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Michigan Wolverines – Brady Hoke Somehow Still Has a Job
There’s a chance the officials had something to do with Rutgers beating Michigan 26-24 and the Amarah Draboh catch that was ruled incomplete, but Brady Hoke remains someone fighting for his job without a chance of keeping it or making the football program any better. Maybe it’s not respectful, but keeping him any longer is just bad for both sides.
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Michigan Wolverines – Brady Hoke Reaches Pathetic Lows
One of the biggest names in College Football is hitting new lows with every passing week, as Michigan lose at home 30-14 to Minnesota, meaning that the day Brady Hoke will either realize he’s doing an awful job or those above him will reach that conclusion for him is drawing nearer.
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Big Ten Quarterbacks Don’t Get Drafted in the First Round
Maybe it’s unrelated to the sad state of Big Ten football these days, but it’s been almost 20 years since a quarterback from the conference was drafted in the first round of the NFL Draft. Kerry Collins back in 1995 was the last, going on to have a career that last 17 seasons, making it to the Super Bowl once.
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College Football – Big Ten Takes Huge Rankings & Playoffs Hit
It’s not wise to make assumptions about what happens at the end of the season based on week 2 results, but it’s safe to say the Big Ten won’t be having a team in the College Football playoffs after a terrible run of results in one day, with Michigan State (losing to Oregon), Ohio State (defeated by Virginia Tech) and Michigan (crushed by Notre Dame) getting beaten quite harshly to show how far their conference seems to be right now from the rest.
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College Football Realignment – A New Day for the Big Ten & ACC
July the first marks the first day of another round of realignment in College Sports and specifically in College Football, with most of the noise coming from those joining the Big Ten, Maryland and Rutgers, and also Louisville and becoming a full time member in the ACC.
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Conference Championships: Virginia in the ACC, Florida in the SEC, Michigan State in the Big Ten
Selection Sunday slightly puts the conference tournaments out of the spotlight, but tournament champions were declared in the ACC, where Virginia beat Duke; the SEC, in which Florida overcame Kentucky; an the Big Ten, with Michigan State beating Michigan.
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Iowa Beats Michigan – Roy Devyn Marble At His Most Dominant
Everything looks good for Iowa when Roy Devyn Marble plays well, and he did that and more as the Hawkeyes got back on the winning track at home with a very important 85-67 win over Michigan, keeping their Big Ten aspirations alive and well going into the final stretch of the regular season.
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Indiana Beats Michigan – Hoosiers Keep Pulling Off Upsets
This isn’t a season that Indiana are making any kind of move towards the Big Ten title, so pulling off upsets over rivals and ranked teams is the best they can do. For the second time this season, they’ve beaten a ranked conference opponents, beating Michigan 63-52.
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College Football Realignment – Super Conferences Want to be Alone
The most recent set of talks among NCAA administrators seems to be another step for the Big 12, ACC, Big Ten, Pac-12 and SEC to separate themselves from the rest of the competition by trying to give themselves more political power, and eventually another financial and competitive advantage.
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College Basketball – Kansas & Michigan Cause Big Upsets
A big day of top 10 teams being upset in College Basketball, as #15 Kansas came away with a 80-78 win over #9 Oklahoma State, while unranked Michigan stunned Wisconsin in Madison with a 77-70 win.