From: MarionStar.com -- Handicapping the Big Ten race used to be so easy. Plug Ohio State into the No. 1 spot and then forget about it until November when the Buckeyes make you look like a genius. Nobody remembers (thank goodness) who you picked second through 11. Those days, though, are gone. Drat. The league added another top-shelf program in Nebraska, split the now-12 team circuit into two divisions and created a league championship game, bringing it into the ... Read More

From: OhioStateBuckeyes.com -- Park Ridge, Ill. – The Big Ten Conference announced on Monday the launch of the Honoring Legends. Building Leaders. Mobile Tour that will visit each Big Ten campus this football season. The tour will contain the Big Ten Football Championship and division trophies and will make its stop in Columbus for the Sept. 24 game against Colorado. The mobile tour will entertain and educate fans about the new era of Big Ten football and the exciting road ... Read More

By: Stewart Mandel (SportsIllustrated.com) -- The Big Ten certainly wouldn't be the Big Ten without all 11, er, 12 schools. This fall will mark a momentous change, as everyone from Penn State to Michigan State, Iowa to Illinois, acclimates to a world of Leaders and Legends and cross-divisional matchups, trips to Lincoln, Neb., and, for the lucky two, a December showdown in Indianapolis. But even the proudest Northwestern or Minnesota fan, even the newcomers from Nebraska, understand ... Read More

By: Greg Kozarik (Examiner.com) --  A championship game, two divisions, a new school, four new head coaches, plenty of new players and of course a scandal that rocked the college football universe are just a bit of what happened to the Big Ten over the past six months. Now as the college football season is about to kickoff, the Big Ten conference is ready to start a new chapter in the conference’s long history. The addition of the Nebraska ... Read More

From: PostBulletin.com -- MADISON, Wis. — The face of Big Ten Conference football continues to change. Big Ten officials announced Thursday the league's football teams will begin playing a nine-game conference schedule in 2017. According to the plan: Three teams each from the Legends Division and Leaders Division will have five league home games during odd-numbered years and the three other teams from each division will have five league home games in even-numbered years. In 2017, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio State from the ... Read More

By Chris Larkin (iSportsWeb.com) -- With 5 players serving 5 game suspensions for the Ohio State Buckeyes, including star quarterback Terrelle Pryor, this year’s Big Ten title race could be wide open. The Buckeyes have finished first or tied for first in each of the last six seasons, but with five key players and head coach Jim Tressell suspended for the first 5 games of the season, the Buckeyes could face some early adversity which they are unaccustomed to.  ... Read More

By: JEFF LOCKRIDGE (TENNESSEAN.COM) -- Vanderbilt will open its 2013 football season at Ohio State. It will mark the third Big Ten opponent the Commodores have opened a season with since 2006, when they played at Michigan. Vanderbilt hosted Northwestern in 2010. The game at Ohio Stadium will take place on Aug. 31, renewing a series that will have been dormant for 80 years. Vanderbilt and Ohio State have played four times (1908, 1909, 1931 and 1933). The Buckeyes ... Read More

From: sbrforum.com -- It's the final of the Big Ten Conference Tournament and the number one team, Ohio State, will take on Penn State. NCAA basketball odds makers have given the Buckeyes a double digit spread to cover. No. 1 Ohio State aims for its second straight Big Ten Tournament championship when it takes on Penn State on Sunday afternoon in Indianapolis. Ohio State Buckeyes (31-2 # Seed in Big Ten) The Ohio State Buckeyes, who won their final four regular-season games ... Read More

By: Mike DeCourcy (SportingNews.com) -- INDIANAPOLIS – One guy dunked. One guy blocked. One guy did everything in between. Who said Ohio State doesn’t have a bench? Facing – no, pursuing – the possibility of playing three games in three days, the Buckeyes demanded a teensy bit less from their core five players and outlasted Michigan, 68-61, in the Big Ten Tournament semifinals Saturday afternoon at Conseco Fieldhouse. With forward David Lighty and point guard Aaron Craft in minor foul trouble, coach ... Read More

By: Blake Williams (TheLantern.com) -- INDIANAPOLIS — After sneaking past Northwestern, 67-61, in overtime Friday in the second round of the Big Ten Tournament, the Ohio State men's basketball team will play Michigan on Saturday. The Buckeyes needed an Evan Turner buzzer-beater from just inside halfcourt to top the Wolverines in the 2010 tournament. With the No. 4-seeded Wolverines' (20-12) 60-55 win against Illinois on Friday, Michigan coach John Beilein said his team is playing its best basketball late in the ... Read More