College Football starts this week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Originally Posted by Loke [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yea, but then it wouldn't be Big Ten football. I know most people hate the grinding, slow, unexciting, defense dominated football that the Big Ten is known for - but I think it makes the conference more interesting. I won't argue that the Big Ten is the best conference in college football, since I think the SEC probably is (although with Nebraska joining us next year, we do have a lot of powerhouse teams) - but Big Ten football in my opinion is the most competitive. Even the weaker teams in the conference have a tendency to show up and play huge games and it seems every season some team just surprises everyone (Iowa last year).

I had way more written out pretty much talking about every team in the conference and then realized I'm probably just listing a bunch of common knowledge that anyone who cares about college football already knows - so yea.. Big Ten football has its weaknesses, but I personally love it.

Penn State and Ohio State have been the only notable teams from the Big 10 in recent years, and Ohio State has pissed away plenty of championship chances. The Big 10 is not even remotely close to as good as the SEC, even with the addition of Nebraska. You would have a better chance arguing that it is better than the Big 12 (minus CU/NEB), or the PAC-10, but even that is debatable.

In fact, in the last 3 years, the Big 10 has only won ONE bowl game against Big 12 opponents:

2009

Iowa St over Minnesota 14-13
Texas Tech over Michigan State 41-31

2008 (shows top to bottom Big 12 better than Big 10)

Missouri over Northwestern 30-23
Kansas over Minnesota 42-21
Texas over Ohio State 24-12

2007

Penn State over A&M 24-17
OSU over Indiana 49-33