Let's take some pride in this conference. Let's hold our heads high. I submit to you that the Big Ten is the second best conference in the nation. You show me another non-SEC league that goes five deep better than Ohio State, Iowa, Penn State, Wisconsin, and Michigan. There isn't one. We said that this would be a transition year, and it is. We're on our way back. - maybe even a bit ahead of schedule. But I anticipate that when this season ends, we'll be recognized as one of the two best conferences in college football. Then, we'll get to work on reclaiming our rightful spot atop the college football mountain. In the meantime, it's time to start bringing the layers to the games. You'll find these sweatshirts in the SBNation store.
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127 (8) | Nothing says Fall like a red-hooded sweatshirt (dip, dip, dip). |
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122 (3) | Iowa sweatshirts also come George Raveling-style. The over/under on people who will get that reference is three and a half. |
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103 | Now THAT was the team that Penn State thought that they were going to have when the season started! |
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103 (1) | 5-0 has definitely brought a chill to the pre-season hot air about Coach Bielema's job security. |
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82 | If you soak this sweatshirt and put Tate Forcier in it, you might have 175 pounds. Can he make it alive through the whole season? |
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64 | Smile, Sparty! Back-to-back wins over the Wolverines don't happen every decade. |
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64 | Here's a team that really could have used a win over Wisconsin before the meat of there schedule comes at them. |
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53 | I actually read "The Trial" by Kafka before I went to law school. It messed with my head. Much like trying to figure out how Northwestern and Kafka won against Purdue. |
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36 | Could you see this sweatshirt at a bowl game? Don't laugh. If they get past Virginia this week, we'll need to take a long look... |
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24 | This sweatshirt drops logos on fleece like Purdue drops footballs on the ground. In other words, there are far too many. |
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14 |
The "I" is most assuredly not for Isiah (Juice) Williams. |
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The Rivalry, Esq has reached out to the SBNation Big Ten bloggers to create this poll. Its purpose: find a consensus as to the power of the Big Ten teams. We invited each SBNation Big Ten blog to participate. We will vote each week. Invitations remain extended to the writers of Black Shoe Diaries and the Crimson Quarry to participate.