Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl
TCU Horned Frogs (7-5) vs. Michigan State Spartans (6-6) Dec. 29, 10:15 p.m. ET, Tempe, Ariz. (ESPN) TCU take by Big 12 blogger David Ubben: The Horned Frogs brought a new style of…
Northwestern, MSU, Minnesota accept bids
The Big Ten’s bowl lineup is complete as the final three eligible teams have accepted invitations. Northwestern will face an SEC opponent in the TaxSlayer.com Gator Bowl, Michigan State will face a Big…
Big Ten looks to put ugly 1st half behind it
Shortly after Northwestern survived an ugly performance to beat Minnesota on Saturday and improve to 6-1, two officials sat down in the postgame press conference wearing yellow Fiesta Bowl jackets. With Ohio State and Penn State ineligible for the postseason and the Big Ten not having a team currently ranked in the BCS standings, the representatives from one of the premier bowls in the country were asked what interest they had in the Wildcats and Golden Gophers. ”We also have the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl,” one of them said. That sounds about right. The college football season has turned the corner to the second half, and no one is more pleased to put the first half behind than those in the maligned Big Ten. For a conference that was already being characterized as inferior to the likes of the SEC and Big 12, 2012 couldn’t have started much worse for the Big…
