– Ohio State can clinch the East Division with a win and victories by IN win and Maryland. Ohio State simply has more talent than most teams. Copeland played two games before he was lost for the season because of a fractured vertebra, and Williamson played five games before having surgery on a torn bicep.
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This was relevant this week because both Iowa and MI State were undefeated. Still, this is all about the Buckeyes.
After all, they hadn’t lost a game in 364 days.
Eighteen first-, second-team and honorable mention All-Big Ten honorees from 2014-15 return for the 2015-16 campaign, including six first-team honorees. Even if MSU wins out, there is still a chance the Spartans could be left out of the college football playoff.
Reason for optimism: Iowa’s closing schedule is as easy as they come.
-RB Gerald Holmes has started two straight games and gained a career-high 117 yards in the loss at Nebraska.
Junior defensive end Yannick Ngakoue is ranked second nationally and in the Big Ten with 1.1 sacks/g, posting 11.0 so far on the season. IU will move the ball a bit more than MI is used to. That means the weight of expectations will increase each week. Valentine, who posted a triple-doubles in an exhibition game, is looking to develop into an elite ball distributor this season. Iowa could squeeze into the top four if long-shot Wake Forest beats Notre Dame on Saturday or Mississippi State beats Alabama.
The Maryland football team travels to East Lansing, Mich. for the first time since 1950 to face the 14th-ranked MI State Spartans at Noon ET on ESPN2.
“As I told them, if they thought that was a bad situation and tough deal, they should have been here in 2011 at the Big Ten championship game”, Dantonio said. That defeat had similar ramifications as the loss to Nebraska. Connor Cook still threw four touchdown passes and was excellent. The Spartans will be extra motivated to prove their dream of a CFP spot isn’t dead yet.
The game is Nebraska’s first ever trip to Rutgers and marks the Huskers’ first trip to the state of New Jersey since playing in three Kickoff Classic games at the Meadowlands between 1983 and 1994. So we know he has speed, he’s got good size and you can see him catching the ball and running around, running his routes.
MI State was trying to hold off a late charge by Nebraska when the Cornhuskers’ Reilly stepped out of bounds at about the 7 and came back in to catch the 30-yard pass from Tommy Armstrong Jr. with 17 seconds left.
Riley had a knack for upsetting top-10 opponents over his 14 years at Oregon State, and he said on Thursday that he had faith the Huskers could beat MI State.
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No disciplinary action was announced in that case but the Big Ten said “errors of this nature have a significant impact on game assignments, bowl assignments and overall year end status”. As for the rest of the teams, MI State needs plenty of help. There are simply too many teams to worry about now. MI became the eighth Big Ten women’s basketball team to garner a postseason berth last season, earning a berth to the Women’s National Invi-tation Tournament (WNIT). They entered this season at No. 5, ascended all the way to No. 2 after beating defending College Football Playoff runner-up OR and never fell below seventh as they won their first eight games despite experiencing a rash of injuries and a series of close calls.
