honestly have this caricature of him as a manic hopped up mad person. Bielema was an incredible fit at Wisconsin, but somehow I feel like he’s an even better fit at Arkansas.

“I’d like to do it the old way, because I think it’s only fair to our coaches and some student-athletes that their voices should be heard”, Alvarez said. In general what we’ve done is look at the overall picture of what we’ll see. And we have the commitment to play only (Football Bowl Subdivision) opponents.

The College Football Playoff has turned strength of schedule into a constant talking point, with each conference claiming its road to the postseason is most daunting. It takes effort to bounce back from a 5-7 season, regardless of who is coaching the team. The reason, in part: Harbaugh was in the big interview room in front of hundreds of reporters.

– Pat Fitzgerald downplaying all the union talk.

“If we could do it the way Bo did it that would be something to aspire to”. He’s content simply to be Jim, a guy about whom we learned a little more on Friday.

A one-game suspension for a quartet of players may have been the first major setback to the 2015 Ohio State season, but members of the defending national champions aren’t letting it break their spirits.

“I’m looking at 2017 and 2018 now, probably more at 2017, and I really don’t want to play Alabama or LSU”, Herbster said.

Observed: OK, it’s more like “felt” than “observed”. Seven of those players are in the top 77. More than six million people came to see our games previous year.

“I had to learn to play like I did back in high school”, said Bolden, “and not like a robot – playing football the way it’s supposed to be played”. “Hopefully, we’ll be in a position this year where if we do have some bumps and bruises, the backup could slide in and it’s just interchanging one spot”. Harbaugh led the Stanford Cardinal to an Orange Bowl victory, guided the San Francisco 49ers to three consecutive NFC Championship appearances and landed an even bigger contract to coach Michigan.

Judging by postseason success and the number of players it sends to the NFL, the SEC has considered the strongest conference over the last 10 years. The announcement was made by the Big Ten Conference on Thursday.

Penn State was picked third.

But when asked about all the attention he’s getting from everyone since coming back to Ann Arbor, Harbaugh put up his blinders. The quarterback battle will be fascinating to watch as JT Barrett and Cardale Jones vie for the right to start.

– Darrell Hazell…you know?

Only one, Shane Morris, has taken a snap for Michigan.

One of Harbaugh’s best qualities that Wolverine players have been raving about is his honesty and transparency.

“We have to be ready for whoever it ultimately is, ” Chesson said.

Quotable: Nebraska travels to Purdue on October 31.

“Basically, our thought process was this is a great place”, Riley said speaking of he and his wife. And he did it convincingly enough to make the gathering wonder if he was honest or simply putting us on.