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    Big Ten network cuts academics, citing low ratings
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    Citing low ratings and poor production quality, the network and university presidents agreed to slash academic programming and emphasize quality and ratings over quantity.
    Delany: National title game likely to be bid on
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    With college football headed toward a playoff, Big Ten administrators this week came out in favor of staging those games in bowls, a step that would keep the conference’s longstanding ties to the Rose Bowl.
    Big Ten to focus on concussion research
    via ESPN.com
    Commissioner Jim Delany announced Wednesday that the league members will launch a research initiative about how head injuries affect athletes in all sports.
    OSU's Meyer puts onus on team leaders
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    Urban Meyer, hired last November to oversee a massive reconstruction of the Buckeyes' troubled program, revealed his two-deep roster on Wednesday but said if the squad's best and brightest don't take ownership then his reboot won't work.
    Big Ten favors keeping bowl games as playoff sites
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    Big Ten officials came out in favor of keeping bowl games as sites for college football's planned playoff on Tuesday, preferring to keep the Rose Bowl as the conference's postseason tradition.
    ACC/Big Ten highlighted by UNC-IU
    via ESPN.com
    The first day of competition, Nov. 27, is practically guaranteed to be the best. Why? Because it offers North Carolina at Indiana and NC State at Michigan, the former of which is the first time the two bluebloods have met since Sean May, Rashad McCants and Raymond Felton rolled into Bloomington in 2005, just one stop on the way to an eventual national championship.
    Roby's OSU career going according to plan
    via ESPN.com
    Bradley Roby came to Ohio State with a specific plan mapped out. Redshirt the first year, in part because the Buckeyes had two senior starters returning at cornerback (Chimdi Chekwa and Devon Torrence). Check. Earn a starting job as a redshirt freshman and keep it throughout Year 2 in the program. Check.
    Can Big Ten Teams Reach Past Rose Bowl?
    via ESPN.com
    Michigan will likely enter the 2012 season as the highest-ranked team in the Big Ten and will measure itself right away by playing defending champion Alabama in the opener. The Wolverines' stated goals this spring had little to do with national aspirations, however. All the talk around Ann Arbor centered on winning a Big Ten title.
    McCaffery says Melsahn Basabe ‘has been spectacular’ this spring
    via TheGazette.com
    Iowa forward Melsahn Basabe admitted after the basketball season he has something to prove next year. Apparently he said the same thing to Coach Fran McCaffery in their end-of-season meeting, and he’s lived those words this offseason.
    Purdue clinches 1st baseball title since 1909
    via IndyStar.com
    Purdue's baseball team assured itself of at least a share of the Big Ten regular season league title with a 14-3 win over Michigan Saturday. Lance Breedlove pitched seven innings of one-hit ball and retired the final 20 batters he faced for the No. 14 Boilermakers (39-9, 16-4 Big Ten).
    Alvarez wants panel to pick college football playoff participants
    via JSOnline.com
    After several rounds of meetings with more to come, all signs point toward the implementation of a four-team playoff in college football once the current Bowl Championship Series contract expires after the 2013 season. Conference commissioners still have to haggle over several items before a four-team playoff replaces the flawed BCS system, which has endured more cosmetic surgery than all of Hollywood since its inception in 1998.
    Former Buckeye Oden opens up
    via Grantland.com
    It's hard to believe you could say this about a former no. 1 overall pick in the NBA draft who also had naked pictures of himself leaked onto the Internet, but Greg Oden is as private a person as I've ever known.
    Walk-on program a fundamental part of Wisconsin's success
    via SI.com
    Ricky Wagner beat the odds to earn a scholarship from one of the country's top programs, but his story is increasingly common on the Madison campus.
    Penn State likely to turn to McGloin at QB
    via PennLive.com
    Matt McGloin is the only known commodity Bill O’Brien has, though some would argue that’s not exactly a ringing endorsement.
    Hoke looking forward to opener vs. Alabama
    via Freep.com
    Michigan's first football game of the 2012 season is nearly four months away, but coach Brady Hoke already is fixated on defending national champion Alabama, which the Wolverines will play Sept. 1 at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
    Iowa's indoor football facility to be ready by August
    via TheGazette.com
    Iowa’s new indoor football practice facility and adjacent outdoor practice fields will be completed by the time the program enters training camp, Iowa Athletics Director Gary Barta said Thursday.

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