PLAYERS:
Manti Te'o,
Kirk Ferentz,
Stephen Hopkins
TEAMS: Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Kansas State Wildcats, Iowa Hawkeyes, Michigan Wolverines
TEAMS: Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Kansas State Wildcats, Iowa Hawkeyes, Michigan Wolverines
Big Tentacles
Most shocking news of the day.
Bret Bielema leaves Wisconsin for Arkansas. (The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)
Is this a good thing or a bad thing?
Ted Glover ponders what it means for the Big Ten that Bielema defects from the conference's Rose Bowl representative for an SEC school still recovering from Petrinopalooza. (Off Tackle Empire)
Least. Shocking. News. Ever. Of the day.
Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o, Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel, and Kansas State QB Collin Klein are the three finalists for the 2012 Heisman Trophy. (ESPN)
In other coaching news...
Purdue hires Darrell Hazell as its new HC. (Hammer and Rails)
Bloomin' Onions > Roses?
Andrew Coppens ranks The Outback Bowl matchup between Michigan and South Carolina as the top Big Ten bowl game. The Wisconsin vs. Stanford Rosc Bowl comes in at second. And this was before the news of Bielema leaving. (Delany's Dozen)
Don't Worry, Be Happy.
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