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No, I think you are the fat one.

We’re counting down the weeks until kickoff by profiling a different Big Ten team each week. Today, Tiller’s Last Stand is up.

Joe Tiller is entering his final season as the head coach of Purdue’s Basketball on Grass and one of the Big Ten pioneers of the spread [...]

Time Warner’s feed of the BTN

Ohio State announced yesterday the starting times for the home OOC games, all starting at noon and two of them on the BTN. Youngstown St. and Troy have been picked up by the Network, while the Ohio U. game will be on ESPN or ESPN2.

This could be one of [...]

The Herbsteit Challenge, started as an event pitting Ohio prep teams against powerhouses from around the nation is all growns up now.

The event, in its 4th iteration, was rechristened yesterday as the “Kirk Herbstreit Varsity Football Series Presented by BURGER KING” (and just like in Idiocracy, you get paid every time you say those last [...]

Taylor Mays is scary

I think we’re all in agreement that there’s a pretty good chance Tressel could have his best Buckeye team this fall. No apparent weaknesses. Yet, will his best be enough to topple the premier team of this decade, in their place?

A veritable Florida State of the aughts, the Trojans are [...]

There’s a nice bit of trash-talking amongst fellow Big Ten Bloggers, and when Michigan blog State of the Game put BHGP on notice, Hawkeye State responded:

Thank you, sir. Thank you.

It seems like only yesterday when Columbus served as the Eastern tip of the conference footprint and the Big Ten had a, you know, logo that matched its name. It’s hard to believe, but it’s been nearly 20 years since Big Ten presidents floated the concept of adding Penn State as the conference’s 11th [...]

Tressel’s not eligible, you say?

If you didn’t catch it in the feed earlier, LTP has compiled the conference bloggers’ picks for various awards and other things deemed important enough to be voted upon. While several of the categories were no-brainers I’m baffled that people still consider the prospect of a Utah victory at the [...]

Thigpen is still shaking off Hatline’s hit in ‘06.

We’re counting down the weeks until kickoff by profiling a different Big Ten team each week. Today, the Indiana Hoosiers are up.

There are two main questions, surrounding this Hoosier squad. One, will they have Kellen Lewis back from his spring suspension and two, will they [...]

1955 Heisman Trophy winner Hopalong Cassady had his number retired November 18, 2000.

Since Ohio State began retiring numbers back in 1999, a total of seven legendary Buckeyes have had the honor bestowed upon them. The list is certainly an impressive one featuring the likes of Archie Griffin, Vic Janowicz, Hopalong Cassady, Les Horvath, Eddie George, [...]