#B1G West

My phone reminded me, this morning, of what I was doing five years ago today. I had flown from Boston-a two-week research trip wherein I also flew to Maryland to watch the'Cats beat the Terps-to Evanston, where I saw one of my favorite sights: Iowa fans leaving Ryan Field. Just look at that. All those yokels, having congratulated themselves on…

Right, this happened. But also it's the week before Finals, and all through the house hell is breaking loose. We had thoughts about it! Kinda! 1. Your thoughts? 2. Anyone more deserving who should've been here? 3. Preliminary picks? Kind of...: Committee got it right. UGa/OSU is interesting. UGa if Michigan, but better (in most ways), but also may…

Championship week is here! Our Hawkeyes blew a chance at the title game, losing to a horrible, rotten, no-good Nebraska team. It was so disgusting that the Spread Awareness staff agreed to not even put out an article this week until we realized something…. Last week we caught FIRE. After struggling for weeks, we had our winningest week of the…

Call it the grind of the regular season or a lookahead spot, but nobody among the top teams in college football looked all that great this past weekend. Georgia scored only one touchdown against Kentucky in a 16-6 win, Ohio State's defense struggled in a 43-30 win over Maryland, and Michigan and TCU both needed last-second field goals to pick up…

Week 11 was our best of the season (5-1), and we were a fourth-and-29 touchdown pass by Rutgers (of all teams) from having a clean sheet. That ups our season record to 38-24 (61.3 percent) with only two weeks left. All seven Big Ten games in Week 12 have tangible meaning to one, if not both, teams. A playoff spot, a division title, or a bowl bid…

It's the penultimate week of the 2022 college football season. Can you believe we only have two football Saturdays remaining for most teams? Many will be playing their final home game this week. Where did the season go? While nothing has changed atop the Big Ten East, the West Division opened up with an upset by the Purdue Boilermakers over the…

Every day for the entirety of the Ohio State football season, we will be asking and answering questions about the team, college football, and anything else on our collective minds of varying degrees of importance. If you have a question that you would like to ask, you can tweet us @LandGrant33 or if you need more than 280 characters, send an…

The First (Annual?) Gary Patterson Bowl goes down in Austin. Two questions will define No. 4 TCU at No. 18 Texas, one far more important than the other. First, who will be more satisfied in victory: TCU, moving to 10-0 with a team comprised of largely the same pieces of the 2021 Patterson-led team that went 5-7 with a win over Gary Patterson, or…

It seems like every time we drop Marvin Harrison Jr. out of this exclusive club, he turns around and catches 3 touchdown passes in a single game. So we're not sure if Ohio State fans hate us for being fickle, or want us to go right on dissing their superstar receiver with the famous name. When we say he turns around and catches TD passes, we mean…

Tough one for my Buccaneers last night after a 28-14 loss to hated UMass-Dartmouth. If you watched the 12-9 Colts-Broncos win last night and thought "That's the pinnacle of football," well...boy, we've got a few games for you this week in the Big Ten. HIT IT, RockyMtnBlue! (all times CT) Straight-Up: jNebby 10-4 Against the Spread:…

Through two games I'm actually a touch more optimistic about the Lions than I was at this point last year. Both seasons started with road wins against B1G West programs, but the 2021 week 2 win over Ball State felt much more hard-earned than the 2022 week 2 win over Ohio. The run game seems improved, the backup QB situation is not a total question…