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2009-2010 Big Ten Bowl Season

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To me, the Big Ten bowl season is wrapped up by a question I asked in the Orange Bowl thread...
If you had been given the choice of 4 bowl games for the Big Ten to win, would any of you have chosen differently than what transpired over the last week?
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DaddyBigBucks;1635996; said:
To me, the Big Ten bowl season is wrapped up by a question I asked in the Orange Bowl thread...
If you had been given the choice of 4 bowl games for the Big Ten to win, would any of you have chosen differently than what transpired over the last week?
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Never send Michigan to do a real Big Ten teams' job (like win a Rose Bowl).
 
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DaddyBigBucks;1635996; said:
To me, the Big Ten bowl season is wrapped up by a question I asked in the Orange Bowl thread...
If you had been given the choice of 4 bowl games for the Big Ten to win, would any of you have chosen differently than what transpired over the last week?
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My only mild disappointment was Northwestern blowing a golden opportunity to beat "the SEC", but overall I agree with you. Minny and Sparty were just being themselves.

In fact, from a "name" standpoint Wisconsin, Penn State, Ohio State, Iowa are the ones that register most (since TSUN sucks balls now).
 
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ESPN just took a good moment to talk up the Big Ten on Sportscenter.

They had a graphic displaying the Big Ten's four bowl wins, and it pointed out at the bottom that those Big Ten teams had combined to beat four top-15 teams in their victories, and that that was only the second time that had happened in the BCS era.
 
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Today I am proud of the Big 10.

The way I see it conferences are like a family of brothers. There will be friends you enjoy the company of more than your brothers. The competition amongst brothers will often be more heated and intense than competition between your brother and an outsider. Everyone wants to be the brother that's best at something or, better yet, everything. But when competition breaks out between your brother and an outsider, you will 9 times out of 10 root for your brother. Often you are proud if your brother prevails and disappointed if not embarrassed when they do not.

Here's where the SEC gets it wrong. When an outsider criticizes your personal shortcomings, no face is saved by citing your brothers' accomplishments. Be proud, but don't live vicariously.

Of course, I'm an only child so I could be way off on this.
 
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mross34;1636045; said:
Today I am proud of the Big 10.

The way I see it conferences are like a family of brothers. There will be friends you enjoy the company of more than your brothers. The competition amongst brothers will often be more heated and intense than competition between your brother and an outsider. Everyone wants to be the brother that's best at something or, better yet, everything. But when competition breaks out between your brother and an outsider, you will 9 times out of 10 root for your brother. Often you are proud if your brother prevails and disappointed if not embarrassed when they do not.

Here's where the SEC gets it wrong. When an outsider criticizes your shortcomings, no face is saved by citing your brothers' accomplishments. Be proud, but don't live vicariously.

Of course, I'm an only child so I could be way off on this.
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You have apparently never kicked a sibling in the groin, pulled their hair, stabbed them with scissors, or thrown them into the piano bench and broken their collar bone.

Your conference brethren are like family, you don't appreciate what they do until you're in your twenties, drunk, and around them for the holidays.
 
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I'll admit when I am wrong and I was wrong about the big 10 this year in predicting their bowl record (2-5 or 3-4 if lucky). They were dogs in 6 of the 7 games I believe (what else is new)?

Like previous posters have mentioned, the top 4 teams in the Big 10 had great wins for the conference. These four games were won in similiar fashion: w/ great defensive efforts and controlling the clock on offense.

Wisky: 40' of possession and 250 total yards allowed
PSU: 39' of possession and 243 total yards allowed
OSU: 41' of possession and 260 yards allowed
(I heard from somewhere that it was the most lopsided discrepency in time of possession in a Rose Bowl since the very first one in 1902 when tsun beat stanford 49-0)
Iowa: 33' of possession and 155 toal yards allowed

And even though OSU didn't pound the ball as much I as thought they would need to to win the game, TP continously made the throws to move the chains through the air, something the Bucks haven't been able to do consistently all year. He was also more crisp and decisive in his decision making throughout the game.

They controlled the clock, tempo and kept Oregon's offense off the field. Too many times in the last few big games (BCS) they fell behind in the second half of games, abandoned the running game and got away from what they do best. They didn't put up huge ground numbers but they kept the game close and stayed balanced on offense throughout the game.

NW let one get away against the SEC that would have been icing on the cake on this bowl season. Maybe if Bama gets thumped we can put an end to this "SEC and then there is everybody else" talk. Don't see it happening though.

Overall, very impressed by the way all 7 Big10 teams showed up ready to play and out to prove something.

:oh::io:
 
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I am not at all surprised by the Big Ten results. This looked to me like things had bottomed out.

It helped that the Big Ten champion was not in the National Championship game. Pull each of the Big Ten teams up a game and the results may well have looked like the last two years. Still, even if that had happened, it would not have been an indication of the rebuilding that has gone on in the Big Ten, with the exception of TSUN.

Look for the center of the college football world to swing back to its natural home in the Midwest during the next two years.
 
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Here is my favorite part of all of this.

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