Recent content by bigjohnston

IF, and big if with 4 games remaining nothing is set in stone, Wisconsin wins out there is still a tremendous opportunity for the Hawks to play for a BCS Bowl game by winning out. There are some huge games around the country this weekend that should allow the Hawks to keep climbing up the BCS...

Wisky is off the schedule for the next 2 years (unless we meet one another in a Big Ten title game) so the winner of this game this week gets the Heartland Trophy in the trophy case for at least another 3 years...(possibly 5 years if they don't get scheduled against each other in the next...

If they go East/West for example (IA, Minny, Nebby, Wisky, Illinois, NW) - playing 5 teams in your division and 3 in the other division: Fun to speculate how it might look like depending on the divisions and I imagine that Iowa would keep the same 4 out of conference opponents at this point. A...

Ok, Ohio State over the past decade (and longer) would be pretty much a lock for the championship game but all I see people talking about, if they are in different divisions, is rematch, rematch, rematch.... I don't have time to run the numbers but maybe someone else could but we are just...

If Deace and Miller are correct and they have a rivalry weekend in the Big Ten at the end of the season matching up 4 of the top 6 winningest programs of all times, who does Iowa end up with? Nebraska vs Penn State Michigan vs Ohio State Wisconsin vs Minnesota Illinois vs Northwestern...

With a VERY green offensive line like we have coming back, I think that over/under is proper and I would probably stay away from it (personally). Football is won in the trenches and I could see 10 games on the schedule go either way really with a missed field goal here or a few turnovers there...

They can see the "Terrell Pryor Loves Unicorns" sign up in Iowa City an hour earlier...nice or will it be "Evan Royster Plays with Dolls". DBQ Hawk was that you that made that sign for Troy Smith...classic? Had to spend some time on that coloring... That along with "Lou Holtz for...

I also thought that Mich St might ***** and moan about this split but then I thought, hey MSU you were the new kid on the block in around 1948 and the most recent addition prior to Penn State so live with it Sparty...

into 4 divisions: How bout these apples: A) Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin B) Mizzou, Illinois, Northwestern, Notre Dame C) Michigan, Ohio State, Indiana, Purdue D) Penn State, Michigan State, Maryland, Rutgers This would be a riot! Wow, what a conference that would be and...

Selfishly, I like this much better (also keeps some resemblence of east/west with pods A and D being the western schools, B and C in the eastern area for the most part so more border rivals/timezone rivals): A) IA, Neb, Minny, Wisky Protected Rivalrys (IA/ILL, WI/Nwern, Neb/Mizzou...