Pillow Pets are not a new item this holiday season, but the expanded selection of sports pillow pets certainly is. While NFL and MLB team mascots are available in all teams, the college licensing process is not so simple, but the Big Ten is well-represented in the world of college Pillow Pets. The Michigan Wolverines, Ohio State Buckeyes and Wisconsin Badgers are joined by the conference...

Coming into the day on Saturday, November 5th, the Big Ten Legends Division was poised for a day to show us what each team was made of. With the three top team in the division playing the three bottom teams, on paper it should have been a day of favorites winning, but when the dust settled the division became a muddied mess. Michigan began the day struggling to stop Iowa. The Hawkeyes...

With their newly-named Legends and Leaders Divisions the Big Ten raised a few eyebrows this season. While many of those eyebrows were raised at the peculiar naming of divisions and overall lack of geographic common sense, combined with a poor, at best, logo design, it’s time to talk football as the Big Ten’s Legends Division has a busy day on today’s Big Ten scoreboard...

Another weekend of play in the Big Ten has the conference on it’s head. With Michigan State losing to Nebraska and Ohio State’s upset of Wisconsin, along with Michigan and Penn State winning again, the Big Ten now boasts 5 teams in the BCS Top 25 wit all 5 ranked from 10-20. A look at the Big Ten football standings shows an undefeated Penn State sitting atop the Leaders...

The Big Ten season is officially underway for the Michigan Wolverines and Minnesota Golden Gophers, but for Minnesota it seems they forgot to show up. Michigan has jumped out to a 28-0 lead early in the 2nd quarter with the Minnesota defense having no answers for Michigan’s play calling and speed. Wearing their throwback helmets, the Wolverines have been led by Denard Robinson...

In one of the most high profile games of an exciting Saturday, September 10, 2011 in college football, the #3 Alabama Crimson Tide lead the #23 Penn State Nittany Lions by a score of 17-3 at the half. In a first half that was a defensive battle throughout, a Penn State fumble set up Alabama’s last drive of the half and the Crimson Tide offense capitalized to milk the clock...

The Ohio State Buckeyes started slowly but made Luke Fickle a winner in his coaching debut in a 42-0 rout of the Akron Zips. With five players suspended from one set of NCAA violations and another three players added this week to the suspension list for another incident this summer, Ohio State had little trouble with the Zips, a team picked to finish near the bottom of the MAC this...

Kirk Cousins completed 18 of 22 passes and threw for 222 yards for Michigan State as the Spartans opened the season with a 28-6 win over Youngstown State on Friday night. BJ Cunningham caught nine passes for 130 yards and a touchdown for No. 17 Michigan State in the game. MSU, one year removed from a 11 win season that ended with a blowout loss to Alabama in the Capital One Bowl...

The 2011 college football season is almost here and the DFN Sports previews for all 12 Big Ten football teams are now live. Big Ten Fans has once again partnered with CollegeSports-fans.com through the DFN Sports Network to offer complete team previews for the 2011 season for every Big Ten football team including the newest member of the Big Ten, the Nebraska Cornhuskers. With the...

The Wisconsin Badgers defeated the Kansas State Wildcats in second round NCAA Tournament competition from the McKale Center in Tucson, Arizona. This was a back-and-forth contest between two evenly-matched teams, as one would expect in a 4-5 game. A terrific individual performance from Kansas State guard Jacob Pullen was nearly enough to get the Wildcats to their second straight Sweet...

The Big Ten is well represented in the NCAA Tournament this year in a field that includes the #1 overall seed, the Ohio State Buckeyes. Let’s take a look at each game featuring Big Ten schools: - #1 Ohio State vs #16 Texas-San Antonio - March 18 @ 4:40 pm ET - Ohio State v Texas San Antonio NCAA Tournament preview - #3 Purdue vs #14 St. Peter’s - March 18 @ 7:20 pm ET...

The Ohio State Buckeyes are back in action today in the Big Ten Tournament final facing an unlikely foe; the Penn State Nittany Lions. Penn State (19-13) has won three straight Big Ten Tournament games to advance, and four straight overall, in beating Indiana, Wisconsin and Michigan State. But Penn State has their hands full with #1 Ohio State (31-2), a team that looks poised to...

The #1 Ohio State Buckeyes survived a scare today, a scare that came from #8 seed Northwestern. The Buckeyes and Wildcats spent the second half trading leads before and overtime period was needed. But Ohio State was able to outscore Northwestern in OT 15-9 as they advance to play the winner of #4 Michigan versus #5 Illinois in the semifinals of the Big Ten Tournament which is on...

The 2011 Big Ten Tournament is underway as three games fill the schedule for Thursday, March 10th. Held at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, the conference with the worst logo in sports tipped off their 2011 tournament earlier today with #8 Northwestern and #9 Minnesota squaring off. The Wildcats kept their dreams of the program’s first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance alive...

Each year the bowl season gives each team participating and the conference they represent an opportunity to make a statement to the college football world. By playing a non-conference opponent on national TV teams can either help, or hurt, their program’s reputation. January 1st, 2011 is a day that the Big Ten Conference will not remember fondly. Just weeks after unveiling...

Sports fans across the globe can agree that college bowl season is indeed “the most wonderful time of the year.” With 35 college football games and 70 teams looking to finish their season off with a big win, these bowl games can have a major impact on recruiting and the development of younger players as well as on tradition and pride. Because of all of this excitement...

One day after suffering an upset loss to UConn, the #2 Michigan State Spartans improved to 4-1 with a win over #11 Washington by a score of 76-71. The Spartans, playing in the Maui Invitational, took 3rd place in the tournament with the win which was their first win over a ranked team in 2010. MSU trailed Washington by 10 at the half at 44-34, but rode a 42-27 second half to victory...

The Michigan State Spartans’ Big Ten title hopes nearly came to an end on Saturday as the Purdue Boliermakers nearly left East Landsing with an upset. However the Spartans were able to keep their magical season and Big Ten Championship hopes alive thanks to their come from behind 35-31 win. Thanks to the win, Michigan State needs only a win at Penn State, no easy task, to claim...

Week 12 Big Ten Football Round-Up The #7 Wisconsin Badgers and #9 Ohio State Buckeyes were sure to take care of business in Big Ten play on Saturday. Wisconsin tied the Big Ten record for points scored by a single team as they thumped Indiana 83-20 while Ohio State exploded for 35 second half points to beat Penn State 38-14. Meanwhile, #13 Iowa slipped up a week before hosting Ohio...

Week 9 is underway in the Big Ten with two games already in the books. The Illinois Fighting Illini jumped out to a 17-0 halftime lead en route to a 44-7 victory at home against Purdue. With the win Illinois improves to 5-3 on the season and 3-2 in Big Ten play with Purdue falling to 2-2 in the conference and 4-4 overall. In the other game Northwestern topped Indiana on the road...

The 2010 NFL Draft is underway in primetime on ESPN tonight and the first round is winding down. The wheeling and dealing began with the #13 pick as the Philadelphia Eagles made a move to acquire the pick and select Michigan OLB Brandon Graham. The selection of Graham marked the first Big Ten player to be picked in the 2010 NFL Draft after the first round has been dominated with...

Talk of the Big Ten’s expansion has swirled throughout the sport world in 2010 with names like Texas, Rutgers, Pittsburgh, Missouri and others having been brought up on several occasions. While arguments can be made for a variety of schools to join the financially-attractive Big Ten with all of their tradition, Colin Cowherd said that UConn appears to be the front-runner. The...

The conference opens their bowl season with the Wisconsin Badgers facing a tough test against the Miami Hurricanes on December 29th in the Champs Sports Bowl. The Golden Gophers of Minnesota will face Iowa State on New Years Eve with the game being broadcast on the NFL Network. On New Years Day Northwestern will [...]

The Big Ten season is over for all teams ranked in the conference. However it is a big week for the Ohio State Buckeyes. Oregon and Oregon State will battle on Thursday, December 3rd for the Pac 10 title with the winner will play Ohio State in the Rose Bowl. With Big Ten football action [...]

The Ohio State Buckeyes defeated Michigan once again in the best rivalry in all of sports. The #10 Buckeyes cruised to a 21-10 victory. Next up for Ohio State is the 2010 Rose Bowl on New Years Day. Iowa moved up two slots to #11 following a 12-0 victory over Iowa. [...]