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B10 Needs Some Wins

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I had mixed feelings while watching the Alamo Bowl. If Texas (who at 9 - 3, must have really peed in someone's cornflakes to get banished to the Alamo Bowl) won big, then it made our victory in September seem bigger. If Iowa won it made the Big 10 look better. At least Iowa showed that speed is not limited to the south.

Purdue getting taken to the woodshed by Maryland hurt.

And how do you blow a 31 point lead Glenn Mason? ... and in the third quarter at that... you been taking lessons from John L.?

Come on Nittany Lions, go Blue and especially Go Bucks! Let's get the Big 10 some bragging rights.
 
Although the B10 is now 0-3 in Bowl Games. Purdue was the only team to get embarrassed. I think both Iowa and Minnesota were playing much better teams yet they made games of it.

Im not too upset with the early bowl losses, because with the exception of the Iowa game, they were not "major bowls" and I wouldn't even consider the Alamo Bowl a MAJOR bowl, however its always a good bowl.

If we win the Outback, Capital One, Rose, and NC, I dont think ANYONE has any room to downtalk to the B10. I think if we win 3 of those games that would be a good year. I'd rather win the Rose/BCS NC than the Intel Pentium Processor Bowl.
 
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i think PSU loses but i have wiscy, michigan, and osu winning. its not really too big of a deal to me since every one of the big 10 bowl games has the big 10 team overmatched so it just the idea that minny and iowa were in the games pretty much shocked me.
 
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Basically most everyone knew and admitted that the Big Ten is front-loaded this year, so losing the bottom tier bowls this year is no surprise, as opposed to previous years when the conference was much deeper. It was a down year for places 4-9 in the Big Ten this season.

Obviously the Rose and our bowl are the biggies, but maybe the most important two for conference respect are the Penn State and Wisconsin games, Wisconsin especially...if we get one or both of those against the SEC, then all of a sudden the Big Ten looks pretty good...if we drop those two, then the conference looks terrible, and we are 0-5 going in to the big two games.

We as a conference have a rare opportunity though...the entire media is pleasuring themselves to the SEC this year, and we have 3 games against them...if we can somehow go 3-0 (or even 2-1), then we look much, much better, and the "SEC is God" people will have to recoil.
 
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Basically most everyone knew and admitted that the Big Ten is front-loaded this year, so losing the bottom tier bowls this year is no surprise, as opposed to previous years when the conference was much deeper. It was a down year for places 4-9 in the Big Ten this season.

Obviously the Rose and our bowl are the biggies, but maybe the most important two for conference respect are the Penn State and Wisconsin games, Wisconsin especially...if we get one or both of those against the SEC, then all of a sudden the Big Ten looks pretty good...if we drop those two, then the conference looks terrible, and we are 0-5 going in to the big two games.

We as a conference have a rare opportunity though...the entire media is pleasuring themselves to the SEC this year, and we have 3 games against them...if we can somehow go 3-0 (or even 2-1), then we look much, much better, and the "SEC is God" people will have to recoil.
 
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OSUsushichic;700636; said:
I'd say Minny's choke job was embarrassing.
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true but mainly based off the media. i was expecting tech to win that game in a something like a 45-7 type of score but minny came out strong and gave them a challenge for the first half but with a team like tech you can ever rule out a lead with that type of offense.
 
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A couple of wins would have been nice but would have been unexpected to say the least. If you look at it realistically the close games for Minnesota and Iowa don't look all that bad, the "experts" picked both teams to lose in a rout. I have looked at no less than 20 bowl prognostications and not one of them had Iowa or Minnesota keeping their games within 10 points. Both teams wore down against deeper and more talented squads but played as hard as they could until the end, no shame in that. Purdue, well just another week effort in a meaningful game under Tiller. No real suprise there.

Now the games that matter begin. I see no less than a 3-1 effort starting tomorrow, and depending on what Penn State can bring to the Outback it could be a 4-0 finish to the bowl season.
 
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I don't think any part of the country, except probably the SEC parts, were knocking the top of the Big 10. Most people are saying the SEC is the best conference because they go much deeper. Like the B10, the SEC had some mismatch match-ups like the Iowa and the Purdue games with UGA vs. VT and UK vs. Clemson, but they both won by at least a TD. The SEC vs. Big-10 matchups won't be a walk in the park for either conference, because the top of the two conferences matchup really well, I believe. I think realistically, Michigan will win and PSU will lose, with the Wiscy game as a pick 'em.
 
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Not too bent up over it myself. All three were underdogs in their games, and Minnesota and Iowa both held the lead in the 4th quarter of their games despite being TD+ dogs. They weren't expected to win to begin with. Iowa really got jobbed on the penalty that nullified a TD which would've made it 21-3 in the second quarter against Texas. Instead the TD was taken off the board, Tate threw an INT on the next play, and Texas took the mo' and drove right down the field. 21-3 became 14-10 real quick -- and you knew Iowa was not going to win the game after that sequence.

And nobody ever expects Purdue to win a bowl game, so that was no surprise either.
 
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coastalbuck;701330; said:
Penn St. looking pretty good now, that could be a huge loss for the unbeatable (except for each other) SEC!!!!!!!
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They look good, but damn are they good at killing offensive drives. Kind of funny that Tennessee can't get anywhere on the "speed" plays and are doing better running it up the gut.
 
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