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Buckeyes have toughest non-conference schedule in Big Ten
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Outside of the Big Ten transitioning to nine conference games, which will see OSU travel to Penn State and Wisconsin for night games, as well as to Michigan State before coming home to take on Michigan, the Buckeyes will also take on Oklahoma on the ...


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MACTASTROPHE: INSIDE THE BIG TEN'S WORST YEARLY TRADITION

Northwestern won ten games last season and has arguably the Big Ten's best defensive player. It even got one media pick to win the Big Ten West over Iowa and Nebraska.

It started this season with a loss at home to Western Michigan. This means the Big Ten's 10-year streak of at least one conference member losing to a MAC squad became an 11-year streak after the first kickoff slot (noon ET) on the first Saturday of the season.

This is the "MACtastrophe", a portmanteau with only a little hyperbole. No MAC player seriously evaluates a MAC offer over one from even a bottom-feeder Big Ten program like Purdue. Yet, the dregs of the Big Ten, and even some programs in the mid-tier, still manage to lose to a MAC squad every year. This streak started in 2006 with a mid-season Illinois loss to Ohio and continued on Saturday into its 11th year.

These MACtastrophes matter the extent to which they become cherry-picked observations to assert statements about a conference maligned in the recent past for its poor quality demonstrated elsewhere. It's fitting the ongoing streak of MACtastrophes starts the same season in which Ohio State and Michigan crashed and burned in the 2006 post-season, taking perceptions of the Big Ten south with them for several years.
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Actually I didn't realize that the B1G lost so many games to the MAC; however, you don't see Ohio State on the list......