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Nickels and Dimes: 1975 Ohio State
A new series for OTR that should be enjoyed by three or four of you...
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Ten Win Breakthrough Profiles: Happily Ever After
This is how everyone thinks it will go!
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Ten Win Breakthrough Profiles: An Introduction
What happens when your school wins ten games for the first time in a decade?
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I Come To Bury the Victory Bell, Not to Praise It
USC/UCLA, while an important and historic rivalry, really is the worst of all worlds.
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I'm Wide Awake, It's Saturday Morning Open Thread
One last run for Coach Corso
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Big Ten Mascot Rankings
Let's offend 17 Big Ten fanbases by ranking their mascots too low
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An Open Letter To Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petitti: We Really Don't Want This
Dear Mr. Petitti, Commissioner Petitti? Commish? Tony? Can I call you Tony? Tony feels right. Hello. Hi. I'm a writer at this humble, upstart Big Ten sports blog. I'm technically the one with the sweater-wearing pugilistic otter as a profile picture and the stupid pun for
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Big Ten Rivalry Rankings: 21-25
If you missed the original post from last week, we took all 153 different Big Ten matchups and winnowed them down to get a top 25 by using stats, methodology, and a good amount of vibes. Now we're doing the harder part: it's time to rank
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Big Ten Media Days: Preseason Honorees
Like the groundhog heading out in Punxsutawney hearkens the arrival of spring, so too does the entirety of the Big Ten football media descending upon Indy in July mark the beginning of football season! Wait, what? They're in Vegas? At the Mandalay Bay casino? Sure, ok. Anyways, the
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Another Year, Another Eight Wins for Iowa: On Being Consistently Pretty Good, Never Great, But Better Than Most
"Over the last 24 years, there have been a couple of down years but taking out that short season, the win average is 8.565."
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B1G Rivalries, Ranked
Over at the venerable publication The Athletic last week, B1G beat writer and Iowa insider Scott Dochterman ranked the top 100 CFB rivalries. The metric appears to take into account the frequency of games played, importance of each rivalry to the CFB landscape, the intensity of the hatred, and the
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Purdue Boilermakers Football - 2024 Season Autopsy
Let's get this out of the way before moving onto the fun stuff this week. The Purdue Boilermakers entered last season in year 2 of the Ryan Walters error. Hope and cautious optimism were in the air despite coming off an pretty uninspiring 4-8 season. In the second