Big Ten 2023

Who wins the Big Ten EAST and WEST?

  • Maryland Terrapins (EAST)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Rutgers Scarlet Knights (EAST)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Indiana Hoosiers (EAST)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Michigan Wolverines (EAST)

    Votes: 15 46.9%

  • Michigan State Spartans (EAST)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Ohio State Buckeyes (EAST)

    Votes: 17 53.1%

  • Penn State Nittany Lions (EAST)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Illinois Fighting Illini (WEST)

    Votes: 3 9.4%

  • Iowa Hawkeyes (WEST)

    Votes: 9 28.1%

  • Minnesota Golden Gophers (WEST)

    Votes: 2 6.3%

  • Northwestern Wildcats (WEST)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Purdue Boilermakers (WEST)

    Votes: 1 3.1%

  • Wisconsin Badgers (WEST)

    Votes: 13 40.6%

  • Nebraska Cornhuskers (WEST)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    32
Week One is almost in the books for the Big 10:

Ohio State 23 Indiana 3
Minnesota 13 Nebraska 10
Fresno St 39 Purdue 35
Illinois 30 Toledo 28
Maryland 38 Towson 6
Michigan St. 31 Central Michigan 7
Penn St 38 WVU 15
Wisconsin 38 Buffalo 17
Michigan 30 East Carolina 3
Iowa 24 Utah St 14
Rutgers 24 Northwestern 7


Any surprises? OSU's struggles? Wisconsin looking better out of the gate. Michigan and PSU are the teams to beat?

Thoughts?
 
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Bert had Illinois playing pretty solid football last season. A little surprised they barely beat Toledo.

OSU obviously had a lot of turnover on offense and it showed. Just one week to figure some stuff out before going to ND.

Northwestern looking like it may be a one win team.
 
Crusaders said:
Bert had Illinois playing pretty solid football last season. A little surprised they barely beat Toledo.

OSU obviously had a lot of turnover on offense and it showed. Just one week to figure some stuff out before going to ND.

Northwestern looking like it may be a one win team.
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They have 2 weeks and 5 days before leaving for South Bend. OSU-ND is week 4.

But yeah I don’t know NWs schedule but theyll need a true little sisters of the poor team to squeak out a win. Rutgers, of all teams, is just dominating them.
 
Gophers were rude to Rhule.

Rockets with a good rep of the MAC.

StatePen white-outs the Mountaineers.

Hawkeyes - except for the first quarter - looked like..... Iowa.

Wildcats had no running game to support the qb.

Wiscy in a solid win. No surprise there.

Fun weekend! ⚽
 
Omega said:
Week One is almost in the books for the Big 10:

Ohio State 23 Indiana 3
Minnesota 13 Nebraska 10
Fresno St 39 Purdue 35
Illinois 30 Toledo 28
Maryland 38 Towson 6
Michigan St. 31 Central Michigan 7
Penn St 38 WVU 15
Wisconsin 38 Buffalo 17
Michigan 30 East Carolina 3
Iowa 24 Utah St 14
Rutgers 24 Northwestern 7


Any surprises? OSU's struggles? Wisconsin looking better out of the gate. Michigan and PSU are the teams to beat?

Thoughts?
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Purdue once again lives up to its reputation of Purdont, Northwestern is just pathetic. It will be interesting now that the networks control the power 5 conferences if the football money over the next 10 years will be divided evenly, or some schools kicked out. Networks can't be too thrilled to be paying the BIG all this money to be showing NW, Indiana, or Purdue football games. Same with SEC and Vandy, Mizzou.
 
Stirred not Shaken said:
Purdue once again lives up to its reputation of Purdont, Northwestern is just pathetic. It will be interesting now that the networks control the power 5 conferences if the football money over the next 10 years will be divided evenly, or some schools kicked out. Networks can't be too thrilled to be paying the BIG all this money to be showing NW, Indiana, or Purdue football games. Same with SEC and Vandy, Mizzou.
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I could see Purdue or Indiana possibly. NW has that Chicago market (nevermind the fact probably 1% of Chicagoans actually watches NW) so they’ll probably be safe.
 
Brian Frentz, Iowa’s OC had a new clause added to his contract this year. The Iowa offense needs to average 25 points per game or he will be fired. Not Iowa as a whole, the Iowa offense, so any punt/kick off returns or defensive scores do not count. Against what should be their easiest game of the year, Iowa’s offense managed just 24 points.
 
Orin Swift said:
Brian Frentz, Iowa’s OC had a new clause added to his contract this year. The Iowa offense needs to average 25 points per game or he will be fired. Not Iowa as a whole, the Iowa offense, so any punt/kick off returns or defensive scores do not count. Against what should be their easiest game of the year, Iowa’s offense managed just 24 points.
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Yet the Hawkeyes outscored the Buckeyes?
 
Big Ten results week 2:

Ohio State 35 Youngstown State 7
Michigan 35 UNLV 7
Penn State 63 Delaware 7
Wazzou 31 Wisconsin 22
Rutgers 36 Temple 7
Colorado 36 Nebraska 14
Purdue 24 VPI 17
Iowa 20 Iowa State 13
Michigan State 45 Richmond 14
Northwestern 38 UTEP 7
Maryland 38 Charlotte 20
Minnesota 25 Eastern Michigan 6
Indiana 41 Indiana State 7
Kansas 34 Illinois 23

The Big 10 went 9-0 against G5 and FCS schools but 2-3 against Power 5 schools.

Penn St the team to beat after week 2 or is it Michigan?
 
Omega said:
Big Ten results week 2:

Ohio State 35 Youngstown State 7
Michigan 35 UNLV 7
Penn State 63 Delaware 7
Wazzou 31 Wisconsin 22
Rutgers 36 Temple 7
Colorado 36 Nebraska 14
Purdue 24 VPI 17
Iowa 20 Iowa State 13
Michigan State 45 Richmond 14
Northwestern 38 UTEP 7
Maryland 38 Charlotte 20
Minnesota 25 Eastern Michigan 6
Indiana 41 Indiana State 7
Kansas 34 Illinois 23

The Big 10 went 9-0 against G5 and FCS schools but 2-3 against Power 5 schools.

Penn St the team to beat after week 2 or is it Michigan?
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Top 3:
1. Michigan
2. OSU
3. PSU

Look for Rutgers to have a reasonable season this year. Maryland seemed off last night. Don't expect to see any surprises in comparison to the past, Big Ten West isn't good and believe everyone is ready for it to stop existing. Not sure how it will look next year.
 
CMH FB said:
Top 3:
1. Michigan
2. OSU
3. PSU

Look for Rutgers to have a reasonable season this year. Maryland seemed off last night. Don't expect to see any surprises in comparison to the past, Big Ten West isn't good and believe everyone is ready for it to stop existing. Not sure how it will look next year.
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I would rank OSU third. Michigan and Penn State both have better QB situations as of today. Subject to change.
 
cjb5656 said:
I would rank OSU third. Michigan and Penn State both have better QB situations as of today. Subject to change.
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Yes, consider DA at PSU was at Medina, and Ewers who we watched last night take down Alabama (prob securing at least a seat in New York this December), it's painful to think OSU missed out on both.

I know delusional OSU fans will say "We're just warming up, learning how to use the clock!", writing is on the wall for the program right now if you ask me.
 
CMH FB said:
Yes, consider DA at PSU was at Medina, and Ewers who we watched last night take down Alabama (prob securing at least a seat in New York this December), it's painful to think OSU missed out on both.

I know delusional OSU fans will say "We're just warming up, learning how to use the clock!", writing is on the wall for the program right now if you ask me.
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Well Mr. Ewers was a member of the Buckeyes in 2021 before hitting the transfer portal. He reclassed his recruiting year to take advantage of NIL. I really don't think he ever had any intention of staying in Columbus and his recruitment did take OSU of the picture with Allar and McCarthy. Opportunity lost and opportunity cost.
 
Omega said:
Well Mr. Ewers was a member of the Buckeyes in 2021 before hitting the transfer portal. He reclassed his recruiting year to take advantage of NIL. I really don't think he ever had any intention of staying in Columbus and his recruitment did take OSU of the picture with Allar and McCarthy. Opportunity lost and opportunity cost.
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Tend to agree with you on this take, unfortunately.
 
CMH FB said:
Yes, consider DA at PSU was at Medina, and Ewers who we watched last night take down Alabama (prob securing at least a seat in New York this December), it's painful to think OSU missed out on both.

I know delusional OSU fans will say "We're just warming up, learning how to use the clock!", writing is on the wall for the program right now if you ask me.
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Ehhhh, I never got the fascination by the evaluators about Ewers. When I heard all the hype about the perfect 5 star score and all that, I watched his HS stuff posted online and I just didn’t get it. Didn’t look anything special to me. Still doesn’t, but I’m not a QB talent evaluator…so I’m probably wrong.

But yes, to miss on Allar because you wanted to play the Ewers NIL game so badly looks like a swing and miss.
 
Omega said:
Well Mr. Ewers was a member of the Buckeyes in 2021 before hitting the transfer portal. He reclassed his recruiting year to take advantage of NIL. I really don't think he ever had any intention of staying in Columbus and his recruitment did take OSU of the picture with Allar and McCarthy. Opportunity lost and opportunity cost.
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NIL has dramatically changed the landscape and we're seeing a shift to coaches who know how to use it and those that don't. So far, it looks like Day is in the don't.
 
Crusaders said:
NIL has dramatically changed the landscape and we're seeing a shift to coaches who know how to use it and those that don't. So far, it looks like Day is in the don't.
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To Day’s defense, I think this falls on Gene, you can only have so much money to work with.
 
Crusaders said:
NIL has dramatically changed the landscape and we're seeing a shift to coaches who know how to use it and those that don't. So far, it looks like Day is in the don't.
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I think NIL at OSU is fine, they landed some big portal additions in the offseason. Day just isn't a very good coach and doesn't coach to his players strengths.
 
Spartacus1987 said:
I think NIL at OSU is fine, they landed some big portal additions in the offseason. Day just isn't a very good coach and doesn't coach to his players strengths.
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Day is a good coach. Day can recruit. The thing about Day that’s becoming apparent with each passing post-Urban year is the program identity trending to finesse on both sides of the ball. That’s a huge departure from Ohio State’s historic identity that took root with Woody back in 1950. When Michigan went away from their identity and hired RichRod…who was a good coach…it didn’t work. Day has recruited too much talent to bottom out like Michigan did with the RichRod experiment, but if he keeps getting outmuscled by Michigan another time he will be on a very hot seat and if it happens two more times in a row he will be replaced.

That all being said, a decent kicker on last year’s team and Ryan Day is a national championship coach today. Of course it’s Day’s fault they didn’t have a kicker last year that could hit from 50 yards.
 
Crusaders said:
NIL has dramatically changed the landscape and we're seeing a shift to coaches who know how to use it and those that don't. So far, it looks like Day is in the don't.
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Maybe. Ohio State seems to administratively take an arms length approach to tying NIL to scholarship offers for new recruits and tranfers. They have now at least started to exert guidance over the NIL collectives although they have no formal authority. Ohio State recruiting pitch seems to be come to Columbus for the program and culture and the NIL will take care of itself, instead of come to Columbus because of NIL. I am sure it has cost the Bucks some 5* recruits, but I feel that is more on Gene Smith rather than Ryan Day.
 
cjb5656 said:
Day is a good coach. Day can recruit. The thing about Day that’s becoming apparent with each passing post-Urban year is the program identity trending to finesse on both sides of the ball. That’s a huge departure from Ohio State’s historic identity that took root with Woody back in 1950. When Michigan went away from their identity and hired RichRod…who was a good coach…it didn’t work. Day has recruited too much talent to bottom out like Michigan did with the RichRod experiment, but if he keeps getting outmuscled by Michigan another time he will be on a very hot seat and if it happens two more times in a row he will be replaced.

That all being said, a decent kicker on last year’s team and Ryan Day is a national championship coach today. Of course it’s Day’s fault they didn’t have a kicker last year that could hit from 50 yards.
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I don’t know, even if he is considered a finesse coach his play calling in big games leaves a lot to be desired. Explains why he’s 2-5 against top 5 teams. A record like that I could never consider somebody a good coach with the talent OSU has.

Also that game against Georgia should have never come down to that kick. The game was lost with Knowles and Days play calling in the 4th quarter.
 
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