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Spring Snapshot: Big Ten Football Check-in
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The 2014 Pigskin Pantheon: Week 3 College Football Awards
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Iowa–Iowa State and the Toxic Swamp of the Big Ten
There are few things in sports I dislike as deeply as overcoaching. (Using penalty shots to settle soccer games and Field of Dreams are the others.) Overcoaching comes in many forms, from what my pal...
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College Football Viewing Guide: 2014-15 Bowl Fact Sheet
Bowl season is upon us. You probably have many questions. We’re here to help, with the absolute least you need to know about each and every bowl game. College football’s draw is in its anthropology,...
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An Instant Upgrade to Any Offensive Line: Iowa’s Brandon Scherff Could...
Typically, the voice inside my head would stop me right here: Most people don’t want to watch clips of an offensive lineman, Robert. But please hear me out as I ignore that nagging warning just one...
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Ferentz Under Fire: Is Iowa’s Patience About to Run Out?
If you’re an Iowa football fan, odds are that you know more about the finer points of Kirk Ferentz’s finances than you do about your own. The specifics of the contract extension that the Hawkeyes head...
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Hot Seat Watch 2015: Your Fire Emoji Guide to College Football Coaches’...
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Hawks, Harbs, and Hoosiers: Fourteen Reasons to Love the New-Look Big Ten
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College Football Week 7 Wrap: The Ball Is Free
Gift Six The final play of Michigan State’s 27-23 win over Michigan was an instant classic, an unbelievable, preposterous turn of events that ascended directly into the college football firmament....
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Let’s Get Messy: In Praise of Big Ten Football
So here’s a secondary college football headline you might have glossed over last Saturday: In the hours before an Australian punter executed a flawless inadvertent lateral to an onrushing defender in...
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Spring Snapshot: Big Ten Football Check-in
Join us as we take a tourist’s glance at the nebulous between-world of spring football, so often neither footbally nor springy. Previously: the ACC, SEC, Big 12, and Pac-12. This week: assorted...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The 2014 Pigskin Pantheon: Week 3 College Football Awards
College football serves and is served by many gods, old and new. Here, week after week, we’ll build a temple to them, installing saints and erecting graven idols as we go. The temple is made of words...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Iowa–Iowa State and the Toxic Swamp of the Big Ten
There are few things in sports I dislike as deeply as overcoaching. (Using penalty shots to settle soccer games and Field of Dreams are the others.) Overcoaching comes in many forms, from what my pal...
View ArticleClik here to view.
College Football Viewing Guide: 2014-15 Bowl Fact Sheet
Bowl season is upon us. You probably have many questions. We’re here to help, with the absolute least you need to know about each and every bowl game. College football’s draw is in its anthropology,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
An Instant Upgrade to Any Offensive Line: Iowa’s Brandon Scherff Could...
Typically, the voice inside my head would stop me right here: Most people don’t want to watch clips of an offensive lineman, Robert. But please hear me out as I ignore that nagging warning just one...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ferentz Under Fire: Is Iowa’s Patience About to Run Out?
If you’re an Iowa football fan, odds are that you know more about the finer points of Kirk Ferentz’s finances than you do about your own. The specifics of the contract extension that the Hawkeyes head...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hot Seat Watch 2015: Your Fire Emoji Guide to College Football Coaches’...
Before we dive into a scholarly analysis of college football’s chopping block, let us first acknowledge that the “hot seat” idiom has become largely outdated in the era of seven-figure coaching...
View ArticleHawks, Harbs, and Hoosiers: Fourteen Reasons to Love the New-Look Big Ten
It’s official: We’re living in the new golden age of Big Ten football. While it once seemed like the Pac-12 would supplant the SEC as college football’s preeminent conference, the Big Ten has swooped...
View ArticleClik here to view.
College Football Week 7 Wrap: The Ball Is Free
Gift Six The final play of Michigan State’s 27-23 win over Michigan was an instant classic, an unbelievable, preposterous turn of events that ascended directly into the college football firmament....
View ArticleLet’s Get Messy: In Praise of Big Ten Football
So here’s a secondary college football headline you might have glossed over last Saturday: In the hours before an Australian punter executed a flawless inadvertent lateral to an onrushing defender in...
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